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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 Information Technology 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.
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.
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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.
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.
Marco Sperling
Principal of The Boston Consulting Group
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Husnu Kilincoglu
Principal of The Boston Consulting Group
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Jean-Paul Petranca
Principal, Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) London
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Gautham Gnanajothi
Principal, Energy & Environment | Regional Leader, BP Research of Frost & Sullivan
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About Frost & Sullivan, Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Daniel Carew
Principal of IQ Capital
Daniel is responsible for deal sourcing and execution, and continuous tracking of the market and relevant trends in deep technology sectors. Daniel’s main areas of interest are within AI, Advanced Engineering (Space, Quantum, Robotics, etc), Industrial Supply Chains (Industry 4.0, IoT, Cyber, etc.), Materials (Chemistry, Semiconductor, Electronics, etc.) and FinTech. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol where he specialised in Nano- and Materials Chemistry.
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About IQ Capital: IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London -based VC firm investing in early-stage deeptech companies.
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.
Eden Zoller
Principal Analyst of Ovum
Eden Zoller serves as the Principal Analyst at Ovum.
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About Ovum: Ovum provides research, consulting, and analysis services for clients to make business and technology decisions.
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.
Anthony Onumonu
Principal Software Engineer of BBC R&D
Anthony Onumonu is a principal software engineer in BBC R&D.
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About BBC R&D: BBC R&D have been at the forefront of developments in broadcast technology since the founding of public service broadcasting in the UK.
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.
Joe Kay
Principal Consultant of The Table Group
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About Enswarm, The Table Group: The Table Group provides consulting services for leaders and their executive teams who want to tap into the sustainable competitive.
Jonas Partner
Principal Engineer of Trade Ledger
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About Trade Ledger: Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.
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.
Lawrence Wintermeyer
Co-Founder & Principal of Elipses
Lawrence is a globally recognized digital financial advocate and has over 25 years’ experience as an advisor, executive and board member working with companies from start-ups to global brands in the financial services, TMT and energy sectors. He is a Co-founder and Principal of Elipses. He is also the former CEO of Innovate Finance, the UK FinTech members association, and a Co-founder of Global Digital Finance, a not-for-profit promoting fair and transparent markets for digital and crypto assets. He is an experienced investment manager in the alternative asset management sector with a focus on systematic investment management, big data analytics and machine learning, and distributed ledger technologies.
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About Elipses, PR Specialist: Elipses digital structured finance specialists, focusing on industry advocacy,
Rodrigo Marcos
Principal consultant of SECFORCE
Rodrigo caught the hacking bug when he was 14 years old, after he hacked into his dad’s computer. After discovering his passion for white-hat hacking he started his career in the offensive security industry, eventually founding SECFORCE where he is currently CEO. SECFORCE provides IT security and penetration testing services to some of the biggest brands and government organisations in the world. During his career, Rodrigo has seen an increasing demand in security services from iGaming companies, which seek to safeguard their IT assets against Internet-borne attacks. With a wide knowledge of the offensive security arena and with a vast experience in online services, Rodrigo has an unparalleled understanding of current and future cyber-threats affecting iGaming businesses. Having published a number of books, articles and tools in the topic of penetration testing and IT security, Rodrigo is a sought after speaker who has participated in conferences and seminars all around the world.
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About SECFORCE: SECFORCE are vendor independent penetration testing, security specialists providing effective business risk intelligence, security guidance.
Kelly Kehn
Founder & Principal Consultant of Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.
Kelly Kehn has been in iGaming senior management since 2012. She’s led teams and brands through regulatory changes, migrations and rebrands as well as held leadership roles in marketing, operations, management and sales. In 2016 she formed Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd., a consulting firm dedicated to helping companies grow their business and improve corporate governance through recruitment, retention, mentorship and empowerment of women. Her mission is to demonstrate to corporations the invaluable benefit of gender diversity through measurable results and revenue growth.
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About Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.: Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd. is a business consulting firm
Christina Thakor-Rankin
Principal Consultant of Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.
Christina has over 25 years’ experience in the betting, and gambling industry, 15 at director level and above. Starting out in the pre-dotcom era, she has a career spanning land, internet and mobile, covering all aspects of gaming operations, holding senior roles with some of the world’s best known brands (incl. William Hill and Virgin) responsible for managing multiple business disciplines, functions and teams across a range of channels, products and customers, including regulatory compliance and money laundering. REGISTER FOR SiGMA17
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About Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.: Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd. is a business consulting firm
James Peet
Principal Consultant of Amido
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About Amido: Amido is an independent technical consultancy that specializes in implementing cloud-native solutions.
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.
James Robertson
Principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild
James Robertson is a consultant, teacher, author, project leader whose area of concern is the requirements for products, and the contribution that good requirements make to successful projects. James is a leading proponent of the principle of introducing innovation into the requirements process.His controversial article “Eureka: Why Analysts Should Invent Requirements” in IEEE Software has provoked much discussion and has been widely quoted. Before becoming a systems engineer, James trained as an architect and his experience in that profession provides inspiration for his work on innovation and creativity. He is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Editions (Addison-Wesley 2006), Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison-Wesley 2005) and the Volere approach to requirements engineering. He is also a founder of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a think tank known for its innovative systems engineering techniques.
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About The Atlantic Systems Guild: Atlantic Systems Guild practice, teach, and improve the fields of system requirements definition, team leadership, and project management.
Edgar Danielyan
Director & Principal Consultant of Danielyan Consulting Ltd
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About Danielyan Consulting Ltd: Security engineering & penetration testing consultancy helping start-ups deliver secure applications
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
Ian Dowson
Founder and Principal of William Garrity Associates
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About William Garrity Associates: A focus on project delivery and transaction closure with sustainable results
Ian Dowson
Founder and Principal of William Garrity Associates
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About William Garrity Associates: A focus on project delivery and transaction closure with sustainable results
