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This list showcases the top London based Director operating in the Cloud Infrastructure space. If you think a Director 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.
Simon Marsh
Marketing Procurement Director of Dell EMC
Simon has been at Dell EMC since 2010 as a procurement manager for indirect spend, and is now Marketing Procurement Director. Previously he was at BP.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Cheryl Hung
Director of Ecosystem of Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF)
Cheryl is an ex-Google software engineer with a passion for developer tools, experience and community. She founded the Cloud Native London meetup and codes, writes and speaks about containers, storage and cloud computing.
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About Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF): CNCF is an open source software foundation that hosts and nurtures projects like Kubernetes and Prometheus.
Sanjay Mistri
Vendor & Alliances Director of Content+Cloud
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Chris O’Brien
Products and Services Director of Content+Cloud
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Des Hudson
Client Success & Delivery Director of Content+Cloud
Des’ depth of technical and commercial experience gives him a complete understanding of our clients’ needs, from set up to support. He oversees systems, clients and operations in delivering the highest level of strategic managed services.
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
David Cumberworth
Managing Director International of Virtual Instruments
David Cumberworth is Managing Director at Virtana, responsible for the International business. Prior to joining VI, David was Vice President WW Sales for HiveIO following their acquisition of Atlantis Computing where he was WW VP Field Operations. David was responsible for sales, marketing and technical services teams and grew the business, channels and go to market strategy. In his previous role at Citrix Systems, David was responsible for managing the Enterprise Sales team which ran both Global accounts and large FTSE 100 accounts in the UK. David was responsible for closing deals with global accounts including Morgan Stanley, Citigroup, Deutsche Bank, UBS, Credit Suisse and Bank of America. Before joining Citrix, David ran the Server Based Computing Business Unit for Computacenter in the UK, a leading provider of IT infrastructure services in Europe with 10,000 employees and £2.5 billion in revenue.
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About Virtual Instruments: Virtual Instruments offers IT infrastructure performance management solutions for physical, virtual and cloud computing environments.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Mark Hutchinson
Managing Director UK of Xantaro
Mark Hutchinson is responsible for Xantaro‘s UK business. He has been in the IT industry for 25 years and began his career in sales with EMC before moving on to senior sales roles and senior management roles in the software industry with Computer Associates, Groupe Bull and IBM, all of which focused on Enterprise Management solutions. Prior to joining Xantaro he was the Managing Director of Telindus Belgacom ICT and a member of the International Executive Committee for a period of 8 years. Mark‘s focus has always been on creating and developing growth through strong customer engagement models based on integrity and transparent relationships with shared insight to the customer needs. His extensive background has enabled a broad business knowledge combined with international experience and specific exposure of working in the telecommunications sector.
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About Xantaro: Xantaro is a vendor-independent service integrator focussing on carrier-class networks & services, cloud infrastructures and orchestration.
