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 Product operating in the Internet 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.
Lippe Oosterhof
Head of Product Yahoo News, Lifestyle, Entertainment of Verizon Media
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About Verizon Media: Verizon Media offers services in content, advertising, and technology with its brands such as Yahoo, TechCrunch, and more.
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Arjun Hassard
Product Lead and Network Economics Researcher of NuCypher
Arjun Hassard is a CMO at Factmata.
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About NuCypher, Talent Rank: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Samer Ragheb
Product Marketing Manager of Quantcast
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Kevin Lee
VP, Chief Product Officer of eBay
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About eBay: eBay is an online marketplace that connects a global network of buyers and sellers.
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.
Sara Wood
Global VP Product Management of Farfetch
At Farfetch, Sara oversees all Global Consumer Products. Her team works across product management, design, and analytics in all Farfetch markets. Sara sits on the Farfetch Executive Board and is a member of the Strategy Committee. Sara joined Farfetch in October 2017 and is responsible for strategy and development of all consumer-centric products including; marketplace, platform, ecommerce, mobile, marketing, personalization, payments, loyalty, and inspiration. Sara’s experience prior to Farfetch spans 20 years as a product leader at the intersection of content, community, and technology as well as being an Early-stage Startup Advisor.
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About Farfetch, Salon Media Group: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Charlie Carpenter
Chief Product Officer of Joy
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About Joy, Prodigi: Joy is the first Smart Photo Album – an all-in-one hardware, software and cloud solution for families to organize and relive their memories.
Paul Chapple
Director of Mobile Products and Services of Vodafone
Paul Chapple is Vodafone’s Mobile Products & Services Director. Paul is responsible for the strategic relationships with key suppliers as well as all aspects of hardware and services customization and development. Paul joined Vodafone from T-Mobile U.S. where he was Vice President of Supplier and Product Management. His primary focus was developing T-Mobile’s 5G and IoT road maps and then successfully bringing those products to market. His team managed the day-to-day relationships with established suppliers like Samsung, Apple and Google as well as finding new suppliers capable of meeting the evolving needs of the wireless ecosystem. Prior to T-Mobile, Paul held executive roles with both Samsung Electronics and Nokia Inc.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Anita Woods
VP Product of Wefarm
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About Wefarm: Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.
Jared Harding
Head of Product of Sweatcoin
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About Dynamify, Sweatcoin: Sweatcoin is a digital currency backed by economic value of physical movement.
Thomas Dunn
Product Designer of Buffer
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About Buffer: Social Media Management Software for Growing Brands
Craig Holt
Chief Product Officer of ZenBusiness
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About ZenBusiness: Zenbusiness offers business products and services that help business owners in starting, running, and growing a business.
Matt Rushton
Product Manager – Training Services of Arm Holdings
Matt Rushton is Product Manager for Training Services at Arm Having graduated in Electronic Design and Technology in the early 90’s Matt has held various technical training roles with a number of leading technology and big data companies. It was whilst at these companies, he developed a passion for embracing new technologies to help improve technical training. Matt as been with Arm for 12 months, where his focus has been helping the engineering community at Arm to improve their already successful face to face training offering whilst adding in other more accessible technology based training options.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Piero Sierra
VP, Product Management of Skyscanner
Piero Sierra is VP of Product Management and leads Skyscanner’s flights product worldwide. Piero has over 20 years of experience delivering world-class consumer products like Skype, Messenger, OneDrive and Windows. Prior to joining Skyscanner, Piero was a Partner at Microsoft.
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About Skyscanner: Skyscanner operates as a trips meta-search engine company.
Fernando Fanton
Chief Product & Technology Officer of Just Eat
Fernando Fanton is a technologist and strategic leader with executive experience in the technology sector. His diverse background and extensive experience has allowed him to effortlessly span across strategy, marketing, product development, and engineering. JUST EAT is the world’s leading digital marketplace for takeaway food delivery.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Karl Knoflach
Chairman, Co-Founder, Head of Marketing and Product of C88 Financial Technologies
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About C88 Financial Technologies: C88 connects banks and insurers in Asia to consumers buying financial products online.
Ingmar Zach
SVP, Product of Criteo
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About Criteo: Criteo is a global technology company that serves personalized online display advertisements to consumers on behalf of e-commerce companies.
