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This list showcases the top London based President operating in the Information Services 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.
Len Padilla
Vice President Product Strategy of NTT Communications
Len is a highly knowledgeable IT professional with considerable experience in a variety of areas from scientific super-computing to shared and dedicated hosting to selective outsourcing. Len has worked in all technical aspects and management levels of IT: supercomputing and financial systems programing, administration of large server and content delivery networks, PCI-DSS certification, management of international operations teams, product engineering and strategy.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
George Rigby
Vice President of Sales – Managed Cloud & Infrastructure Services (EU) of NTT Communications
George deals primarily with end user IT clients, advising on strategy and consultancy for digital transformation across financial and manufacturing industries. Over the last ten years he has helped companies achieve major gains for their businesses and describes how their aims translate into actions for the industry, focusing on value as part of ROI rather than pure cost calculations.
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About NTT Communications: NTT Communications is a provider of network management and security services.
Sally Moore
Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances of IHS Markit
Sally Moore is senior vice president and global head of strategic alliances at IHS Markit. She is responsible for corporate development and the company’s strategy and relationships with partners. Sally provides companywide leadership of third party content licensing, content acquisition, and mergers and acquisitions. Sally leads the company’s fin-tech strategy, including its investment in Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital fund. She joined Markit in 2006, where she led the European credit business and global loan business. Previously, she spent six years at Thomson Reuters, as co-head of the Loan Pricing Corporation’s operations in Europe and later as a senior vice president and co-head of sales in North America.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Peter Cefai
President & Head – Strategic Alliances & Consulting of IBS Software Services
Peter Cefai is the President and Head of Strategic Alliances and Consulting at IBS Software Services and also serves as the Executive Member of the Board of Directors. Peter has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry with a strong background in sales and marketing, strategic planning and general management, people development and customer engagement. Peter currently manages the Global Strategic Alliances with the aim of enhancing IBS’ solution and channel capability and the Consulting Division aimed at enhancing the value IBS adds to the customers. Peter is also the custodian of IBS’ annual Customer Satisfaction survey. Peter served as the Vice President Global Marketing Honeywell / Avient Technologies when IBS acquired Avient Technologies from Honeywell in September 2003. Prior to that Peter worked at International Computers Ltd. (ICL) for 19 years in a variety of roles culminating in him being the Managing Director ICL Travel and Transport division, a business he doubled in size before its acquisition by Honeywell. Peter holds an Economics degree from Manchester University and a Management degree from Ashridge Business School.
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About IBS Software Services: IBS Software is a global provider of new generation IT solutions to the global Travel, Transportation, and Logistics industry.
Mukhtar Ahmed
President, Science Group of Clarivate Analytics
Mukhtar Ahmed is the President & Science Group at Clarivate Analytics.
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About Clarivate Analytics: Clarivate Analytics accelerates the pace of innovation by providing trusted insights and analytics.
David Hawkings
Vice President EMEA & Global Planning & Optimisation Practice of OLR
David Hawkings is the SVP EMEA at Antuit.
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About Antuit, OLR: OLR is retail industry experience to safely take our clients into an empowered commerce world.
Yuval Ben Haim
President of Goji Food Solutions
Yuval Ben-Haim is President of Goji Food Solutions. He joined Goji in 2010 and oversaw the development of new business verticals. Mr. Ben-Haim subsequently joined the managerial team at Impulse Dynamics, a medical device company, where he established a new sales channel increasing sales by 15%. In 2015, Mr. Ben-Haim was appointed Business Development Manager at Hobart Group, a private equity firm primarily focused on developing medical technologies, where he oversaw international M&A and investment transactions worth over $100M. Mr. Ben-Haim received a BSc in Physics and Medical Physics from University College London and an MBA with distinction from INSEAD in Fontainebleau, France. He is a member of the Young Presidents Organization.
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About Goji Food Solutions: Goji’s pioneering RF solid-state cooking technology enables faster, simpler and better food preparation.
Natasha Christie-Miller
CEO / President of Ascential Plc
Natasha Christie-Miller is CEO of Plexus, the digital intelligence and live events business that formed by the coming together of EMAP, 4C and Planet Retail. Natasha started her career in sales and led the commercial teams on consumer brands such as Elle, Red, and the Emap parenting portfolio before taking on the role of Publishing Director of Drapers, the fashion industry bible at Emap B2B in 2005. She then became Managing Director for the Retail portfolio in 2007 and was appointed CEO of EMAP in 2010. As chief executive of Plexus, Natasha manages 19 product lines that include market leading brands HSJ, Planet Retail, Glenigan, Retail Week, and Groundsure.
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Philip Thomas
President of Ascential Plc
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Daniel Bennett
President, Brand Protection of Corsearch
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About Corsearch: Corsearch is a data-driven trademark and domain establishment and protection business.
Nick Patience
Co-Founder and Research Vice President of 451 Research
Nick Patience has over 20 years experience in the technology industry in the US and Europe, and manages 451 Research’s software analyst team. Probably best known as being a co-founder of The 451 Group, Nick helped grow that company into a significant force in the technology industry analyst market in the US and Europe, as well as developing into a thought leader in the information management sector of the software industry. A highly experienced and adaptable marketing professional, Nick moved to the vendor side with Recommind, running product marketing and strategy, and then influencer relations and competitive intelligence, all the while remaining one of the company’s principal global evangelists. Nick now manages 451 Research’s software analyst team, spanning software development, DevOps & IT Ops, through data platforms and analytics to business applications. Nick will join a multi-angle panel discussion in which the conversation will focus on how digital transformation has impacted the world of IT research and Analyst Relations, and perhaps more importantly, how this will continue to do so in the future.
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About 451 Research: 451 Research is an information technology research and advisory company providing essential insight for the pioneers of the digital economy.
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
Olly Cooper
Vice President of Platforms of Stratagem Technologies Ltd
Vice President of Platforms at Stratagem Technologies Ltd.
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About Stratagem Technologies Ltd: Trading Sports Prediction Markets as an alternative asset class
Alex D. Kostopoulos
President & CEO of reportbrain
Founder of reportbrain
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About reportbrain: reportbrain is a news research engine platform.
