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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 Edinburgh based Director operating in the Information Technology 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.
Jane Richardson
Senior Director, Europe Middle East and Africa of Oracle
Senior Director, Europe, Middle East & Africa, Oracle Academy.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mark Anderson
Senior Director of Global Solutions Enablement – EMEA of Equinix
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
William Allan
Regional Managing Director Scotland, Ireland & Investments of Currie & Brown (Australia)
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About Currie & Brown (Australia): Currie & Brown is a project services consultancy firm.
Raymond O’Hare
Member of the Board of Directors of Exception
Raymond has held a number of high profile board positions in Scotland including, Chairman of the IOD, board member of Young Scot, and member of the Government’s Skills Utilisation Leadership Group. He is currently on the boards of a number of ambitious and growing SMEs, as well as being a member of the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) board of management and member of the government’s National Economic Forum. Raymond worked for Microsoft for over 12 years and was the corporation’s director for Scotland for five and a half years.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Martin Burke
Founding Member of the Board of Directors & Chairman of the Board of Directors of Exception
Martin is a founding director of Exception and also serves as chairman. His responsibilities include strategic development of the business, consulting services, digital, and technology delivery. Martin is also responsible for Waracle, an Exception Group company, who provide mobile app solutions and services. Having worked on both the client and service side of the industry throughout his career, Martin has extensive experience of technology transformation across a number of sectors.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Alan Anderson
Founding Member of the Board of Directors of Exception
A founding director of Exception, Alan has been instrumental in the growth and development of the company since it was formed in 2002. Alan has director responsibility for our programme delivery services and provision of overall Customer Service. With over 20 years-experience on both the client and supply side of the industry, coupled with the ability to draw on his Financial Services, Government and Utilities expertise, Alan is ideally placed to ensure that the services delivered meet or exceed customer expectations.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Alan Anderson
Founding Member of the Board of Directors of Exception
A founding director of Exception, Alan has been instrumental in the growth and development of the company since it was formed in 2002. Alan has director responsibility for our programme delivery services and provision of overall Customer Service. With over 20 years-experience on both the client and supply side of the industry, coupled with the ability to draw on his Financial Services, Government and Utilities expertise, Alan is ideally placed to ensure that the services delivered meet or exceed customer expectations.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Peter Ferry
Commercial Director of Wallet.Services
Peter’s background as a software developer spanned the societies’ adoption of the PC and the Internet. As a hotshot techie he co-founded Microsoft Scotland and spent much of the dot com boom incarcerated in large financial services institutions, consulting on scary web, infrastructure and security projects. Peter’s corporate career continued ultimately leading Microsoft’s Cloud and Partner programs and running the Microsoft Technology Centre in Scotland demonstrating the business impact of disruptive tech. Peter gets very excited about leapfrog technologies that reshape the world. That’s why he founded Wallet.Services – to simplify and realise the potential of blockchain technologies for Business and Government. Peter has a passion for Digital Technology’s positive impact on society, learned during a few years in Estonia – Europe’s Baltic breakaway Digital Nation. He served on the board of ScotlandIS from 2013 to 2015, is on the Westminster All Party Parliamentary Group (APPG) on Blockchain, and was primary author of “Scottish Government’s Digital Strategy: Distributed Ledger Technologies in Public Services”. Peter was appointed the Honorary Consul for the Estonian Republic, a global leader in digital public services, in July 2017.
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About Wallet.Services: Connecting and protecting business and society.
Nara Kaveripatnam
Director of Nara Iyer Research
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About Crossing35: Nara Iyer Research is a Scotland based boutique consulting company specializing in Artificial intelligence.
Diwakar Thakore
Cofounder and Director of Dhiyantra Limited
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About Dhiyantra Limited, Musemantik: Dhiyantra a conversational & commerce company developing products & services intersection messenger apps, chatbots, artficial intelligence.
Craig Turpie
Director of Storm ID
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About : Digital transformation
Margaret Coughtrie
Non-Executive Director of Cognitive Geology
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About : A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Kieran O’Leary
Managing Director and Principal Consultant of Mixed Signal Systems
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About Mixed Signal Systems, Upstart Jobs: Mixed Signal Systems offers product development and consultancy services in the electronics, technology, and semiconductor industries.
Stuart Young
Managing Director of Etive Technologies
Stuart Young is a managing director at Etive Technologies.
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About Etive Technologies: Etive which is expanding its Birmingham operations, is capitalising on the government’s desire to move all public services online.
Michael Allan
Director of Operations of LendingCrowd
Michael Allan serves as director of operations at LendingCrowd.
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About LendingCrowd: LendingCrowd is a fintech lending platform serving mainland UK.
Scott Gray
Finance Director of LendingCrowd
Scott Gray serves as finance director at LendingCrowd.
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About LendingCrowd: LendingCrowd is a fintech lending platform serving mainland UK.
Michael Allan
Director of Operations of LendingCrowd
Michael Allan serves as director of operations at LendingCrowd.
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About LendingCrowd: LendingCrowd is a fintech lending platform serving mainland UK.
Scott Gray
Finance Director of LendingCrowd
Scott Gray serves as finance director at LendingCrowd.
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About LendingCrowd: LendingCrowd is a fintech lending platform serving mainland UK.
Eleanor Barnard
Finance Director of Reactec
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About Reactec: Reactec is the market leader in monitoring and management support solutions for hand and arm vibration syndrome
Mark-Paul Buckingham
Non-Executive Director of Reactec
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About Reactec, Xi Engineering Consultants: Reactec is the market leader in monitoring and management support solutions for hand and arm vibration syndrome
Allan Wright
Director of Onestop IT
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About : Onestop provides IT support services in Edinburgh, Glasgow, Scotland: tech support, IT solutions, and IT strategy consulting for businesses
Calum Lamont
Director of Assure APM
Calum is a network professional with over 20 years’ experience. Widely recognised across the industry as a technical authority, he has provided design and strategy advice to some of the world’s largest network operators.
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About Assure APM: Assure APM provides simple, quickly deployed, cost effective set of ICT security solutions.
Stuart Gibson
Director of Assure APM
Stuart is an experienced finance professional and has been a director with a number of telecoms and media companies.
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About Assure APM: Assure APM provides simple, quickly deployed, cost effective set of ICT security solutions.
Duncan Davidson
Founder and Managing Director of Rohallion
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About Rohallion: Rohallion is a deliver digital services that can change your business.
David Nicol
Lead Programmer and Director of Nautilus Beam Ltd
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About Nautilus Beam Ltd: Fast, easy text input on wearable tech, a novel UI + state-of-the-art prediction, correction and abbreviation expansion.
