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At Best Startup UK we track over 130,000 UK startups and over 500,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Brighton based Director operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a Director is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Richard Leonard
Senior Sales Director of Parsable
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About Parsable: Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Federico Lucifredi
Product Management Director of Red Hat
Federico Lucifredi is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at Red Hat and a co-author of O’Reilly’s “Peccary Book” on AWS System Administration. Previously, he was the Ubuntu Server product manager at Canonical, where he oversaw a broad portfolio and the rise of Ubuntu Server to the rank of most popular OS on Amazon AWS. A software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, he was part of the SUSE Linux team, overseeing the update lifecycle and delivery stack of a $150 million maintenance business. A CIO and a network software architect at advanced technology and embedded Linux startups, Federico was also a lecturer for over 200 students in Boston University’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and simultaneously a consultant for MIT implementing fluid-dynamics simulations in Java.
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About Linux New Media, O’Reilly, Red Hat, SOFAR Acoustics: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Federico Lucifredi
Product Management Director of Red Hat
Federico Lucifredi is the Product Management Director for Ceph Storage at Red Hat and a co-author of O’Reilly’s “Peccary Book” on AWS System Administration. Previously, he was the Ubuntu Server product manager at Canonical, where he oversaw a broad portfolio and the rise of Ubuntu Server to the rank of most popular OS on Amazon AWS. A software engineer-turned-manager at the Novell corporation, he was part of the SUSE Linux team, overseeing the update lifecycle and delivery stack of a $150 million maintenance business. A CIO and a network software architect at advanced technology and embedded Linux startups, Federico was also a lecturer for over 200 students in Boston University’s graduate and undergraduate programs, and simultaneously a consultant for MIT implementing fluid-dynamics simulations in Java.
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About Linux New Media, O’Reilly, Red Hat, SOFAR Acoustics: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Alex Smith
Director, Consulting Services of Sovos
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About Sovos: Sovos specializes in tax compliance and business-to-government reporting software.
Anna Higgins
Strategy Program Director of Sovos
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About Sovos: Sovos specializes in tax compliance and business-to-government reporting software.
Andy Spencer
Director, Consulting Services of Sovos
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About Sovos: Sovos specializes in tax compliance and business-to-government reporting software.
Keith Clarke
Director of FP&A – EMEA Region of Sovos
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About Sovos: Sovos specializes in tax compliance and business-to-government reporting software.
