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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 Principal operating in the Software space. If you think a Principal 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.
Dean Bryen
Principal Cloud Advocate – Azure Security of Microsoft
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About Cloud Security London, Connected2, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Annette Garner
Industry Principal Solution Specialist for Healthcare of Microsoft
Annette Garner is an Azure Specialist in the Health Team at Microsoft in a role designed to challenge and support Microsoft clients to transform using Data and AI services in the cloud. The ambition of the Health Team at Microsoft is bold, to empower our clients to achieve more. Digital transformation in health is happening in all areas, and the team at Microsoft have a clear focus to bring effective solutions to the health market to support our clients, health professionals and patients with this journey. Annette has over 15 years’ experience working in Health Tech and Health Data, and has previously worked for a startup, several SMEs and an multinational Healthcare Company before joining Microsoft in 2016.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Vikram Kimyani
Principal Cloud Sales Consultant of Oracle
Vik has many years’ experience of running a private cloud operations and on-boarding team for Credit Suisse. He now works as a solutions architect for Oracle, advising customers on cloud migrations, API and Blockchain strategy.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Tim Boeckmann
Principal Business Development Manager 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.
Nowi Kallen
Principal of Salesforce Ventures
Nowi Kallen is a Principal at Salesforce Ventures.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Alexander Mann
Principal of Concentric
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
David Johansson
Principal Consultant of Synopsys
David Johansson has worked as a security consultant for several leading IT-security companies and has 10 years of experience in software security. Among other things, he has worked with software development and architecture, web security testing and training developers and testers in security. David lives in London where he works as an Associate Principal Consultant for Synopsys Software Integrity Group (formerly Cigital).
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Ollie Gayton
Principal Consultant of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ollie leads the Cloud Infrastructure for Azure and Azure Stack practice for HPE Pointnext UK&I. His team is responsible for designing and implementing secure and scalable foundational cloud environments capable of hosting multiple types of workload – IaaS and PaaS – as well as defining and implementing clients’ cloud migration plans.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Ahmet Taha Sakar
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Ahmet Taha Sakar is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, information technology executive, and full stack developer with over 15 years of experience. He has served as the founding member of several startups. Since 2005, he has worked primarily with e-commerce, software as a service, and mobile products. He is endorsed as an Exceptional Talent in Digital Technology by Tech City UK.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Danilo Sato
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Danilo is a Head of Data & AI Services UK and polyglot Principal Consultant with more than 15 years of experience as an Architect, Data Engineer, Developer, and Agile Coach. He balances strategy with execution, helping clients refine their technology strategy while also adopting practices to reduce the time between having an idea, implementing it, and running it in production using Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Danilo is the author of the book “DevOps In Practice: reliable and automated software delivery”, a member of ThoughtWorks’ Office of the CTO, and an experienced international conference speaker.
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About Thoughtworks, Thoughtworks, Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Janet Williams
Director & Principal Advisor of CybSafe
Janet helps us keep the bigger picture on Cyber Security. in perspective. Janet, a former Chief Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, held the National Law Enforcement Portfolio for Cyber-Crime 2008 – 2012. She developed the first police E-Crime Unit and was the Law Enforcement Lead engaged in writing the first UK Cyber Security Strategy in the Cabinet Office. She was the government Law-Enforcement Lead for Cyber-Crime for the 2012 Olympic Games taking her place at COBR. And in 2013, as a Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, she helped develop the organisation’s cyber security strategy. She is currently the National Security Adviser to the Security Committee of Qatar, where she advises on the development of Qatar’s cyber security capability and response. Janet works to enhance SME cyber security across the UK through her work as President of the Cross-sector Safety & Security (CSSC) charity. She is also a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).
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About CybSafe: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Fiona Maini
Principal – Global Compliance and Strategy of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Ben Evans
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Red Hat
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About Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Peter Robinson
Principal IoT Architect of Red Hat
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About Linaro, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Lance Grant
Principal Solutions Consultant of Pegasystems
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About Pegasystems: PegaSystems provides business process and customer relationship management solutions for organizations.
