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This list showcases the top Essex 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.
Guy Grieve
Director of Sales Engineering of LogPoint
Guy Grieve is Channel Sales Engineer Manager at LogPoint where he has been for the last 18 months. In his position Guy is responsible for the technical enablement of the LogPoint Channel, including distribution, platinum, gold and MSP partners as well as training and knowledge transfer to ensure LogPoint is delivered successfully both from a sales and technical perspective. Guy has also worked with a number of customers to implement their LogPoint solutions and has presented at a number of conferences and webinars introducing SIEM and LogPoint to a wide range to organisations.
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About LogPoint: Protecting the digital heart of organizations
Sam Fuller
Customer Success Director of Content Guru
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About Content Guru: Content Guru is a multi-award-winning provider of cloud-based communication solutions, delivering services through storm.
Clive Consterdine
Sales & Marketing Director of Zonal Retail Data Systems
Clive joined Zonal Retail Data Systems in August 2010 and has 35 years experience in the UK Leisure Industry including 20 years in operations in Director roles at European Leisure Plc, and later with Regent Inns Plc where he was responsible for the rollout of Walkabout Inns and Jongleurs Comedy Clubs. Since 2000, Clive has held Sales and Marketing Director roles selling technology solutions to the Hospitality sector. When he’s not developing new business relationships, Clive enjoys travelling the world, spending time with his family and friends, skiing, and playing golf. He recently visited India as part of the companys Hope For Children Your Business, Their Lives campaign which Zonal is a corporate sponsor of.
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About Zonal Retail Data Systems: Zone Retail Data Systems provides technology solutions to the bar, restaurant, retail, hotel, and leisure industry.
Tony Mann
Director of Resource Strategic Change Facilitators
Tony Mann has built up a reputation as being an effective facilitator who uses his expertise and skills to help organisations manage change in a participative way. His Process Iceberg® methodology for business process improvement and change has been adopted by a wide variety of organisations and is now applied under licence in New Zealand and through a franchise in Poland. Tony has worked with all levels of management and has worked in organisations such as BASF and Peugeot in the UK and the IESE Business School in Barcelona. He is an accomplished speaker and yet he is able to adopt a low profile style when supporting groups as a facilitator. He has been involved in a wide range of change and facilitation interventions where the engagement of the stakeholder are crucial. His “Change Management Dashboard” is used by organisations to map the issues that are likely to emerge during change (projects).
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About Resource Strategic Change Facilitators: Resource Strategic Change Facilitators is at the forefront of Facilitation training and application.
Paul Green
Co-Founder, Director and Chief Science Officer of IOTICS
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About IOTICS: Enabling ecosystems of secure data interactions with digital twins
Brian Morgan
Business and Partner Growth Director of Rimilia
Brian Morgan, Rimilia Business Development Director Brian has over 20 years’ experience in managing credit departments including Debt Management, Risk Management and the full Order to Cash Process. He is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Credit Management (CICM), a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (CMI) and a Chartered Manager with CMI. Brian has won multiple awards and gained Centre of Excellence for his digital transformation of the finance function in large enterprises.
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About Rimilia: Rimilia creates software finance people love by enabling tight integration between the front and back office.
Martin Slater
Director of Discovery Services of Cresset
Martin is Director of Consulting for Cresset Discovery Services. He studied medicinal chemistry at the Universities of Huddersfield and Leeds then spent 14 years in the highly dynamic pharmaceutical ‘fee for service’ environment at BioFocus where he supported medicinal chemistry and a diverse range of programs. Martin heads up our Discovery Services team and thrives on the varied challenges of applying our computational chemistry expertise to a wide range of collaborative work. His innovative and rigorous approach combines excellent science with outstanding customer communication
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About Cresset: Cresset is software and services for small molecule discovery and design.
Darren Knowles
Operations Director of Rio IT
With over 20 years’ experience in software development, Darren joined Rio in 2007 before becoming a Director in 2015. Darren has designed operating models and software solutions for businesses across a wide range of industries.
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About Rio IT: Rio IT they aim to protect your business, increase productivity, and reduce costs.
Colm Coyle
Managing Director of Rio IT
After working in the City as Chief Technical Architect for a major bank, Colm wanted a new challenge running his own business, and became Managing Director of Rio in 2006. Colm has over 20 years’ experience in IT engineering.
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About Rio IT: Rio IT they aim to protect your business, increase productivity, and reduce costs.
Compton Darlington
Business Development Director of FSI
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About FSI: FSI provides workplace technology and services.
