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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 VP’ operating in the SaaS 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.
James Stanbridge
Vice President of Oracle
James Stanbridge, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, is a leadership practitioner based in United Kingdom, having spent the past 10 years living in Asia, moving to Shanghai, China in 2005 and to Singapore in 2009. During his corporate career, James successfully attracted, hired and developed diverse teams of technologists in China, Singapore, India, Japan as well as Europe for Oracle, Microsoft, Alta Vista and Yamaha Motor in a multinational, corporate leadership career spanning more than 20 years. James is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), has been an Executive coach in the ‘Excelerrate’ program at Fudan University and is a formal mentor to young leaders inside and outside Microsoft and a former Board member of the not-for- profit organization Lifeline Shanghai. He is currently the CTO of a Singapore based NGO fighting human trafficking and travels to Cambodia to support Sala Bai, a school for young women who are at risk of trafficking.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Chris Talago
VP Communications, EMEA and APAC of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Greer Hahn
VP of Marketing of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Cinz Ricciardone
VP of Product of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Sahil Rekhi
Vice President Global Strategic Partnerships of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Nikki Stones
VP Demand Generation of Privitar
As Head of Marketing, Nikki is responsible for Privitar’s brand development, marketing strategy and communications. She also supports the company’s go-to-market and sales plans. She is a highly accomplished B2B marketer, with over 15 years expertise spanning early stage tech start-ups through to some of the world’s largest enterprises including KPMG, Schlumberger and Accenture, where she held senior, strategic roles. She has broad sector experience across Financial Services, Energy and Pharmaceuticals. Nikki has a complementary blend of marketing and technology skills and is highly accomplished at building teams from the ground up. Nikki has a post-graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism and is Chartered Institute of Marketing qualified.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Edward Barrow
VP, Corporate Strategy of Optimizely
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About Optimizely: Optimizely is a platform that provides digital experience solutions.
Pavel Kilovatiy
VP Engineering of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Lisa Clark
Vice President – Contact Centre PM of 8×8
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Product Marketing of Drift
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Thomas John
VP EMEA Channels of Five9
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About Five9: Five9 is a cloud-based call center software company that specializes in sales, marketing, and customer service.
Martin Henley
Senior Vice President, Technology Services of Globality
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About Globality: Globality revolutionizes how businesses buy and sell services by matching the best provider at the right price for every project.
Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services of Citrix Systems
Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Jim Walker
CIO & VP of Global Operations – Technical Co-Founder of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Alex Timlin
VP Client Success of Emarsys
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About Emarsys: Emarsys enables brands around the world to deliver truly personal customer interactions across email, mobile, social, and web.
Tom Ball
VP Global Demand Generation of Emarsys
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About Emarsys: Emarsys enables brands around the world to deliver truly personal customer interactions across email, mobile, social, and web.
Neerav Shah
VP EMEA of commercetools
Neerav Shah has more than 20 years’ experience in complex, high-value enterprise sales across a range of technologies, including next-generation commerce solutions, big data, data and application integration, api management, social media and online community management platforms, mobile and fixed line device management systems, and network and systems management solutions. He has proven experience helping companies quickly scale in EMEA by building and growing high-performing sales and channel teams which surpass expectations and achieve above industry customer retention rates. Currently Mr Shah is the Vice President of EMEA for commercetools, the global leader in next-generation commerce software. Prior to commercetools, Mr. Shah was the Vice President of EMEA for SnapLogic, the leader in data, application, API integration and iPaaS. Previously, Mr Shah held sales management and consulting positions at Lithium Technologies, Alcatel-Lucent Motive, KPMG, and IBM Tivoli Systems. Mr. Shah has an extensive network of telecoms, financial services, retail, utilities, hi-tech and media contacts across Europe, Middle East, Africa and the United States. Mr. Shah holds a BSc in Computer Science from City University London.
