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 CEO’ operating in the CRM space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Benoy Berry
CEO & Founder of Contec Global Inc.
As CEO and managing director of Continental Transfer Technique Limited (Contec Global), Benoy Berry leads a Chicago firm that engages in ventures around the globe in hospitality, secure technologies, infrastructure, and research and development. In recent years, Benoy Berry has emphasized investments in the energy sector, and his firm maintains a longstanding presence in the African oil, gas, and power markets. His company also pursues alternative technology projects, including the development of an electric automobile in China and an ammonia-powered vehicle. Benoy Berry has a degree in economics from Delhi University along with an MA in finance from the same institution. He pursued doctoral studies in communication arts at the World Open University. His professional accomplishments include earning the Nigeria Association of Science’s Outstanding Achievement in Technology Award in 2011. Benoy Berry supports a number of humanitarian causes, and he also received an award for sponsoring the National Anti-Human Trafficking Campaign.
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About Contec Global Inc.: Continental Transfer Technique Limited (CONTEC), a biometric technology and secured system organization.
Nicolas Sharp
Founder and CEO of Attio
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About Attio: Attio is a CRM tool to manage teams’ workflows and relationships.
Titus Sharpe
CEO of MVF
Titus is CEO and Co-Founder of MVF, one the world’s fastest growing customer acquisition firms. He has a passion for starting Internet companies and has had two successful exits thus far. Titus co-founded Approved Index in 2004, built it into the UK’s largest B2B Lead Generation firm and then sold it to Reed Elsevier in 2008. In 2001 Titus co-founded a Web Development agency called Moodia, specialising in website optimisation. The company was sold to Zone Content in 2009. Titus is also a Fulbright Scholar and holds a first class degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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About Goals for Giving, MVF, Profind: MVF provides Customer Generation for some of the world’s largest companies.
Adrian Pearmund
Founding Partner & CEO of Cablato
Adrian has been working in programmatic marketing since 2010. Founded Intelligent Futures independent trading desk in 2013 and subsequently Cablato in 2015. Strong media and business background (LBi, KPMG, WPP) proven success at building innovative businesses.
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About Cablato, Conviva: Cablato develops and deploys broadcast quality video personalisation technology for OTT & addressable TV industries.
Rebecca Lammers
CEO of Laika Network
A customer funded business, helping content owners manage and monetize their online content on YouTube, Facebook and other platforms. Our clients are spread across several sectors including music, TV, film, gaming, education and general entertainment. Corporate clients include Sony ATV, BMG, Kobalt Labels Services and Concord Music Publishing. Artist clients include The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, Phil Collins and Genesis.
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About Laika Network: Laika Network helps content owners manage and monetize their online videos.
Steve Reid
Co-Founder and CEO of Simba Sleep
CEO and co-founder at Simba Sleep CEO and co-founder of Tribesports
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About Simba Sleep, Tribesports: Simba Sleep is an e-commerce company that offers a variety of mattresses.
Josh Bowyer
CEO & Co-Founder of Zint Technology
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About SalesSift, Zint Technology: Zint Technology is a specialist sales intelligence platform that helps sales teams to identify, win and grow accounts.
Yaron Morgenstern
Chief Executive Officer of Glassbox
Yaron served as General Manager of Financial Markets Compliance at NICE Systems. He led both the NICE Trading Floors & NICE Actimize Capital Markets Compliance groups, and was responsible for the execution of the unique Holistic Surveillance vision that combines trade and communication surveillance capabilities. Yaron oversaw product creation, solution delivery, go-to-market planning, and client relationship management activities across NICE compliance solutions. He was responsible for growing market-leading position and ensuring continuous innovation, decision making, and agility to meet the needs of financial firms around the world. Prior to that, Yaron held the positions of Vice President of Strategic Initiatives & Operations at NICE Systems. Before joining NICE Systems, he served as Director of Corporate Development & Strategy at Amdocs. Yaron holds a B.S. in Industrial Engineering and MBA from Ben Gurion University in Israel.
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About Glassbox: Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.
Jamila Jamani
CEO and Founder of Modist
Jamila Jamani is the founder and CEO of Modist. She is also a business development director at Village Supermarket Ltd. Jamila holds a master’s degree in fashion and luxury brand management.
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About Modist: Modist is a digital platform that gives sales teams one access point to e-commerce, client, inventory, and digital marketing information.
Nasir Zubairi
CEO of The LHoFT
Nasir is CEO of The LHoFT – The Luxembourg House of Financial Technology, a public/private sector initiative to drive fintech innovation in Luxembourg. Nasir has worked in Financial Services for nearly 20 years. He spent 13 years working within Capital Markets at RBS, ICAP, HSBC and EBS. He has been immersed in the Fintech and startup sector for the past six years. As an entrepreneur, Nasir has built multiple Fintech businesses across verticals. He has advised the boards of leading financial institutions, central banks and governments. Nasir is included in the “Top 40 innovators shaping the future of financial services -2014” by The Wall Street Journal/Financial News. Nasir has a BSc from the London School of Economics and is a Sloan Fellow from London Business School.
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About The LHoFT: The LHoFT is Luxembourg’s dedicated FinTech platform where finance and technology interact to foster innovation.
Richard Ozols
Founder and CEO of Solution Rock
Richard Ozols is the Founder and CEO of Formyoula and Solution Rock.
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About Solution Rock: Solution Rock specializes in Salesforce CRM implementations and Force.com application developments.
