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 Computer 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.
Mike Greer
Director of Software Experience of Kano
Mike Greer is the VP of software product at Kano Computing with experience in conceptualizing, scoping, designing and managing web, desktop, and mobile apps. Mike also co-founded Guevera in 2013 and has served as a designer and creative technologist at Havas Worldwide London.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Aaron Hinchion
Executive Creative Director of Kano
Aaron Hinchion is the executive creative director at Kano Computing. Prior to this, Aaron has worked as a creative director at Hinchion & Sons for over 15 years. Aaron holds a bachelor’s degree in visual communications from Birmingham City University.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Olivier Roussy Newton
Co-Founder, Director of HIVE Blockchain
A visionary young technology leader and a co-founder of HIVE, Olivier advises Genesis Mining, the world’s largest crypto miner, on new business initiatives. He is a partner at Latent Capital, an investment fund focused on quantum computing, financial technology and bioinformatics. Olivier’s expertise in the blockchain space helps the HIVE board to navigate challenges and identify new opportunities.
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About HIVE Blockchain, Valour: HIVE Blockchain is a partnership between Genesis Mining and Fiore Group to accelerate the development of the blockchain sector.
Jonathan Beddoes
Director of Engineering of Avast
Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduate studies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of ‘silicon village’ in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.
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About Avast, Conscious 2, Twine: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Jonathan Beddoes
Director of Engineering of Avast
Jonathan began his entrepreneurial career at school aged 17 when he founded a web-hosting company which sold within its first year of trading. After developing an early taste of business success, whilst at university Jonathan co-developed a popular music software application that was downloaded by over 30,000,000 people. For his post-graduate studies, Jonathan was the youngest person ever to complete a Masterclass in Innovation and Entrepreneurship at the Vlerick Leuven Gent Management School in Belgium. Following academia, Jonathan joined Zugo in 2008 (a leading search solutions platform and aggregator) that became a cornerstone of distribution for major search engines (most notably Microsoft Bing). In late 2012, Jonathan exited from Zugo and subsequently co-founded Techtopia, a technology incubator located in the heart of ‘silicon village’ in North West London. Today, Jonathan remains a director of Techtopia, a product visionary, angel investor and an ambassador for the Internet industry.
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About Avast, Conscious 2, Twine: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Chris Grantham
Executive Portfolio Director, Circular Economy of IDEO
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About IDEO, IDEO: IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy firm providing design-based marketing solutions for the public and private sectors.
Matt Cooper-Wright
Design Director of IDEO
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About Central Saint Martins, IDEO, London South Bank University: IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy firm providing design-based marketing solutions for the public and private sectors.
Emilie Colker
Executive Director of IDEO
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About IDEO: IDEO is a global design and innovation consultancy firm providing design-based marketing solutions for the public and private sectors.
Neil Sawyer
Commercial Channel & Edu/SMB Director of HP
Neil Sawyer is Director of Education for HP in the UK&I. Over the last 15 years Neil has developed a broad knowledge of the key solutions, partnerships and insights that have helped a number of schools, colleges and Universities in their decision making and investment in educational technology.
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About HP: HP is a manufacturer and seller of personal computers, printers, computer hardwares, and business solutions.
Alun Cutler
Director Product Management EMEA of Charles River Development
Alun supports sales efforts by identifying product enhancements, 3rd party solutions and marketing campaigns. Previously, Alun was a senior business consultant for Charles River, responsible for meeting EMEA client requirements and assisting implementation consultants with workflow design and integration needs. Prior to joining Charles River, Alun held a variety of sales and consultant positions at Misys and SunGard Data Systems, served as a fund administrator for Morgan Grenfell Asset Management, and was a derivatives trader at the Nippon Credit Bank.
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About Charles River Development: Charles River Development is an investment management solution provider company.
Jonathan Woolf
Program Director, Intelligent Journey Orchestration of O2
Jonathan Woolf serves as the Program Director, Intelligent Journey Orchestration at O2.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Tom Horne
Co-Founder/Director of L’Estrange London
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About L’Estrange London: Reimagining smart-casual for the man on the move.
