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 Reading based Manager operating in the Internet 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.
Gemma Alvarez
Global Product Manager of Vodafone
Gemma Alvarez is the Global Commercial Product Owner for TOBi, Vodafones customer service chatbot, who is a trusted, helpful and easy concierge, here to support Vodafones customers. She helps carve out the future strategy of TOBi improving customer experience and pushing the boundaries of chatbots. Helping Vodafone Markets launch, accelerate the volume, improve the quality and innovate through TOBi. Previous to this, Gemma headed up Mobile Cloud Enterprise (Apps, Chatbots and Customer Experience Analytics), IoT and API Platform for Oracle UK in Business Development for almost 3 years. She was pivotal in launching the Intelligent Bot Cloud Service for Oracle helping many customers align chatbots to their core business, automating repetitive tasks. She has almost 7 years’ experience at Microsoft where she started off in the Sales Graduate Program, and then moved to a technical evangelist role where she worked on mobile apps, helping build up the app store and presenting to developers, business and UX around designing apps on the windows store.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Rosa Lenders
Marketing Manager of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Lee Martin
Business Development Manager – SonicWall of Tech Data
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About Tech Data: Tech Data is an end-to-end distributor of technology products, services, and solutions.
Greg Thompson
Radio Strategy & Architecture Manager of Three
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About Three: Three is a British telecommunications and internet service provider.
Pete Baker
Sales Manager of Rhetorik
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About Rhetorik: Technology sales & marketing intelligence platform serving UK and Europe
