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This list showcases the top London based VP’ operating in the Information Services space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Nigel Clark
SVP Partners and Industries of Hedera Hashgraph
Nigel Clark is a proven technology executive, having been a global Senior Vice President in two cloud software companies sold for a combined value of $1bn. He joins Hedera to lead the organization’s Industry & Partner go-to-market. Previously Nigel was with Oracle where he led the creation and go-to-market of cross industry solutions anchored in Blockchain, IoT and AI. Prior to Oracle, Nigel was with Accenture Digital (Mobility) where he led sales & consulting for the Austria, Switzerland, Germany mobility business as well heading the Products Industry mobility sales go-to-market across Europe, Africa and Latin America (EALA). Before Accenture, Nigel spent 9 years as SVP Worldwide Business Development at ClickSoftware. During his tenure, Nigel secured tier 1 resell contracts and cross industry sales through major enterprise software vendors such as SAP, IBM and Infor as well as establishing global delivery practices with Accenture and other Systems Integrators. Nigel earned his MA(Hons) Management from St Andrews University, Scotland and the Ecole Supérieure des Affaires, Grenoble, France.
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About Hedera Hashgraph: Hedera Hashgraph is a public distributed ledger for building decentralized applications.
Omar Haque
SVP, Chief Product Officer, Merchant Services of Nets
Omar Haque is Nets MS’ Chief Product Officer and over 17 years of experience in managing digital and technology-driven transformation at global organizations. He has helped companies exploit and develop market and technology trends. Before joining Nets he has been with e.g. Worldpay, Vestas, Cisco.
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About Nets: Nets is a provider of payments, card, and information services with an ambition.
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.
Jane Risby-Rose
Global EVP, Events of UBM Plc
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About UBM Plc: UBM is a global events-led marketing and communications services business.
Jenny Demetriou
VP of Sales EMEA: ISI Emerging Markets Group of ISI Emerging Markets Group
Jenny Demetriou is the Director of Sales for EMIS based in London and oversees its commercial activities in Europe, Middle East, and Africa. Jenny has spent more than 15 years of sales leadership in the information research industry with responsibility for sales to accounts with Investment Banks, Corporates, Consultancies, and Government Institutions across all EMEA country markets. Most recently, Jenny has led sales teams at IHS focusing on Technology and Economics and Country Risk, managing the sales integration of recently acquired businesses to position IHS as a leading provider in these key information research sectors.
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About EMIS, ISI Emerging Markets Group: ISI Emerging Markets Group is a provider of macroeconomic, business, and industry intelligence on global emerging markets.
Stuart Durham
VP of Alliances and Partnerships of Corsearch
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About Corsearch: Corsearch is a data-driven trademark and domain establishment and protection business.
James Monaghan
VP Product of Evernym
James Monaghan is the VP Product at Evernym.
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About Evernym: Evernym is a software company that develops decentralized, self-sovereign identity applications in order to form more trusting interactions
Ciara Morrison
VP of People of DueDil
Ciara is the VP of People at DueDil and is an experienced global HR Director. She has both Fortune 500 and SME experience having delivered achievements in generalist and centres of excellence leadership positions for talent and performance management, organisation design, M&A, employee relations, management capability, resourcing & workforce planning and HR operations.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
Carolyn Branco
VP of Marketing of DueDil
Carolyn Branco is the VP of Marketing at DueDil, where she leads the company’s growth and marketing team. She joined DueDil after directing marketing at several early stage and established start-ups. She’s also excelled at both big tech and finance companies, including Google and UBS Investment Bank and holds an MBA and BA from Columbia University.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
Stephen Robinson
VP Finance of DueDil
Steve is VP of Finance at DueDil, with responsibility for the company’s financial and corporate affairs. He is a qualified accountant with more than 20 years’ post-qualification experience, and has held several senior finance positions in the media and technology sectors.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
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.
Alastair Parr
SVP of Global Products & Delivery of Prevalent Networks
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About 3GRC, Prevalent Networks: Prevalent was founded two goals in mind. First, to work with the leaders in information security
Chris West
VP of Engineering of Toyota Connected Europe
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About Toyota Connected Europe: Toyota Connected Europe uses the power of data science to develop and deliver new mobility solutions for consumers.
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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