Asaf Rozin
Co-founder & CEO of Stampfeet
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About Stampfeet: Mobile loyalty solutions for retailers and brands
Andy Jones
CEO – UK & Europe of TrackerRMS
Experienced Chief Executive Officer with a demonstrated history of working in the information technology and services industry. Skilled in Business Process, Requirements Analysis, IT Strategy, Business Transformation, and Management. Strong business development professional graduated from Northwood School.
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About : Tracker RMS helps recruitment firms grow and increase profitability by creating better relationships.
Emma Bowkett
CEO of Convertr
Emma Bowkett is CEO at Convertr Media, a pioneering technology company focused on providing the optimal suite of Customer Acquisition Management tools to their clients.
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About Convertr: Convertr is an API-first data optimization platform that acts as a firewall. We protect companies against expensive, bloated databases.
Chris Padfield
CEO of Deskpro
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About Deskpro: Deskpro is a Cloud and On Premise customer service platform which empowers organizations to grow their customer relationships
James Gill
Founder and CEO of GoSquared
James Gill is a Founder and CEO at GoSquared.
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About GoSquared: GoSquared is a platform where businesses can communicate with their customers through analytics, CRM, live chat, and marketing automation.
Mark Richards
CEO & Founder of makepositive
As Chief Evangelist, Mark cares passionately about creating enterprises that redefine what “work” means. With the goal of releasing everyone from tedious admin and letting all loose to create their own art in the workplace. Inspirational Leader: Seth Godin translates our toughest challenges and fears into meaningful insight, advice and actions. Mark Richards is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Makepositive.
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About makepositive: Makepositive is a business and technology consultancy that delivers innovation cloud engagement and platform.
Mark Pursey
CEO & Owner of BTP Advisers
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About BTP Advisers: BTP is a multi-award winning international communications agency. We deliver campaigns that change hearts and minds.
Simon Hay
Co Founder & CEO of Firefly Learning
Simon Hay is the Co-founder and CEO at Firefly.
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About Firefly Learning: Firefly Learning is an edtech company that develops a SaaS learning and teaching support platform for schools.
Joe Gallard
Co-Founder, CEO of Reducer
Joe is CEO of Reducer. Prior to this he worked at Deloitte, Gousto and carwow.
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About Reducer: Reducer empowers businesses by giving them the information needed to make smart buying decisions.
Nick Chaffe
CEO & Co-Founder of Asperato
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About Asperato: Puts Salesforce or Financialforce in charge of payment collection; say hello to better cashflow + fewer manual processes.
Jonathan Anthony
Managing Director / CEO & Founder of adAPPt
Jonathan Anthony Following a long career in the broadcast industry Jon Anthony founded technology partner adappt.co.uk in 2011 with a focus on the convergent media space. adappt originally created a mobile platform with an emphasis on ease of consumption of information, which is used by banks, government organisation and NGOs. Recently Jon architected The World Health Organisation Event Information System and Global Outbreak Alert & Response Network platforms, bringing a social media approach to critical systems knowledge sharing. Jon is a seed investor in Artificial Intelligence based data classifier TheHub.ai. TheHub.ai work with clients to structure, correlate and interpret disparate data streams.
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About adAPPt: adAPPt have highly experienced teams, with design, development and marketing portfolios from media multinationals and blue chip companies.
Javier Burón
Co-Founder & CEO of Audiense
Javier Burón is a dedicated internet enthusiast with wide experience in social media and has spoken at many events across Europe. Entrepreneur by nature, he has gained in-depth knowledge in this area over the last five years thanks to numerous successful consulting projects, and designing and developing a wide variety of social apps (e24apps.com). Javier Burón has a Masters in Information Systems, Computing Engineering and is a recent past lecturer at Córdoba University.
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About Audiense: Audiense is a develops delivering unique consumer insight and engagement capabilities to many of the world’s biggest brands and agencies.
Sergio Lopez
CEO of Craft WW
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About Craft WW: Craft WW is a marketing and advertising company that provides designer lighting solutions.
Geraint Waters
Founder and CEO of Provar
Geraint Waters is the CEO and Co-founder at Provar.
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About Provar: Provar test automation designed for Salesforce.
Iskren Kulev
CEO, Founder of KindLink
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About KindLink: Online platform for businesses to manage and engage with employees through their social responsibility
Darren Hill
Founder & CEO of Inzite
Founder & CEO, Inzite (inzite.com)
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About Inzite: Smart discovery tools and streamlined scheduling help your customers hold meetings with the right people, at the right time.
Sunny Paris
Co-Founder and CEO of noCRM.io
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About noCRM.io: Intuitive lead management software that streamlines your sales process to increase lead conversions.
Dean Robinson
CEO of Prospr
Founder and CEO of Prospr Ltd, a company that is revolutionising the way businesses purchase software and consulting services. As an ERP consultant, I have led global implementation projects and helped businesses use technology to improve their processes. It was my time in the industry that helped me to rethink the market, and notice the disparities between the accessibility of personal technology and business technology. Today, I am focused on growing the business and helping companies realise their potential. I have worked with some great companies of all sizes and stages, from all parts of the world, and look forward to building even more successful relationships.
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About Prospr: Prospr is an agile consultancy management platform for digital transformation consultancies.
Desmond Kelleher
Founder / CEO of Mental Technologies
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
Desmond Kelleher
Founder / CEO of Mental Technologies
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
Waqas Iqbal
CEO & Founder of Vix Solutions
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About Vix Solutions: IT & Digital Marketing company based in London