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About commercetools: commercetools is an enterprise commerce company providing modern cloud-native API-lead offerings.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Jennifer Yorke
VP of Customer Success of Ometria
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Marek Rubasinski
VP, Business Development of m3ter
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About m3ter: m³ter is the metering and pricing engine for SaaS companies – making it easy to intelligently deploy and manage usage-based pricing.
Anthony Payne
VP of Global Marketing of Brightpearl
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About Brightpearl: Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place.
Kristian Keep
Vice President Of Engineering of Decibel
Kristian Keep is the vice president of engineering at Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
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
Alexander Gorelik
CoFounder,CTO & VP Product of Zamna
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About Zamna: Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience
Fabio Torlini
SVP & Managing Director International of WP Engine
Over 15 years experience in the hosting & cloud industry. I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. One of the original employees at Rackspace I helped build the company to what it has become today. A leader in the cloud industry and revenues of $1.5B. I am now MD for WP Engine, based in Tech City helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. Specialties: Professional B2B Marketer. Branding, lead generation, direct sales, channel sales, alliances, online marketing.
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About WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Richard Belgrave
CRO & VP, AI Sales of Leverton
Richard is UK Managing Director of LEVERTON.A former Corporate Financier with a passion for revolutionising how individuals work with data and documents.
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About Cabot Financial, Leverton: Leverton is AI-powered data extraction and contract analytics platform.
Gareth Edwards
Executive Vice President, Europe of Radancy
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About Radancy: Radancy is the global talent technology leader intelligently solving critical challenges for employers, delivering unmatched results.
Gareth Edwards
Executive Vice President, Europe of Radancy
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About Radancy: Radancy is the global talent technology leader intelligently solving critical challenges for employers, delivering unmatched results.
Helen Attia
VP Worldwide Sales of Kadence
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Wil Lynch
SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy of Thunderhead
Wil Lynch is the SVP of Global Customer Experience and Product Strategy at Thunderhead.
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Mark Hallam
Vice President of EMEA & APAC of Winshuttle
Mark joined Winshuttle in 2006, and as one of the earliest employees, he has been part of the company’s evolution, and is responsible for the successful growth and expansion of operations in EMEA. As the Vice President of EMEA, Mark leads a team across Europe and Asia Pac, which supports over 1,000 customers. Prior to joining Winshuttle, Mark managed the Automation suite of software at Complementary Solutions which included AutoTester and Winshuttle products. Over the years he has specialized in ERP, specifically SAP, and has extensive experience in software sales, testing, automation and implementation.
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About Winshuttle: Winshuttle offers software products enabling businesses to work with SAP directly from interfaces that do not require any programming.
Ulyana Shtybel, Ph.D.
Chief Capital Officer and Vice President of the Board of HighCastle
PhD in Economics, Former Executive Director of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Ukraine, Head of Banking and Financial Services Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce, commercial bank trainee with 180 loan specialists under supervision. Named the Digital Leader of the Year Finalist, London Regional Finalist for the Forward Ladies National Awards 2019 and Blockchain Leader Finalist for the Women in Tech Awards.
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About HighCastle: One powerful platform for private companies to manage investment workflow, equity and debt securities
Sean Bennett
SVP of Sales of Triptease
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About Triptease: Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.
Sean Sewell
Co-Founder | VP Revenue of Partnerize
Sean is the Co-Founder and VP Revenue EMEA of Performance Horizon, an online marketing technology provider based on a suite of performance marketing products and services. Sean has over 7 years of online experience. Formerly Commercial Director for AOL, Sean spent two years heading up buy.at and AOL lead generation products, budgets, and growth strategy. Tenacious and strong relationship builder at all levels, responsible for building growing the Performance Horizon client global client portfolio. Sean studied Marketing at University of Bedfordshire as well as at Erasmus International Business School in Rotterdam.
