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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 Director operating in the 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.
Scarlet Schwiderski-Grosche
Director of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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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.
Enrique Munoz de Cote
Director of MAS Science of Secondmind
Enrique is an associate professor of computer science with more than 50 academic papers published in top-tier journals and conferences in AI, including a book on multi agent learning. His interests lie in the intersection between machine learning, AI and economic theory. He has studied in Mexico, the USA, Italy and the UK and speaks three languages. He is responsible for heading the multi-agent team. He is a mélomane and terrible guitar player who grew up listening to rock. He is not wholly convinced that combing his curly hair is the way to go.
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About Geckomatics, Geckomatics, Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
James Hensman
Director of Research of Secondmind
James is a senior machine learning scientist with more than fifty peer-reviewed publications. Having worked at multiple universities he now lives in Ely with his family. He leads the company’s research in the area of probabilistic models. James loves the great British summer, and will happily barbecue in the rain. He is a terrible beer snob.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Erkko Uusitalo
Director, AI for Finance of Secondmind
Erkko is a financial markets expert with 20 years experience in trading & fund management. He is from Finland and that is where he mostly works from. He brings practical knowledge to the financial domain. He claims to remember pi to the 1.000th decimal – he just does not know what to do with that information!
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Stuart Taylor
Managing Director, Service Provider Transformation Group of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
William H. Janeway
Director of O’Reilly
William H. Janeway is a board member of Magnet Systems, Inc. Currently, Mr. Janeway is a senior advisor at Warburg Pincus. Mr. Janeway received his doctorate in Economics from Cambridge University, where he was a Marshall Scholar. He was valedictorian of the class of 1965 at Princeton University. Prior to joining Warburg Pincus in 1988, where he was responsible for building the information technology practice, he was executive vice president and director at Eberstadt Fleming. Mr. Janeway is a director of Fortent Corp., NYFIX Inc., O’Reilly Media, Nuance Communications, and Wall Street Systems, and a member of the board of managers of Roubini Global Economics. He is also chairman of the board of trustees of Cambridge in America, University of Cambridge, co-chair of Cambridge’s 800th Anniversary Capital Campaign, and a founder member of the board of managers of the Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance (CERF). Mr. Janeway is a member of the board of directors of the Social Science Research Council.
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About Cambridge Endowment for Research in Finance, Cambridge in America, Fortent, Nuance Communications, Roubini Global Economics, LLC, Social Science Research Council, Wall Street Systems: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
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.
Smaine Zeroug
Research Director of Schlumberger
Smaine is the Research Director of the Applied Math and Data Analytics department in Schlumberger. He holds an M.S. and Ph.D. degrees from New York University (Polytechnic School of Engineering) in Electrophysics and an MBA from University of Rotterdam, The Netherlands. He has authored more than 100 academic and professional papers and holds 14 US patents with 25 pending applications. He’s been with Schlumberger for 26 years in various positions in R&E, marketing, and operations.
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About Schlumberger: Schlumberger is a supplier of technology, integrated project management, and information solutions.
Marta Piekarska
Director of Ecosystem, Hyperledger of Linux Foundation
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About Cambridge Blockchain Society, Hyperledger, Linux Foundation: The Linux Foundation builds sustainable ecosystems around open source projects to accelerate technology development and industry adoption.
Karthik Tadinada
Director of Data Science of Featurespace
Karthik is responsible for working with Featurespace’s Financial Services and Insurance clients for analysis and modelling of their data. Karthik studied with Professor Fitzgerald (Featurespace founder) at Cambridge University Engineering Department’s Signal Processing Group. He has a first-class honours degree in Engineering and a PhD in Electrical Engineering, both from the University of Cambridge. Karthik’s previous roles include a stint as Junior Consultant at the Boston Consulting Group, where his work included helping FTSE 100 companies in the financial, IT and mining sectors.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Roger Thornton
Director of Applications of Raspberry Pi Foundation
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About Raspberry Pi Foundation: Raspberry Pi Foundation is a charity that develops a credit card-sized computer that can be plugged into a TV and keyboard.
