Best Startup
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 Managing Director operating in the SaaS space. If you think a Managing 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 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.
Jon Buss
Managing Director of Yext
He is a Managing Director, EMEA at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Alex Fourlis
Managing Director UK of CareerBuilder
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About Broadbean, CareerBuilder: CareerBuilder is an online platform specialized in HR Software-as-a-Service to help companies with the recruitment process.
Fabio Torlini
SVP & Managing Director International of WP Engine
Over 15 years experience in the hosting & cloud industry. I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. One of the original employees at Rackspace I helped build the company to what it has become today. A leader in the cloud industry and revenues of $1.5B. I am now MD for WP Engine, based in Tech City helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. Specialties: Professional B2B Marketer. Branding, lead generation, direct sales, channel sales, alliances, online marketing.
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About WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Julian Miall
Managing Director of Gravity4
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About Gravity4: Gravity4 is the worldโs first high-frequency machine-learning marketing OS, built to enhance the advertising and SaaS industries.
Goolshun S Belut
Managing Director of Smplicity
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About Smplicity: Smplicity is a London based salesforce partner that focuses on improving business performance with Salesforce
Alex Lester
Managing Director of Elevate2
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About Elevate2: Helping companies to implement NetSuiteโs ERP and CRM cloud business management solution.
Jonathan Cutler
Managing Director, UK of 3si
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About 3si: Ecosystem Optimization for the Operating Room
Nigel Sargent
Managing Director of ServiceTracker
With over 20 years experience as an IT Director and business leader, Nigelโs passion is to help high-skilled blue collar service organisations transform their business. He specialises in IT & Business Transformation initiatives, Strategic Planning, Programme & Project Management assignments, Business Process Optimisation and maximising Business & Customer Engagement.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Daniel Richard
Managing Director โ EMEA of Sonru.com
Sonru.com, an automated online video interview solution, replaces first round phone and on-site interviews. Interviewers create and send interviews to candidates. The candidate completes the interview in their own time, do not see the questions in advance and recorded answers are saved for review when suits the interviewer. HR departments and Recruiters globally use the product to radically save time and money in their recruitment process.
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About Sonru.com: Automated Video Interviewing Solution for Screening Candidates
Matthew Funge
Managing Director & Founder of Your Stand Builder
Matthew is the Managing Director & Founder of event technology company Your Stand Builder, and currently lives in London. He is a graduate from the University of Manchester who already has valuable experience of living and working in both the USA and France, in addition to various parts of the UK, which has provided him with valuable international exposure already. He is responsible for building and launching the Your Stand Builder platform in March 2019, following more than 5 yearsโ in an exhibition project manager role preparing 25+ worldwide events annually for his previous employer โ an experience which directly led to the YSB idea being born. Matthew is passionate about making a difference in the global events industry, and is committed to continually exploring technological innovation. He has taken YSB from concept all the way through to execution and plans to build upon this in the future through gradually developing the service further.
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About Your Stand Builder: SaaS, online marketplace, web platform
