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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 Southampton 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.
Rajh Das
Sector Director, Manufacturing and Resources UK of Microsoft
Rajh Das joined Microsoft in April 2008 where he has held various account management and sales leadership roles. He now leads the Manufacturing and Resources team for the UK. Before joining Microsoft, Rajh held sales and leadership roles at EMC, Xerox and IBM. He secured an undergraduate degree in Production and Operations Management from the University of Nottingham in 1997 and an MBA from CASS Business School in 2007. Rajh was born in Warrington but now lives in Winchester with his wife and three daughters. He’s a fan of all sports and plays tennis and football.
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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.
Andrew Stickland
Director, Customer Success of Contrast Security
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About Contrast Security: Contrast Security is a modernized application security, embedding code analysis, and attack prevention directly into the software.
Peter Lelliott
Commercial Director of Danburykline
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About Danburykline: Danburykline is a software company and provider of the SOROS web application to the UK rail industry.
Victoria Barber
Strategic Marketing Program Director of SHI International Corp
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About SHI International Corp: SHI is a corporate reseller of software, hardware, technology products and related services.
Harry Mowat
Managing Director of Greentree
Harry’s outstanding track record in developing partner networks across Europe, the Middle East and Africa made him the perfect fit when Greentree went looking for someone to run its UK office. The British market is a tough environment, but Harry is quite at home in the Land of the Giants. “Every partner is different, but having managed relationships with the likes of IBM, down to the smallest of resellers, it all comes down to two things: having a great product to sell and nurturing a close relationship with your partners, based on trust, friendship and team work,” he says.
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About Greentree: Greentree delivers low-cost high performance business software helping medium sized organisations maximize productivity, adapt to
Jörundur Jörundsson
Managing Director of Orbis Tech
Jörundur Jörundsson is the Managing Director at Orbis Tech.
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About Orbis Tech: Orbis Tech is a computer software company that offers custom software development for companies, businesses, and organizations.
Simon Phipps
Standards & Policy Director of Open Source Initiative
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About Open Source Initiative: The Open Source Initiative facilitates the OSD and community-recognized body for reviewing and approving licenses as OSD-conformant.
Jack Symons
Director (Product) of Gamban
Jack Symons is Co-Founder & Director at Gamban.
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About Gamban: RegTech, Mobile, Healthcare
