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 Director operating in the Web Design 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.
Zsolt Pocsaji
Senior Director, Personalisation of Optimizely
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
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Christian Woolfenden
Managing Director of Photobox
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About Photobox: PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
Kevin Helton
Co-Founder & Creative Director of Hello Love
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About Hello Love: Hello Love is a forward thinking branding and design studio that has a passion for communicating ideas and creating captivating adventures.
Mark Davies
Communications Director of World Wide Web Foundation
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About World Wide Web Foundation: Organization for Web Advancement
David Hancock
Director, Film and Cinema of IHS
David Hancock runs the Film and Cinema team at IHS Markit and is also the President of the EDCF.
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About European Digital Cinema Forum, IHS, Omdia: IHS Inc. provides critical information and insight products and services through Internet-based applications and portals. It offers its
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
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Luke Mason
Director of Virtual Futures
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About The New Bionics, Virtual Futures: Virtual Futures is an events series that works in cyberculture conferences.
Kostas Alekoglu
Managing Director of Caliston
Serial entrepreneur and Managing Director of Caliston Digital, a results-driven marketing agency based in London, UK.
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About Caliston, SmartFi: ROI-driven Digital marketing agency
Mario Bodini
Director of Firedrop
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About Firedrop: The world’s most advanced artificial intelligence website builder – uniquely designed sites in 60 seconds
Patrick Collin
Managing Director of Touch Associates
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About Touch Associates: We design, create and touch every aspect of an event, communication or digital campaign.
Richard Brim
Creative Director of adam&eveDDB
Richard Brim is CCO of adam&eveDDB, one of the most consistently creative agencies on the world stage. Whilst Brim has been at the agency, adam&eveDDB has been Cannes Agency of the year twice (2014 & 2018) with 7 Grands Prix, and the Top UK Agency every year. Last year the agency was named Campaign’s Agency of the Year for the fourth consecutive year. Rick leads creative on the agency’s Christmas campaigns, including the world-famous John Lewis Christmas campaign, H&M (including the award-winning holiday campaign directed by Wes Anderson), Waitrose & Partners to name a few. Other recent work includes creating a new move in FIFA 18, Skittles giving up its rainbow to Pride with 3m white packs sold and Project84 campaign for CALM, which resulted in the appointment of the first ever Minister of Suicide Prevention.
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About adam&eveDDB: adam&eveDDB is a creative communications agency made up of people from the worlds of advertising, design, digital, media and social.
Emma Brannan
Managing Director of Jojo Maman Bebe
Emma Brannan is a marketing director at JoJo Maman Bebe. She is a former marketing manager at Grolier UK.
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About Jojo Maman Bebe: Jojo Maman Bebe is an independent multi-channel retailer of maternity wear, babywear, and nursery products.
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.
Chris Mackie
Director and Founder of 205 Media LTD
Chris Mackie is a Director and Founder of 205 Media LTD.
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About 205 Media LTD: 205 Media is a creative agency that offers a range of personalized services to its clients.
Jordan Daniels
Co-founder & Creative Director of Original People
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About Original People: Digital design and innovation studio, based in Soho, London
Jordan Daniels
Co-founder & Creative Director of Original People
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About Original People: Digital design and innovation studio, based in Soho, London
Matt Roskill
Managing Director of Albion
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About Albion, Utility Warehouse: We are a creative business partner. We work with companies to invent and reinvent their businesses to unlock growth.
Mukhtar Sanders
Creative Director and Founder of Inspiral Design
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About Inspiral Design, Nuqta: Inspiral Design is an agency that combines contemporary craft-based British design, language, and culture.
Anab Jain
Founder & Director of Superflux
As Founder and Director of Superflux, Anab hopes to realise our vision of the studio as a new kind of design practice, responsive to the challenges and opportunities of the twenty-first century. Born and educated in India (NID), with an MA in Interaction Design from the Royal College of Art, Anab founded Superflux in 2009, leading the Consultancy’s client partnerships whilst balancing the Lab’s self-initiated conceptual projects. She has lead multidisciplinary design, strategy and foresight projects for businesses, think-tanks and research organisations such as Sony, BBC, Nokia, NHS, Design Council, Forum for the Future, Qatar Foundation and Govt. of UAE. Honoured as a TED Fellow, she is the receipient of several awards, including the Award of Excellence ICSID and Apply Computers, Innovation Award, Chicago International Film Festival and the UNESCO Digital Arts Award. Her experience and knowledge of design, futurescaping, emerging markets, new technologies and innovation has led her to be invited to speak at conferences such as PICNIC, WCIT2010, LIFT, SIGGRAPH, Global Design Forum, EPIC, Design Engaged and FuturEverything. Her work has been exhibited at MoMA New York, Apple Computers Inc, Mattel Toys, Tate Modern, Science Gallery Dublin, National Museum of China and the London Design Festival. She is on the Board of MzTek and Broadway Cinema and Media Centre, and is a guest lecturer at the Royal College of Art, VCUQatar, Architectural Association, Goldsmiths, Dundee Innovative Product Design and CIID. Previously Anab has held senior positions at the Helen Hamlyn Centre, Microsoft Research Cambridge and Nokia Design London.
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About Architectural Association School of Architecture, Goldsmiths, University of London, Superflux: Superflux is a design company that utilizes rapid prototyping and media sketches to produce concepts, experiences, products, and 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.
Hugo Woodhead
Managing Director of Pilcro
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About Pilcro: Startups struggle to stay on brand. We are here to help. Manage your brand in pilcro.
Tom Nokes
Country Director UK of CAPSiDE
Tom Nokes is Country Director for CAPSiDE, an NTT Ltd. company, and leads a team of passionate Cloud transformation professionals that help clients in the design, automation and 24×7 operation of critical digital platforms. Tom has worked in the IT industry for over 14 years, always seeking the most innovative ways of using new technology to solve business challenges.
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About CAPSiDE: CAPSiDE has been making the world more reliable through the design, automation.
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.
Rob Sturgess
Technical Director of Salt Studio
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About Salt Studio: Salt Studio is a full-service digital, print, design and marketing studio.
Bill Hoston
Managing Director of Burkett Web Solutions
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About Burkett Web Solutions: Web Development, Internet Marketing and Social Media Management, Optimization and Marketing Agency.
Bill Hoston
Managing Director of Burkett Web Solutions
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About Burkett Web Solutions: Web Development, Internet Marketing and Social Media Management, Optimization and Marketing Agency.
Jonny Vaughan
Director of 10 Degrees
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About 10 Degrees: 10 Degrees being as a wordPress specialists for high traffic & ecommerce clients.
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.
