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 Oxford based Director operating in the Financial Services 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.
Edward McCabe
Co-Founder and Investment Director of Seven Spires Investment
Mr. Edward McCabe co-founded Seven Spires Investments Ltd. in 2003 and serves as its Investment Director. From 1992 to 2005, Mr. McCabe was the first Chief Executive, and later, the Chairman of Hartwell PLC. His early career was in banking at Barclays Bank. He serves as Non-Executive Investor Director of Metalysis Limited and served as its Non Executive Director. Mr. McCabe serves as a Non-Executive Director of Oxsensis Ltd, Radiation Watch Ltd, Advancesis Ltd, and Lein Applied Diagnostics. He holds an M.B.A. from Henley Management College and studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics at Balliol College Oxford.
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About Seven Spires Investment: Seven Spires Investments Ltd. (SSIL) is a private, off-shore investment company.
Lucius Cary
Founder and Managing Director of Oxford Technology Management
Lucius Cary is the founder and managing director of Oxford Technology. He has a degree in engineering and economics from Oxford University, an MBA from Harvard Business School and was an engineering apprentice at the Atomic Energy Research Establishment, Harwell. After forming and raising finance for his first business in 1972, he founded “Venture Capital Report” in 1978 and was its managing director for 17 years. In March 1996, he became chairman and reduced his day-to-day involvement in order to concentrate more fully on Oxford Technology Management’s investment activities. Oxford Technology Management raised its first fund to invest in start-up and early-stage technology companies in 1983. In 2003, he was awarded an OBE for services to business.
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About Oxford Technology Management: Oxford Technology Management specializes in making and managing investments in start-up and early stage technology-based businesses.
Mark White
Director of UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund
Mark joined Midven in August 2006 and is Investment Director and Investment Committee member of the Rainbow Seed Fund. Mark has over twenty years experience in investment with extensive periods in UK investment banking and emerging markets, including raising and managing a R100m fund in South Africa. Most recently, Mark led the transformation of NESTA’s investment operations, building it into the most active technology seed investor in the UK. Mark holds an MBA from London Business School and a degree in English from Oxford University.
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About Midven, UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund: UK Innovation & Science Seed Fund is an early-stage venture capital fund.
Kate Ronayne
Investment Director of Longwall Venture Partners
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About Longwall Venture Partners: Longwall Ventures they invest in innovative start up and early stage businesses in the healthcare, science and engineering sectors.
Rebecca Todd
Investment Director of Longwall Venture Partners
Rebecca Todd is the investment director of Longwall Venture Partners.
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About Longwall Venture Partners: Longwall Ventures they invest in innovative start up and early stage businesses in the healthcare, science and engineering sectors.
Guy Edsall
Joint Managing Director of Finscape
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About Finscape: Finscape is a partnership between two separate companies, Fundscape and Altus.
Jon Hunt
Board of Director of The Business Plan Team
Founder of The Business Plan Team (www.thebusinessplanteam.co.uk) a UK-based provider of business plan services to professional start-ups and fast growth companies seeking debt or equity funding. 20+ years of commercial experience across finance, sales, marketing, product development in companies from start-ups to large corporations that include Clear Channel UK and Shandwick plc. Start-up experience of small and medium businesses where his roles have included creating commercial propositions from concept through to a market ready proposition, building management teams and structures, financial forecasting and budgeting, investment proposals, product development and corporate administration. Experience writing business plans to raise debt and equity finance for his own business (£1m). Now, as Director of The Business Plan Team, he has written plans for single entrepreneur start-ups, early stage growth businesses and corporate start-ups looking to raise up to £200m. Broad commercial experience gives the basis to deliver a fully integrated investor-ready business plan. Holds a 2:1 in Philosophy from Durham University, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Henley Management College and is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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About : Professional Business Plan Writing Services to Professional Start-Ups, Growth SMEs and Corporate Entities
Jon Hunt
Board of Director of The Business Plan Team
Founder of The Business Plan Team (www.thebusinessplanteam.co.uk) a UK-based provider of business plan services to professional start-ups and fast growth companies seeking debt or equity funding. 20+ years of commercial experience across finance, sales, marketing, product development in companies from start-ups to large corporations that include Clear Channel UK and Shandwick plc. Start-up experience of small and medium businesses where his roles have included creating commercial propositions from concept through to a market ready proposition, building management teams and structures, financial forecasting and budgeting, investment proposals, product development and corporate administration. Experience writing business plans to raise debt and equity finance for his own business (£1m). Now, as Director of The Business Plan Team, he has written plans for single entrepreneur start-ups, early stage growth businesses and corporate start-ups looking to raise up to £200m. Broad commercial experience gives the basis to deliver a fully integrated investor-ready business plan. Holds a 2:1 in Philosophy from Durham University, and a Post-graduate Diploma in Business Administration from Henley Management College and is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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Jonathan Hunt
Founder / Director of The Business Plan Team
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About The Business Plan Team: Professional Business Plan Writing Services to Professional Start-Ups, Growth SMEs and Corporate Entities
