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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 London based Manager operating in the Cloud Computing space. If you think a Manager 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 โ Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth โ Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management โ Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact โ Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data โ 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.
Zoe Vance
Senior Product Manager, RabbitMQ for Cloud Foundry of Pivotal
Zoe Vance is a Product Manager of RabbitMQ and Redis for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously she was Director of Product of a Y Combinator startup creating a tool for developers to create APIs from any website, and prior to that she worked for McKinsey & Co. Zoe holds a MSc from Imperial College in CS and a BS from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time, Zoe likes to read fiction and nerd out on economics podcasts.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
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Chisara Nwabara
R&D Technical Program Manager of Pivotal
Chisa is a Service & Product Specialist experienced in helping enterprises across diverse industries and stages of development improve their operational performance and capabilities through the application of evidence-based programme management methodologies. As Pivotalโs Research & Development Technical Program Manager in London, she works across various product teams to make feedback loops and communication more effective through the use of experimentation, process engineering and service design. As Pivotalโs EMEA Diversity and Inclusion Co-Lead, Chisa supports the EMEA region in continuously improving Pivotalโs organisational culture to be more psychologically safe and equally opportunistic for Pivots. This work also entails building bridges between Pivotal and local communities, as well as being a representative face in public spaces where Chisa works to be visible to peers and those looking for role models that she found where lacking in the earlier stages of her tech career.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Der Hans
Engineering Manager of Canonical
der.hans is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, chairman for the Phoenix Linux Users Group and a repeat speaker at SCaLE. He is an engineering manager at Canonical and former community college instructor. In his free time he likes to camp, learn about sustainable culture and annually not set himself on fire.
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Wayne Lloyd
Senior Manager โ Digital Business Transformation / Blockchain / AI Company Name of Publicis Sapient
Having spent the vast majority of his career providing centralised technology solutions to investment banks and large corporate companies around the world, Wayne now advocates the adoption of decentralised ways of working since discovering blockchain in early 2016. As the official UK Ambassador for EOS Nation, Wayne represents the worlds most cutting edge blockchain technology project, specifically designed for enterprise adoption. A member of the Blockchain Council and a Founder Member of The Oxford University Blockchain Foundation, Wayne believes society is approaching the era of the democratization of value through tokenisation and as the Blockchain & Crypto asset advisor for the largest Digital Marketing Agency in the world Wayne presentsโ thought leadership to how this event horizon is set to disrupt multiple industries in the not too distant future.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Monica Vooght
Cloud Engagement Manager of Cloudreach
Monica has over 10 yearsโ experience leading and enabling organisations to deliver business value through complex technology change programmes in technology, banking, defence and public sectors. She is currently managing the delivery of an AWS Landing Zone and Hub & Spoke solution for one of the worldโs largest oil & gas companies. Monicaโs areas of interest include AWS, GCP and agile. In her spare time, Monica enjoys hanging out with her family and reading literary masterpieces like โA Squash and a Squeezeโ to her daughter, whilst also eagerly awaiting the arrival of her second child.
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About Cloudreach: Cloudreach is a Global cloud enabler with extensive experience across all industries, workloads and use cases.
Mandi Walls
Technical Community Manager, EMEA of Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Director of Consulting, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. Prior to joining Chef, she ran large web properties for AOL, including AOL.com, Games.com and Moviefone. Mandi has a Masterโs degree in Computer Science from GWU and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences and is the author of โBuilding a DevOps Cultureโ, published by OโReilly.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Craig Beddis
CEO of Hadean
An entrepreneurial senior executive with 25 successful years and experience grounded in building and transforming business and accelerating growth.
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About Hadean: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
Suzanne Clitheroe
Project Management Office Manager of Cloud Direct
Suzanne understands what it means to provide great customer service. With experience in managing corporate and SME clients, her ability to see what itโs like to be the customer is appreciated by all.
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About Cloud Direct: Cloud Direct is a Cloud-based IT services company.
Steven Booth
Product Manager, Services of Flow XO
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About Flow XO: Everything you need to build bots โ Build, host & manage bots in one platform
