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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 President operating in the Big Data space. If you think a President 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.
Dayne Turbitt
Senior Vice President of Dell EMC
Dayne holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Sally Moore
Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances of IHS Markit
Sally Moore is senior vice president and global head of strategic alliances at IHS Markit. She is responsible for corporate development and the company’s strategy and relationships with partners. Sally provides companywide leadership of third party content licensing, content acquisition, and mergers and acquisitions. Sally leads the company’s fin-tech strategy, including its investment in Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital fund. She joined Markit in 2006, where she led the European credit business and global loan business. Previously, she spent six years at Thomson Reuters, as co-head of the Loan Pricing Corporation’s operations in Europe and later as a senior vice president and co-head of sales in North America.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Kimberley Wood
Vice-President of Customer Affairs of Qubit
Proven international Professional Services leader in the SasS space with strong cross functional Customer Success experience, specialising in Social, Digital and CRM. Results focussed change agent that thrives in fast moving, innovative environments with track record in building and growing Global Professional Services Teams. A revenue generating leader with a true passion for creating and executing upon a Customer Success strategy
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Lance Miller
Assistant Vice President of R&D Marketing of Teradata
Lance Miller is Assistant Vice President, R&D Marketing, for Teradata where he is responsible for marketing all services. Mr. Miller’s is a subject-matter expert in several areas of the software industry including: databases, data warehouses, decision support (DSS/EIS), data visualization, CRM, and very large database technologies. Before joining Teradata, Lance was Chief Technology Officer (CTO), CIO, and VP, Software Development for Customer Insight Company, CIO for Woodward-Clyde, VP Software Development for Cray, and VP Software for Solbourne. Lance holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MBA (Strategic Marketing) from Chadwick University.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Danvers Baillieu
President of InfoSum
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About InfoSum, VerifyMyAge: InfoSum provides a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy.
Giordano Albertazzi
President – Europe, Middle East and Africa of Vertiv
Giordano Albertazzi is the President of Vertiv in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Giordano began his career at Emerson Network Power, now Vertiv, as Materials Planning Manager for Liebert Europe in 1998 and held positions with increasing responsibility, including Plant Manager, EMEA Marketing and Product Management Director, and Managing Director for the Italian market unit. In 2006, he was promoted to Vice President Services for the Liebert Europe business. In 2011, Giordano was appointed Vice President Services for the broader Europe, Middle East and Africa region, and in 2014 became Vice President Sales. Since 2016 he serves as President of Vertiv in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Giordano holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan as well as a master’s degree in Management from Stanford University.
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About Vertiv: Vertiv designs, builds and services critical infrastructure that enables vital applications for data centers, communication networks.
Benjamin Hansz
Vice President of Simplaex
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About Simplaex: Simplaex is the company behind the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence-powered user targeting technology.
Kieran Williams
Vice President – Business Development of Captini
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
