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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 Glasgow 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.
Kris Bachoo
Learning Programme Director of QA Ltd
Having joined QA in January 2015, Kris drives forward individual learning and organisational development with passion, pace and integrity. With over 20 years of experience, holding executive organisational development positions and blue chip consultancy, Kris believes the key to shaping and growing organisations, has its heart in leadership development. Her global experience includes the US, Middle and Far East, Europe and South Africa, and her work has been underpinned by continuous professional development in a range of areas, including doctoral research into leadership career pathways.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
David Waddington
Director of Asura Financial Technologies
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About Asura Financial Technologies: Asura Financial Technologies (AFT) provides cost-saving software solutions to stockbrokers and wealth managers.
Pawel Niewczas
R&D Director of Synaptec
Pawel is a co-founder of Synaptec. He leads the Advanced Sensors Team at the University of Strathclyde, focussing on the advancement of optical sensing methods and systems integration in applications that lie predominantly in power and energy sectors. He has carried out a unique portfolio of research programmes, generally focusing on fibre based spectrally encoded sensors, and addressing such issues as sensor design, fabrication, packaging, deployment, and interrogation in challenging environments. He has over 20 years’ experience in delivering and managing industrially-focussed R&D projects in this area, including those that resulted in the sensing techniques that form Synaptec’s core IP.
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About Synaptec, University of Strathclyde: Synaptec develops and deploys photonic sensing systems.
Campbell Booth
Applications Director of Synaptec
Campbell is a co-founder of Synaptec and a Reader at the University of Strathclyde. He has built a portfolio of research in the areas of power system protection, control and monitoring, working with government and industrial funding partners, and leads the technical team of the Power Network Demonstration Centre in Scotland. He is on the organising committees of the IET DPSP and PACWorld conferences, participates in various CIGRE working groups, and has published over 150 articles, engineering recommendations, white papers and several book chapters. He possesses an excellent understanding of the industry’s challenges which enables him to identify the key problems for which Synaptec’s technology is uniquely placed to offer a solution.
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About Synaptec, University of Strathclyde: Synaptec develops and deploys photonic sensing systems.
Philip Orr
Managing Director of Synaptec
Philip Orr is the Managing Director at Synaptec
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About Synaptec: Synaptec develops and deploys photonic sensing systems.
Temidayo Isaiah Oniosun
Managing Director of Space in Africa
Temidayo Isaiah Oniosun is the Founder and Managing Director of Space in Africa.
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About Space in Africa: The Authority on News, Data and Market Analysis for the African Space Industry
Natalie Bell
Sales Director of Akari
Natalie Bell has a unique approach to customers, having worked in Public and Third Sector for the last 15 years; she is genuinely driven by the business outcomes that technology can bring, and has seen the detrimental impact this can have when executed incorrectly. Her work with vulnerable groups and marginalised communities has also given her great insight into the importance of inclusion and accessibility. Consequently, Natalie has the drive to embed these values into all things Akari! She is enabling digital inclusion using tools, like AVA Achieve, in further education and also supporting organisations across all sectors who require translation services to improve their customer service and HR processes.
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About Akari: Akari, they strive to inspire change with inventive and creative technologies to further enable people’s experiences.
Tom McDonald
Managing Director of Exsel Group
Tom is the Managing Director of Exsel Group. Under Tom’s Stewardship Exsel Group have gone from a small home business to one of Scotland’s leading ICT providers, specialising in Cloud Technology. In 2016 Exsel Group were listed 3rd in the Deloitte UK Technology Fast 50 with a massive 4 year growth rate of 3800%. Tom has spoken at various business growth events throughout the UK sharing the stage with some of the UK’s top Entrepreneurs including Sir Tom Hunter. 2016 also saw Tom inducted 7th on the Scotland 40 under 40, an independent review of Scotland’s top Entrepreneurs and business leaders under 40.
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About Exsel Group: Exsel Group provides a wide-range of IT and telephone solutions to companies of all sizes.
Danny Quinn
Managing Director of DataVita
Danny is the Managing Director and founder of DataVita who have recently launched Fortis, Scotland’s first large scale next generation, energy efficient, co-location datacentre. Danny was responsible for the project from conception to delivery and has created one of the most innovative, secure and reliable facilities in the UK. He has also worked closely with the Uptime Institute to make DataVita the first UK Co-location datacentre to achieve Tier III Construction certification and to do this with 100% free air cooling. Previous to starting DataVita, Danny was the Head of Operations for a European-wide integrator and cloud service provider, responsible for an operations team of over 100 staff delivering managed cloud services to customers in 14 countries.
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About DataVita, DataVita: DataVita Scotland’s largest, energy efficient datacentre, delivering high quality co-locaton and innovative, agile cloud services.
Graeme Logie
Operations Director of DataVita
Graeme Logie is the Operations Director at DataVita Limited and has been working within the Critical Facilities industry for over 20 years. Graeme earned a Bachelor’s Degree in Electrical Power Engineering whilst studying at Glasgow Caledonian University and is also an active member of the Institution of Engineering and Technology. For his entire career Graeme has worked in various roles designing, installing, maintaining and managing critical infrastructure. In recent years Graeme’s career has been focused on managing and building Data Centres for Oracle and DataVita. Graeme is now focused on growing the DataVita business at the Fortis Data Centre.
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About DataVita: DataVita Scotland’s largest, energy efficient datacentre, delivering high quality co-locaton and innovative, agile cloud services.
Neil Anderson
Director of Security Services of Assure APM
A highly qualified security and network consultant, Neil has more than a decade of cyber security experience. His expertise cover a wide range of technologies, with a focus on next generation network and data centre security.
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About Assure APM: Assure APM provides simple, quickly deployed, cost effective set of ICT security solutions.
Dave Allan
Managing Director of CC Technology
Founder of CC Technology the company was originally formed to deliver lower cost and higher quality software to a variety of sectors with an emphasis on finance and healthcare. Having found a product and area to focus on, namely grant management this has become the company focus. He enjoys researching the market and meeting with our customers to ensure that CC Grant Tracker is the leading grant management system available. He understands the challenges that you face when selecting a solution for your organisation and will assist you in every way possible to ensure you get the right software for all your stakeholders. Dave is very pleased that our current clients will be delighted to speak with you to discuss any aspect of their relationship with CC Technology.
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About CC Technology: CC Technology are a leading supplier of enterprise grants management software.
Dave Allan
Managing Director of CC Technology
Founder of CC Technology the company was originally formed to deliver lower cost and higher quality software to a variety of sectors with an emphasis on finance and healthcare. Having found a product and area to focus on, namely grant management this has become the company focus. He enjoys researching the market and meeting with our customers to ensure that CC Grant Tracker is the leading grant management system available. He understands the challenges that you face when selecting a solution for your organisation and will assist you in every way possible to ensure you get the right software for all your stakeholders. Dave is very pleased that our current clients will be delighted to speak with you to discuss any aspect of their relationship with CC Technology.
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About CC Technology: CC Technology are a leading supplier of enterprise grants management software.
