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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 Manager operating in the SaaS space. If you think a Manager 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.
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.
Nick Roberts
Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Jonathon Illet
Senior Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Lucas Stoops
Investment Manager of Force Over Mass Capital
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About Force Over Mass Capital: Force Over Mass Capital is a London based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments.
Shariq Kochhar
Content and Editorial Manager of Plentific
Shariq Kochhar is the content and editorial manager of Plentific.
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About Plentific: Plentific is a SaaS platform that provides smart property management solutions for landlords and property managers.
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.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Hiwot Mendahun
Technical Product Manager (Security) of Mimecast
Hiwot Mendahun is a cyber resilience expert and product manager at Mimecast. Having joined Mimecast in 2011, Hiwot works closely with all areas of the organization to bring new security products and service innovations to our customers. Hiwot has a passion for security and technology and holds a master’s degree in Information Security and a bachelor’s degree in Artificial Intelligence. When not saving the world, Hiwot shares her enthusiasm by mentoring young people on behalf of The Princes Trust.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
David Garghan
Recruitment Manager of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Tom Singell
Partnerships Manager of Showpad
Tom Singell is the Partnerships Manager at Showpad.
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About Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
Jess Portnoy
Open Source Community Manager and Packaging Lead of Kaltura
Jess Portnoy is senior director of packaging and open source at Kaltura. Jess has been an open source developer and believer for 18 years. Jess also grows pets at GitHub, SourceForge, and Nagios Exchange.
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About Kaltura: Kaltura develops video SaaS solutions for enterprises of all industries.
Sarah Leviseur
Product Manager of Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Mandi Walls
Technical Community Manager, EMEA of Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Director of Consulting, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. Prior to joining Chef, she ran large web properties for AOL, including AOL.com, Games.com and Moviefone. Mandi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from GWU and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences and is the author of “Building a DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Emily Oxley
Senior Customer Success Manager of Zephr
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Matthew Robinson
Manager, Marketing Communications, UK of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Gareth Owens
UK Country Manager of Linkfluence
Gareth Owens is the UK managing director of Linkfluence. Previously he served on the same company as the UK commercial director.
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About CARMA, Linkfluence: Linkfluence is a media intelligence company that analyzes conversations on social networks to create business opportunities for brands.
David Szabo
Product Manager of Capdesk
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About BrandVee, Capdesk: Capdesk is an equity management platform helping companies manage cap tables, shareholder registers, and employee shares.
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
Laura Byrne
Sales Manager of Spirable
Laura Byrne is the new business executive at Spirable.
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About Spirable: Building a future where video is always contextual, reactive, and inspires action.
Kaspar L. Palgi
Project Manager, Coder, Co-Founder of CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency
I’m a BA IT graduate that’s best at UX/software planning, software architecture and developing software in various programming languages/frameworks/platforms, including Python, PHP, Node.js, Ruby and more. I’m worked with various frameworks like Django, Flask, Rails, CodeIgnitor, Yii, Zend etc. I have experience also with most of the popular open source solutions like Django CMS, KeystoneJS, MODx, Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, Prestashop, vTiger, Odoo, Rhadoop/Hadoop and the list goes on. I always keep my eyes open for the most promising new technologies such as MEAN Stack, Kivy, Meteor and many various others that facilitate building multi-platform applications. I’m a very adept project manager that can always come up with a short/smart and simple solution that works. I’ve completed a teaching course at university that has given me plenty of experience teaching in front of a classroom, performing remote one-on-one training and creating easy to follow manuals. My general skills are in business development. I started my first business when I was 13 and my first IT company when I was 17. Right now I’m a shareholder of four different companies and am currently working on establishing a promising new start-up that will utilise IT management to make freelancers (like us) much more productive.
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About CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency: Platform for project managers. Work with hand picked freelancers used to work together & managed by local PMs. Mostly European developers.
Richard Robinson
General Manager of Leadfamly
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About DMA UK, Leadfamly: Leadfamly is the marketing gamification platform that empowers ambitious marketers to get, keep and grow more customers.
Jovana Ljiljak
Digital Marketing Manager of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Candice Rose
Marketing Manager of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Amy Creeden
Content Manager of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Gabriele Plate
Manager, Client Services Europe of UpClear
Gabriele joined UpClear after five years of FMCG experience through consulting and industry work in Europe. He brings expertise in commercial transformation methodologies along with Pricing and Revenue Management best practices. Gabriele is now leading UpClear’s growth agenda in the UK as well as the development and ongoing improvement of Analytics and Trade Promotion Optimization capabilities.
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About UpClear: UpClear is a provider of Revenue Growth Management (RGM) expertise to Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors across four continents.
Ed Bishop
Business Development Manager of UpClear
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About UpClear: UpClear is a provider of Revenue Growth Management (RGM) expertise to Consumer Goods manufacturers and distributors across four continents.
Paul Mitchell
Regional Sales Manager of SiteSpect
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About SiteSpect: SiteSpect offers an optimization platform that enables web and mobile marketers to improve conversion rate and engagement.
Oliver Bridge
UK Country Manager of Verbate
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About Bonjoro, Verbate: Verbate is a self-managed video survey platform that offers instant feedback from users around the world.
Lesley Mace
Brand Account Manager of Elevaate
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About Elevaate: Elevaate is the most efficient way for retailers and their suppliers to execute trade funded activity online.
Lesley Mace
Brand Account Manager of Elevaate
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About Elevaate: Elevaate is the most efficient way for retailers and their suppliers to execute trade funded activity online.
Helen Liggat
Manager, Content & Merchandising of PowaWeb
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About PowaWeb: PowaWeb is an enterprise class, feature rich, Software as a Service ecommerce platform built with international scale in mind.
