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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 Director operating in the Logistics space. If you think a 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.
Alex Perez Fragero
International Markets Director of what3words
After six years in finance at Credit Suisse amongst others, Alex took the leap and founded his own startup. Obsessed with efficiency, he developed a European door-to-door multi-modal travel aggregator which compared Air, Rail, Ferry and Coach options. The MVP led him to be asked to join JUMIA Group in Paris to build the first flight aggregator for Africa. He also headed up Business Development for their Hotel vertical, JUMIA Travel. This involved initiating and executing on partnerships with major Pan African MNOs, Banks and Travel entities. When not working you’ll often find Alex trail-running or walking his concerningly aggressive sausage dog, Wilma.
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About what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Anne Claire Blet
Director of Strategic Partnerships of what3words
Prior to joining what3words, Anne-Claire spent eight years at the Universal Postal Union (UPU), the United Nations agency for postal services. There, she helped the postal sector innovate, moving them towards more sustainable and efficient operations and ensuring the 200+ Posts rose to environmental challenges. She also fostered social initiatives that leveraged the role of postal services in their communities, using the outreach capacities of the postal network to raise awareness about health issues. She highlighted the importance of postal services when disasters strike and advanced the tools that ensure Posts are prepared for and can recover from natural disasters. Anne-Claire’s passion is in helping businesses with a purpose work.
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About what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Ivan Pols
Creative Director of what3words
Ivan is a Creative Director who likes to make lots of things, from logos and products, to global communication campaigns and greeting cards. He’s had the privilege of working with advertising powerhouses Ogilvy & Mather, and Adam&Eve DDB, creating countless campaigns for global brands including Dove, Audi, KFC, Philips and Unilever. He leads the creative for communication and design across what3words, building a team of very smart people who are creating amazing user experiences across the world. Ivan runs when the sun is shining and draws cartoons when it’s not.
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About what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Alastair Moore
Co-Founder & Director of Satalia
Alastair Moore is a UCL PhD computer scientist with 10 years experience in AI/ML, UX design, marketplaces, mobile and early stage tech innovation. He was on the founding team of UCL spin-out Satalia.com and venture backed Wearepopup.com. Alastair Moore activities at UCL include helping create The Mobile Academy and the set up IDEALondon innovation centre at the heart of TechCity with Cisco and DC Thomson. He have been a member of the Special Group for Entrepreneurship for the British Computer Society and have mentored at the Wayra Academy, Springboard Mobile (now Techstars London) & Startupbootcamp IoT.
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About Mishcon de Reya, Royal Academy of Engineering, Satalia, UCL School of Management, We Are Pop Up: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Rudy Markham
Member of the Board of Directors of United Parcel Service
Rudy Markham is a Member of the Board of Directors at UPS since November 2007. Rudy retired as the Chief Financial Officer of Unilever in 2007 after 39 years. Rudy joined the company in 1968 as a Commercial Management Trainee and spent most of his early career in the finance function of various Unilever companies in Europe before being appointed financial director of Unilever in Zurich. Rudy returned to Rotterdam as Head of the Finance Department and became group Treasurer of Unilever in 1986. From 1989 to 1998, Rudy was based in Unilever’s East Asia Pacific Region and directed operations in Australia and New Zealand, then Japan and then China, Hong Kong, Japan, South Korea and Taiwan. Rudy joined the Board of Unilever as Strategy and Technology Director and became a Member of its Executive Committee in May 1998. Rudy was appointed Financial Director in August 2000, reporting directly to the company’s chief executive. In May 2007, Rudy retired from Unilever’s Board and on Oct. 31, 2007, he retired as Chief Financial Officer. The native of Alresford, Hampshire, England, Rudy is a Member of the Board of Directors at AstraZeneca PLC and Legal and General PLC. Rudy is also Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board of Corbion, N.V., formerly CSM, N.V.
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About : UPS is a package delivery company that offers the transportation of packages and freight and the facilitation of international trade.
Lynn Fordham
Director of Delivering London
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About Delivering London: Delivering London builds an open, hyper-local out of home parcel delivery network for the UK.
Helen Alexander
Non-executive Director of Rolls-Royce
Dame Helen Alexander joined the Board as Deputy Chairman in December 2011. Dame Helen chairs the Remuneration Committee and is a member of the Nomination Committee. Dame Helen is chairman of UBM plc, the Port of London Authority and Incisive Media, and a non-executive director and chair of the remuneration committee at Rolls-Royce Group plc. Dame Helen is a senior adviser to Bain Capital and Chancellor of the University of Southampton. Dame Helen served as president of the CBI until June 2011. Dame Helen Alexander joined The Economist as Marketing Manager in 1985 after studying at INSEAD for an MBA and completing various roles with Faber and Faber and with Gerald Duckworth & Co. She became Managing Director of the Economist Intelligence Unit in 1993 and in 1997 became Chief Executive of the Economist Group, a position she held until 2008, having joined the company in 1985. Dame Helen was President of the CBI from 2009 to 2011. Dame Helen is also currently involved with not-for-profit organisations in media, the internet, the arts and education, through the trustees at Thomson-Reuters, the WorldWide Web Foundation, the Grand Palais in Paris, the Said Business School in Oxford and St Paul’s Girls’ School. Dame Helen was awarded a CBE for services to publishing in 2004 and in June 2011 was made a Dame Commander of the Order of the British Empire in the Queen’s Birthday Honours List for her services to business. She has an MBA from INSEAD.
