Best Startup
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 Buckinghamshire based Founder operating in the Software space. If you think a Founder 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.
Simon Riggs
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 2ndQuadrant
Simon Riggs is the Founder and CEO of 2ndQuadrant. Simon has worked with enterprise-class database applications and uses his operational experience to contribute to many features of PostgreSQL’s internal design and usability. He is also co-author of the “PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook” series.
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About 2ndQuadrant: 2ndQuadrant provides solutions for mission critical PostgreSQL databases, ensuring high availability, backup & disaster recovery, & more.
Tijl Vuyk
CEO and Founder of Redwood Software
Under his leadership as founder and CEO, Tijl has grown and moulded Redwood Software over 25 years into a company that’s agile, profitable and a world leader in process robotics software and automation. Always innovating, his vision for the future is to help companies achieve ‘The Robotic Enterprise™’ so they can improve efficiencies and direct resources toward front office customer facing activities.
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About Redwood Software: Redwood Software is an international company providing job scheduling, report distribution and SAP solutions.
Andrew Brogden
Founder & CEO of StayPrivate
Andrew Brogden is the co-founder and CEO of StayPrivate Ltd, the market-leading provider of secure email and file-sharing solutions. As well as establishing StayPrivate, Andrew has built and been involved in building several successful businesses across financial services and IT.
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About StayPrivate: Founded in 2014, StayPrivate provides secure communication across the open internet.
Rob Reid
Founder & COO of StayPrivate
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About StayPrivate: Founded in 2014, StayPrivate provides secure communication across the open internet.
Gautam Mitra
Founder, Managing Director, and Chairman of Optirisk Systems
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About OptiRisk India, Optirisk Systems: Optirisk Systems a global reach that provides products and services for Optimisation and Risk Management solutions.
John Sebastiano
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, ebilling and payment solutions of ebpSource
Co-founder John also joined ebpSource from CheckFree where for over five years he was responsible for international software sales. John has a highly successful track record in global business, having negotiated numerous enterprise software agreements and multi-lateral partnerships in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. John’s prior IT background includes senior international sales and divisional management roles with Lanier Corporation and Harris Systems, Canada. John graduated with a BA in Political Science from the University of Toronto.
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About ebpSource: ebpSource is the most experienced team in the international electronic billing and payment industry.
John Sebastiano
Co-Founder and Executive Vice President, ebilling and payment solutions of ebpSource
Co-founder John also joined ebpSource from CheckFree where for over five years he was responsible for international software sales. John has a highly successful track record in global business, having negotiated numerous enterprise software agreements and multi-lateral partnerships in Europe, North America, Latin America and Asia. John’s prior IT background includes senior international sales and divisional management roles with Lanier Corporation and Harris Systems, Canada. John graduated with a BA in Political Science from the University of Toronto.
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About ebpSource: ebpSource is the most experienced team in the international electronic billing and payment industry.
Steve Wright
Founder & EVP, Commercial Operations of ebpSource
Co-founder Steve also joined ebpSource from CheckFree where for seven years he was responsible for global marketing, partner management & sales. Prior to CheckFree, Steve ran international marketing at e-billing pioneers BlueGill Technologies and Lasercom. Steve is a recognised industry spokesperson in the billing and payments fields and in 2005/6 was Chairman of the Payments Initiative at the Global Billing Association. Steve holds a BA (Hons) in Business Studies & HND in Business & Finance from Humberside University, now University of Lincoln, UK.
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About ebpSource: ebpSource is the most experienced team in the international electronic billing and payment industry.
Ken Mckay
Founder & CEO of ebpSource
Prior to co-founding ebpSource, Ken spent seven years as SVP and General Manager of the international e-billing software division at CheckFree Corporation. Preceding his time with CheckFree Ken, along with Steve, established international operations for e-billing software pioneers BlueGill Technologies. Ken also held senior international sales management positions with London Bridge Software and Group 1 Software. Ken graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Systems Analysis from Aston University, UK.
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About ebpSource: ebpSource is the most experienced team in the international electronic billing and payment industry.
