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 Cambridge based Director operating in the Internet 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.
Colin Ulen
Senior Director Of Engineering of Alarm.com
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About Alarm.com: Alarm.com is provides home and business security solutions based on wireless, web and mobile technologies.
Mira Wilczek
Managing Director of Link Ventures
Mira Wilczek is a Managing Director at Link Ventures as well as the President and CEO Emeritus of Cogo Labs. She currently serves on the Board of Directors for EverQuote, Cognius, & CareDash, as well as the Advisory Board for Vestigo Ventures. Previously, she was Founder and CEO at Red Panda Security, Principal Investigator under the DARPA CFT program, and Director of Business Development at Lyric Semiconductor, where she developed a $25M revenue run rate, garnered industry recognition including TR50, Silicon 60, and an EETimes ACE Award, and negotiated a successful acquisition by Analog Devices. She holds patents both granted and pending in the fields of cybersecurity and sensor data fusion. Mira has an S.B. in Electrical Engineering and Computer Science from MIT and an MBA from MIT Sloan.
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About Cogo Labs, Link Ventures: We invest in early stage direct-to-consumer companies.
Dominic Lloyd
Managing Director of Link Ventures
Dominic Lloyd is a Senior Partner at Link. Prior to joining Link, Dominic was a partner with a national law firm focusing on corporate finance, mergers and acquisitions, and securities. He has worked with Link and its portfolio companies for more than 10 years, advising on company formations, financing structures and sales of companies, and participating in all significant transactions. Dominic has worked closely with the executive teams at public and private companies for 30 years on mergers, acquisitions and equity and debt financings. As a trusted advisor to emerging companies, he has worked with them through all stages of growth, often to liquidity events. Dominic graduated with a BA in Economics from Middlebury College and a JD from the University of Denver. Often quoted in articles on securities laws and private funds, Dominic also frequently speaks on these topics. He has been recognized by Chambers USA and the Best Lawyers in America as a leading corporate and M&A attorney.
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About Link Ventures: We invest in early stage direct-to-consumer companies.
Matt Rita
Managing Director of Link Ventures
Matt Rita is a Managing Director at Link. He is a seasoned negotiator, a former federal and state court litigator. For more than two decades Matt represented both public and private companies in a variety of industries (including logistics, information systems, healthcare, energy, and natural resources, and financial services, among others). As a trusted adviser and dedicated advocate, he handled complex judicial and administrative proceedings for his clients, appearing in both trial courts and appellate tribunals around the country. In his last court appearance before joining Link, Matt successfully defended a publicly-traded mining company against claims of alleged trade secret misappropriation. The subject matter of that dispute (i.e., langbeinite processing in southeastern New Mexico) reawakened some of his distant memories of freshman chemistry at MIT (3.091, wasn’t it?). After graduating from the Institute with his Bachelor of Science degree, Matt earned his Juris Doctor, cum laude, from Cornell Law School. Having traded numbers for words, he has been a prolific speaker and author over the course of his career. The publication of his most recent article (in The Colorado Lawyer) coincides with the beginning of his tenure at Link. Named a Colorado “Super Lawyer” for five consecutive years, Matt is a Massachusetts native who is also admitted to practice here in the Commonwealth. He will maintain his ties to the Rocky Mountain West, thereby expanding Link’s geographic footprint as the team moves forward with raising its second fund.
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About Link Ventures: We invest in early stage direct-to-consumer companies.
Chris Shore
Director of Endpoint Ai Ecosystem of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Robin Randhawa
Technical Director for System Software of Arm Holdings
Robin Randhawa is a Technical Director for System Software Architecture with Arm’s Open Source Software group. He is responsible for open source software strategy focusing on safety critical deployments, primarily autonomous functions. Robin has been with Arm for 12 years working in various operating system themed roles. Prior to joining Arm, he worked with MIPS in the Linux kernel group.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Andrew Hopkins
Director, System Technology of Arm Holdings
Andrew leads the development of UltraDebug® and an associated technical marketing package. He is experienced in all aspects of computer architecture including SoC design, system level development support and embedded systems engineering. He has managed large multi-institution engineering programs with elite international partners. He has 4 patents pending, numerous technical publications and has served as a referee for several IEEE, IET and Elsevier journals. Andrew obtained a top first in Computer System Engineering from the University of Kent in 2003 where he also took the IEE (IET) prize for the highest placed BEng.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Stefano Cadario
Director Software Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Mike Eftimakis
Director of Business Innovation Strategy of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Tom Conway
Director, Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Phillip Burr
Senior Director, Business Transformation and Portfolio Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Antonio Priore
Director of Functional Safety of Arm Holdings
Antonio Priore works for Arm as Director of Functional Safety. He leads the functional safety related processes and strategy in Arm where he is responsible for showing support for multiple safety related standards. Antonio is a Chartered Engineer with a career spanning more than a decade in Functional Safety Engineering across different domains including Automotive, Aerospace, Industrial and Railway.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Pablo Fraile
Director of Ecosystems and Director of Home Segment of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Aditya Bedi
Director of Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Govind Wathan
Director of Product Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Kinjal Dave
Director Solution Management of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Rod Watt
Director Vehicle Architecture and System Analysis of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Daniel Owens
Director of Product Management, Models of Arm Holdings
Daniel Owens is the Director of Product Management for Models at Arm, responsible for simulation products at Arm. Daniel has over 20 years experience in embedded electronics and has previously held management positions for CodeWarrior, Realview and DS-5 software development tools.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Daniel Watts
Founder & Managing Director of Aluminati Network Group
Daniel leads the Aluminati team and has overall responsibility for defining the company’s technical and business strategies and with his deep sector knowledge he leads product innovation. Daniel founded the company in 2002 when he graduated from Oxford with an honours degree in Computation. An expert in online engagement, Daniel is regularly invited to speak at industry conferences and is in regular attendance at multiple CASE events per year. In his spare time Daniel enjoys the physical and mental challenges of basketball and has also coached the Darwin College ladies team to Cambridge championship titles for 4 consecutive years.
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About Aluminati Network Group: Aluminati Network Group provide online services and platforms to unite alumni, student and member networks.
Paul Webster
Founder & Director of Hardware of Ubisense
Paul Webster is the Founder and Director of Hardware at Ubisense Limited.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
Devendra Kumar
Strategy Director of 1248
Devendra has held Board-level positions in B2B and B2C technology-driven global businesses, spanning Europe, North America, LatAm, Asia, and Africa. A Managing Director at Barclaycard, a global leader in cards and payments, his roles covered both Strategy and Product. Previously he was Director of Strategic Development at WorldPay, the largest payments business across Europe. His experience spans a combination of strategy, corporate development, strategic partnerships, running large businesses, product, M&A, and technology-driven innovation. He is particularly passionate about innovation, and game-changing ideas, and making them real.
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About 1248, Barclaycard: DevicePilot is a cloud-based software service that allows its users to locate, monitor, and manage connected devices at scale.
