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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 Reading based Manager operating in the Developer Tools space. If you think a Manager 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.
Derrick McCourt
General Manager, Customer Success Unit of Microsoft
Derrick McCourt is leading a team responsible for supporting customers to deliver cutting-edge services and drive real business impact through Microsoft cloud technologies. Since joining Microsoft in 2001, Derrick has held multiple leadership roles, including General Manager for Microsoft’s Public Sector Business, and is a member of the Microsoft UK Senior Leadership Team. In July 2017 Derrick took on the role as executive sponsor for Microsoft UK’s Diversity and Inclusion plan to ensure that all current and future employees feel encouraged to contribute their unique insight and skills that help solve some of the most complex technology challenges for our customers. Derrick is a strong supporter of accessibility in tech, digital skills, girls in STEM and Women in Technology initiatives. He has played a leading role in Microsoft’s strategic partnership with the Institute of Technology at Bletchley Park as well as UA92; empowering people of all ages, skills and abilities in a technology driven world.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stuart McCarthy
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
Customer Program Manager in Microsoft Teams Engineering, working with strategic customers to help them deliver value on Microsoft Teams and gain insights into how we can further improve the product.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Joel Bloomfield
Business Manager of Microsoft
Joel has been at Microsoft for 3 years and is the Industry lead for Higher Education in the UK. In his role Joel is responsible for working with Microsoft’s Global Education team to bring best practise and learnings to Universities in the UK, he is also responsible for setting the strategy in the UK and working with customers to deliver their vision around Digital Transformation. Joel also manages 25 customers relationships across the South of the UK and has a particular interest in driving Microsoft’s position in the Academic Research space as well as leading on how Artificial Intelligence can enhance the learning experience.
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James Marshall
Senior Customer Program Manager | Azure of Microsoft
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Paul Collinge
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
Paul Collinge is Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Office 365 product team, primarily looking after network connectivity and performance to the service. Working directly with customers to plan and optimise their enterprise connectivity to the cloud whilst also driving engineering changes to help improve the service in this area has enabled him to gain a wide experience of the challenges and solutions to enterprise Office 365 connectivity. Paul has worked at Microsoft since 2004, previous roles include, Senior Support Escalation Engineer within the Windows Core and Networking teams and also as a Principle Premier Field Engineer concentrating on network problem isolation, specifically within the Cloud/Office 365 space.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
