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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 Surrey based CEO’ operating in the Analytics space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Roger Llewellyn
Managing Director & Founder & CEO of Kognitio
Llewellyn joined Kognitio in April 2003, having previously been Managing Director of Arelon for two and a half years – a company acquired by Cedar Software. Roger instigated the Management Buy-Out of Cedar and the formation of the Redac Group with Alchemy in May 2002. Roger has started a number of American companies in Europe, including WICAT Europe, where he was Managing Director for 6 years and Vice President USA Sales, and Macromedia, where he was Managing Director Europe for 5 years from start-up to IPO. Roger then took the helm at VINCA Europe for 4 years, until it was purchased by Legato, now EMC. He was also Vice President of Elevon Inc. He trained as an Electronic Engineer before taking his first job for Hewlett Packard. He then held senior positions in Digital Equipment and Prime Computers, before becoming Managing Director of Prime Sweden. After two years in this role Roger took the Managing Director role for Prime in Switzerland.
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About AB Electronics, Kognitio: Kognitio is an in-memory analytical software platform that supports BI, OLAP and analytical applications on large and complex data.
Peter Kear
Chief Executive Officer of D4t4 Solutions
Peter co-founded D4t4 Solutions with John Lythall in 1985. Prior to this he was Divisional Director for Hawke Electronics, then a subsidiary of Lex Service Plc. Peter became CEO in 2016, having been responsible until then for both the sales and business development aspects of the company. His position as CEO involves overall responsibility for the management of the group’s activities and he works closely with the other executive directors on the determination of the group’s overall strategy.
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About D4t4 Solutions: D4t4 Solutions is a business-to-business provider of information technology products and services.
Paul Walsh
CEO & Founder of Infinity
Paul founded Infinity in 2010, and has a 20 year history of successfully launching tech-based companies.
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About Infinity: Infinity is a call tracking and hosted PBX service provider.
Anthony Baker
Founder & CEO of Satellite Vu
Anthony Baker is the Founder & CEO at Satellite Vu.
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About Satellite Vu: Satellite Vu An Earth Observation and satellite imagery analytics company deriving insights into economic activity
James Cobb
Founder and CEO of Crowd Connected
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About Crowd Connected: Pioneering a new generation of big data location intelligence
