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 Manager operating in the Apps space. If you think a Manager 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.
Frederic Garnier
Senior Project Manager of R&D Platforms of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Emma Young
Senior Global PR Manager of SoundCloud
Emma Young is the head of public relations at [Sound Cloud](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/soundcloud), an online platform that enables people to discover and enjoy music from the world’s most diverse creator community. Prior to that, she was the press and media manager at The Place. Young holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Birmingham.
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About SoundCloud: SoundCloud is a social sound platform where anyone can create and share sounds.
Jerome Bugnet
Senior Manager of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Anamarija Ferrari
Digital Marketing Manager of SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Anamarija Ferrari
Digital Marketing Manager of SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Colin Hemmings
Product Manager of Bitrise
Colin has been designing and developing large scale online services for over 9 years. His last role was developing DevOps tools in Alfresco’s Cloud Operations Team. Colin looks after the overall architecture for the Outlyer product to ensure we can scale to billions of metrics every minute.
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About Bitrise, Outlyer: Bitrise is a mobile DevOps platform built to adress mobile’s challenges, empowering mobile teams to deliver their best work.
Denise Jones
Senior Product Manager of Letgo
Denise Jones is a 20-year veteran of the Seattle tech industry, at such companies as Microsoft, Corbis Corp., and Expedia. She spent ten years as a database engineer and architect, and transitioned to program and product management at Microsoft. In 2015 she transferred to Expedia’s London office, where she is the product owner for a backend site service that integrates data science algorithms. She is one of the co-presidents of Women at Expedia.
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About Hotels, Letgo: Letgo is a second-hand shopping app that helps users buy and sell locally.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Richard Raynor
Business Development Manager of Flexion
I joined Flexion in 2009 after working with them as a partner whilst I was at 3UK on innovative payment solutions for mobile games and apps. I liked their product so much I wanted to be a part of it and help other businesses to monetise and find profitable distribution for apps. I’ve worked in the mobile industry for 20 years and in the mobile content area for the past 15 for a range of businesses from retailers to operators.
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About Flexion: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Shahab Ali
Product Manager of YapJobs
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About YapJobs: Real Time Hiring App for Hospitality & Retail
Greg Taylor
General Manager, Tigerspike Next of Tigerspike
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About Tigerspike: Tigerspike is a global digital products company specializing in strategy, design, development and systems integration.
Maria Roberti
Project Manager of Cake Technologies
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About Cake Technologies: CAKE is revolutionizing the way restaurants and bars engage with their customers.
Maria Roberti
Project Manager of Cake Technologies
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About Cake Technologies: CAKE is revolutionizing the way restaurants and bars engage with their customers.
Vanessa Wachtmeister
Global Launch & Product Marketing Manager of Hotels
Vanessa Menchaca-Wachtmeister is a B2B Global Launch Manager at Hotels.com and an accomplished travel writer behind the blog: wanderonwards.co. Originally from Los Angeles, Vanessa has spent the last decade bouncing between Beijing, Boston, and London pursuing a career in tech whilst exploring over 40 countries. She has a BA from Boston College, a Masters in International Development from SOAS (University of London), and her real passion is teaching people how to travel farther, longer and for less. When she’s not on a plane, she enjoys learning languages, developing her skills, and cooking with her husband and cat.
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About Hotels: Hotels provides online hotel booking and reservation services intended to ease the travelling process.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Alex Ley
Senior Manager & Delivery Lead UKI of VMware Tanzu
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About VMware Tanzu: VMware Tanzu is a software firm that simplifies multi-cloud operations to help developers in accessing the right resources to build apps.
Jack Rimington
Product Manager of Helipaddy
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About Coposition, Earlymarket, Helipaddy: Helipaddy is a global helicopter landing site database.
Kaspar L. Palgi
Project Manager, Coder, Co-Founder of CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency
I’m a BA IT graduate that’s best at UX/software planning, software architecture and developing software in various programming languages/frameworks/platforms, including Python, PHP, Node.js, Ruby and more. I’m worked with various frameworks like Django, Flask, Rails, CodeIgnitor, Yii, Zend etc. I have experience also with most of the popular open source solutions like Django CMS, KeystoneJS, MODx, Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, Prestashop, vTiger, Odoo, Rhadoop/Hadoop and the list goes on. I always keep my eyes open for the most promising new technologies such as MEAN Stack, Kivy, Meteor and many various others that facilitate building multi-platform applications. I’m a very adept project manager that can always come up with a short/smart and simple solution that works. I’ve completed a teaching course at university that has given me plenty of experience teaching in front of a classroom, performing remote one-on-one training and creating easy to follow manuals. My general skills are in business development. I started my first business when I was 13 and my first IT company when I was 17. Right now I’m a shareholder of four different companies and am currently working on establishing a promising new start-up that will utilise IT management to make freelancers (like us) much more productive.
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About CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency: Platform for project managers. Work with hand picked freelancers used to work together & managed by local PMs. Mostly European developers.
Jim O’Reilly
Strategic Product and Innovation Manager of Ordnance Survey
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About Ordnance Survey: Ordnance Survey is the national mapping agency for Great Britain providing the definitive spatial database.
Amy Burley
Brand & Partnerships Manager of The Medic App
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About The Medic App: The Medic App gives you the ability to schedule medication reminders and track your adherence.
Aaron Romero
Marketing Manager, UK of Flock
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About Flock: Flock is a real-time messaging and collaboration app for teams that speeds up and simplifies communication and boosts productivity.
Pranay Misra
Project Manager of DotSquares
Pranay Misra serves as a project manager at Dotsquares.
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About DotSquares: DotSquares is a web and mobile app development company with over 15 years of international experience.
Jacob Ellis
Digital Content Manager 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.
Ana Diamond
Content Manager of Nested
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About Nested: Nested puts communication in its place; integrating your existing team-2-team messaging in a platform accessible to you – anytime, anywhere.
Marcello Mari
Editorial Manager of eFanswer
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About eFanswer: eFanswer a new way to tell celebrities lives through fans questions and celebs answers in a unique editorial product.
Andreas Balster
Key Account Manager Rail of Waymate
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About Waymate: Waymate, an online platform, allows intercity travelers to find, compare and book available modes of transport.
Angelo Rose
Account Manager of One Two Trade
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About One Two Trade: OneTwoTrade has been voted by its users as having the highest customer service rating around.
Angelo Rose
Account Manager of One Two Trade
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About One Two Trade: OneTwoTrade has been voted by its users as having the highest customer service rating around.
Nick Carrier
Project Manager of AdoreGames Studio
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About AdoreGames Studio: Mobile apps development and end-to-end outsource: UI, animation, graphics, and applications.
