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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 Internet 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.
Frankie Lynn
Business Development Manager of Rocket Internet
Frankie Lynn is the senior business development manager at [CaterWings](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/caterwings), an internet startup that serves the corporate catering industry. Prior to this position, she was employed as a business development manager at Rocket Internet. Lynn holds a bachelor’s degree in psychology from the University of Nottingham.
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About Rocket Internet: Rocket Internet incubates and invests in internet and technology companies globally.
Anna Gradil
Manager, YouTube Partnerships of YouTube
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About Yoola, Yoola, YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Matthew Thomas
Strategy Manager of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Katie Jenkins
Southern Europe Manager, YouTube Partner Development & Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Damian Benstead
Event Partnerships Manager of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
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.
Samer Ragheb
Product Marketing Manager of Quantcast
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Lucy Kennard
Operations Manager of Concentric
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Paolo La Paglia
Senior Commercial Manager – Italy of Flutter Entertainment
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About Flutter Entertainment: Flutter Entertainment is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming operator.
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.
Sarah Mackay
Senior Manager, Special Projects of Wefarm
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About Wefarm: Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables users to share information via SMS.
Jessica Pedroni Thorell
Investment Manager of Kinnevik AB
Jessica Pedroni Thorell is a growth investor at Kinnevik, based in their London office.
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About Cityblock Health, Kinnevik AB, Quit Genius: Kinnevik is an entrepreneurial investment group focused on building digital consumer businesses.
Der Hans
Engineering Manager of Canonical
der.hans is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, chairman for the Phoenix Linux Users Group and a repeat speaker at SCaLE. He is an engineering manager at Canonical and former community college instructor. In his free time he likes to camp, learn about sustainable culture and annually not set himself on fire.
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
John Dirk Morrison
Marketing Manager of Thread
John Dirk Morrison currently serves Thread as marketing manager. Prior to joining Thread, John spent one year with the Qcode Software Limited as PPC marketing manager.
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
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.
Christopher Gent
Senior Engineering Manager of Skyscanner
Christopher Gent is an Engineering Manager leading Skyscanner’s efforts to build a world class unified data platform for all of the company’s data. Chris has been working in the field of big data and distributed systems for 9 years and prior to joining Skyscanner he worked at Yahoo on advertising, personalization and geo platforms.
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About Skyscanner: Skyscanner operates as a trips meta-search engine company.
Miryka Rule
Principal Delivery Manager of Just Eat
During Miryka’s career she has worked in different industries from universities to ecommerce. Miryka is now at Just Eat leading delivery for key parts of the platform. Miryka’s passion is to help people at all levels work better together. She has used her 10 years experience in the technology industry to support teams to be happier, more focused and increase their productivity. Starting as front end engineer Miryka saw gaps for change and made it her mission to cultivate environments and ways of working which work for the “do-ers” not the HIPPO.
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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.
Salvatore Passerini
Programme Manager of Entain
Salvatore loves to solve big problems with smart and simple solutions. After 14+ years experience in Italy, Sweden, and UK in Large Scale and Real Time platforms both as an IT architect and recently as business manager and innovation lead for telecom and gaming companies he joined Klappo in 2012 to take on a new challenge. He manages Klappo’s technology and architecture of the platform including Sensum.io.
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About Entain: Entain is a multinational sports betting and gaming group operating in the online and retail sector.
Karen Blackett
Country Manager of WPP
Karen is a proven business leader with a track record in creating vibrant cultures, energising teams and consistently delivering business growth and success. She is currently UK country manager for WPP, the world’s largest marketing services group, and Chairwoman of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK. Karen champions diversity and equality of opportunity throughout the advertising industry. In 2012 Karen launched the first ever Government backed Apprentice Scheme for the sector. In June 2014, Karen received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours and in 2015 Karen was the first business woman to be named Britain’s Most Influential Black person in the Power List. In November 2018 Karen won the Inspirational Leader category at the Ethnicity Awards. Karen is an external advisor to the UK Government Civil Service. Karen was recently appointed Race Equality Business Champion by the UK Prime Minister.
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About WPP: WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Xavier Collins
Co-Founder & Business Development Manager of Nexus Notes
Xavier Collins is a Co-Founder and Business Development Manager at Nexus Notes.
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About Nexus Notes, Turo: Nexus Notes operates as an online marketplace for university students to buy and sell their course notes.
Damian Hind
Marketing Manager of Farmdrop
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About Farmdrop: Farmdrop: the online supermarket that delivers fresher, fairer food & home essentials directly to your door.