Elena Pavon
Product Lead of Badoo
Elena Pavon, born and raised in Spain, currently living in London. Coming from a mixed background, she started her career at eBay doing everything from customer support to mobile marketing management, before she decided it would be more fun to build products than sell them. That’s when she jumped into the product management world, working with several startups in Spain including Woom and Cabify. Having worked her way up, now she’s a Product Lead at the Badoo Group, responsible for both Bumble and Chappy, and she also teaches Data Driven Design at La Nave Nodriza.
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About Badoo: Badoo is a dating-focused social network, allowing users to chat, make friends and share interests.
Luba Vyaznikova
Product Lead of Badoo
Luba Vyaznikova, originally from Russia but now living in London. Luba has worked on a vast range of products, from mobile maps (geo services) to natural language understanding products to dating. Having been a PM at Yandex, Russia’s largest IT company, she went on to launch and grow her own startup helping people to break free of social media addiction. She has a passion for building new products and helping people to make their lives better – a passion she brings to her current role as product lead at the Badoo Group, responsible for the company’s largest product, Badoo, across 4 platforms.
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About Badoo: Badoo is a dating-focused social network, allowing users to chat, make friends and share interests.
Helen Saunders
Chief Product Officer of Incopro
Helen joined INCOPRO in July 2013 and brings a unique skillset combining law, intelligence and technology. After studying law at university, Helen worked in both law enforcement and the private sector, analysing and investigating a spectrum of online illegal activity. In the last 9 years, she has specialised in online content protection, having worked in the music industry for both IFPI and BPI. During this time Helen developed her technical skills giving her an excellent understanding of internet technologies, and the opportunities created for both illegal and legal uses. She also holds a Masters in Computer and Communications Law from Queen Mary University of London, which has proved invaluable in the area of IP protection online. Helen provided two expert reports in the 2014 Richemont case on the efficacy of site blocking. Her evidence was accepted by the Court in concluding that site blocking orders directed at streaming websites “have resulted in a decrease in the overall level of infringement in this sector in the UK”.
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About Incopro: Incopro is an online brand and intellectual property protection company.
Stephanie Fujarczuk
Chief Product Officer of Made by Fire
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About Fiternity, Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Jack Buechler
VP Business Development and Product Management of Talia
Jack Buechler is the Vice President of Business Development at Talia Ltd. He has over 25 years of sales and marketing experience in IT and telecommunications – making Mr. Buechler one of the industry’s leading experts. Past and current projects include definitions of satellite hub systems, integration of broadband satellite systems, terrestrial fibre services, VoIP service integration, Trunk VoIP systems, sales of integrated GSM satellite systems. Mr. Buechler has worked in many business sectors including Defence, Oil and Gas, Retail and Financial.Mr Buechler’s current position is at Talia Ltd – a top-tier network provider in the Middle East, Africa, America and Europe. Talia Ltd known as a market leader and experts in satellite, voice, video and broadcast solutions with their own WTA tier 3 certified teleport facility in Germany. Prior to working at Talia Ltd, Mr. Buechler has served at senior level positions at Loral Cyberstar, Orion Network Systems and Kingston Inmedia (Now Arqiva), and Advantech Wireless including: Vice President Sales EMEA, Head of Carrier and Internet Sales and product manager Satellite data products at BT.
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About Talia: Talia is a top-tier provider of Internet, voice, and video services
Jason Pantelis
Senior Product Manager, My VM App of Virgin Media
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About Virgin Media: Virgin Media is a UK-based company offering TV, broadband, landline phone and cellular services.
Jason Pantelis
Senior Product Manager, My VM App of Virgin Media
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About Virgin Media: Virgin Media is a UK-based company offering TV, broadband, landline phone and cellular services.
Matteo Cuellar
Director of Product Design and UX of iROKO Partners
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About iROKO Partners: iROKO Partners is an online Nigerian entertainment media distribution company that offers online media products.
Thomas Baggio
Chief Product Officer of Favorey
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About Favorey: We are building a community of trust, where we can all ask for help from trusted contacts, and use our skills to help others.
Aviel Sela
Co-Founder & VP, Products of ESquare
Aviel Sela is a co-founder and the vice president of products at ESquare.
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About ESquare: ESquare is a Cyber protected platform for the industrial segment.
Emily Savage
Commercial Product Lead – Immersive (XR) of Digital Catapult
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About Digital Catapult: Digital Catapult drives early adoption of advanced digital technologies to grow the country’s economy.
