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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 Cambridge based Product operating in the Software space. If you think a Product 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.
Gil Benghiat
Founder, VP of Products & Implementation of DataKitchen
Gil Benghiat is a Founder and VP of Product & Implementation of DataKitchen, a company on a mission to provide the software, service, and knowledge that enables every data analytics team to successfully implement DataOps. At DataKitchen, Gil leads an Implementation Team of talented software and data engineering professionals responsible for guiding customers’ adoption of DataOps and optimal use of DataKitchen’s DataOps Platform. Gil also leads a Product Development Team responsible for the definition, design, development, quality, and operation of DataKitchen’s SaaS DataOps Platform. Gil has over 35 years of experience in software engineering spanning multiple technical leadership roles at data-oriented technology companies, such as AT&T Bell Laboratories collecting and displaying network data, managing data at Sybase, collecting and cleaning clinical trial data at Phase Forward, integrating pharmaceutical sales data at LeapFrogRx, and liberating his clients’ data at Solid Oak Consulting. At previous companies, he achieved results such as growing a company from 4 to 320 employees and revenue from $0 to $60M resulting in IPO and improving the scalability of the product to increase the number of systems managed from 300 to 12,000. Gil holds an Sc.B. from Brown University in Applied Mathematics and Biology and an M.S. in Computer Science from Stanford University.
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About DataKitchen: DataKitchen is a DataOps software company that helps organizations deliver more data products faster with lower errors that customers trust.
Ely Kahn
Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services
Ely Kahn was the Co-Founder and VP of Business Development for Sqrrl. Previously, Ely served in a variety of positions in the Federal Government, including Director of Cybersecurity at the National Security Staff in White House, Deputy Chief of Staff at the National Protection Programs Directorate in the Department of Homeland Security, and Director of Risk Management and Strategic Innovation in the Transportation Security Administration. Before his service in the Federal Government, Ely was a management consultant with Booz Allen Hamilton. Ely has a BA from Harvard University and a MBA from the Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania. Ely currently serves as the Principal Product Manager of Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Sid Misra
Product of Amazon Web Services
Sid Misra is the Product Leader at Amazon Web Services.
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Chris Massey
Product Manager of The Access Group
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
John McLoughlin
Director Product Strategy of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Anthony Larkin
Director, Product Marketing of Akamai Technologies
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About Akamai Technologies: Akamai is a provider of cloud services that help enterprises provide secure, high-performing user experiences on any device.
Ben Emmett
Technical Product Manager of Redgate Software
Ben is a technical product manager for Redgate’s developer tools. He spends his days digging into what makes applications grind to a halt, what makes them bloat and fall over, and what it takes to build something fast and scalable. When he’s not doing that, he’s probably messing with some electronics, cooking, or playing the violin.
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
Enzo Raso
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Enzo Raso is a senior product manager for Citrix XenServer in the Citrix Core Infrastructure Group. He has overseen delivery of every Citrix XenServer release since 6.2, and is responsible for customer outreach, product strategy and roadmap formulation. Prior to joining Citrix, Enzo spent five years as head of R&D with Betfair, the world’s biggest betting exchange. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
David Cottingham
Director, Product Management & Partner Engineering of Citrix Systems
David runs the product management and partner engineering teams for Citrix Workspace ecosystem and the Citrix Hypervisor virtualization platform. He has spent a decade working with engineering teams at a whole host of companies, listening to customers large and small, and forming product strategy. David holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge, and enjoys scribbling on whiteboards.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
David Cottingham
Director, Product Management & Partner Engineering of Citrix Systems
David runs the product management and partner engineering teams for Citrix Workspace ecosystem and the Citrix Hypervisor virtualization platform. He has spent a decade working with engineering teams at a whole host of companies, listening to customers large and small, and forming product strategy. David holds an M.A. and a Ph.D. in computer science from the University of Cambridge, and enjoys scribbling on whiteboards.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Abdelrahman Mahmoud
Senior Product Manager of Affectiva
As a Senior Product Manager at Affectiva, Abdo Mahmoud leads product strategy and development of the company’s Automotive AI and Emotion SDK. He collaborates with Japanese and European OEMs and Tier I suppliers on building the first ever deep learning based in-cabin sensing platform. He has 5+ years experience building Emotion AI product where he helped evolve emotion recognition from niche technology to leading AI that is transforming industries. Prior to product management, Abdelrahman held a unique position at Affectiva where he worked both on the engineering and the Applied AI teams, developing the core facial expression recognition technology and porting it to multiple platforms including mobile, Windows and Linux. Mahmoud holds a Bachelor degree in Computer Science from The American University in Cairo.
