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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 Leeds based Director operating in the Finance 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.
Dale Alderson
Investment Director, Yorkshire & North East of LDC
Dale joined LDC in 2012 following six years at Deloitte within the Corporate Finance team working both in the North East and London. He has strong experience in both originating and executing transactions including management buyouts, corporate sales and acquisitions, and distressed refinancing across a range of sectors and investment size. He has also provided strategic advice relating to long-term growth plans, acquisition strategy and stakeholder management to a number of large corporate clients in the region. Dale was involved in the recent investment in NRS which is his first board position within the LDC portfolio. Prior to joining Deloitte, Dale began his career at Ernst & Young in 2001, where he qualified as a Chartered Accountant.
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About LDC: LDC is a private equity company which provides funds for buyouts and development capital transactions in UK unquoted companies.
Jane Gilbert
Investment Director of LDC
Jane joined LDC in Sept 2012 from Permira, where she spent 4 years as an investment executive in the London office. Whilst at Permira, Jane’s experience involved leveraged buy-out investments, value creation strategy development, portfolio management, debt restructurings and exit processes; across a wide range of sectors, but with a greater emphasis on healthcare. Prior to Permira, Jane worked in the investment banking division of Lehman Brothers, originally within UK mergers & acquisitions and latterly in the healthcare investment banking team. Jane has a First Class Bachelor’s Degree in Medicine, specialising in pharmacology from Christ’s College, Cambridge.
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About LDC: LDC is a private equity company which provides funds for buyouts and development capital transactions in UK unquoted companies.
Nigel Payne
Non-Executive Director Advisor Channel of rebuildingsociety.com
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About rebuildingsociety.com: peer to business loans platform connecting lenders directly with businesses needing debt funding.
Kenton Robbins
Non-Executive Director Business Strategy of rebuildingsociety.com
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About rebuildingsociety.com: peer to business loans platform connecting lenders directly with businesses needing debt funding.
David Jones
Founder Director of Reward Finance Group
David Jones joined Reward Finance Group as Founder Director in 2011.
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About Reward Finance Group: Reward Finance Group offers a finance solutions that is put together to meet specific business needs.
Vivien Badaut
Director and founder of DRIAD
Born in France and raised in the suburbs of Paris, Vivien studied chemistry at the University Paris XI, graduating with an MSc in Nuclear Chemistry in 2006. He then joined the French Nuclear Agency (CEA) as a postgraduate researcher and obtained a PhD in Chemistry on the topic of nuclear waste storage in 2010. Vivien then joined the RIKEN research institute in Tokyo (Japan) as a postdoctoral researcher working on quantum modelling until 2012; he was also President of the French-speaking Association of Researchers in Japan, Sciencescope. In 2013, back in France, he started working with startups as a technical expert advising on innovation projects. He subsequently moved to the UK, where he founded up DRIAD in June 2014.
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About DRIAD: DRIAD is an international innovation consultancy that specializes in grant funding for R&D projects.
Thierry Salus-Robbins
Director of Operations of DRIAD
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About DRIAD: DRIAD is an international innovation consultancy that specializes in grant funding for R&D projects.
Thierry Salus-Robbins
Director of Operations of DRIAD
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About DRIAD: DRIAD is an international innovation consultancy that specializes in grant funding for R&D projects.
Roger Esler
Owner and Director of Dow Schofield Watts Corporate Finance
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About Dow Schofield Watts Corporate Finance: Dow Schofield Watts Corporate Finance provides investment, equity finance, advisory, forensic valuation and wealth management services.
