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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 Manager operating in the Mobile space. If you think a Manager 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.
Sarveen Chester
Global Expansion Manager of Revolut
Chester is the Growth Launcher for Revolut, responsible for growth launching Europe’s fastest-growing FinTech in Singapore. He also oversees aspects of data analytics, operations, and diversity and inclusion. He was involved in the creation and launch of start-ups in Singapore before completing his undergraduate and postgraduate at Hult International Business School in London, Shanghai, and San Francisco. He started the university’s start up incubation programme called the ‘Hult Founders Lab’ which has worked with various partners, including the Prince Andrew, the Duke of York’s Pitch@Palace Global Initiative, and also worked with the Hult Prize – the world’s largest social innovation competition for youths which awards the winners USD 1 million through President Clinton’s global initiative. He is also an advisor to the United Nations International Telecommunications Union’s start-up accelerator programme.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Si Jia Wen
Product Operations Manager of Revolut
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Ieva Elvyra Kazakeviciute
PR and Community Manager – Northern Europe of Revolut
Ieva Elvyra Kazakeviciute is a seasoned communications professional and PR and Community Manager for Northern Europe at Revolut – one of the fastest growing start-ups in the world, and UK’s first digital bank unicorn. With a degree in Political Sciences and a title of World’s Debating Champion, Ieva Elvyra has been leading a very colorful professional career in public relations and communication. Passion for writing led her to become the Deputy Editor-in-chief of award-winning design and food art magazine VMG, named World’s Best in 2015 and 2016. She then transferred to television as the Communications and Foreign Relations Executive at TV Play, the largest television production house in the Baltics. Inspired by Revolut’s vision of borderless mobile banking, Ieva Elvyra is now set to contribute to shaping the public discourse on fintech and have Northern Europe talk about Revolut as the future of radically better banking.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Frederic Garnier
Senior Project Manager of R&D Platforms of Unity Technologies
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About Unity Technologies: Unity provides multiplatform tools and services to developers of interactive content.
Anamarija Ferrari
Digital Marketing Manager of SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Anamarija Ferrari
Digital Marketing Manager of SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Jonathan Vaux
General Manager, EU of I2c
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About I2c: I2c provides the infrastructure that powers the next generation of commerce.
Hichem Belouizdad
Senior Sales Manager of Liftoff
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About Liftoff: Liftoff is a mobile app marketing and retargeting platform which uses post-install data to run true CPA-optimized campaigns.
Jordan Fish
Project Manager of Enki
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About Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
Leonel Silva
Global Brand & Media Senior Manager of Vodafone
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Colin Hemmings
Product Manager of Bitrise
Colin has been designing and developing large scale online services for over 9 years. His last role was developing DevOps tools in Alfresco’s Cloud Operations Team. Colin looks after the overall architecture for the Outlyer product to ensure we can scale to billions of metrics every minute.
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About Bitrise, Outlyer: Bitrise is a mobile DevOps platform built to adress mobile’s challenges, empowering mobile teams to deliver their best work.
Hannah Williams
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
Steph Bradley
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
James Curran
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
David Garghan
Recruitment Manager of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Richard Raynor
Business Development Manager of Flexion
I joined Flexion in 2009 after working with them as a partner whilst I was at 3UK on innovative payment solutions for mobile games and apps. I liked their product so much I wanted to be a part of it and help other businesses to monetise and find profitable distribution for apps. I’ve worked in the mobile industry for 20 years and in the mobile content area for the past 15 for a range of businesses from retailers to operators.
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About Flexion: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Daniel Bull
Investment Manager of Columbia Lake Partners
Daniel Bull is an Investment Manager at Columbia Lake Partners. He is responsible for the sourcing, financial analysis, structuring, documentation, and management of debt relationships with technology companies. Prior to joining CLP, Daniel worked as an Assistant Vice President in the Venture Capital Group at Comerica Bank in San Francisco. Daniel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
George Bartlett
Investment Manager of Columbia Lake Partners
George Bartlett is an Associate at Columbia Lake Partners. He is responsible for the financial analysis, structuring, documentation, and management of debt relationships with technology companies.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Amaia White
Programme Manager for Mobile IoT Initiative of GSMA
Amaia is the Programme Manager for the GSMA’s Mobile IoT Initiative. The GSMA’s Mobile IoT Initiative is helping to support the industry deliver commercial LPWA solutions for IoT using licensed spectrum (Mobile IoT). Leading a team of project managers and industry experts she manages the delivery of the various projects and industry engagement activities within the initiative, including, tracking commercial launches, producing industry papers and case studies that highlight examples of mobile IoT use within a range of verticals and growing the wider ecosystem through the GSMA Innovator Community. Prior to this Amaia has managed a number of projects both within Mobile IoT, and the Technology and Programme Services teams at the GSMA. She holds a BA in Linguistics from Leeds University and is a Prince2 qualified Project Manager.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Rosario Garcia de Zuniga
Product Manager of Wave Mobile Money
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About Wave Mobile Money: Wave Mobile Money provides an app-based financial solution to save, transfer, and borrow money.
