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 Manchester based CEO’ operating in the Information Technology 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.
Richard Barlow
Founder & CEO of Wejo
Richard is wejo’s founder & CEO. Richard’s passion for big data led directly to wejo’s goal of making telematics available in the mass market. As a director and founder of a number of worldwide businesses in the insurance, banking and mobile sectors, including the world’s largest lead exchange provider, Richard is highly regarded for his strategic vision and ability to deliver commercial success.
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About Wejo: Wejo gathers & analyzes car data from connected cars to help car manufacturers improve their products through data driven descisions.
Allan Gray
CEO & Co Founder of Cosmient
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About Cosmient: E-COMMERCE FROM THE FUTURE!
Jeremy Gidlow
CEO & Co-Founder of Netacea
Jeremy is actively involved in Intechnica and splits his time between the general management of the business, designing client solutions, and leading consultancy projects for digital transformation and IT due diligence.
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About Intechnica, Netacea: Smarter Bot Management using Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning. A sophisticated approach for sophisticated threats.
Janice Leahy
CEO of OIKOS Software, Inc.
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About L&V Partners LLC, OIKOS Software, Inc.: OIKOS Software, Inc is a cloud-based financial applications provider for planning, reporting, and analytics headquartered in Manchester, NH.
Neville Roberts
CEO of Planixs
Prior to establishing Planixs, Neville was the Enterprise CIO at Best Buy for 4 years, the world’s largest consumer electronics retailer, present in 14 countries and with a turnover in excess of $50bn. Previously Neville spent 18 years at Accenture, the global management consultancy firm working across a number of sectors including government, banking and insurance, utilities, manufacturing and retail. As a senior partner in the Retail practice Neville worked with many of the world’s leading retail companies. Educated at Cambridge University Neville obtained his Honours and Masters in Natural Science and represented his University in swimming.
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About Planixs: Planixs is a Graphite Platform Company.
Piotr Zarobkiewicz
Chief Executive Officer of Ovon Home
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About Ovon Home: We create stylish home automation, IoT devices that save energy and improve comfort. Globally active through Ovon Home and Ovon Technology.
James Blake
CEO & Founder of HelloSoda
Before SODA, James headed up the global sales divisions at 2 of the World’s biggest credit data reference agencies; Experian and Callcredit. With clients including Bank of America, HSBC, William Hill, Wonga and Google, James oversaw a 64% growth trend across his last 5 years in a corporate environment. James now brings his proven track record and extensive contact list to the world of FinTech startups, with HelloSODA, and aims to replicate his huge successes all over again.
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About HelloSoda: HelloSoda is Designed To Predict Your Credit Rating And Potential For Fraud.
Richard Bradshaw
BossBoss (CEO) of Ministry of Testing
Richard Bradshaw is an experienced tester, consultant and generally a friendly guy. He shares his passion for testing through consulting, training and giving presentation on a variety of topics related to testing. With over 12 years testing experience, he has a lot of insights into the world of testing and software development. Richard is a very active member of the testing community. He is the co-creator of the Automation in Testing (Ait) namespace, currently the BossBoss at Ministry of Testing, blogs at http://thefriendlytester.co.uk, tweets as @FriendlyTester and also the creator of the YouTube channel, Whiteboard Testing.
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About Ministry of Testing: Ministry of Testing – good stuff for software testers! Learning, events and general awesomeness.
Rick Turner
CEO and Founder of Ditto
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About Ditto: A company at the top of its game in harnessing intelligent systems and emerging technologies.
Mike Kelly
Founder & CEO of DataCentred
Mike Kelly is a Founder & CEO at DataCentred.
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About DataCentred: DataCentred has been created by the founder who established the first pan-European colocation company.
