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 London based VP’ operating in the Human Resources space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Pavel Kilovatiy
VP Engineering of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Kriti Sharma
VP of Artificial Intelligence of Sage Group
Kriti Sharma is VP of bots and AI at Sage. She was recently named in Forbes magazine’s 30 under 30. She built her first robot at the age of 17, designed to bring chocolates to its controller. The software bots she works on at Sage today are designed to helping business builders do less admin, and more of what they love. Sharma is a trailblaser for smart machines that work and react like humans to help to make business admin invisible. Sharma is the creator of Pegg, the world’s first accounting chatbot, launched to market in 2017 which now boasts users in 135 countries.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Liam Waite
Vice President UK of Talentful
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About Talentful: Talentful specialises in helping companies to elevate their talent acquisition strategy.
Annette Burgard
VP of Marketing of Coople
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About Coople, More Than Carrots: Coople operates as a staffing platform that connects companies and workers.
Marcus Sawyerr
Global Head of Digital & Innovation / Senior Vice President of The Adecco Group
Marcus Sawyerr, global head of digital & innovation at The Adecco Group.
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About The Adecco Group: The Adecco Group is a provider of talent solutions and staffing services to automakers and aerospace companies.
Dorothy Mead
VP Marketing and Brand of Talmix
Dorothy is a technology and b2b marketing veteran who has worked with multinational organisations, consultancies and with early stage businesses in London and Cambridge UK to drive commercial traction and growth. Blending a deep knowledge of traditional and digital marketing techniques, she currently is responsible for building the Talmix brand globally and creating programmes to support revenue growth and market share in the Enterprise, Private Equity and Management Consultancy segments.
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About Talmix: Talmix has built a Business Talent Marketplace to allow companies to unlock the power of the extended workforce.
Dorothy Mead
VP Marketing and Brand of Talmix
Dorothy is a technology and b2b marketing veteran who has worked with multinational organisations, consultancies and with early stage businesses in London and Cambridge UK to drive commercial traction and growth. Blending a deep knowledge of traditional and digital marketing techniques, she currently is responsible for building the Talmix brand globally and creating programmes to support revenue growth and market share in the Enterprise, Private Equity and Management Consultancy segments.
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About Talmix: Talmix has built a Business Talent Marketplace to allow companies to unlock the power of the extended workforce.
Chris Wakely
Executive Vice President, Global Enterprise of Benify
Chris Wakely has been working in global benefits technology for the last 15 years. He has seen the changes taking place both in insurance provision and the increasing importance of the employee experience. He is based out of the Benify London office.
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About Benify: Benefits Management and Total Rewards platform – SaaS
David Godden
VP, Sales & Marketing of Thymometrics
David Godden is VP, Sales & Marketing at Thymometrics and Co-Founder at KeyEngage. David is responsible for Thymometrics’ marketing activities including strategy, corporate marketing and product marketing. Thymometrics provide SaaS-based always-on employee engagment surveys for global blue chip organisations. He became joint Managing Director at eTrigue Europe in 2013. eTrigue provide world leading Marketing Automation software solutions to SMBs. David is also a founding Director at KeyEngage. KeyEngage assist US-based high-end marketing SaaS companies establish a presence in the EU. This involves establishing the company, building a sales and support team and providing all marketing activity. Companies included Pardot, DocuSign, Baynote and Bronto Software. Before setting up KeyEngage, David was a founding Director with Keymail Marketing, established in early 2005 to represent email marketing specialists ExactTarget. Keymail Marketing was wholly acquired by ExactTarget in 2009 as the launch pad for their international expansion. Prior to this he was Client Services Director at Bluestreak (formerly e2Communications) for over 5 years, responsible for the management of all major European accounts. His former work includes several Project Management roles in internet and other sectors.
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About KeyEngage, Thymometrics: Always-On & Pulse Employee Engagement Surveys and Employee Feedback Solutions