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About Affectiva: Affectiva is a developer of an emotion-recognition software designed to analyze subtle facial and vocal expressions.
Ben Peters
Co-Founder and VP of Product of FiveAI
Ben Peters is a Co-Founder and VP of product at FiveAI.
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About FiveAI: FiveAI provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments.
Abel Ureta-Vidal
Chief Product Officer & Founder of Eagle Genomics
With more than 12 years bioinformatics experience and a scientific background in molecular biology and immune-virology (PhD from the Pasteur Institute, France), Abel first mastered bioinformatics tools and code in the early 90s whilst working on viral phylogenetic studies. After his PhD, he joined the effort at Genoscope (Evry, France) in ramping up the human genome project, putting in place the automatic gene annotation system for human chromosome 14. In 2001, Abel moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute (Cambridge, UK) where he led the Ensembl comparative genomics team until 2007. He founded Eagle shortly before graduating from the Cambridge Judge Business School MBA program in 2008.
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Heather Richards
VP Product Strategy and GTM, KM of Verint Systems
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About Verint Systems: Verint Systems provides Actionable Intelligence solutions for enterprise workforce optimization and security intelligence.
Catherine Havasi
Chief Product Officer of Basis Technology
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About Basis Technology: Basis Technology offers software to extract content from unstructured multilingual text for search, e-discovery and digital forensics.
Hannuman Bull
Product Deployment Manager of Cumulus Digital Systems
Hannuman is a Product Deployment Manager. Prior to helping start Cumulus, he was a Senior Integration & Test Engineer at Shell TechWorks, Shell’s Skunk Works-style technology center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hannuman worked on the initial prototype integration and testing for the Smart Torque System and continues to lead mechanical development of test apparatus and hardware deployment systems. Before joining Shell, Hannuman held various project engineering and R&D positions in the academic, oceanographic, oil & gas, and defense industries. When he isn’t working, you can find him at the gym or enjoying time outdoors with his daughter. Hannuman earned his B.S. in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute.
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About Cumulus Digital Systems: Cumulus Digital Systems is a startup building an Internet of Tools-powered platform to make industrial facilities safer.
Hannuman Bull
Product Deployment Manager of Cumulus Digital Systems
Hannuman is a Product Deployment Manager. Prior to helping start Cumulus, he was a Senior Integration & Test Engineer at Shell TechWorks, Shell’s Skunk Works-style technology center in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Hannuman worked on the initial prototype integration and testing for the Smart Torque System and continues to lead mechanical development of test apparatus and hardware deployment systems. Before joining Shell, Hannuman held various project engineering and R&D positions in the academic, oceanographic, oil & gas, and defense industries. When he isn’t working, you can find him at the gym or enjoying time outdoors with his daughter. Hannuman earned his B.S. in Ocean Engineering from Florida Atlantic University, and is also a certified Project Management Professional (PMP®) from the Project Management Institute.
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About Cumulus Digital Systems: Cumulus Digital Systems is a startup building an Internet of Tools-powered platform to make industrial facilities safer.
Dan Williams
Head of Product Management of Cambridge Intelligence
Dan works closely with our customers who are building advanced graph applications, helping them to make the best possible visualization tools. He has a Master’s in Physics from Oxford University and a wealth of experience with a variety of software products across many different industry verticals.
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About Cambridge Intelligence: Cambridge Intelligence builds graph visualization tools that ‘join the dots’ in data and make the world a safer place.
Marcio Macedo
Co-Founder & VP Products of Ava Robotics
Marcio is Co-Founder and VP Products at Ava Robotics. Previously, Marcio was Director of Product Management for commercial robots at iRobot where he led the product strategy for iRobot’s industry-leading autonomous robots for commercial applications. A video conferencing industry veteran, prior to iRobot Marcio served in product management leadership roles at HP, Polycom, and PictureTel Corp. Marcio has a BSEE from the Catholic University in Rio de Janeiro, an MSEE from Northeastern University and an MBA from Babson College.
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About Ava Robotics: Ava Robotics is a robotics technology company that designs and builds intelligent robots for the workplace.
Stuart Baker
Senior Product Manager of Granta Design
Stuart is a Senior Product Manager responsible for Granta’s Enterprise Integration products. As a product management leader, Stuart has two decades of experience developing engineering software and has a keen interest in technical partnerships and the interoperability of Granta’s portfolio with third-party systems.
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About Granta Design: Granta helps engineering enterprises to manage and apply vital information about engineering materials.