Alan Barrell
Non-Executive Director of Eagle Genomics
Alan Barrell has spent almost 30 years in senior executive positions in technology based industries and has become one of Cambridge’s most articulate promoters of entrepreneurship. He was a founder shareholder in Library House Ltd, and is now Entrepreneur in Residence at the University’s Centre for Entrepreneurial Learning and Visiting Professor of Enterprise at the University of Bedfordshire School of Graduate Business Studies. He is also Distinguished Guest Professor at Xiamen University, Visiting Professor at Shanghai College of Science and Technology and at the Fujian International School of Economics and Business, Fuzhou, all in China. He has taught at Tsinghua University Beijing and Minjiang University, Fuzhou City. Other appointments include Senior Enterprise Fellow, University of Essex, International Fellow, Anglia Ruskin University Cambridge, and International Fellow, Laurea University of Applied Sciences in Helsinki.
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About Cambridge Associates, Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Nigel Playford
Director of 10to8
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About 10to8: 10to8 is a powerful appointment scheduling software that is GDPR & CCPA ready, offers HIPAA tools, and is ISO 27001 certified.
Cozmin Ududec
Managing Director Invenia Labs of Invenia
Cozmin is a co-founder of Invenia, and is currently Managing Director of Invenia Labs in Cambridge. He received his PhD in the foundations of quantum theory from the University of Waterloo, and is still puzzling over the quantum world in his spare time.
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About Invenia, Invenia: Invenia is a cloud based machine using high frequency data to solve complex problems in real time.
Sergey Usov
Director & Founder of Cambridge Nanotherm
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About Cambridge Nanotherm: Cambridge Nanotherm produces the industrys most efficient thermal management technology for LED applications and high powered electronics.
Edison Almeida
CEO, Board Director, Board Member, Shareholder of eCurv
Edison Almeida is eCurv’s co-founder. He brings over 15 years of experience as an electrical engineer, consultant, and sales executive in the telecommunications, information security, and energy industries to the company. Mr. Almeida started his career with Motorola, designing cellular networks for the major wireless operators in Sao Paulo, Brazil. While at inCode, a Mobility engineering and strategy consulting firm, Edison led teams in the delivery of digital cellular infrastructure projects to the major mobile operators in the US. Prior to inCode, Edison was a Sales Director at VeriSign, where he delivered cutting-edge solutions to Fortune 500 companies, including state of the art cyber-intelligence, managed security services, digital content delivery, and online brand management technology offerings. Edison graduated cum laude from Babson College with an MBA in entrepreneurship. He received his undergraduate Bachelor of Science in Electrical Engineering degree from Sao Paulo University’s Polytechnic School – POLI-USP.
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About eCurv, Schneider Electric: ECurv is a tech firm that offers electric energy distribution through their energy demand management software services.
David Mrva
Speech Recognition Director of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
Travis Busbee
Director of Additive Manufacturing Textiles of Kornit Digital
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About Kornit Digital, Voxel8: Kornit Digital offers digital printing solutions for the printed textile industry.
Alon Rivel
Director of Marketing of Outcomes4Me
Alon Rivel has been the Director of Global Sales & Marketing at Jack’d since March 2018. He first joined the company as the Brand Manager for Jack’d in October of 2016 and was then promoted to Director of Global Marketing in March of 2017. Alon heads the entire marketing, advertising sales, & creative departments for all brands and products within the Online Buddies umbrella internationally. Alon is a marketing & advertising media sales, buying, & planning professional with expertise in all aspects of digital, TV, mobile/tablet, radio, and print mediums. He has held roles in some of the biggest brands in the industry such as The New York Times, OMD, and Bloomberg. Alon was raised in NYC and brings that attitude and energy to the Online Buddies Boston office. He has an undergraduate degree with a double major in Communication & Legal Studies from the University of Massachusetts Amherst which he completed with highest honors. He is also IAB Certified in Digital Media Sales as of 2015.
