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 Edinburgh based Director operating in the Enterprise 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.
Andrew Nagle
Global Account Director, EMEA 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.
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.
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.
Margaret Coughtrie
Non-Executive Director of Cognitive Geology
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About : A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Douglas Martin
Managing Director of MiAlgae
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About MiAlgae: MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company .
