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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 Director operating in the Higher Education 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.
Carlo Ratti
Director of the Senseable City Lab of Massachusetts Institute of Technology
Carlo Ratti is an Italian architect and engineer who directs the SENSEable City Laboratory, a Massachusetts Institute of Technology research group that explores the “real-time city” by studying the deployment of sensors and hand-held electronics, and their relationship to the built environment. A graduate in engineering at the Ecole Nationale des Ponts et Chaussées in Paris, France, and at the Politecnico di Torino in Italy, Ratti later earned his MPhil and PhD degrees in architecture from the University of Cambridge, UK. In 2000 he moved to MIT as a Fulbright postdoctoral fellow, working with Hiroshi Ishii at the MIT Media Lab. In February 2008 the SENSEable City Lab presented an installation at MoMA in New York as part of the exhibition “Design and the Elastic Mind.” The New York Talk Exchange illustrates the global exchange of information in real-time by visualizing volumes of long-distance telephone and Internet data flowing between New York and cities around the world.
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About Massachusetts Institute of Technology: MIT is a research university that conducts research and offers educational courses in science, technology, and engineering.
Joanne Martin
Director of Blizard Institute of Queen Mary University of London
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About BioMoti, Queen Mary University of London: Queen Mary University of London is an educational institution offering under graduate, graduate, post graduate and research studies.
Victoria Rusnac
Marketing Director of Nexford University
Victoria Rusnac is Marketing Director at Nexford University. She is a marketing expert with proven expertise in corporate and start-up growth marketing strategies, including branding, performance and product marketing.
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About Nexford University: A next generation online university providing students with access to quality, affordable, dynamic education.
Alex Melia
Director of Swoosh English
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About Swoosh English: Swoosh English is a premier English eLearning service with a team of fully qualified and experienced UK native English teachers.
Jennifer Parsons
Director of Marketing and Insights of UniQuest
Jenni leads UniQuest’s Behavioural Insights Division and the Email Marketing team that designs and delivers our partners email nurturing journeys. UniQuest has data from over 10 million communications with students which Jenni leads the Behavioural Insights Division in analysing for impactful, actionable insights to ensure that our partners remain at the forefront of student recruitment and engagement innovation. She joins UniQuest with 20 years’ experience of working in international education, which has included roles as Director of Internationalisation at LSBU and Head of Global Client relations at i-Graduate. For the past two years Jenni has been running her own consultancy, delivering research and strategic development to the UK HE sector. Jenni has traveled extensively through her work in international education and just for fun. One of her favourite experiences abroad has been skydiving in New Zealand.
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About UniQuest: UniQuest helps streamline and improve student conversion and delivers great higher education student experiences.