Georgia Derry-Evans
Events and Operations Manager of Feast It
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About Feast It: Feast It is an online marketplace that allows its customers to book independent caterers for their work or social events.
Greg Taylor
General Manager, Tigerspike Next of Tigerspike
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About Tigerspike: Tigerspike is a global digital products company specializing in strategy, design, development and systems integration.
Maria Roberti
Project Manager of Cake Technologies
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About Cake Technologies: CAKE is revolutionizing the way restaurants and bars engage with their customers.
Maria Roberti
Project Manager of Cake Technologies
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About Cake Technologies: CAKE is revolutionizing the way restaurants and bars engage with their customers.
Lili Piper
Business Development Manager of Paysafe
Lili Piper is a business development manager at Paysafe. She is a former sales executive at Secure Trading.
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About Paysafe: Paysafe is a global payments provider offering a range of payments solutions for businesses and consumers.
Vanessa Wachtmeister
Global Launch & Product Marketing Manager of Hotels
Vanessa Menchaca-Wachtmeister is a B2B Global Launch Manager at Hotels.com and an accomplished travel writer behind the blog: wanderonwards.co. Originally from Los Angeles, Vanessa has spent the last decade bouncing between Beijing, Boston, and London pursuing a career in tech whilst exploring over 40 countries. She has a BA from Boston College, a Masters in International Development from SOAS (University of London), and her real passion is teaching people how to travel farther, longer and for less. When she’s not on a plane, she enjoys learning languages, developing her skills, and cooking with her husband and cat.
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About Hotels: Hotels provides online hotel booking and reservation services intended to ease the travelling process.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Dotan Ginsbourg
General Manager EMEA of Idomoo
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About Idomoo, Idomoo: Idomoo delivers video-based digital CRM solutions for enterprises to improve communication with their customers.
Denis Chabot
Certification Senior Manager of Sierra Wireless
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About Global Certification Forum, Sierra Wireless: Sierra Wireless provides wireless wide area modem solutions for the mobile computing, rugged mobile, and machine-to-machine markets.
Jarek Feith
Product Manager of Kleek
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About Kleek: Kleek offers access to high-end venues, clubs and events.
Alex Ley
Senior Manager & Delivery Lead UKI of VMware Tanzu
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About VMware Tanzu: VMware Tanzu is a software firm that simplifies multi-cloud operations to help developers in accessing the right resources to build apps.
Jack Rimington
Product Manager of Helipaddy
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About Coposition, Earlymarket, Helipaddy: Helipaddy is a global helicopter landing site database.
Kaspar L. Palgi
Project Manager, Coder, Co-Founder of CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency
I’m a BA IT graduate that’s best at UX/software planning, software architecture and developing software in various programming languages/frameworks/platforms, including Python, PHP, Node.js, Ruby and more. I’m worked with various frameworks like Django, Flask, Rails, CodeIgnitor, Yii, Zend etc. I have experience also with most of the popular open source solutions like Django CMS, KeystoneJS, MODx, Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, Prestashop, vTiger, Odoo, Rhadoop/Hadoop and the list goes on. I always keep my eyes open for the most promising new technologies such as MEAN Stack, Kivy, Meteor and many various others that facilitate building multi-platform applications. I’m a very adept project manager that can always come up with a short/smart and simple solution that works. I’ve completed a teaching course at university that has given me plenty of experience teaching in front of a classroom, performing remote one-on-one training and creating easy to follow manuals. My general skills are in business development. I started my first business when I was 13 and my first IT company when I was 17. Right now I’m a shareholder of four different companies and am currently working on establishing a promising new start-up that will utilise IT management to make freelancers (like us) much more productive.
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About CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency: Platform for project managers. Work with hand picked freelancers used to work together & managed by local PMs. Mostly European developers.
