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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 Managing Director operating in the Information Services 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 – 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.
Megumi Ikeda
Managing Director, Europe of Hearst Ventures
Megumi Ikeda is the managing director of Hearst Ventures and the general manager of Hearst Ventures Europe, where she oversees investments and non-organic acquisitions across Europe. She is based in London. Ikeda previously ran the European arm of the Peacock Equity Fund, GE Capital and NBCUniversal’s $250MM venture fund. Previously, she worked in corporate M&A and distribution deals at NBCUniversal. Ikeda started her career in Tokyo as a reporter for Dow Jones and an international business manager at Wired in San Francisco. Ikeda received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and earned her MBA at UCLA’s The Anderson School.
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About Hearst Ventures: Hearst Ventures, a corporate venture fund, invests in early-stage information, software and technologycompanies
Simon Presswell
Managing Director, Broadcast & Education of Ascential Plc
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
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About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Andrew Tobin
Managing Director, EMEA of Evernym
Andrew Tobin is the Managing Director, EMEA at Evernym Inc.
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About Evernym, Focus Images: Evernym is a software company that develops decentralized, self-sovereign identity applications in order to form more trusting interactions
Matthew Pullen
Managing Director, Europe of CyrusOne
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About CyrusOne: CyrusOne is a data center operator that offers colocation and peering services.
Anthony Vollmer
Managing Director of Moorepay
Anthony Vollmer is a CEO at Tesco Mobile.
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About Moorepay, Virgin Media: Moorepay is a clear market leader in payroll & HR solutions for UK businesses.
Paul Bednarczyk
Managing Director of Roubini Global Economics, LLC
Paul Bednarczyk is 4CAST-RGE’s MD of Research. Prior to moving into that role, he had been with 4CAST from just a year after it was founded. His speciality is G20 FX, using skills developed over nearly 20 years trading for Hill Samuel, Credit Lyonnais and NationsBank.
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About Roubini Global Economics, LLC: Roubini Global Economics is the leading independent, global macroeconomic research firm.
Alex Wrottesley
Managing Director, Landmark Geodata of Landmark Information Group
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About Landmark Information Group: Landmark Information Group is a company that assists clients with a variety of real estate development and management projects.
Peter Lukes
Managing Director & Founder of Wanstor
Peter established Wanstor in 2002 to provide a more proactive approach to IT support services than the then established ‘maintenance’ companies. Following an early career as a research chemist working at the universities of St Andrews, Durham and Rome, Peter changed track in the mid-90s and began the second phase of his career, in IT. Spells in Italy with a small system builder then back in the UK as technical director of an IT service and integration business followed, before the ambitious launch of Wanstor. Over ten years later, Peter has led the company through continuing success and growth by focusing on their dedication to “service and technical excellence”. Peter has kept Wanstor at the forefront of developments in cloud and hosting services, while adding a focus on core IT infrastructure, networking and front office support.
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About Wanstor: Wanstor are a trusted IT Services company that supports organisations of all sizes in all industries.
Mark Webster
Managing Director UK and Europe of Give To Get
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About Give To Get: Social Impact
Mark O’Herlihy
Managing Director EMEA of IBM Watson Health
Head of IBM Watson Health for Europe, Middle East & Africa. As the Managing Director, Mark holds full responsibility for the Sales & Go to Market strategy & team, for Watson Health software products and solutions to their customers. This includes the full portfolio of Life Sciences, Oncology, Genomics, Imaging, Government, Value-Based Care & Population Health Management solutions. Mark has a clinical background and has worked in the NHS as well as many senior leadership positions in global, European and start-up healthcare companies throughout his career, with over 25 years of experience in the healthcare segment, Mark brings a wealth of experience and perspective and he is passionate about health and social care for everyone.
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About IBM Watson Health: IBM Watson Health works across the health landscape, from payers and providers to government and life sciences.
Mitun Patel
Managing Director & Founder of Netstar
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About Netstar: Netstar is an IT Support company in central London providing fully managed IT Support, Cyber Security and Technology Consulting services.
Rob Withagen
Managing Director of Asoko Insight
Rob Withagen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Asoko Insight.
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About Asoko Insight: Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Finian Parrick
Managing Director of Minibems
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About Minibems: Minibems is a demand management system for complex heating systems that enables improved efficiency and fuel cost savings .
Serena Manzoli
Managing Director of Wildcat Legal
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About Wildcat Legal: Wildcat is a London-based Digital Marketing Agency.
Carolyn Dawson
Managing Director of KNect365
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About KNect365: KNect365 Delivering knowledge and commercial relationships for business communities.
Simon Oxley
Founder & Managing Director of Citicus
Simon Oxley moved into the IT industry after obtaining a science Doctorate at Oxford University. He gained a background in systems development and has now been working in the information security and risk fields for over 30 years. Having helped Logica establish one of the first two computer security evaluation facilities for the UK government, he had a career in commercial security management through heading up the information security departments at National Power and Reuters. He took both organizations into the Information Security Forum (ISF) and was a member of the ISF’s Council during 1992-94. As an independent consultant in information security from 1996 to 2000, Simon advised a range of blue chip clients and contributed to many projects for the highly-respected ISF. He was the author of the ISF’s research reports on secure e-commerce, cryptography, web security, security architecture and active content, and contributed to many others, including the project that led to the FIRM methodology supported by Citicus ONE. Simon is a regular speaker at international conferences on information security and risk. He has a strong interested in education, helping the British Computer Society to develop their information security qualifications and being a regular lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway Information Security MSc course. Simon is a founder and Managing Director of Citicus.
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About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