Haydon Godbeer
Chief Product Officer of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
Yongrim Rhee
Founder and Chief Product Officer of Libro Library
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About Libro Library: Building the World’s Greatest Library
Tom Ballhatchet
Product Design Manager of Eskesso
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About Eskesso, Yoto: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Javier Lecanda
Sr. Product Development Manager, Network On Demand of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Rui Ferraz
Global Product Manager Unified and Intelligent Communications of Colt Technology
Rui Ferraz’s main focus is simplification and acceleration, enabling users to focus on their work instead of the technological details around it. This objective has been the motivator of his professional life, be it in the early years spent working in Portugal Telecom and Vodafone as pre-sales and product management, as Unified Communication Director for Huawei Italy, and in his current role. Rui’s passion for UC is infectious, where he is always on the look for the next big thing in the UC space and how can it help customers. Rui is Portuguese and lived in Portugal (Braga, Lisbon, Porto) and Italy (Rome) before moving to the UK (London). He is a foodie, travel enthusiast and loves a good talk, feel free ping him for a talk.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Nigel Tromans
Product Manager of Colt Technology
Nigel has over 16 years’ telecoms experience at Colt, during which time he has been responsible for a range of key product developments and go-to-market launches spanning the Ethernet and Optical product portfolios. During this time Colt has been recognised as one of the world’s leading telecoms providers, regularly winning prestigious MEF awards and other accolades. He is currently responsible for Colt’s optical portfolio, which is delivered via a state-of-the-art Europe-wide WDM infrastructure and directly connects Europe’s key data centre markets, enterprise buildings and international cable landing points. Prior to joining Colt in 2000, Nigel worked as a Director and Network Consultant for a systems integrator, providing local and wide area network solutions for leading organisations in London.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Michael South
On Demand / SDN Product Management of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Mark Daley
Director of Corporate Strategy and Product of Epsilon Telecommunications
Mark plays a leading role in identifying and developing Epsilon’s cutting edge Cloud and communication strategies, with a focus on market and customer needs.A veteran telecommunications professional, Mark served 14 years with Telstra and other high profile Telecommunication companies such as NTT and eircom. Mark held leading Products and Marketing roles in Telstra’s move into the European market in the mid 90’s, and wrote NTT’s European ICT strategy in the mid 2000’s which they continue to deliver today, as well as winning NTT’s first ever World Communications Award. Mark has also held executive Marketing & Product Director positions at Cap Gemini TMN UK and spent 8 innovative years in the Mobile Roaming world including at WSI’s first US Roaming Hub and launching Syniverse’s first hosted intelligent network services portfolio. Recently, Mark spent 4 years at NetDev that had developed the next generation of web based OTT voice, video and WebRTC service functions, as well as developing the leading innovative Audio Conferencing platform at BT, which now includes Spatial Audio.
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About Epsilon Telecommunications: Epsilon is one of the largest independent providers of outsourced connectivity solutions to the world’s Communications and Cloud ecosystems.
David Bowman
Product Director of Content and Code
David Bowman is Content and Code’s Products Director and oversees Fresh – an accelerator for delivering Office 365 to clients end-users. He is responsible for all elements of the product’s direction – from marketing and branding to consultancy with clients to feature concept design. David’s background is in solution architecture for custom application development and SharePoint in media and advertising. He joined Content and Code to run the professional services team’s more creative client engagements before moving over to setting up and managing the successful products division of the business.
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About Content and Code: Content and Code solves business challenges with creative IT solutions.
Laurence Parry
Lead Administrator and Product Owner of Inkbunny
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About Inkbunny: Inkbunny is a furry art community, showcasing artwork, comics, stories, music and animations for fans of anthropomorphic animals.
Malcolm Cox
SVP Product Strategy, Brand Engagement of Grapeshot
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About Grapeshot: Grapeshot is a contextual intelligence platform that empowers brands to deliver relevance to every customer experience.
Alberta Bosco
Head of Product Marketing of SamKnows
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About SamKnows: World leader in internet performance measurement
Liam Nolan
Head of Product of Zealify
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About Zealify: Zealify is a recruitment tool assisting enterprises in finding candidates for higher level positions.
Gavin Ellis
Business and Product Development Manager of gamesGRABR
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About gamesGRABR: gamesGRABR is a London-based social gaming network, which is available on mobile, tablet, and PC.