Carrie Babcock
Investment Manager of Breed Reply
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About Breed Reply: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
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.
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.
Chloe Pascal
Senior Marketing Manager – UK, Ireland & International of Nosto
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About Nosto: Nosto is an e-commerce platform providing product recommendations based on individual behavioral data.
Alex Donnelly
General Manager of CloverDX
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About CloverDX: CloverDX is a rapid, end-to-end data integration solution.
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.
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.
Alexandra Nguyen
Business Operations Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Camilla van Rosendal
Communications & PR Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Jorge Lesmes
Senior Manager – Global Head of Blockchain Banking Practice of Everis Group
Jorge (MSc Comp Sci) is in charge of leading and defining the group’s strategic direction and value proposition for the Blockchain and Distributed Ledger Technology initiative for the banking sector, overseeing industry projects the group is participating in. With over 10 years’ experience in the area of Banking Consulting (Corporate & Retail), he has acquired an expert knowledge in critical banking infrastructure and regulatory transformation including CMA Open Banking, GDPR and PSD2 having led implementations for multiple Tier 1 global banks. His current focus is on how the Internet of Value will improve our ability to make payments as quickly and efficiently as data transfers, as well as inter-ledger infrastructure to improve connectivity between different DLT platforms.
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About Everis Group: Everis offers outgoing development through its highly trained and nurtured staff offering transparency, consistency and responsibility.
Mark Felix
General Manager of Moneysupermarket Group
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About Moneysupermarket Group: Moneysupermarket Group is a British price comparison website-based business specialising in financial services.
Rose Keen
Research Manager of Econsultancy
Rose Keen is a Research Manager at Econsultancy.
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About Econsultancy: Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Pulok Paul
SAP FICO Application Manager of Foodninja.in
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About : On-demand Food delivery in India.
Tom Ballhatchet
Product Design Manager of Eskesso
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About Eskesso, Yoto: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Neil Stevenson
User Research Manager of YouView
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About YouView: YouView is a subscription-free and easy-to-use TV service with many live digital channels.
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.
Christian Richards
Business Development Manager, Cloud, Content and Applications Markets of Epsilon Telecommunications
Epsilon is a leading provider of outsourced connectivity solutions to the world’s Communications and Cloud ecosystems. Our underlying network infrastructure, intelligent application layers and industry expertise enable our customers to seamlessly deliver mission critical, high performance Applications and Communications services globally. We operate an outsourcing model for the procurement and management of Cloud and network infrastructure; enabling our customers to focus on delivering end-to-end Cloud, Content, application,communication and connectivity services. Our high performance, high availability and massively scalable global backbone combined with our own unique networking technology has created a platform connecting over 500 network operators and service providers each using the network to serve their fixed, mobile, application and Cloud customers. Epsilon provides connectivity and infrastructure outsourcing solutions to Communications, Applications, Content and Cloud service providers. Our underlying network infrastructure, intelligent application layers and industry expertise enables our customers to seamlessly deliver mission critical, high performance applications and communications services globally. Our networking solutions leverage our 500+ carrier relationships with coverage in 170 countries.
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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.
Abdul Miah
Technical Support Manager of StreamAMG
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About StreamAMG: OTT Solutions Provider
Rasesh Vasani
Founder and Finance Project Manager of kamzyada.com
Rasesh Vasani is the Founder of kamzyada.com.
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About kamzyada.com: Price Comparision Website
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.
Tiago M. Dias
Senior Project Controls Manager (Performance & Integration) of High Speed Two (HS2)
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About High Speed Two (HS2): High Speed Two (HS2) Ltd is the company responsible for developing the High Speed Two (HS2) rail network in the UK.
Lisa Rourke
Compliance Manager of GamCheck
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About GamCheck: Web based service to check the status of UK Government licensed online casinos
Marchela Bozhilova
Business Development Manager of Zed Zed Ltd
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About Zed Zed Ltd: Zed Zed is a crowd working platform under one brand. We are building the world’s largest and most talented Tech Team.
Angelo Rose
Account Manager of One Two Trade
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About One Two Trade: OneTwoTrade has been voted by its users as having the highest customer service rating around.
Angelo Rose
Account Manager of One Two Trade
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About One Two Trade: OneTwoTrade has been voted by its users as having the highest customer service rating around.
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.
Travis Simons
Marketing Manager Expert of TJ Group Marketing Agency
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About TJ Group Marketing Agency: TJ Group Marketing Agency UK Marketing solutions to professionals and begginers.
