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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 Sports 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 – 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.
Jian Li
Principal Data Scientist and Data Science Team Manager of Sky UK
Jian Li is Principal Data Scientist in Sky. He leads a data science team with a main focus on machine learning research for Sky’s content discovery products and services including search and recommendation. His research covers various topics including deep learning, natural language processing, ranking, metadata enrichment and semantic knowledge inference. Before joining Sky, Jian was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge where he developed the personalised email classification product for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 services. This product has been used by 50 million customers globally by the end of 2015. Jian holds a Ph.D in computer vision and experimental psychology from University of Bristol.
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About Sky UK: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
John Dollin
Senior Product and Engineering Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Kaj Phoenix
Mobile Product Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Kyle Douglas McCormick
Growth Marketing Manager of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Manon van Thorenburg
Product Manager of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Tom Casson
Interim Network Development Manager of Special Olympics Great Britain
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About Special Olympics Great Britain: Special Olympics GB offers a year-round, both sports program and provides ongoing assistance to athletes with intellectual impairments.
Kunal Shah
Marketing Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Kunal Shah
Marketing Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Steve Feeney
Project Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Samy Kamkar
Security Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Abdul Miah
Technical Support Manager of StreamAMG
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About StreamAMG: OTT Solutions Provider
