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This list showcases the top London based CEO’ operating in the Drones space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Alex Caccia
Co-Founder & CEO of Animal Dynamics
An entrepreneur with start-up experience in, media, technology, manufacturing and a background in finance and investment banking. After a career in the City as a fund manager, and subsequently in investment banking, Alex founded a successful sports equipment business called WaterRower Ltd. In 1999 Alex joined Sportal, a European dotcom start-up, where he was head of advanced technology development. In 2003 Alex was involved in forming The Cloud (WiFi Aggregator, sold to Sky in 2010). From 2005-2010 Alex was CEO of Marmalade Technology Ltd, a leading mobile applications cross platform software SDK. In 2012, Alex founded an exercise technology business called Muoverti Ltd.
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About Animal Dynamics, iNeed: Animal Dynamics is a spinout company from the Department of Zoology at University of Oxford
Theo Pape
Founder, CEO of DRONEWORK
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About DRONEWORK, Flickreel: DRONEWORK is a drone mission matching platform for professional drone operators.
Petter Neby
Founder and CEO of Punkt. Tronics
Petter Neby is a Norwegian technology entrepreneur. Mr. Neby launched his first business in Norway in 1989, at the age of seventeen, and in 1991 moved to Paris, to work for an international consumer electronics company. Innovation and creativity has led Mr. Neby to find and manage successful businesses in the telecommunications, enterprise software and website areas. Mr. Neby created Punkt. in 2008 to offer straightforward alternatives to multi-function devices that started to dominate the consumer electronic marketplace.
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About Punkt. Tronics: Punkt. is a Swiss design led technology company that aims to make life simpler by creating timeless and outstanding products
Ming Kong
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of TG0
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About TG0: TG0 is an R&D start-up creating novel 3D controls.
Owen Nicholson
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of SLAMcore
Over a decade of experience in early stage R&D management working on both UK government and industry research portfolios. Successfully delivered technologies in a wide range of areas including UK augmented reality for the UK Special Forces, next generation nuclear submarines and domestic electronics. Worked for four years building and managing the University Research Programme for a leading global engineering company, transferring technologies from top research institutions around the world. Specialised in the strategic and commercial aspects of technology development acting as an advisor to the UK government on university technology transfer.
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About SLAMcore: SLAMcore provides location, mapping and perception software for robots and other autonomous machines to become spatially intelligent
Nicholas Zylberglajt
Chief Executive Officer of Unmanned Life
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About Unmanned Life: Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics
Kirill Shilov
Founder & CEO of Sky-Drones
Kirill Shilov – Founder / CEO Sky-Drones, holds his MSc degree with honours in Aerospace Engineering, majoring in Flight Dynamics and Control and BSc degree with honours in Applied Math and Physics. Kirill has extensive scientific, engineering and business experience. Before starting Sky-Drones full time Kirill was engineer at Autonomous Control Systems Lab in Tokyo, Japan and Perspective Robotics GmbH in Zürich, Switzerland.
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About Sky-Drones: We accelerate the development and adoption of commercial drones for enterprise by building connected hardware and software products.
Stephen Crampton
CEO of Swarm Systems
Stephen is a serial technology entrepreneur (Engineer, Imperial College London and MBA, INSEAD, France). He has built and sold technology companies in the private sector. One of his teams was the first UK team to win the EU Technology Grand Prize of 200,000 Euro in 1996. Stephen has numerous patents granted in the UK, EU, USA and Japan.
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About Swarm Systems: Swarm Systems designs and builds ‘Sub-250g’ military UAS for reconnaissance and remote viewing.
Markus Kantonen
CEO, founder of Stormcharge Limited
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About Stormcharge Limited: Stormcharge provides the autonomous vehicles market with the safest, most scalable and most cost effective command and control environments.
