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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 Oxfordshire based Director operating in the Consulting 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.
Andy Forkgen
CTO & UK Director of GlobalizeMe
Andy co-founded the Digital division of GlobalizeMe in 2009 and oversees all technological business within the company including our partnership with AWS. He is also the Managing Director of the UK office in Oxfordshire where he is based. Andy’s background is primarily technical; prior to joining GlobalizeMe, he spent 5 years within the technology arm of the Inner London Magistrates’ Courts Service, 6 years team leading the online development team at The Daily Telegraph and served in various other technology and consulting roles in between. In his spare time Andy is a keen runner having completed the 2017 London Marathon, is the founder and manager of a Pan-Disability children’s football team, enjoys skiing and at weekends is often found being a loyal servant and driver to his wife, three children and Labrador.
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About GlobalizeMe: GlobalizeMe is a one-stop provider of digital development, content creation and international business support services.
Kathryn Millett
Director of Biosecu.re
Kathryn Millett is the Director of Biosecure, a company dedicated to safeguarding the bioeconomy, and strengthening biosecurity through education, training and policy advocacy.
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About Biosecu.re: Biosecu.re helps ensure a resilient, safe, and secure environments, frameworks, and processes.
Mikhail Gryaznevich
Director of Tokamak Energy
Mikhail is a founder of Tokamak Energy, the Chief Scientist and a member of our executive board. He is a leading global authority on tokamaks and has performed experiments on 16 different tokamak during his distinguished career. After graduating with an Honours Diploma in Plasma Physics from the Leningrad University in his homeland, Mikhail earned a PhD in Plasma Physics and Nuclear Fusion from the USSR Academy of Science. In 1990, he joined the Culham Laboratory in Abingdon and has been responsible for leading experimental programmes, preparing and performing experiments, designing, constructing and operating tokamak systems and diagnostics, as well as supervising students and scientific and engineering personnel. Mikhail is a Visiting Professor at Imperial College in London and an editorial board member for the Plasma Science & Technology Journal and the Open Plasma Physics Journal. He regularly lectures about the physics behind spherical tokamaks at universities and plasma physics schools across the world.
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About Tokamak Energy: Tokamak Energy is a private company developing and accelerating the development of fusion power.
Geoffrey Haines
Managing Director of Desktop Engineering
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About Desktop Engineering, Oxford Creativity: Desktop Engineering is an engineering software solutions provider and a full service consultancy.
Richard Saunders
Technical Director International Regulatory Affairs of Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics
Richard Saunders is the Technical Director International Regulatory Affairs at Ortho Clinical Diagnostics.
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About Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics, Ortho-Clinical Diagnostics: Ortho Clinical Diagnostics is a company that makes in vitro diagnostics products.
Paul Fennemore
Social Media & Marketing Director of Titanium Fire
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About Oxford Brookes University, Titanium Fire: Salesforce implmentation consultancy
Brian Clarke
Director & Consultant of European Food Consultants
Also Director of European Food Consultants Ltd. Brian has over 30 years of industrial and instore bakery experience including international consultancy work. He has a diverse industrial and retail knowledge with experience in general management technical, product and process development. With considerable knowledge of environmental issues and business turnaround. As the environmental director at one of the major bakery groups he recognised the potential and business opportunity if a trading platform was available for the wider food industry. Brian has represented the baking industry on organic standards at the Soil Association and previously a representative at the Federation of Bakers and sat on the CCFRA bread and cereal technical advisory panel. He was also one of the lead contributors to a DEFRA Link funded 5 year research project. Experienced at working at MD and board level in major food companies. He has a passion for food and reducing waste. Main interest are golf and travel, mentoring senior management and business acquisitions. Although semi retired he has no plans to sit around and also way searching for business opportunities.
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About AliveCor, European Food Consultants: European Food Consultants provides consultation services and solutions to businesses from the food and retail industries.
Lloyd Czaplewski
Founder & Director of Chemical Biology Ventures
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About Chemical Biology Ventures: Chemical Biology Ventures provides expert project management, consultation, review, coaching, and project mentoring.
Andy Jones
Managing Director of Jonesthefone Consulting
Andy Jones has over 25 years of experience in mobile telecommunications. As an engineering graduate in 1989 he joined a young company that his college friends had never heard of – that company’s name was Vodafone. During his 20 year tenure with the company Andy progressed to lead many technology innovation, network transformation and infrastructure procurement programmes. From 2005-2009 he served as Vodafone’s Head of Strategy and Architecture with a responsibility covering 20+ global Vodafone markets. Since 2009, Andy has built a thriving independent consulting business, providing strategic insight to 25+ clients with a stake in telecom innovation. Andy serves on the advisory board of several startups, including Saguna – a pioneer in Mobile edge Computing. Andy has seen MEC from more perspectives than most during its gestation period over the last 5 years – as an operator intrapeneur; as an advisor and as an independent consultant working with partners in the MEC ecosystem.
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About Jonesthefone Consulting: Jonesthefone Consulting specialises in providing consulting, advisory and business development services in the telecom sector.
