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 CFO’ operating in the Enterprise space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Paul Smolinski
Chief Financial Officer of Forterro
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About Forterro: Forterro is a federation of ERP product companies serving mid-market companies with local software around the globe.
Courtney Grant
CFO of Kalo
Courtney became Kalo’s first angel investor in 2014 before joining the team as CFO in 2016. Before diving into the startup world, he spent his career in finance with a variety of corporate finance roles at leading North American and European investment banks.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
Amit Patel
Chief Financial Officer of HighQ
Amit leads financial strategy at HighQ. Prior to joining the business,Amit founded and built a prepaid credit card and e-money business, Blue Sky Card Solutions, which he successfully sold to the company’s largest UK competitor in 2012. Before setting up Blue Sky, Amit built a career within banking and private equity where he was involved in several multi-billion leveraged buy-outs, principal investments and other high profile real estate transactions with Bank of Scotland. Amit has a bachelor’s degree in Banking & International Finance from Cass Business School, London.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Matthew Ashley
Chief Financial Officer of Micro Focus
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About Micro Focus: Micro Focus is a software company with 40 years of experience in delivering and supporting enterprise software solutions.
Haywood Chapman
Chief Financial Officer of Iqgeo
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About Iqgeo: IQGeo is a company having end-to-end geospatial software that improves productivity and collaboration across various industrial processes.
Peter Wallace
Chief Financial Officer 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
Nick Taylor
Chief Financial Officer of Bizagi
An experienced finance professional with a wide range of experience in leadership roles across many industries including software, technology, banking, professional services and more. Nick has a proven track record of partnering with the leadership teams of high growth businesses to build finance functions that have the capabilities to enable the organization to achieve its goals. Most recently Nick was the CFO for the International Business Unit at Blackbaud, a large publicly listed software company, partnering with the business to deliver the strongest period of revenue growth and margin improvement in the business unit to date. Previously Nick has also worked at Eversheds, BT, Lloyds TSB, American Express, Travelport and Accenture.
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About Bizagi: Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software.
Hannah Lowry
Chief Financial Officer of Ecrebo
Hannah joined Ecrebo in July 2017 and brings proven experience in driving business performance and robust financial management for multinational companies in Europe and the Middle East. In her role as CFO, Hannah is responsible for all financial matters for Ecrebo and as part of the senior leadership team, will help set and implement the strategic direction of the company. Hannah previously served as finance director for the data and analytics business at Aimia, as well as tenures with GE Capital in Dubai, and Barclays in London.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Nigel Dahl
Interim CFO/COO, M&A Specialist of EPM Gurus
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About EPM Gurus, PYXI Group: EPM Gurus specializes in Oracle Hyperion EPM solution planning, architecture, and implementation.
