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 VP’ operating in the Open Source space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Alexandra Gee
VP Marketing & Communications of WANdisco
Alex worked as a broadcast journalist for over ten years at CNN International, ITV News, Channel 4 News and Al Arabiya. She was part of the team which set up Al Jazeera English in Doha and went on to manage the channel’s coverage in Central and South Asia. After leaving journalism Alex advised a number of foreign governments and ultra high net worth individuals on reputation and crisis management and went on to work with entrepreneurs and fast growth businesses on profile raising, branding and marketing.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Thibaut Rouffineau
VP Marketing of Canonical
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
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
Gurminder Sunner
VP Engineering of Seldon
Gurminder has extensive experience architecting highly scalable systems in the games, media and e-commerce industries in the UK and West Coast. His role at Seldon ensures that the services running on the backend systems maintain their high availability and continue to grow in innovative ways.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
David Bailey
Vice President, Global Merchandising of SmartThings
David Bailey, Vice President, Marketing Communications at SmartThings
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About SmartThings: SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