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About Outcomes4Me: Outcomes4Me is a developer of a free mobile app and platform to navigate cancer treatment and care.
Jonathan Pell
Director Representing Finance Wales of W2 Global Data
Jonathan is a Chartered Accountant and an experienced serial businessman having held CFO, COO and CEO in multiple organisations all of which have been successfully acquired. Jonathan was CEO of Datanomic, a data quality and AML software vendor which was acquired by Oracle at which point he served as Vice President of Data Quality Strategy for Oracle.
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About JVP Consultants, Thorium Technology Investors, W2 Global Data: W2 Global Data is a provider of international data, software and services.
Mark Underwood
Director of Sales, EMEA of Baanto International
Mark has over 25 years of experience in the touch screen industry, and he has held various senior management positions within both the manufacturing and reseller markets. He studied for a National Diploma in Business Studies at Cambridge College of Arts and Technologies. Mark has previously served in the EMEA region as a Sales & Business Manager for Aydin Displays, Elo Touch Systems, Braemac, and most recently, Visualplanet, where he was responsible for worldwide sales. During his career, He has been responsible for creating and sustaining sales channels, implementing business strategies for sales and marketing, and project managing several high profile interactive installations. Mark brings a wealth of knowledge of the touchscreen and displays markets, as well as a comprehensive understanding of channel management.
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About Baanto International: Baanto International is a company engaged in the design, development and marketing of proprietary infra-red (IR) based optical touchscreens.
Victor Zhitomirsky
Managing Director of Alterix Ltd
Victor Zhitomirsky is managing director at Alterix Ltd.
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About Alterix Ltd: Alterix offers Windows 8 certified electronic solution for large size capacitive multi-touch digitisers.
John Stalker
Director of Project Management of Core Informatics
John Stalker is Director of Product Management. John guides the development of Core’s Platform for Science and products. Prior to joining Core, John was a customer while he was the head of LIMS automation and integration at Moderna Therapeutics. Before Moderna, John was at the Broad Institute for 11 years, where he worked on the in-house LIMS development team, then started a software engineering group focused on lab automation. By the end of his time at the Broad, he was the Manager of Automation and Engineering, handling all of the organization’s liquid handling and integration efforts.
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About Core Informatics: Core Informatics delivers scientific platforms by providing data management solutions like LIMS, ELN,SDMS and platform for science.
Corey Lanum
Commercial Director of Cambridge Intelligence
Corey has managed the technical and business relationships with dozens of the largest defense and intelligence agencies in North America, in addition to working with many security and anti-fraud organizations in private industry. With 14 years of data visualization and data analytics experience, Corey has a diverse background working on big data initiatives and implementing proven solutions that provide customers with key insights into their data. Corey manages the US office and is the point of contact for US and Canadian customers.
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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.
Elaine Chen
Founder and Managing Director of ConceptSpring
Elaine Chen is the Cummings Family Professor of the Practice in Entrepreneurship at Tufts University.
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About ConceptSpring, Tufts Entrepreneurship Center (TEC), Tufts University: We help organizations survive and thrive through innovation
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.
Glenn Barnes
Associate Director, Data Standards of Global Specimen Solutions
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About Global Specimen Solutions: Global Specimen Solutions operates “GlobalCODE,” a data-management system for compiling specimen data and processes.
Sebastian Bain
Director & COO at Advanet Inc of Advanet
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About Advanet: Advanet Inc. is a leading provider of industrial embedded board computers and systems designed, developed, and manufactured in Japan.
Director, Software Design of Sustainable Minds
Greg brings 17 years of experience designing Web-based software and large-scale Web sites. He has extensive experience with start-ups and early-stage product design, designing great products right from the start. His multidisciplinary skill-set includes product strategy, interaction design, information architecture, visual design and branding. Previous experience includes positions with The Beam and GreenBuildingBlocks.com, StillSecure, Razorfish and TSDesign.
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About Sustainable Minds: Sustainable Minds is a cloud software and services company.
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.