Xavier Bellouard
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Board Member of ActiveViam
Xavier Bellouard is Managing Director of ActiveViam and one of its founders. Based in London, Xavier manages the UK operations and oversees the commercial efforts of the company across EMEA and Asia/Pacific. Before founding ActiveViam, Xavier was a key contributor to the development of Summit Systems, a software vendor of applications for front-office operations and trading desks. Xavier is passionate about the contribution that ActiveViam’s technology can make to the bottom-line of companies operating in highly demanding and complex markets. “Their bottom-up, experience-driven approach to innovation is a fundamental component of the company’s DNA. Since ActiveViam was created in 2005, they have valued it as a prerequisite to delivering cutting-edge technology to their clients”.
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
Marek Gumienny
Non Executive Director of Sharedband Limited
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About Sharedband Limited: IP layer bonding company, headquartered in Ipswich, UK
Abder Guezour
Managing Director of Greycon
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About Greycon: Greycon is the world’s leading provider of production planning, scheduling, forecasting & manufacturing execution systems.
Colin Pye
Creative Director of Realeyes
Colin’s role is twofold: to develop the user experience of the Realeyes platform and to shape the Realeyes brand. With strategic rigour and creative excellence, he brings nearly two decades of creative agency experience, across brand, digital, advertising and film. He’s worked with many FTSE100 brands, help create new digital service propositions and created many innovative and strategic concepts to help inform senior management decisions. Colin was honored with the freedom of the City of London for industry recognition, has judged for D&AD, awarded with distinction for a mini MBA and having been part of a start-up E-commerce agency, means he’s not shy at being hands on.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Purnima Sen
Operations and People Director of Sparta Global
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About : Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development
Nic Day
Finance Director of Sparta Global
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About : Sparta Global provides high calibre graduates with intensive training in Testing, SDET, PMO, DevOps and Development
Toby Fitzherbert
Non Executive Director of CIPHR
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About CIPHR: CIPHR is a privately held company and is a vendor of human capital management software.
Jonathan Shine
Global Business Development Director of Spark EV Technology
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About Spark EV Technology: Spark develops and supplies personalised journey prediction and map display software products for electric vehicles.
Anjali Singh
Non Executive Director / Co-Founder of ODE.systems
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About ODE.systems: ODE App – objectified decision engine – supports people on their way to make better informed, transparent, and stress-free decisions.
Iman Samizadeh
Director of ESHARK LTD
Iman has extensive experience in computing and open source programming. He has worked on number of enterprise projects for BBC, Deutsche and BSkyB, also on projects that are either mentored or sponsored by Google, eBay, PayPal and Amazon. He is also a prize-winner of Google developer in Social Application Development in 2008, London, UK.
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About ESHARK LTD: Eshark Ltd is a software company providing agile programming services, primarily for web, mobile and rapid desktop application.
Bill Wrest
Director of Strategy & Business Development of The B2 Group
Bill has had a long and successful career within big banks such as the Bank of America and Barclays. He is UK based and is a long time associate of B2 (he first worked with the company back in 2003.)
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About The B2 Group: The B2 Group is an innovative software and services provider, specialising in the Payments, FX and funds markets across the globe.
Ryan Doyle
Technical Director of Hello Games
I’ve been into games for as long as I can remember – one of my earliest memories is playing Robotron 2084. I was amazed, it was like nothing I’d ever seen before. I was in a science fiction film, a universe where anything was possible. I was hooked. I eventually went to university to study Computer Science, and upon leaving I was lucky enough that Criterion must have been desperate for programmers as they furnished me with my first job in the games industry. I was elated – this was my dream! To be making games, to be able to provide other people with that fantastic feeling you get when you first boot up a new game and it (hopefully) pushes all the right buttons, makes you feel you’re no longer in the world you’re physically sat in but the one on the screen, the one in your head. I had a fantastic time working on the Burnout series, before moving to Kuju for the opportunity to be Lead Programmer on Geometry Wars: Galaxies (I’d been a massive Geometry Wars fan previously). This was another great place to work, a fun atmosphere and fun games being made. Hello Games was the next big step – to try something for ourselves. It’s been an exciting and educational journey, and hopefully we’ll produce games that will bring a smile to your face, or a laugh to your lips as that’s what games mean to me. Fun.
