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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 Product operating in the SaaS space. If you think a Product 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.
Dan Rogers
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon
Dan Rogers is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon.
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About Peakon: Peakon is an employee success platform that improves employee engagement, inclusion, and growth.
Merinda Peppard
Director, EMEA Product Marketing – Pardot of Salesforce
Merinda Hillier is the Director EMEA Product Marketing – Sales Cloud at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
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.
Cinz Ricciardone
VP of Product of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Alasdair Monk
Product designer of Heroku
Alasdair Monk is the Principal Designer at HashiCorp.
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About HashiCorp, Heroku: Heroku is a platform as a service (PaaS) that provides services to create, run, and scale web and mobile apps.
Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Product Marketing of Drift
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Alex Barrett
Co-founder, Product of Databook
Alex Barrett is a Co-founder of Databook
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About Databook: Databook is an enterprise customer intelligence platform that drives enterprise sales productivity and performance at scale.
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.
Richard Doherty
Senior Director Product Marketing EMEA of Workday
Richard Doherty is senior director product marketing at Workday with EMEA-wide responsibilities for Workday’s HCM and financial management applications. Prior to joining Workday, Richard was part of a team that pioneered cloud based recruiting and talent management solutions in Europe. Joining Jobpartners as one of the first employees in 2000, Richard held a number of positions across professional services, sales and marketing, helping Jobpartners grow into one of the market leaders in Europe. In 2011 Jobpartners was acquired by Taleo, the cloud recruiting and talent management leader at the time. Richard subsequently spent time at Taleo and Oracle as HCM Strategy Director before joining Workday. Richard holds a degree in Economics from the London School of Economics.
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About Workday: Workday provides SaaS-based enterprise solutions for a company’s human resources and financial management activities.
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.
Richard Fattal
Head of Growth and Product of Zencargo
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About Zencargo: Zencargo is a logistics company that simplifies global trade by offering digital freight services to help businesses thrive.
Adenike Cosgrove
Director, International Product Marketing of Proofpoint
Adenike Cosgrove is a Cybersecurity Strategist at Proofpoint, where she drives International product marketing strategy. She provides expertise on key regional cybersecurity strategies such as people-centric security, risk management and data privacy. Prior to joining Proofpoint, Ms. Cosgrove was global product marketing lead for Email Fraud Protection at Return Path, a division acquired by Proofpoint in the summer of 2016. Earlier in her career, Ms. Cosgrove worked as a lead EMEA advisor to security and risk professionals for Forrester Research, where she developed a deep understanding of CISO challenges, and helped clients with their cybersecurity strategies.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
David Larpent
Chief Product Officer of Lavanda
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About Lavanda: Lavanda is an award-winning next generation SaaS platform powering the convergence of residential real estate, hospitality and travel.
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.
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.
Tanu Chellam
VP Product of Seldon
Social-impact oriented tech entrepreneur who has won awards for managing both people and products, across corporate and startup environments.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
Alexander Gorelik
CoFounder,CTO & VP Product of Zamna
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About Zamna: Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience
Wil Lynch
SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy of Thunderhead
Wil Lynch is the SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy at Thunderhead.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Marcus Wildsmith
Founder & CPO – Product Management of Cutover
Formerly the Global Head of Telco and High Tech practice at a niche global consulting firm, Marcus has 15 years of experience with major launch transition projects including EE (the UK’s largest Telco) and the first UK 4G Services.
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About Cutover: Cutover is an orchestration and observability platform that optimizes the planning of complex workflows.
Chris Barrett
Chief Product Officer of Concentra
Chris is the CTO and architect behind OrgVue with over 18 years of experience in software product design and development. He is responsible for the design and delivery of OrgVue, as well as leading the architecture and development teams. He provides technology and practice leadership to product development at Concentra with expertise in AWS, cloud security, scalable architecture, data visualisation and analytics. Alongside supporting and enabling continuous improvement of Concentra’s products, Chris maintains an external focus on the opportunities and threats presented by trends in the industry.
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About Concentra: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
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.
Alex Myers
Director, Product Strategy of Exact
Alex Myers serves as director of product strategy at Exact.
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About Exact, RIMES Technologies: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
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
Alan Greenhalgh
Chief Product Officer of Vortini
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About Vortini: Vortini is an analytics solution for sales forecasting and business insight.
Terry Carter
Head of Product of Kafoodle
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About Kafoodle: Award-winning B2B SaaS company in foodtech on a mission to improve health by connecting people with the food they need.
Terry Carter
Head of Product of Kafoodle
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About Kafoodle: Award-winning B2B SaaS company in foodtech on a mission to improve health by connecting people with the food they need.
Clement Boutignon
Head of Product of Appsumer
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Tom Anthony
VP Product of SearchPilot
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About SearchPilot: Enterprise SEO A/B testing platform
Susan Rahman
Co-Founder, Chief Product Officer of onkho
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About KWSR & Co, onkho: onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Lars Dyrelund
Head Of Product of Firefly Learning
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About Firefly Learning: Firefly Learning is an edtech company that develops a SaaS learning and teaching support platform for schools.
Riccardo Chiarelli
Co-Founder & Head of Product of Mela Works
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About Mela Works: Mela is a conversational platform for collaboration and cost control in construction and beyond.
Neil Roberts
Product Specialist of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Neil Roberts
Product Specialist of Forbidden Technologies plc
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About Forbidden Technologies plc: Forbidden Technologies is a developer of cloud based video editing software.
Mark Williams
Head of Product Delivery of Nodal
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About Nodal: Nodal is revolutionising recruitment using blockchain technology
Victor Szilagyi
Head of Product of SEDNA
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About SEDNA: SEDNA is an Intelligent Communications System that serves as the primary digital workspace for teams working on complex projects.
Amal Gul
VP, Product and Implementations 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.
Gabe Sosa
Production Director 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.
David Hyde
Head of Product of Keepsite
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About Keepsite: Running a project-based business is complicated. Keepsite makes it simple. We help teams deliver great projects and love construction again.
David Hyde
Head of Product of Keepsite
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About Keepsite: Running a project-based business is complicated. Keepsite makes it simple. We help teams deliver great projects and love construction again.
