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 Surrey based Founder operating in the Enterprise space. If you think a Founder 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.
William Saville
Co-Founder and CEO of Unily
William Saville is the Chief Executive Officer and Founder at Unily. He was the Co-Founder of BrightStarr before that.
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About Unily: Unily is the full digital workplace solution uniting the very best of Microsoft Enterprise Technology.
Richard Paterson
Co-Founder of Unily
Richard Paterson is a Co-Founder and Non-Executive Director at Unily. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Physics at the University of the West of Scotland.
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About BrightStarr, Unily: Unily is the full digital workplace solution uniting the very best of Microsoft Enterprise Technology.
Ben Stoneham
Founder and CTO of Autologyx
Ben Stoneham is the Founder and CTO of Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rod Crawford
Co-Founder & Technical Director of Zennor Petroleum
Rod’s wide experience includes the use of seismic inversion, attributes and reservoir characterisation over the whole range of geological environments: rifts, fold belts and forelands; both clastic and carbonate reservoirs; post/sub salt and sub basalt targets. Additionally, Rod has been an active member of several multi-disciplinary teams looking at projects as diverse as frontier exploration, prospect definition, field development studies and equity determinations. Rod graduated from the University of Wales with a BSc in Geophysics.
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About Zennor Petroleum: Zennor Petroleum is an oil and has E&P company focused on the UK North Sea.
Riccardo Valente
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Restorepoint
Chief Technology Officer at Restorepoint
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About Restorepoint: Restorepoint is a pioneer in network configuration and change management.
Hans Wiberg
Founder & boardmember of Be My Eyes
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About Be My Eyes: Be My Eyes is a free app that connects blind and low-vision people with sighted volunteers and companies.
Peter Richards
Co-Founder & CTO of Gleanin
Peter Richards is a Co-Founder & CTO at Glean.in.
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