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
Paul Taylor
VP, UK Revenue of Partnerize
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
Paul Taylor
VP, UK Revenue of Partnerize
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About Partnerize: Partnerize is the only partnership management solution for marketers seeking high quality, scalable subsidies to primary channels.
David Chalmers
VP Marketing of Skurio
David Chalmers serves as the Vice President of Marketing at Skurio.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
Tom Anthony
VP Product of SearchPilot
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About SearchPilot: Enterprise SEO A/B testing platform
Damian Jeal
Co-Founder & VP of Sales of Hubshare
Damian Jeal is a Co-Founder and VP of Sales at Hubshare. He is also the Managing Director of Nikec Solutions.
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About Hubshare: Hubshare is a collaborative and secure file sharing platform that allows professionals to collaborate more effectively and efficiently.
Simon Whittick
VP Marketing of Geckoboard
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About Appsumer, Geckoboard: Professional KPI dashboards. No hassle. Build a real-time dashboard in minutes. With Geckoboard, it’s that simple.
Chris Wakely
Executive Vice President, Global Enterprise of Benify
Chris Wakely has been working in global benefits technology for the last 15 years. He has seen the changes taking place both in insurance provision and the increasing importance of the employee experience. He is based out of the Benify London office.
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About Benify: Benefits Management and Total Rewards platform – SaaS
Steven Kahn
AVP of GSIs of LogicMonitor
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About LogicMonitor: LogicMonitor provides IT observability and monitoring for physical, virtual, and cloud-based IT infrastructures.
Amal Gul
VP, Product and Implementations of PowaWeb
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About PowaWeb: PowaWeb is an enterprise class, feature rich, Software as a Service ecommerce platform built with international scale in mind.
Stefan Carrington
VP, Customer Success of PowaWeb
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About PowaWeb: PowaWeb is an enterprise class, feature rich, Software as a Service ecommerce platform built with international scale in mind.
David Godden
VP, Sales & Marketing of Thymometrics
David Godden is VP, Sales & Marketing at Thymometrics and Co-Founder at KeyEngage. David is responsible for Thymometrics’ marketing activities including strategy, corporate marketing and product marketing. Thymometrics provide SaaS-based always-on employee engagment surveys for global blue chip organisations. He became joint Managing Director at eTrigue Europe in 2013. eTrigue provide world leading Marketing Automation software solutions to SMBs. David is also a founding Director at KeyEngage. KeyEngage assist US-based high-end marketing SaaS companies establish a presence in the EU. This involves establishing the company, building a sales and support team and providing all marketing activity. Companies included Pardot, DocuSign, Baynote and Bronto Software. Before setting up KeyEngage, David was a founding Director with Keymail Marketing, established in early 2005 to represent email marketing specialists ExactTarget. Keymail Marketing was wholly acquired by ExactTarget in 2009 as the launch pad for their international expansion. Prior to this he was Client Services Director at Bluestreak (formerly e2Communications) for over 5 years, responsible for the management of all major European accounts. His former work includes several Project Management roles in internet and other sectors.
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About KeyEngage, Thymometrics: Always-On & Pulse Employee Engagement Surveys and Employee Feedback Solutions
Magaly Jaquard
VP International Sales of Headoo
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About Headoo: Headoo is a Visual Marketing technology that helps brands create and maintain a personal connection with all of their customers.
Magaly Jaquard
VP International Sales of Headoo
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About Headoo: Headoo is a Visual Marketing technology that helps brands create and maintain a personal connection with all of their customers.
Steve Cater
VP Growth of Mo
I am passionate about the opportunity for technology and communications to improve our lives. My specialist subjects are marketing, delivering and managing growth, brand strategy and creating high performing teams. 10+ years experience in the creative industries building leading consumer brands in innovative ways. Now leading marketing and communications for a talent-focused marketplace changing the way that companies resource and manage their contingent workers. More here: www.yunojuno.com Let’s do this.
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About Mo: The Future of Employee Engagement
