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 Board Member operating in the Non Profit space. If you think a Board Member 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.
Peter Frankental
Board Member of Business & Human Rights Resource Centre
Peter is Economic Relations Programme Director at Amnesty International UK and Chair of the Corporate Responsibility (CORE) Coalition, UK. Previously he was Economic Relations Strategy Adviser at Amnesty’s International Secretariat. Peter joined Amnesty International in 1998 from Business in the Community, where he specialised in developing the role of the private sector in social and economic regeneration programmes. His previous career included six years as a business analyst with Johnson Matthey and four years as a systems analyst within the National Health Service. Peter’s first degree was in Mathematical Statistics. He subsequently undertook postgraduate studies at the London School of Economics (MSc Econ) and the Institute of Latin American Studies (MA). Peter is a founding trustee of two organizations in the refugee field – Music in Detention which delivers music workshops in immigration detention centres, and the Helen Tetlow Memorial Fund which provides small grants to refugee organizations. Peter is co-author of Human rights – is it any of your business?, a management primer on human rights jointly published in April 2000 by Amnesty International and the International Business Leaders Forum. He has published numerous papers on the theme of business and human rights including, Can Branding Reinforce Human Rights?, published by Financial Times Prentice Hall in Visions of Ethical Business.
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About : Business & Human Rights Resource Centre is dedicated to advancing human rights in business and eradicating abuse.
Harry Phinda
Board Member of Unicef UK
Harry Phinda, 18, from London has been involved with UNICEF UK since 2009. Harry is currently one of two Youth Advisors to the Board of Trustees, a role where young people actively take part in the governance issues of UNICEF UK. Harry’s previous activities for the organisation have been his participation in the 2009 J8 Summit in Rome – a weeklong conference for young people to exchange and debate ideas about how to best improve global conditions for children and to then present their recommendations to the G8 summit which runs in parallel. Harry actively campaigns for UNICEF UK and is a youth spokesperson for the organisation. He is particularly passionate about the affect of climate change on developing nations and had the opportunity to witness first hand UNICEF’s work in this area when he travelled to Barbados on a UNICEF UK field trip. Outside of UNICEF UK, Harry is in his first year of university studying for an undergraduate degree in International Relations. As part of Harry’s enthusiasm for youth participation he has held other major roles such as President of his college where he represented over 1,000 students and has been a member of Croydon’s Youth Council where he met weekly with the council to address issues affecting young people in the borough.
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About : We are the world’s leading children’s organisation in the UK and around the globe.
Isobel Trout
Board Member of Unicef UK
Isobel, 18, joined the Board of Trustees in October 2014 as one of two Youth Advisers, a role where young people actively take part in the governance issues of UNICEF UK. Isobel has a keen interest in youth politics, having been elected to the Bristol City Youth Council in February 2013, and subsequently elected as one Bristol’s first two Youth Mayors for 2013-2014. Within this role, Isobel supported many local events and campaigns, working with the Mayor George Ferguson to define the roles and responsibilities of the position in its first year. Isobel has a huge passion for youth participation, and is passionate about promoting meaningful youth involvement at many levels to as wide an audience as possible. Isobel represented the South West on the National Youth Select Committee in 2013, whom investigated the provision of education that aimed to develop young people’s cultural and political awareness and educate them about sex and relationships, among other topics. Together, they produced a report including recommendations for the government based on their findings. Isobel is also a deputy member of the UK Youth Parliament, and this year has campaigned for votes at 16 and continued the Youth Parliament’s ongoing campaign for the Curriculum for Life at a grassroots level. Isobel is in her last year of sixth form, with ambitions to study medicine at university in 2016 after taking a gap year during which she hopes to further her involvement with UNICEF.
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About : We are the world’s leading children’s organisation in the UK and around the globe.
Paul Fisher
Board Member of Council of Better Business Bureaus
Paul Fisher is an Assistant to the Founder at Propercorn.
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About Boomf, Driftrock, MarketSharing, Mint Digital, Propercorn, Wonderbly: Council of Better Business Bureaus offers business accreditation services in the U.S. and Canada.
Jason McCue
Board Member of Videre
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About : Videre is a global network that equips oppressed communities
Debu Purkayastha
Board Member of Mercy Corps
Debu Purkayastha is currently Entrepreneur-in-Residence (EIR) at Octopus Ventures, a premier European venture capital firm. Prior to Octopus, till early 2014, Debu spent 6 years at Google. Debu was Principal – New Business Development at Google with a wide product mandate spanning several key strategic focus areas globally. Previously, Debu was Google’s Principal – Corporate Development spearheading its global M&A and Investment efforts including the acquisition of ITA Software (travel search), DailyDeal.de (offers), Gizmo5 (VoIP), Phonetic Arts (text to speech), Green Parrot Pictures (video image processing), Zynamics (security software) amongst several others. Debu is also a founding member of Google “Campus”, a seven-storey co-working space for startups in East London’s Tech City. Debu sits on the Board of MercyCorps (NGO), Advisory Board of Sadara Ventures (VC Fund) & previously used to sit on the Boards of Fon (wireless) & Mobile Planet (mobile apps). Prior to Google, Debu headed Sabre’s Corporate Development/M&A team in EMEA & in a past life was a Telecoms/Media/Technology M&A Banker with Salomon Smith Barney/Citigroup in Wall Street, Silicon Valley & London. Debu has a MBA from London Business School & is a qualified Chartered Accountant. Debu spends a fair bit of his personal time working with leading NGOs & governmental institutions in several politically sensitive areas including Palestine, Iraq, Kashmir etc. focusing on economic development initiatives. A certified cricket nut & film fanatic, Debu is also passionate about white-water rafting & hiking.
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About : Mercy Corps is a global organization powered by the belief that a better world is possible.
Liv Boeree
Co-founder and Advisory Board Member of Raising for Effective Giving – REG Charity
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About PokerStars, Raising for Effective Giving – REG Charity: REG is a community of poker players trying to maximize their expected positive impact on the world.
Lillian Kuan
Alumni Advisory Committee Board Member of Chiasma
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About Chiasma: Chiasma is New Zealand’s premier student-led non-profit organisation.
