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This list showcases the top Buckinghamshire based President operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a President 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.
Louise Holden
Vice President, Humanitarian & Development of Mastercard
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About Mastercard: Mastercard provides payment processing products and solutions, and related consulting services.
Joe Baguley
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA of VMware
Joe Baguley is VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA. He joined VMware in July 2011 and helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use today’s advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes. Joe is a recognised leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. He is a regular commentator on BBC World News, last appearing in January 2018 talking about edge computing with Aaron Heslehurst on Talking Business. In addition, Joe is also on several advisory boards at the European Commission and ETSI and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Jacqueline de Rojas
President of techUK
Jacqueline is the President of techUK and sits as a Non-Executive Director on the board of UK technology business Rightmove plc. Serving as a member of the government’s Digital Economy Council, Jacqueline is also a mentor to boards and executives through Bird & Co. Her presidency focuses on the ambition for the UK to seize its position as a digital nation of significance by leveraging its digital opportunity and skills. She believes that to achieve this all geographies and demographics across the UK must be included and we must strive to equip our country with the very best infrastructure and supportive business legislation possible. Above all, none of the above can be achieved unless the UK tech industry demonstrates that it is open for business to global markets. Prior to her presidency, Jacqueline held the role of deputy president techUK and board champion for women. She has used this role to leverage resources in the technology industry to support her manifesto to increase diversity of skills and talent in the tech industry. This has gathered increasing momentum through techUK’s Women in Tech Council, which continues to bring industry together to drive for inclusion, diversity & gender equality. Jacqueline has been employed throughout her career by global blue-chip software companies to accelerate growth by pulling amazing teams together which can operate under pressure and extend their reach through smart partnerships. Jacqueline was previously a Non-Executive Director at Home Retail Group plc; is currently a board advisor to Digital Leaders, Accelerate-HER and lends her support to everywoman. This year, Jacqueline was listed as one of Europe’s Inspiring Fifty Role Models. In 2016 she was listed on Debretts 2016 500 Digital People of Influence and entered the @Computerweekly Hall of Fame as the most influential woman in UK IT; she was voted Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK IT in 2015. She was recently appointed as a special advisor to the Girlguiding Association for technology transformation.
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About techUK: techUK offers information technology services to small and medium businesses.
Jacqueline de Rojas
President of techUK
Jacqueline is the President of techUK and sits as a Non-Executive Director on the board of UK technology business Rightmove plc. Serving as a member of the government’s Digital Economy Council, Jacqueline is also a mentor to boards and executives through Bird & Co. Her presidency focuses on the ambition for the UK to seize its position as a digital nation of significance by leveraging its digital opportunity and skills. She believes that to achieve this all geographies and demographics across the UK must be included and we must strive to equip our country with the very best infrastructure and supportive business legislation possible. Above all, none of the above can be achieved unless the UK tech industry demonstrates that it is open for business to global markets. Prior to her presidency, Jacqueline held the role of deputy president techUK and board champion for women. She has used this role to leverage resources in the technology industry to support her manifesto to increase diversity of skills and talent in the tech industry. This has gathered increasing momentum through techUK’s Women in Tech Council, which continues to bring industry together to drive for inclusion, diversity & gender equality. Jacqueline has been employed throughout her career by global blue-chip software companies to accelerate growth by pulling amazing teams together which can operate under pressure and extend their reach through smart partnerships. Jacqueline was previously a Non-Executive Director at Home Retail Group plc; is currently a board advisor to Digital Leaders, Accelerate-HER and lends her support to everywoman. This year, Jacqueline was listed as one of Europe’s Inspiring Fifty Role Models. In 2016 she was listed on Debretts 2016 500 Digital People of Influence and entered the @Computerweekly Hall of Fame as the most influential woman in UK IT; she was voted Computer Weekly’s Most Influential Woman in UK IT in 2015. She was recently appointed as a special advisor to the Girlguiding Association for technology transformation.
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About techUK: techUK offers information technology services to small and medium businesses.
Keith Sturges
Senior Vice President International & Marketing of Sunquest Information Systems
With more than 20 years of global leadership experience in software and services companies, Keith leads Sunquest’s international business focused on extending the Sunquest brand and solutions to healthcare organizations across the world. Prior to joining Sunquest, Keith served as executive vice president of sales and implementation for Craneware, a provider of healthcare revenue cycle management tools. He has also held executive leadership positions with SirsiDynix International, Homecare Systems at Misys PLC, Allscripts Healthcare Solutions, Inc. (formerly, Allscripts-Misys Healthcare Solutions Inc., Misys Healthcare Systems LLC) and Oracle. Keith holds a Master’s of Business Administration and Computer Science from the University of Warwick in the United Kingdom.
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About Sunquest Information Systems: Sunquest is the market leader in the laboratory. Sunquest Information Systems, Inc.
Justin Kearney
Vice President of Human Resources of Logicalis
Justin Kearney joined Logicalis Group in August 2013 as Vice President of Human Resources with responsibility for providing people management leadership within Logicalis Group. Prior to this, Justin was the HR Director for the Corporate function leaders at Invensys, the engineering and technology business. He has also held international HR business partner roles within the aviation and financial service industries with General Electric, and in retail, with Sainsburys in the UK. Justin has an honours degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Leisure Management, as well as being a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management.
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Joanne Nelson
Vice President of International Marketing of Logicalis
Joanne Nelson was appointed to Vice President of Marketing in August 2004, to head up the UK marketing department, and in addition, take responsibility for the corporate marketing function of the Logicalis Group. In January 2008, she became VP International Marketing with responsibility for corporate strategy, branding and analyst relations across the organisation. Joanne brings over fifteen years of ICT marketing experience to her role having previously worked at Ericsson Enterprise, and then its spinoff, Damovo, where she was VP Marketing & Communications, across the Group. She had sole responsibility for re-branding the multi-million dollar global Communications Provider (then ranked 36th top global brand, Interbrand, Citigroup, August 2001) and managing the global corporate marketing function across 20 markets worldwide. Joanne has first-hand international experience, having studied at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), Nice, Côte d’Azur, France, and at Haarlem Business School, in The Netherlands, and worked in Antibes, South of France.
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
