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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 Managing Director operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Managing 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.
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
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.
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.
