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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 Web Development 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.
Thomas Balkizas MSC, MEng, MIoD
Director Healthcare and Life Sciences EMEA of Amazon Web Services
Thomas Balkizas is a Healthcare and Life Sciences tech futurist & evangelist. Currently the EMEA Healthcare and Life Sciences Principal Partner at AWS and as well founder at Alpha Tech Capital. Thomas is an accomplished senior executive with a wealth of experience in leadership and consulting for Global Healthcare, Technology and Private Equity businesses. He has enjoyed considerable success managing the strategic direction of businesses, developing sustainable business strategies and delivering unprecedented results in high profile, international environments. Thomas is on a mission to demystify healthcare tech for us all while highlighting its great value & the huge, life changing opportunities it offers both the public and investors of all kinds (VCs, angel, private equity, family offices or corporate) Besides his HCLS investment expertise, Thomas is an experienced senior Cloud & AI executive, currently the Head of EMEA AWS Healthcare & Life Sciences, previously IBM’s Watson Health Executive Director. His private Investment & Advisory Group, Alpha Tech Capital, has been formed with 3 other senior HCLS tech execs and expert advisors. Their mission is to identify and help the UK’s best HCLS startups to scale globally, accelerating their progress with advice, funding & expertise in cloud, AI & health tech; acting as specialist advisors to a select network of investment partners. Thomas is a creative Key Opinion Leader in Healthcare and Life Sciences, with over 120 keynote speeches at Digital Healthcare, Private Equity and Technology conferences globally.
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About Alpha Tech Capital, Amazon Web Services, Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Rowland Illing
Director & Chief Medical Officer, International Government Health of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Olivier de Trogoff
CEO @ Maje invest and member of the Board of Director @ ClicData of ClicData
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About : ClicData is a provider of cloud-based dashboard systems that are designed to improve business efficiency through better reporting.
Simon Kirby
Senior Director, Customer Success of Qlik
Simon is the Director of Financial Services Industry Solutions at Qlik and works with customers and partners to build value driven solutions for banks, insurers and capital markets firms. Simon has over twenty five years’ experience working in the insurance and banking sectors with a focus primarily on Audit, Risk Management and Regulation at companies including RSA Insurance Group, PWC and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Prior to joining Qlik in 2015, Simon worked for the Financial Services Authority in the UK where he headed a team of insurance regulators supervising the activities of over thirty companies in complying with regulations such as Solvency II.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Mark Davies
Communications Director of World Wide Web Foundation
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About World Wide Web Foundation: Organization for Web Advancement
Beth Carroll
Associate Director of SEVEN
Beth has worked in the communications industry for a decade, specialising in digital and social media since 2006. Focussing on using her expertise to develop and implement social media strategies for clients (consumer and B2B) that lead to tangible business outcomes.
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About Iris, SEVEN: The full-service IT company that for 11 years has been a reliable 360º technological partner
Fabio Torlini
SVP & Managing Director International of WP Engine
Over 15 years experience in the hosting & cloud industry. I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. One of the original employees at Rackspace I helped build the company to what it has become today. A leader in the cloud industry and revenues of $1.5B. I am now MD for WP Engine, based in Tech City helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. Specialties: Professional B2B Marketer. Branding, lead generation, direct sales, channel sales, alliances, online marketing.
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About WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Eugene Delaney
Non Executive Director of Make Agency
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About Make Agency: Make is a young, tight-knit and fast growing tech team, specializing in the latest trends in website development & digital marketing.
Janis Thomas
Marketing Director of deltatre
Janis joined Deltatre, a global leader in the sport business, at the beginning of 2019. She is an expert in using digital marketing to deliver sales and revenue growth in subscription and ecommerce businesses. She has grown diverse brands from Birchbox to Playboy. She has held senior consumer marketing roles at digital media and entertainment businesses across film, TV and publishing. Janis will be responsible for leading Deltatre’s B2C marketing. This function will help Deltatre’s sport and entertainment clients grow their direct-to-consumer streaming subscription services.
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About deltatre: deltatre is a sports media services company that provides consulting services for videos, webs, graphics, and sports businesses.
Oliver Godfrey
Finance Director of Makers
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About Makers: Our mission is to transform lives: accelerating the careers of tech professionals by integrating education and employment.
Charlie Henderson
Managing Directors & Founder of FeedStock Ltd
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About FeedStock Ltd: FeedStock leverages AI and NLP technologies to enable financial services companies to satisfy both their compliance and commercial goals.
Paul Gill
Founder, Director – Client Service of C3 Post Trade
Paul Gill has been responsible for product development and client service at C3 since 2008. Paul has worked in financial services IT for over 25 years, starting as a systems engineer within EDS investment banking practice with a focus on operations technology. His career progressed with senior technology management roles at investment banks including Lehman Brothers, Morgan Stanley, Nat West Markets, Bankers Trust and JP Morgan Chase through to CTO of iFOX, a VC-funded electronic swap trading pioneer. He also spearheaded SwapsWire’s push into equity derivatives.
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About C3 Post Trade: C3 post trade platform is a web-based solution that easily wraps around both legacy and new systems to deliver efficiency and transparency.
Ranzie Anthony
Partner – Executive Creative Director of Athlon
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About Athlon: Athlon helps global brands create products and services that build meaningful human connections and drive business success.
Bart Watson
Executive Director of Mars Spiders Digital
Bart has extensive experience and a proven track record in serving high net worth individuals and business owners around the world. He specializes in business development. His passion for business transformation has given him an insight into the most effective and successful business tools used by the top 10%. He has condensed this knowledge into a strategic winning formula.
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About Mars Spiders Digital: We are a London digital agency specilized in Web and App development and design.
Varvara Mishurnaya
Director of Mars Spiders Digital
Coming from the background in economics and engineering Varvara is a great asset for our company.
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About Mars Spiders Digital: We are a London digital agency specilized in Web and App development and design.
Sophie Landick
Creative Director of Mars Spiders Digital
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About Mars Spiders Digital: We are a London digital agency specilized in Web and App development and design.
Andrew Levitt
Co-Founder and Director of Bridges Outcomes Partnerships
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About Bridges Fund Management, Bridges Outcomes Partnerships: Bridges Outcomes Partnerships focuses on policy, program delivery, data analysis, and impact measurement.
Evgeny Zlotin
Director of Business Development of JuJu Media
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About JuJu Media: Providing bespoke software solutions and innovative marketing tools.
Samuel Bell
Client Director of Copia
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About Copia, Vitis Events: Copia is a digital agency with sector-specific expertise in corporate and financial services.
Mark Matias
Managing Director of OMdeSIGN
Director at OMdeSIGN. a creative website design and web development studio from London.
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About OMdeSIGN: OMdeSIGN is a creative digital agency focusing on website design and development.
Bryce Keller
Managing Director of Thesis Design, Inc.
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About Thesis Design, Inc.: Thesis Design offers design services that include custom application development, web design, and interactive media.
Troy Coody
Director – Head of Business Development of Mainline Net Holdings
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About Mainline Net Holdings: Mainline Net is a software development company, created to exploit the groundbreaking inventions of a group of networking engineers.
Wendy Purcell
Director of Wendy Purcell Technology
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About Wendy Purcell Technology: Wendy Purcell Technology is a technology based company.
Jade Warrington
Managing Director of HIROLA Group
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About HIROLA Group: HIROLA Group is a design driven digital agency based in London.
Tristam Goch
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Damn Fine
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About Damn Fine: Experts in UX, strategy, design and development.