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About Hello Games: Hello Games is a British video game development and publishing company based in Guildford, England.
David Ream
Creative Director of Hello Games
People often ask me – “Excuse me, are you David Ream, Creative Director of Hello Games?” At this point I nod. “I thought so! I would love to know a bit more about you.” I am a polite guy, so I indulge them. I normally start by telling them about how it all started with my Dad and his hacked Atari 2600. Piles of loose ROM chips with stickers on that said things like Frogger, Adventure, Kaboom and Defender. We sigh together nostalgically. I waffle on about old PC games I used to love for a bit, then move on to how I went to University to do Maths and Physics, then a Masters in Computer Science. With my smarts established I next talk about moving down to London to work for Climax as a bright-eyed graduate coder. I take them on a wild journey from there out to Kuju in the game development heartlands of Surrey, including development of some sort on every platform of the time and including personal fanboy favourites such as being able to help create a new Geometry Wars game. If at this point their eyes have glazed over, I drop in casually that I am a keen musician, that I play the piano. That either gives them more useful insight into the David enigma or makes them think I am being a pretentious snot. Who cares? I have re-engaged them. I win! I round it all off by saying how much I enjoy working in games, and how the opportunity to be part of a tight team made up of my mates was one that I could not possibly pass up.They nod knowingly, smile and walk away thoroughly enlightened.
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About Hello Games: Hello Games is a British video game development and publishing company based in Guildford, England.
Richard Bridgeman
Board of Directors of CyberCity 3D, Inc.
Richard Bridgeman, the 7th Earl of Bradford, is on the CyberCity 3D Board of Directors. An accomplished website creator and experienced restauranteur, Lord Bradford has launched a series of websites including Virtual London and online restaurant guides in addition to those highlighting the UK’s historic properties. He owned Porters English Restaurant for decades and opened Covent Garden Restaurant next door to it, finally selling both leases back to the landlord in 2015. Lord Bradford has since opened Porters Restaurant in Berkhamsted. In addition, he has authored five books.
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About CyberCity 3D, Inc.: CyberCity 3D, Inc. is a state-of-the-art, 3D geospatial modeling company specializing in emerging GIS and SaaS solutions.
Jon Mitchell
Director of Sales EMEA/APAC of Castellan Solutions
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About Castellan Solutions: Castellan Solutions provides business continuity software solutions to businesses.
Rafael Libardi
Founder & Executive Director of NoLeak Defence
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About NoLeak Defence: Noleak Behavior Recognition is an AI-based system to identify suspicious actions and behaviors from cameras
Mark Lee
Non-Executive Director of onkho
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About : onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Duncan Wheatley
Research Director of Watson Wheatley
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About Watson Wheatley: Watson Wheatley is a leading provider of reconciliation software to hedge funds, asset managers, commodities traders.
Alison Blease
PR Director of LonRes
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About LonRes: LonRes is the premier data source and network for top property professionals who do business in London.
James Golfar
Director of LonRes
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About LonRes: LonRes is the premier data source and network for top property professionals who do business in London.
Emma Herriman
Marketing Director of LonRes
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About LonRes: LonRes is the premier data source and network for top property professionals who do business in London.
Anthony Payne
Managing Director of LonRes
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About LonRes: LonRes is the premier data source and network for top property professionals who do business in London.
Anthony Payne
Managing Director of LonRes
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About LonRes: LonRes is the premier data source and network for top property professionals who do business in London.
Elodie Draperi
Partnerships Director of GiveVision
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About GiveVision: GiveVision is a high tech low vision aids enhancing the remaining sight of partially sighted people.
Paul Wilson
Director Of Operations of QUIKCLOUD
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About QUIKCLOUD: QuikCloud provides a secure managed backup solution to MSPs driven through an easy-to-use portal.
