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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 Product operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a Product 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.
Liz Leigh-Bowler
Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Liz Leigh-Bowler recently joined Microsoft as the Product Marketing Manager for finance, supply chain management and fraud protection. Within this role, Liz is responsible for the commercial success of Microsoft’s core ERP products in the UK across all customer segments. Before coming to Microsoft, she started her career as an assistant language teacher in Japan before making a complete change and jumping to finance at Barclaycard. Since then, she has specialised in proposition and product marketing where she can ensure customer needs are put at the heart of business decisions and Go-To-Market strategies. Following her time at Barclaycard, Liz implemented the global payments and banking strategy across Sage Accounting solutions and took up the position as Director for Product and Marketing at Sage Pay with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce and fraud.
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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.
Merinda Peppard
Director, EMEA Product Marketing – Pardot of Salesforce
Merinda Hillier is the Director EMEA Product Marketing – Sales Cloud at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Victoria Domalik
Principle Product Manager of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Alasdair Monk
Product designer of Heroku
Alasdair Monk is the Principal Designer at HashiCorp.
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About HashiCorp, Heroku: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Product Marketing of Drift
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Alex Barrett
Co-founder, Product of Databook
Alex Barrett is a Co-founder of Databook
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About Databook: Databook is an enterprise customer intelligence platform that drives enterprise sales productivity and performance at scale.
Zoe Vance
Senior Product Manager, RabbitMQ for Cloud Foundry of Pivotal
Zoe Vance is a Product Manager of RabbitMQ and Redis for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously she was Director of Product of a Y Combinator startup creating a tool for developers to create APIs from any website, and prior to that she worked for McKinsey & Co. Zoe holds a MSc from Imperial College in CS and a BS from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time, Zoe likes to read fiction and nerd out on economics podcasts.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Nicole Pretorius
Senior Product Manager of Emitwise
Nicole was born and raised in South Africa, educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently immersed in the tech industry having cofounded SheCanCode – a career consulting and coaching platform that aspires to bridge the digital skills gap by empowering diverse technologists to enter and remain in the tech industry.
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About Emitwise: Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.
Pieris Christofi
Product & Operations Lead of Palantir Technologies
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About Palantir Technologies: Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud.
Richard Doherty
Senior Director Product Marketing EMEA of Workday
Richard Doherty is senior director product marketing at Workday with EMEA-wide responsibilities for Workday’s HCM and financial management applications. Prior to joining Workday, Richard was part of a team that pioneered cloud based recruiting and talent management solutions in Europe. Joining Jobpartners as one of the first employees in 2000, Richard held a number of positions across professional services, sales and marketing, helping Jobpartners grow into one of the market leaders in Europe. In 2011 Jobpartners was acquired by Taleo, the cloud recruiting and talent management leader at the time. Richard subsequently spent time at Taleo and Oracle as HCM Strategy Director before joining Workday. Richard holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
Adenike Cosgrove
Director, International Product Marketing of Proofpoint
Adenike Cosgrove is a Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, where she drives International product marketing strategy. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management and data privacy. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Stuart Barr
Chief Product & Strategy Officer of HighQ
Stuart leads product strategy at HighQ and has over 12 years experience in web and e-business development, strategy and management. Stuart joined HighQ from leading social computing consultancy Headshift, where he was Head of Operations. Previously, Stuart was Online Services Manager at leading international law firm Freshfields Bruckhaus Deringer, where he was responsible for the firm’s various online activities. Prior to that, he held a similar position at Hays plc. Stuart has a business degree from Cardiff University and a keen interest in the web and technology in general, in particular how it can be used inside the enterprise to enhance communication and collaboration.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Robyn McGirl
Product of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Richard Bentley
Chief Product and Engineering Officer of Calypso Technology
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About Calypso Technology: Calypso Technology provides an integrated trading, risk and processing platform for financial institutions and corporate treasuries.
Mark Loader
Director of Product Management, Marketing & Partnerships of ITRS Group
Mark joined ITRS in June 2012 as Managing Director Asia and brings more than 20 years of international experience in the field of fintech and data. Mark is responsible for all of ITRS’ product, marketing and partnership strategy covering both Geneos and Insights & Valo. He’s regularly on the road evangelizing our business and platform strategy with customers, partners and colleagues. Prior to joining ITRS, he was Global Head of Quantitative Analytics and Datafeeds at Thomson Reuters with general management responsibility for over US$230 million in annual revenue from more than 1500 clients globally, spanning traditional asset managers, sell-side research, hedge funds and proprietary trading desks.
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About ITRS Group: ITRS Group is the leading provider of risk mitigation solutions to global financial institutions.
Wil Lynch
SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy of Thunderhead
Wil Lynch is the SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy at Thunderhead.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Chris Barrett
Chief Product Officer of Concentra
Chris is the CTO and architect behind OrgVue with over 18 years of experience in software product design and development. He is responsible for the design and delivery of OrgVue, as well as leading the architecture and development teams. He provides technology and practice leadership to product development at Concentra with expertise in AWS, cloud security, scalable architecture, data visualisation and analytics. Alongside supporting and enabling continuous improvement of Concentra’s products, Chris maintains an external focus on the opportunities and threats presented by trends in the industry.
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About Concentra: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Alex Myers
Director, Product Strategy of Exact
Alex Myers serves as director of product strategy at Exact.
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About Exact, RIMES Technologies: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
Derek Botten
Lead, Product Manager of Witlingo
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About Witlingo: Witlingo is a B2B SaaS company that helps companies launch Voice First Experiences on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung Bixby
Derek Botten
Lead, Product Manager of Witlingo
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About Witlingo: Witlingo is a B2B SaaS company that helps companies launch Voice First Experiences on Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, and Samsung Bixby
Susan Rahman
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of onkho
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About KWSR & Co, onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Ollie Cadman
Chief Product Officer of Vela
Ollie Cadman is Head of Business Operations responsible for providing leadership support and guidance to the European teams. His broad remit includes spearheading integration efforts from the OptionsCity and Object Trading acquisitions in Europe. Prior to his current role, Ollie was Head of Product and Strategy, EMEA, responsible for driving product development, strategy, and roadmap priorities at Vela. His role also included identifying new market, partnership, and product opportunities through ongoing engagements with the firm’s global client base. Ollie joined Vela from Intercontinental Exchange (previously Interactive Data) and has a proven track record in global rollout and development of a wide range of products and services. He has an extensive background in electronic trading, exchange connectivity, and real-time data. Combined with his strong analytical skills, he has an ability to adapt to market challenges and optimize new business opportunities. Ollie has held senior roles at Citihub Consulting, JP Morgan, and the London Stock Exchange. Ollie holds a BSc in Computer Science from the University of Hertfordshire.
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About Vela: Vela is a leading provider of data and execution technology for global multi-asset electronic trading.
Riccardo Chiarelli
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Mela Works
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About Mela Works: Mela is a conversational platform for collaboration and cost control in construction and beyond.
Jay Krall
Chief Product Officer of Socialgist
Jay Krall is a Chief Product Officer at Socialgist
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About Socialgist: Socialgist is social media data provider.
Froso Ellina
Product Design Manager of Pivotal Labs
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About Pivotal Labs: Pivotal Labs develops web and mobile products that develops enterprise infrastructures for business platforms.
Ludre Stevens
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of iNBOTiQA
Ludre Stevens is the co-founder and chief product officer at iNBOTiQA.
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About iNBOTiQA: Intelligent Business Email solution
Bjorn Goosen
Product Manager of Cognitive Geology
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About Cognitive Geology: A specialist software provider for the oil industry
