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 Kent 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.
Jon Jackson
Creative Director of NowSourcing
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About NowSourcing: We make ideas simple, visual, and influential.
Jon Jackson
Creative Director of NowSourcing
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About NowSourcing: We make ideas simple, visual, and influential.
Joseph Voyles
Director of PwC
Joseph Voyles is the Director at PwC.
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About PwC: PricewaterhouseCoopers is an accounting firm that provides tax, HR, transactions, performance improvement, and crisis management services.
Rebecca Rice
Director of Product of Render
Rebecca Brown Rice is the Director of Product at Render.
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About Access Ventures, Render: Render helps organizations ideate, build, and develop solutions to challenging problems.
Tim Harris
Director of Marketing and Communications of Render
Tim Harris is the Director of Marketing and Communications at Render. Prior to that, he was the Director of Marketing and Communications of Access Ventures.
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About Render: Render helps organizations ideate, build, and develop solutions to challenging problems.
Oliver Griebl
Managing Director & Founder of Profit Intelligence
Oliver is a Managing Principal at The Market Element as well as the Managing Director of Profit Intelligence, a business performance consultancy. He has more than 16 years of consulting experience across many different industries, including many companies in the Fortune 100. His work has mainly focused on assisting clients with achieving increased revenue and margin performance with a focus on strategy development, marketing excellence, and pricing improvement. He has led numerous initiatives for clients in the automotive, energy, healthcare, wholesale , and consumer goods industries. His consulting experience includes developing pricing and sales channel strategies, improving price execution capabilities, redesigning operational processes in marketing/sales/finance, and performing in-depth analytics to diagnose and remedy issues related to poor profitability. Prior to Profit Intelligence Oliver spent more than a decade in Deloitte Consulting’s Customer Strategy vertical where he was a founding member of the Pricing & Profitability Management Practice and was involved with the development of the methodologies, frameworks, and other intellectual assets for the practice since its inception. Oliver holds two B.S. degrees in engineering and a Masters in Engineering Management from Northwestern University in Evanston, IL. He also holds an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management.Oliver enjoys spending every minute of free time with his wife (Sonja), two kids (Kayla & Karsten), and their dog (Kaia). They live in Katy, TX.
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About Profit Intelligence, The Market Element: Profit Intelligence, is a business performance consultancy that advises clients on profitability improvement opportunities.
Edward Weir
Director of Swale Academies Trust
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About Swale Academies Trust: Swale Academies Trust provides professional development assistance to primary and secondary schools.
Jeanne Rumsey
Senior Director of Operations of Innosight
Jeanne is the Senior Director of Operations at Innosight. She manages finance, employee benefits, information technology, office administration and operations. Jeanne enjoys wearing several different hats and has been challenged every single day she has worked at Innosight. Prior to working at Innosight, Jeanne worked for Healthvision Inc., a small software development company in Waltham, MA, where she managed the office for 75+ software developers and engineers. Before Healthvision, Jeanne worked for Payette Associates Inc., an architecture firm in Boston, MA. While at Payette, Jeanne also served as the Secretary for the Boston Society of Architects’ Task Force to End Homelessness, a committee dedicated to promoting affordable housing and sustainable living in the Boston area. The Task Force provided pro bono planning, design, outreach, and advocacy services to non-profit and other community groups grappling with the problem of fighting homelessness.
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About Innosight: Innosight is a boutique consulting, training, and investment firm that works with companies to improve their innovation-driven growth.
Van Thompson
Director of Professional Services of TechInsights
Van Thompson is Director of Professional Services at TechInsights.
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About TechInsights: TechInsights is a technology company that offers intellectual property consulting, patent brokerage services, and technical analysis.
Rachel Cornish
Managing Director of ExtraDigital
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About ExtraDigital, ExtraDigital, Mynurva: Internet Marketing & Development Agency
Elle Waters
Director of Strategy of Simply Accessible
Evangelizing the growth of Universal Design and lean accessibility as best practices within large organizations, Elle works on behalf of Simply Accessible with startups and enterprise level clients to build the foundation needed to integrate accessibility into every facet of corporate culture. She’s worked first hand with design, content, development, and testing teams to create agile, scalable methods to ensure more inclusive user experiences. She’s seen amazing things happen, where the user’s needs are the primary driver for change and innovation in large scale digital projects, where teams meet and even exceed their specific product goals, and where companies leap ahead of their competition, all by putting accessibility first. Elle has a passion for all things agile, a fascination with emerging technology, and a healthy fear of zombies.
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About Simply Accessible: We’re a team of web and interactive accessibility specialists
Danny Bird
Managing Director of RSK Business Solutions
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About RSK Business Solutions: RSK Business Solutions provides delivering consultancy services.
Martin Mitchell
Managing Director of Professional Bank Services
Marty is our Managing Director with 18 years of experience in the regulatory compliance field. After retiring from a successful career as a U.S. Army officer, he served as a commissioned federal compliance examiner with the FDIC. As an examiner Marty was responsible for determining financial institution compliance with consumer protection laws and regulations. He also served at their DC Headquarters. During a tenure with Capital One, he led the design and implementation of their corporate level mortgage compliance program. Marty served our largest, most complex clients nationwide and for the past six years has led our compliance consulting division.
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About Professional Bank Services: Professional Bank Services provides industry leading consulting and educational services to the financial industry.
Marcus Cooke
Director of Space Between
As Technology Director at Space Between, Marcus is responsible for coordinating the Biometric Research Team, who identify areas for improvement on eCommerce sites the use of CRO, UX and Biometrics. He has worked with some of the world’s leading eCommerce brands, including ASOS, Reiss, ghd and LEGOland, and includes partnerships with Adobe and Dot Digital. Marcus will be speaking about how he uses biometrics, along with traditional moderated user research methods, to quantify the UX impact of bad design decisions.
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About Space Between: Space Between are eCommerce Growth Specialists.
Bernie Mayall
Director and Independent Consultant of Mayall Management Ltd
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About Mayall Management Ltd: Mayall Management offer help with quality, audit, strategic and business planning, restructuring, networking and commissioning support.
Crystal Richard
Director of Public Relations of Onboardly
As Director of Public Relations at Onboardly, Crystal always has a great story to tell. She has helped her clients appear in publications such as Forbes, Entrepreneur, The Atlantic, Fast Company, The Huffington Post, TechCrunch, and Wired (to name a few). Prior to Onboardly, Crystal worked in experiential marketing delivering word-of-mouth campaigns across Canada (and a short-term stint in Las Vegas as a promoter), before moving back to the East Coast to take on a (boring) day job while simultaneously managing a hectic freelance #StartupPR schedule on the side. In 2012, she quit both for a full-time position with Onboardly. Rarely caught without her iPhone in one hand and a Starbucks latte in the other – Crystal is a pop-culture junkie and the go to source for any perfect animated gif, anytime.
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About Onboardly: Onboardly offers public relations and content marketing services to startups.
Jason Lark
Founder & Managing Director of Celerity
Jason Lark is the Founder and Managing Director of Celerity.
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About Celerity: Celerity is a data-driven marketing agency specializing in helping brands to maximize value from marketing technology and customer data.
Jason Lark
Founder & Managing Director of Celerity
Jason Lark is the Founder and Managing Director of Celerity.
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About Celerity: Celerity is a data-driven marketing agency specializing in helping brands to maximize value from marketing technology and customer data.
