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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 Slough based Director operating in the Software 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.
Michael Plimsoll
Industry Marketing Director of Adobe
Michael Plimsoll is a seasoned innovative marketer focused on driving efficiencies and improved return on investment through the better use of data and content in Marketing. He has an extensive background in data driven marketing, content management, cross-channel marketing and digital advertising. Michael currently works in the Product & Industry Marketing team at Adobe. In this role he helps Adobe’s customers across EMEA to better achieve their marketing objectives through deep industry insight and best practises, as well as ensuring they are maximising their use of Adobe solutions. Prior to Adobe, Michael held various client side and agency roles at companies such as BSkyB, Ogilvy and Wunderman; working on accounts such as American Express, Microsoft, IBM and BT.
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Russell Poole
Managing Director, UK and The Nordics of Equinix
Russell joined as UK managing director in April 2000, bringing with him nine years of experience in the UK telecommunications and internet industries. From 1998 to 2000 Russell was a director of MessageNet Ltd – an internet security and messaging security provider. Responsible for sales and operations, he also led the development of e:)scan – Europe’s first e-mail virus and content control service. In October 1999 MessageNet was acquired by Articon-Integralis AG.Between 1993 and 1998, Russell was the national sales manager for General Telecom – the business telecoms division of General Cable Plc. During this time he grew the business from four sales people and £3m annual revenue to 35 sales people in three locations and £25m annual revenue. Russell attended Nottingham University, where he read production engineering. Following twelve months travelling, he commenced his managerial career at Coca-Cola and Schweppes where he enjoyed a successful career as a national account manager.
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About Equinix: Equinix is an internet company that provides data center services for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Peter Hawes
Director of Technology of CIPHR
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About CIPHR: CIPHR is a privately held company and is a vendor of human capital management software.
Swen-Helge Huber
Director, Principal Architect IoT of Solace
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About Solace: Solace’s event broker technology helps enterprises become real-time by making business operations and customer interactions event-driven.
Paul Momtahan
Director of Optical Solution Marketing of Coriant
Based in the UK, Paul is responsible for the solution marketing of Coriant’s metro and long haul optical solutions globally. Prior to this he has held a number of product line management, technical sales and marketing roles focusing on packet-optical transport. Before joining Tellabs, Paul held a variety of product management and marketing positions at Neos/SSE Telecom, FORE Systems and Madge Networks. Paul has engineering and management degrees from Cambridge and Stanford universities.
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About Coriant, Infinera: Coriant is telecommunication company that operates as a supplier of dynamic metro-to-core transport solutions.
Alan Radford
Technical Director of One Identity
Alan is a business technologist with over 10 years’ experience in Identity Access Management. Having lived and worked in both the UK an Australia, consulting on projects for companies of all sizes across EMEA and Asia Pacific, Alan is an experienced subject matter expert in Privileged Access Management and Governance, Alan has worked with organizations across the globe facing unique challenges in the IAM space, bringing innovation and thought leadership to drive successful IAM strategies.
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About One Identity: One Identity solutions eliminate the complexities and time-consuming processes often required to govern identities.
Alberto Pavan
Service & Infrastructure Director of IPS
Alberto has over 15 years of experience in the payment industry and joined IPS in 2015. At IPS, Alberto is responsible for the payment gateway infrastructure, ensuring that the services we provide meet the standard in terms of security and reliability. Prior to joining IPS, Alberto has worked for Verifone, a global leader in secure electronic POS solutions where he led the Italian application development centre.
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About IPS: IPS is helping merchants accept payments across multiple countries, in multiple currencies through a single platform.
