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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 CMO’ operating in the Mobile space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
Benjamin Braun
Chief Marketing Officer (Europe) of Samsung Electronics
Benjamin has recently joined Samsung as their Chief Marketing Officer for Europe. Prior to Samsung Benjamin led Audi’s marketing in the United Kingdom. His campaigns were used worldwide and recognised with a Cannes Lions Gold Award and an IPA Grand Prix for marketing efficiency. Before joining Audi, Benjamin was part of the comparethemarket.com’s executive team and worked across the UK, France and Holland. At British Gas he launched a nifty little app that lets you control your home from your phone. And before that he worked for American Express in New York. He lives in London with his wife and is father of two young boys and a little girl. “I’m not smart,” he says modestly. “I just wear glasses.”
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About Samsung Electronics: Samsung Electronics is an electronics company engaged in consumer electronics, IT and mobile communications, and device solutions.
Andrew Garrihy
Chief Marketing Officer of Didi
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About Didi: Didi is a mobile platform that offers app-based transportation services.
Sayoko Knight Teitelbaum
Chief Marketing Officer & Co-founder of Toura
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About Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Toura: Toura is a scalable app creation tool for a variety of mobile platforms to share content experience, information and entertainment.
Juliet Warkentin
CMO of Trouva
Juliet Warkentin is the CMO of Trouva.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Ian McCaig
CMO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Alex O’Shaughnessy
Chief Marketing Officer of Zepz
Alex leads the marketing and communications teams at WorldRemit, helping deliver brand value, strategic planning and an improved customer experience. He brings more than 18 years’ marketing experience to the role, having worked in both domestic and international markets. Before joining WorldRemit, Alex led a highly successful team at William Hill as the Group Chief Marketing Officer, having joined the company as Head of UK Marketing in 2008. Alex holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business, Marketing and E-commerce from the University of Liverpool.
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About Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
Nina Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of O2
Nina is the Chief Marketing Officer at O2, with commercial profit and loss accountability for the consumer and SMB mobile business. She is also responsible for marketing across O2, including brand, marketing communications, data analytics, customer experience, devices and sustainability. Nina joined O2 from Barclaycard, where she oversaw the launch of innovations such as Payband and Bespoke Offers. Prior to Barclaycard, Nina was SVP of Global Brand Management at IHG, where she led the successful re-launch of Holiday Inn, the largest of its kind in the hospitality industry. Before that, Nina held a variety of roles at Diageo over 9 years including Commercial Strategy Director, Brand Director for Baileys and Pimms and Global Brand Director of Reserve Brands. Nina’s early career after business school was in consulting. She is a non-executive Director of Barratt Developments plc and is a trustee of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Roberta Lucca
Co-Founder, Chief Marketing Officer / Brand Chief, Board Director of Bossa Studios
Unconventional Entrepreneur. BAFTA winner.Obsessive Learner. Founder and Chief Brand Officer at Bossa Studios.Previously founded WonderLuk and BOLDR. Created and launched over 20 products and brands in the last 15 years across multiple industries — Tech, Games, TV Broadcasting, Luxury and Mobile. I love challenging myself and others to be bolder every day and do things differently. BBC, Sky News, The Guardian, Evening Standard, Huffington Post, TechCrunch, Management Today, Financial Times, Disney Channel, Venture Beat, Telegraph and Wired are some of the publications my companies, products and I have been featured. Top 35 women under 35 by Management Today. Top 30 Women in Games. Everywoman’s Entrepreneur of the Year finalist.
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About BOLDR Effect, Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
David Miller
CMO of Mercaux
David Miller is the Chief Marketing Officer at Mercaux
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About Mercaux: Mercaux brings the benefits of digital into retail stores to drive sales uplift.
Roland Agambar
Chief Marketing Officer of DMG Media
Roland Agambar is Chief Marketing Officer at DMG Media.
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About DMG Media: DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Josh Graham
Co-Founder & CMO of Airtime Rewards
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About Airtime Rewards, Samply: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Diane Perlman
CMO of Blis
As CMO, Diane is responsible for overseeing the planning, development, and execution of Blis’ global marketing and advertising initiatives. Diane is an established marketing leader with big brand experience at Microsoft, as well as startup, scaleup and agency-side experience. She is an American who relocated to London over 18 years ago with a startup and has worked primarily with tech and telecoms companies during her London career, which spans Grey London, Wheel (acquired by Digitas/LBi), Microsoft and Unruly, as well as her own virtual agency. While at Microsoft, Diane led UK marketing communications for Windows Phone and later created and ran the Microsoft Ventures Accelerator, graduating nearly 40 startups. She was subsequently the CMO at global startup accelerator MassChallenge. Diane spent the past 9 months as Interim CMO (maternity cover) at video ad tech company Unruly, one of the hottest tech scaleups in London’s TechCity.
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About Blis: Blis is the leading privacy-first, location-powered programmatic advertising partner.
Tom Mursell
CMO of Timeular
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About Tendersave, Timeular: Unlock your time. Effortless time tracking SaaS to help you lead a more rewarding work-life.
Richard Bambury
Co-Founder & CMO of ONCOassist® (Portable Medical Technology Ltd.)
Richard is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. He is heavily involved in patient care and academic research. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the the Ainsworth Scholarship from UCC in 2012, the John Quale Travel fellowship in 2013 and is a lead co-investigator on a Prostate Cancer Foundation-Movember Challenge Award worth $1 million in 2014. In his career to date he has presented over 40 original research abstracts at national and international oncology conferences including ESMO, ASCO and ASCO GU. His work has been published in peer reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. He is dedicated to improving cancer patient care through ongoing innovation and research.
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About ONCOassist® (Portable Medical Technology Ltd.): The go-to app for oncology professionals.
Alexander Fairfax
CMO of Huq Industries
Founder of Huq Industries.
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About Huq Industries: Huq is building the world’s largest consumer research network, helping businesses understand their offline markets with digital precision.
Jide Akindele
Founder-CMO of Mobile Media Info Tech Global Limited
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About Mobile Media Info Tech Global Limited: Mobile Media Info Tech (MMIT) is a mobile payment processing company.
Epistimi Sachitzi
CMO and Co-founder of Blueline
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About Blueline: BlueLine is a startup aiming to revolutionize primary healthcare using mobile tech to connect patients with healthcare professionals.
Eudonni Moricom
CMO of FoodMama
CMO at FoodMama
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About FoodMama: Technology for the Hospitality industry, revolutionising the way we order food with an innovative digital menu app. Your menu goes mobile.
Rachel Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of 123friday
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About 123friday: 123friday backs up photos, videos, and contacts from their clients’ Android and iOS mobile devices.
Rachel Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of 123friday
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About 123friday: 123friday backs up photos, videos, and contacts from their clients’ Android and iOS mobile devices.
Clare Laurie
CMO of blueSense
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About blueSense: Blue Sense Networks (trading as blueSense) are leaders in the proximity solutions industry. Custom hardware, contextual applications.
Clare Laurie
CMO of blueSense
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About blueSense: Blue Sense Networks (trading as blueSense) are leaders in the proximity solutions industry. Custom hardware, contextual applications.
