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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 Essex based Director operating in the Consulting 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.
Neil Butler
Director of Digital Dimensions
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About Clearvision-CM, Digital Dimensions, Santander UK: Digital Dimensions develops software and online tools to improve business processes.
Matthew Townend
Director of Cavell Group
Matthew is a respected analyst who has led a number of high-profile consultancy projects for multinational clients such as BT, O2, Vodafone, Level 3, Telkom South Africa, South Korea Telecom and Belgacom. His market analysis skills combined with his product management & sales experience enable him to undertake broad-based market and business analysis and to develop comprehensive business plans & market strategies. He is a recognised expert in the area of hosted communications with frequent speaking engagements and published research. Matthew’s focus has been very much the development of new markets. Early in his career he launched the first UK magazine devoted entirely to the Internet, and he then went on to join PIPEX, the first commercial provider of internet access in the UK. When PIPEX was acquired by UUNET he was appointed Product Director responsible for launching one of the first multinational VPN services in Europe, and subsequently became Senior Director of all indirect channel activities for Verizon in EMEA. After leaving Verizon he became Marketing Director at Inclarity, one of Europe’s earliest providers of VOIP services.
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About Cavell Group: Cavell Group offering research, consulting, professional services & training in convergence, mobility & cloud.
Jiggs O’Sullivan
Managing Director of UpwardComms
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About UpwardComms: UpwardComms is a customer completion firm that provides end-to-end contact center, fulfillment, and marketing services.
David Wilde
Owner and Managing Director of Dwilde Consulting
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About Dwilde Consulting: Dwilde Consulting is a consulting agency that provides expertise in the field of commercial sectors, IT, and digital leadership.
James Baker
Managing Director of Tantivy Consulting
With 15 years’ experience in leading successful management consulting companies in investment banking, asset management and technology, James is a Board Advisor at Keepnet Labs, responsible for scaling up the business and operations.
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About Tantivy Consulting: Tantivy Consulting provides management consulting, anti-phishing software and services to enhance cyber resilience.
Compton Darlington
Business Development Director of FSI
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About FSI: FSI provides workplace technology and services.
Mat Baine
Managing Director & Group CEO of Collaborative Project Management Services (CPMS)
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About Collaborative Project Management Services (CPMS): CPMS is a provider of programme management, commercial management, safety assurance.
Baljit Sarpal
Managing Director of Sarpal Consultancy
Prior to founding Sarpal Consultancy Ltd, a management and advisory consultancy, Baljit held a number of leadership roles in BT, encompassing Product Development, Solution Design, Process Architecture. Baljit has led a number of key transformational change initiatives: developing new architectures to support hybrid networks (traditional and NfV/SDN); network and cloud service offering; as well as re-architecting legacy OSS and processes to transform product delivery. Most recently Baljit has led the BT Group CIO’s delivery for GDPR compliance across a number of enterprise functional verticals (HR, Finance and Group Legal) and continues to be active through his advisory consultancy. Baljit is active within TM Forum leading the IoT Monetisation, Management and Trust workstream.
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About Sarpal Consultancy: Sarpal Consultancy provide advice to enterprises operating in domestic and global markets on the latest issues facing businesses.