Robbie Mouat
Principal Quantitative Analyst of ActiveViam
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
Denis Baranov
Principal Consultant of DataArt
Denis Baranov is Principal Consultant at DataArt.
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About DataArt: DataArt is a global software engineering firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solve problems.
Denis Baranov
Principal Consultant of DataArt
Denis Baranov is Principal Consultant at DataArt.
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About DataArt: DataArt is a global software engineering firm that takes a uniquely human approach to solve problems.
Christoforos Anagnostopoulos
Senior Principal Data Scientist of QuantumBlack
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About Imperial College London, QuantumBlack, Variab.ly: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Marieke Christmann
Senior Principal of Forestay Capital
Marieke joined Octopus Ventures in 2018 to source, execute and manage late stage investments. She sits on a number of investee company boards and as part of the “Future of Health” team, identifies opportunities across digital health, clinical decision tools and disease prevention technologies. Prior to Octopus Ventures Marieke focused on Leveraged Finance opportunities in TMT sector for Credit Suisse and most recently led deal origination in the German speaking market for Zouk Capital. Marieke holds a Masters of Finance and Business Administration from Mannheim University, Germany and Tec de Monterrey, Mexico. She speaks French, Spanish, German and English.
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About Forestay Capital, Octopus Ventures: Forestay Capital is dedicated to investing in the tech sector and reflects Waypoint’s focus on innovative, forward-looking industries.
Ben Furneaux
Principal Designer of Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI)
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About Sony Computer Entertainment (SCEI): Sony Computer Entertainment engages in the research and development of hardware and software related to PlayStation platforms.
Balendra Elangco
Principal Consultant of PA Consulting Group
Balendra has been delivering enterprise security architecture and solutions for financial services, telecoms, media and packaged goods that include Financial Extranets and a large Payment Card transmission network. He has experience in designing, implementing and maintaining solutions (technical and governance) that meet compliance requirements such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001. He has also led managed security services teams for multinationals with global footprints. He is an exam developer for CISSP at ISC².
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About PA Consulting Group: PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.
Bonnie Molins
Inclusive Design Principal of Kainos
Bonnie Molins has spent the last 20 years working in the public, charity and commercial sectors to produce inclusive service solutions that provide equal access and better outcomes for diverse users with a range of access needs. She currently leads on inclusive design at leading provider of Digital Services and Platforms Kainos, with a focus on producing whole systems that work for whole populations, streamline service delivery and improve user equality.​ Bonnie believes that inclusive design is good design – because it means everyone can use the thing.
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About Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.
Nikolas Markou
Principal Engineer of Yodiwo
Lifelong technologist, pragmatic software engineer and machine learning practitioner with a strong mathematical background and a passion for bringing innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions.
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About Yodiwo: Yodiwo is an Internet of Things Technology Enabler with a unique framework for bridging things and applications over the cloud.
Domenico Musto
Principal Engineer of Spektrix
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About Spektrix: Spektrix is cloud based ticketing, marketing and fundraising software, created from scratch especially for the arts in 2007.
Andrew Bagrin
Principal Security Architect of Cytracom
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About Cytracom: Cytracom is Connecting the Modern Workforce by empowering businesses with powerful yet intuitive cloud-based communication solutions.
Tom Arbuthnot
Principal Solutions Architect of Modality Systems
A Microsoft MVP and Microsoft Certified Master, Tom Arbuthnot is Founder and Principal at Empowering.Cloud as well as a Solutions Director at Pure IP. Tom stays up to date with industry developments and shares news and his opinions on his Tomtalks.blog, UC Today Microsoft Teams Podcast and email list. He is a regular speaker at events around the world.
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About Modality Systems: Modality Systems is a technology company specializing in Microsoft Unified Communications technologies.
Dan North
Principal of Dan North & Associates
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About Dan North & Associates: A product manager wakes up with a great idea
Stanley Ogbeide
Principal Network Architect of CACI Limited
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About CACI Limited: CACI offer marketing solutions and information systems to a wide range of industries across both private and public sectors.
Erkut Evirgen
CEO, Principal Consultant of Wisen
Erkut Evirgen is the founder and principal consultant at Wisen.
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About Wisen: Wisely Crafted Software Solutions
