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 President operating in the Art space. If you think a President 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.
Will Wells
Founder & President of Hummingbird Technologies
Will founded Hummingbird Technologies in January 2016, where the business spent its first year developing Machine Learning algorithms at the Imperial College technology incubator. Prior to this, Will spent 10 years in the Finance and Investment sector. This included M&A and other special advisory roles at Citigroup and Lincoln International, as well as investment management at the successful multi-billion dollar Highclere global equity fund, where he was also a Partner. Will grew up on a farm and is a keen sportsman. He holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a First Class MA Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Will sits on the Board of a Royal Marsden cancer charity and Math Engine plc, a UK public investment fund.
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About Hummingbird Technologies: Hummingbird is a drone and satellite enabled imagery analytics business for precision agriculture.
Martin Henley
Senior Vice President, Technology Services of Globality
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About Globality: Globality revolutionizes how businesses buy and sell services by matching the best provider at the right price for every project.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Kimberley Wood
Vice-President of Customer Affairs of Qubit
Proven international Professional Services leader in the SasS space with strong cross functional Customer Success experience, specialising in Social, Digital and CRM. Results focussed change agent that thrives in fast moving, innovative environments with track record in building and growing Global Professional Services Teams. A revenue generating leader with a true passion for creating and executing upon a Customer Success strategy
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Louis Cointepas
Vice President, Americas Customer Success & Market Development of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Sofia Fominova
Co-Founder & President of Truligent
Sofia is a successful technology entrepreneur with experience in both B2B and B2C software. As a Co-Founder of Truligent, Sofia’s responsibilities span from marketing to sales to general management and venture development strategy. For her business activities and outstanding research in Artificial Intelligence, Sofia has been awarded a prestigious award from the Worshipful Company of Marketors and recognised as one of the “10 Most Influential Businesswomen” by Insights Success Magazine. Amongst other ventures, Sofia founded Mealz.com – one of the most prominent food technology platforms, educating millions of people about the art of healthy eating and living. Prior to Mealz, Sofia worked at a boutique hedge fund in London and built a business in the hospitality industry. Sofia received her bachelors from the London School of Economics (LSE) and completed two master degrees at University of Westminster.
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About Mealz, Truligent: Truligent builds and operates great software companies.
Yigal Elstein
Vice President UK&I of Tricentis
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About Tricentis: Tricentis offers enterprise software testing solutions that enable enterprises to achieve high automation rates while minimizing risks.
Kristian Keep
Vice President Of Engineering of Decibel
Kristian Keep is the vice president of engineering at Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Sam Watson Jones
Co-Founder and President of The Small Robot Company
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About The Small Robot Company: The Small Robot Company is delivering per plant farming for the world’s largest crops.
Sandeep Bathina
President and Founder of StockViews
Sandeep is the President and Co-Founder at StockViews. He is a serial entrepreneur and private investor.
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About StockViews: StockViews is an investment research platform.
Christopher Brun
President of Royal Academy of Arts
Christopher Le Brun is a painter, sculptor and printmaker.Born in Portsmouth and trained at the Slade and Chelsea Schools of Art in London, Le Brun first appeared in several group exhibitions, such as the influential Zeitgeist exhibition at the Martin-Gropius Bau, Berlin, and from 1980 onwards, in many solo exhibitions in Britain, Europe and America. He was a prizewinner at the John Moores Liverpool exhibitions in 1978 and 1980 and worked in Berlin during 1987-88 as guest of the DAAD artist’s programme. Between 1990 and 2003 he served as a trustee of the Tate and subsequently of the National Gallery, a period which saw his involvement in the radical developments of Tate at Bankside, Liverpool and St. Ives as well as the masterplan and re-development of the east wing of the National Gallery. In recent years he has been a trustee of the Dulwich Picture Gallery and the Royal (formerly Prince’s) Drawing School, which he helped to establish in 2000. In the same year he was elected Professor of Drawing at the Royal Academy. At a time when artists frequently use traditional modes or quotations in a spirit of irony, the repertoire of motifs with which his work is especially associated makes patent his strong attachment to the imagery and emotional address of Romanticism and Symbolism. His paintings ask us to attend not only to the compelling imagery he employs, but also to the poetic and structural processes through which it is made visible. He was elected President of the Royal Academy in December 2011. He is the 26th President since Sir Joshua Reynolds and the youngest to be elected since Lord Leighton in 1878.
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About Royal Academy of Arts: The Royal Academy of Arts promotes the creation, enjoyment, and appreciation of the visual arts through exhibitions, education, and debate.
Tom Reuner
Senior Vice President of HFS Research
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About HFS Research: It is our mission to provide visionary insight into the major innovations impacting business operations
Benjamin Hansz
Vice President of Simplaex
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About Simplaex: Simplaex is the company behind the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence-powered user targeting technology.
Bartek Wlodarczyk
Chief Executive Officer & President of SKY ENGINE
Bartek Włodarczyk is the Chief Executive Officer & President at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
