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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 Cambridgeshire 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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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
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.
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.
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.
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.
David Mrva
Speech Recognition Director of Speechmatics
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About Speechmatics: Global experts in deep learning and speech recognition
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.
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.
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.