Tom Ballhatchet
Product Design Manager of Eskesso
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About Eskesso, Yoto: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Adrien Le Monze
Marketing Manager of Ekos Global
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About Ekos Global: Ekos Global is the fastest way for retail to go global: any language, any currency, on all devices and in one day.
Fehed Said
Product Release Manager of Ekos Global
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About Ekos Global: Ekos Global is the fastest way for retail to go global: any language, any currency, on all devices and in one day.
Andy Piscina
Country Manager UK & Ireland of MobileBridge
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About MobileBridge: Mobile marketing automation platform allowing 1 on 1 mobile customer engagement.
Pranay Misra
Project Manager of DotSquares
Pranay Misra serves as a project manager at Dotsquares.
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About DotSquares: DotSquares is a web and mobile app development company with over 15 years of international experience.
George Underwood
Partnerships & Strategic Manager of Gradfuel
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About Gradfuel: Gradfuel is an online platform that personalizes job assistants for graduates to find jobs.
Ana Diamond
Content Manager of Nested
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About Nested: Nested puts communication in its place; integrating your existing team-2-team messaging in a platform accessible to you – anytime, anywhere.
Froso Ellina
Product Design Manager of Pivotal Labs
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About Pivotal Labs: Pivotal Labs develops web and mobile products that develops enterprise infrastructures for business platforms.
Nimmity Zappert
Operational Velocity Manager of Localz
With a broad experience across a range of international markets and software businesses, Nimmity is excited about the potential of the Localz Iconomy solution and is passionate about taking it to the world. Nimmity enjoys the challenge of developing markets from scratch and watching them grow through collaborative partnerships as a foundation to building a scalable business. Nimmity is passionate about social enterprise and is a strong supporter of Fair Trade and ethical business practices. In addition to helping build the Localz business, Nimmity has founded Nim’s Goods, which aims to make it easy to buy beautiful, ethical goods – that you love.
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About Localz: Localz is the leading provider of Day of Service software.
Sacha Visram
Manager of HMD
Sacha Visram is the Founder & CEO of Glo Glu, a unique digital gaming platform for parents and children alike. Prior to setting up Glo Glu, Sacha was the Founder & CEO of desi mobi, the UK’s pay monthly MVNO’s (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). Sacha exited the business to Tier 2 Telco in late 2012. Sacha is also a Trustee of the Sea Sanctuary Charity, that is supported by The National Lottery, the NHS, Vodafone and Help for Heroes amongst others. The mission is to create the ideal setting for mental health to flourish by offering hope and purpose through therapy, education and training utilising Cornwall’s marine environment. Added to these ventures, he has over 14 years’ experience in blue chip telecoms, home entertainment and retail businesses, working alongside Iconic brands such as James Bond, MGM, Liverpool FC, Manchester United and Vodafone.
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About B2E Consulting, HMD: HMD designs and manufactures mobile phones.
Henry Osabutey
Business Development Manager of Natromi Motors
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About Natromi Motors: Natromi Motors is a sustainable energy and transportation platform.
Andreas Balster
Key Account Manager Rail of Waymate
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About Waymate: Waymate, an online platform, allows intercity travelers to find, compare and book available modes of transport.
Sean Barber
Marketing Manager of Quick Mobile Fix
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About Quick Mobile Fix: Repairs mobile phones and tablets for low prices and offers free postage and sell refurbished mobile phones.
Adam Dahrouge
Corporate and Business Development Manager of FoodMama
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About FoodMama: Technology for the Hospitality industry, revolutionising the way we order food with an innovative digital menu app. Your menu goes mobile.
Sarah Bardsley
Partnerships Manager of SNAPCAM
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About SNAPCAM: Our mission is to make it easy and affordable to have beautiful photobooks delivered direct to your door.
Philip Gale
Ad Operations Manager of Odyssey Mobile Interaction
A passionate problem solver with keen interest in digital tech. After spending my early days planning and testing military aircraft systems I am now working at the leading edge of digital advertising technologies. My role involves advising the executive team on ad serving and tracking strategy and upgrading the technical infrastructure required to achieve the company growth objectives. My ability to code in HTML, CSS, JS and some level of PHP has helped me gain a thorough understanding of the ad serving process where I can provide input at both a tactical and strategic level.
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About Odyssey Mobile Interaction: Odyssey Mobile Interaction is a technology and media provider helping advertisers target and engage with mobile audiences.
Nick Carrier
Project Manager of AdoreGames Studio
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About AdoreGames Studio: Mobile apps development and end-to-end outsource: UI, animation, graphics, and applications.