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About BT, Centrica, Esure, Northern Foods, Rolls-Royce, UBM Plc: Rolls-Royce is an industrial technology company that provides integrated power and propulsion solutions.
Rohit Krishnan
Director of Unbound
Investment Director at Unbound Ventures, a venture capital fund investing globally, providing substantial global scale, expertise and market reach to build the businesses of tomorrow. Previously I was the UK, European Market Lead for McKinsey’s ‘Growth Tech’ Practice (serving leading growth stage tech players, VCs, and growth PE). I’ve also been an entrepreneur from my engineering days, creating a bit-torrent for data centers, and an algo-trading product.
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About Unbound: Unbound focuses on fast-growing growth stage technology companies.
Zia Raza
Director of Intercargo Logistics
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About Intercargo Logistics: Intercargo is a Cargo and freight company located in Colnbrook.
Nigel Pusey
Director of essDOCS
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About essDOCS: essDOCS enables paperless trade; focusing on digitizing paper-heavy shipping, trade and logistic processes.
Frank Jackel
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Metalshub
Senior Ferroalloys Marketing Executive with previous roles as Head of Niobium Sales team at China Moly, Head of Ferroalloys Sales at Anglo American and Consultant at The Boston Consulting Group. Frank holds a Dipl.-Ing. and a PhD in Metallurgy from RWTH Aachen University. Frank is married and has three daughters, loves triathlon and tennis, fancies road bikes and supports Schalke 04.
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About Metalshub: Metalshub is the leading metals trading and price intelligence platform.
Mark Whiteling
Non Executive Director of Smiths News
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About Smiths News: Smiths News is a UK-wide newspaper and magazine distributor.
Alan Williamson
Associate Director, Channel Partners of Baltic Exchange
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About Baltic Exchange: The Baltic Exchange is the provider of information on maritime transportation markets.
Alex Norton
Co-Founder and Director of Locus
Alex Norton is the Co-Founder & Director at Locus. He is also the Co-Founder of The Bureau Group and Private debt investments at Qbera Capital LLP and also the Investor at Freetrade. Mr. Norton was a Co-founder at Poochie. Alex studied Economics and Finance at Queen Mary, U. of London.
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About Locus: Locus provides one-click checkout & 30 minute delivery option for urban shoppers.
Fayimora Femi-Balogun
Co-Founder & Director of Technology of Locus
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About Locus: Locus provides one-click checkout & 30 minute delivery option for urban shoppers.
Harry Stromfelt
Technical Director of Envio
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About Envio: Envio powers scalable home demo programs for high-end consumer technology brands
Marc Werter
Director of The Foodfellas
Marc has been involved in food importation and distribution for many years, with a leading national importer distributor. He manages the operational and logistics functions of the business and is also involved in all commercial aspects, including sales.
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About The Foodfellas: The Foodfellas is supplies innovative, authentic, high quality food products from around the world to the foodservice market in the UK.
Phill Davies
Co-Founder & Commercial Director of Magway
Phill Davies is the Co-Founder and Commercial Director at Magway.
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About Magway: Magway is an all-electric, zero emissions, low-footprint, high-capacity delivery system.
Rupert Cruise
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Magway
Rupert Cruise is the Co-Founder and Technical Director at Magway.
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About Magway: Magway is an all-electric, zero emissions, low-footprint, high-capacity delivery system.
Martin Orme
Co-founder & Director of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Ya Sun
Co-founder & Director of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Peter Klauber
Director of Swishd
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About : When you need something delivered or collected, Swishd helps you find someone who is already going that way
Alan Kennedy
Founder and Executive Director of TEAM-UP
Alan Kennedy with extensive cross-sector experience, over the past six years Alan has been focused on bringing best-collaboration practice to pharma-logistics. He is a supply chain consultant specialising in supply chain dynamics and is founder and Executive Director of Pharma TEAM-UP, a non-profit initiative with the goal of fostering closer supply chain integration. He is one of the principal architects behind the Poseidon program, which has been conceived to radically transform the transportation of pharmaceutical products by sea. This is being achieved through the application of contemporary supply chain best-practice and structured, multi-party collaboration. He regularly presents on this topic and has authored numerous papers.
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About TEAM-UP: Pharma TEAM-UP is a non-profit initiative with the goal of fostering end-to-end supply chain collaboration.
Roberto Losanno
Director of fullstack3
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About fullstack3: fullstack3 is the company that created WAMA the cloud warehouse management tool.
Roberto Losanno
Director of fullstack3
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About fullstack3: fullstack3 is the company that created WAMA the cloud warehouse management tool.
Antonio Coviello
Director of fullstack3
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About fullstack3: fullstack3 is the company that created WAMA the cloud warehouse management tool.
