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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 Nottingham based Director operating in the Information Technology 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.
Steve Robinson
Managing Director and CEO of Little Fish (UK)
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Richard Roome
Services Director of Little Fish (UK)
A father of two young and energetic boys aged 3 and 6 Richard has his hands full at home but in his down time he enjoys playing tennis and cricket, long days watching cricket and catching up with friends. At Littlefish Richard is Services Director and co-owner, responsible for existing clients, transitioning new clients, contract renewals and service improvements. Passionate about the Littlefish service, Richard has been responsible for shaping the Littlefish Service Delivery teams and with an attention for detail is driven to ensure the service is of the highest quality. After initially working in the Wind Energy industry undertaking Environmental Impact Assessments, he has 20 years of experience in the IT industry, initially from a technical perspective moving thereafter to operational and service management roles. Richard has been involved in a number of successful high growth start-up ventures as well as Operational Management and Service Account Management roles for major clients at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services.
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About Chimata Gold Corp, Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Joe McCarthy
Sales Director of Little Fish (UK)
Also a new father, Joe is getting to grips with a baby boy and enjoys reminiscing about uninterrupted night’s sleep, travel, wine, road biking, days at the cricket and old property restoration. Joe is Sales Director and co-owner at Littlefish and looks after new business growth, contract negotiations, commercial partnerships and marketing. He is a Law and Economics graduate from Liverpool University with over 15 years of B2B IT sales experience, commercial modelling and contract negotiation. He first cut his teeth at British Telecom before moving up the gears at small to mid-market IT & Telco firm PSU Technology Group. As Head of Sales for the IT Support division at PSU, Joe secured major national private and public sector contracts for mid-range IBM, Unix and Wintel support contracts and implemented the sales and marketing plan from the IT maintenance division. Business Development Manager roles at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services have given him broad exposure to IT Outsourcing and constructing tailored, managed IT services contracts in the public and private sector. Joe was awarded Managed Services salesman of the year at Capita IT Services in 2008, before joining the executive management team that acquired Littlefish in 2010. Joe looks after all front-line new business and has grown Littlefish total managed service revenue by >25% YoY to date.
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Geoff Bennett
Director, Solutions & Technology of Infinera
Geoff Bennett received a B. Sc. in polymer engineering from Loughborough University, United Kingdom, in 1983, and worked as a materials research scientist before moving into the networking area in 1986 with router pioneer, Proteon. He has worked in technical roles in the telecommunications industry for over 25 years at companies such as Wellfleet, FORE Systems, and Marconi, where he held the position of Distinguished Engineer. He has been with Infinera for eight years and is a director of solutions and technology, responsible for technology evangelism and technical sales support. He has been the author or co-author of numerous papers, and the author of Designing TCP/IP Internetworks (VNR).
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About Infinera: Infinera Corporation provides optical networking systems based on photonic integration technology in the United States.
Tim Radford
Non-executive Director of Timico
Tim founded Timico in 2004 and continues to be a member of the company’s Board. Earlier in his career, following the sale of his corporate entertainment business, Chatters Entertainment, Tim founded the Project Telecom Group in 1987 and managed its development and growth as an independent telecommunications service provider. The company floated on the London Stock Exchange in September 2000 and continued to grow rapidly, achieving revenues of £330m in 2002. In September 2003, the company was successfully sold to Vodafone for £162m.
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About Timico: Timico is an end-to-end managed cloud service provider of supplying business strength IP solutions.
Dan Simmons
Founder and Director of Quensus
Dr Dan Simmons has a Masters + PhD in Electrical Engineering, and is an expert in water sustainability, software development and wireless technologies. Based on this skill set, he founded Quensus in 2015, which shaped a step-change in the water-saving industry.
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About Quensus: Water management system to monitor and control water infrastructure
Tony Brookes
Director of Vacancy Filler
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About Vacancy Filler: Vacancy Filler provide world-class, state of the art Recruitment Software & Services to in-house HR & recruitment teams.
Huw Lafleur Davies
Managing Director of HD IT Solutions
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About HD IT Solutions: HD IT Solutions are provide strategic business IT solutions, to enable your business.
Jim Bullock
Director of iFormulate Ltd
Jim Bullock is co-founder and director of iFormulate Ltd. Previously Jim was CEO of Intelligent Formulation Ltd which promoted formulation technology in the UK After a D.Phil from Oxford, Jim led R&D projects in imaging at Ilford Ltd and activities on crystal engineering and dye formulation and chemistry at ICI/Zeneca. At BASF, in UK and Germany, Jim headed formulation development for colours and held marketing, strategy, R&D and regulatory affairs functions for BASF’s global biocides business. Jim was also a board director of Agion Technologies, USA.
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About iFormulate Ltd: iFormulate Ltd benefits its clients by providing consultancy, innovation projects, training.
Jim Bullock
Director of iFormulate Ltd
Jim Bullock is co-founder and director of iFormulate Ltd. Previously Jim was CEO of Intelligent Formulation Ltd which promoted formulation technology in the UK After a D.Phil from Oxford, Jim led R&D projects in imaging at Ilford Ltd and activities on crystal engineering and dye formulation and chemistry at ICI/Zeneca. At BASF, in UK and Germany, Jim headed formulation development for colours and held marketing, strategy, R&D and regulatory affairs functions for BASF’s global biocides business. Jim was also a board director of Agion Technologies, USA.
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About iFormulate Ltd: iFormulate Ltd benefits its clients by providing consultancy, innovation projects, training.
