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 CEO’ operating in the Sales space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Michael Ferguson
CEO and Co-founder of Rainmakers
Third time founder with an exit. Michael previously co-founded and lead product development for Geomium, a top-25 social-location app. He has been featured on the BBC and in the Guardian newspapers and regularly gives talks on how the mobile space is impacting business and commerce globally. Michael holds a Bachelors degree in Economics from the University of Michigan-Ann Arbor and an MBA from the Saïd Business School, Oxford University.
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About Rainmakers: The career marketplace for top salespeople
Qamar Aziz
Founder & CEO of SalesSeek
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About CloudApps, Opsview, SalesSeek, Traackr: All-in-one business CRM platform and hub for your customer data.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Titus Sharpe
CEO of MVF
Titus is CEO and Co-Founder of MVF, one the world’s fastest growing customer acquisition firms. He has a passion for starting Internet companies and has had two successful exits thus far. Titus co-founded Approved Index in 2004, built it into the UK’s largest B2B Lead Generation firm and then sold it to Reed Elsevier in 2008. In 2001 Titus co-founded a Web Development agency called Moodia, specialising in website optimisation. The company was sold to Zone Content in 2009. Titus is also a Fulbright Scholar and holds a first class degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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About Goals for Giving, MVF, Profind: MVF provides Customer Generation for some of the world’s largest companies.
Jamila Jamani
CEO and Founder of Modist
Jamila Jamani is the founder and CEO of Modist. She is also a business development director at Village Supermarket Ltd. Jamila holds a master’s degree in fashion and luxury brand management.
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About Modist: Modist is a digital platform that gives sales teams one access point to e-commerce, client, inventory, and digital marketing information.
Daniel Thompson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Kluster
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About Kluster: Forecast, manage pipeline, and execute strategies to beat your revenue target using Kluster’s revenue analytics platform.
Boris Raicheff
CEO of Cloudpipes
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About Cloudpipes: Cloudpipes is an provider of integration platform as a service deployed on Google Cloud.
Emmanuel Eribo
Co-Founder & CEO of LOCI
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About LOCI: LOCI is an online shop that offers products for men and women.
Richard Ozols
Founder and CEO of Solution Rock
Richard Ozols is the Founder and CEO of Formyoula and Solution Rock.
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About Solution Rock: Solution Rock specializes in Salesforce CRM implementations and Force.com application developments.
Ash Makwana
Founder and CEO of Trigerz
Ash Makwana is the founder and CEO of Trigerz.
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About Trigerz: Trigerz is a Salesforce Native application that helps sales teams increase productivity and sales performance.
Marc Hartog
Founder & CEO of 1854 Media
Marc Hartog is the Founder & CEO at 1854 Media
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About 1854 Media, MN Digital Media, theprintspace: 1854 Media is an award-winning digital media organisation
Martin Baker
CEO & Founder of Commissionly
Martin has 25 years experience running business’s and advising SME’s. He has experience in building successful startups and as a senior manager in bluechip organisations. He holds an MBA from the Open Business School.
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About Commissionly: Commissionly is the cloud based sales commission software focused solely on the small to medium business sector.
Nathaniel Burke
CEO of Diginius
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About Diginius: Diginius is an advertising technology company that turns complex reporting data into improved sales conversions.
Syd Lawrence
CEO of The Bot Platform
CEO of The Bot Platform. Co-founded and sold various businesses. Serial Entrepreneur. First company at the age of 12.
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About : Empowering people to build a better employee experience using bots, digital assistants and automation tools.
Geraint Waters
Founder and CEO of Provar
Geraint Waters is the CEO and Co-founder at Provar.
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About Provar: Provar test automation designed for Salesforce.
Darren Hill
Founder & CEO of Inzite
Founder & CEO, Inzite (inzite.com)
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About Inzite: Smart discovery tools and streamlined scheduling help your customers hold meetings with the right people, at the right time.
Mark Solomon
CEO and Founder of Love the Sales
Mark Solomon is the Founder and CEO at Love the Sales.
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About Love the Sales: Love the Sales takes the sales on many websites and puts them on one website.
James Burgess
CEO & Founder of Application Perfection
James Burgess is the CEO and founder of Applications Perfection. Prior to founding the company, James spent three years at The Travel Corporation as a head of product and operations from the year 2017 to 2018 and as a technical delivery manager of 360 engagement from the year 2015 to 2018.
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About Application Perfection: Application Perfection specializes in developing applications for Salesforce.com.
James Burgess
CEO & Founder of Application Perfection
James Burgess is the CEO and founder of Applications Perfection. Prior to founding the company, James spent three years at The Travel Corporation as a head of product and operations from the year 2017 to 2018 and as a technical delivery manager of 360 engagement from the year 2015 to 2018.
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About Application Perfection: Application Perfection specializes in developing applications for Salesforce.com.
