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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 Developer Tools 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.
Diego González-Zúñiga
Program Manager of Microsoft
Zúñiga is a computer engineer from Costa Rica. He holds a doctorate in Informatics and a master degree in Multimedia from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as a master degree in Information Systems from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology. These studies served as a starting point for his 3D journey, studying stereoscopic Graphical User Interfaces, and more recently VR, where he focused on WebVR and is interested in defining the “semantics of depth”. He currently works for Samsung Research UK, as a Senior Engineer/Web Advocate for the Samsung Internet browser. You can find more information about his projects at diekus.net.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Marianne Roling
General Manager Global System Integrators for TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL of Microsoft
Marianne joined Microsoft in 2005 to lead the EMEA business for the Mobile Communications Business, managing the growth of Windows Mobile, working closely with mobile device makers, mobile operators, resellers and software developers. In 2007, she then took on global responsibility for the strategy development of the global expansion program of Microsoft’s Mobile Business and subsequently was asked to lead the Global Sales of Windows Phone. In 2011, Marianne moved to the Central and Eastern Europe team to become the Managing Director for the Operator Channels working on joint partnerships of Microsoft Devices and Services. In the summer of 2014, she became Partner and GM in CEE for the division that leads the Partner network, Corporate Account Sales, and SMB sales, covering a large majority of Microsoft’s sales and marketing for the 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Marianne brings with her a wealth of relevant industry experience, in both the fixed line and mobile space across Europe, USA and Latin America.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Hugh Milward
General Manager, Corporate, External and Legal Affairs of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Manuela Pichler
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rakhi Sachdeva
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Rakhi Sachdeva is a Customer Success Manager for Modern Workplace Solutions working with Public Sector customers in the UK. Rakhi has worked in global customer success & partner management roles across Dynamics 365 & Modern Workplace solutions both in India and UK. She comes to Microsoft with over 11 years of work experience in Business Development, Customer Service and Project Management positions. Rakhi is an active member of Women at Microsoft Community and is a vivid supporter of events like Microsoft YouthSpark Program for middle and high school girls, TechHer (A learning Event for women) to help bring more women in the technology world. Rakhi is super enthusiastic about working with customers around their Diversity & Inclusion efforts. She also loves working with UK charities to promote Microsoft’s Tech for Good initiative which provides non-profit organisations an opportunity to understand how technology can solve their business problems.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Liz Leigh-Bowler
Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Liz Leigh-Bowler recently joined Microsoft as the Product Marketing Manager for finance, supply chain management and fraud protection. Within this role, Liz is responsible for the commercial success of Microsoft’s core ERP products in the UK across all customer segments. Before coming to Microsoft, she started her career as an assistant language teacher in Japan before making a complete change and jumping to finance at Barclaycard. Since then, she has specialised in proposition and product marketing where she can ensure customer needs are put at the heart of business decisions and Go-To-Market strategies. Following her time at Barclaycard, Liz implemented the global payments and banking strategy across Sage Accounting solutions and took up the position as Director for Product and Marketing at Sage Pay with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce and fraud.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rebecca Jones
Program Manager – Mixed Reality Studios of Microsoft
Becky is a developer and specialist in emerging technologies. Her company builds mixed reality prototypes and solutions for clients using Microsoft HoloLens, with a keen focus on elucidating best practices for user experience in this new paradigm. Becky also organises the meetup group Mixed Reality London.
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About Bektio, Microsoft, Portal Entertainment: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ken Liu
Talent Acquisition Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Elena Cordova Russ
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Elena Cordova Russ has been a Customer Success Manager in the technology industry for the past 7 years. She is currently working on the Financial Sector at Microsoft helping customers maximise the value of their O365 investment. Her focus is to identify and align her customer’s business objectives to the Modern workplace solutions and increase their productivity and collaboration. Elena has also been an accessibility champion at Microsoft where she discovered how much technology can help everyone.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Jess Portnoy
Open Source Community Manager and Packaging Lead of Kaltura
Jess Portnoy is senior director of packaging and open source at Kaltura. Jess has been an open source developer and believer for 18 years. Jess also grows pets at GitHub, SourceForge, and Nagios Exchange.
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About Kaltura: Kaltura develops video SaaS solutions for enterprises of all industries.
Sam Gillon
Sales Manager of Immersive Labs
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About Immersive Labs: Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.
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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