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 Sussex based Founder operating in the Consulting 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.
Monty Munford
Founder of Mob76
I am the Chief Evangelist & Co-Founder at Sienna Network, which focuses on the DeFi and privacy community. I am a keynote speaker on technology after speaking at more than 200 global events… moderating panels and conducting fireside chats with names such as Kim Kardashian, Sir Tim Berners-Lee, Steve Wozniak (twice), the late John McAfee, Ghostface Killah, Brian Solis and more at the world’s best tech events. I am also the Co-Founder of BlockSpeak, an Apple- and Spotify-verified podcast and. I also run my own boutique communications agency Mob76 that helps companies grow their visibility and become famous. I was previously a weekly tech columnist for Forbes in New York, the Telegraph in the UK and have contributed to the FT, MIT Tech Review, Mashable, Wired, Newsweek, TechCrunch, The Guardian, The Independent, Times of India and many more. I continue to write regularly for the BBC and The Economist and a weekly column on finance for City AM. Previously I lived in India from 2008-2010 when I consulted for Paramount Digital Entertainment in LA and Nokia in the UK. I was also an actor and Bollywood villain in two big movies… I returned in 2010. Before that I spent 20 years travelling and doing stupid things for the thrill of it, but also seeing and experiencing the Wonders of The World and how it should be seen. I also run a Google News-verified blog Mob76 Outlook, that can be viewed at www.mob76outlook.com.
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About 7BC Venture Capital, Mob76, Senius, Sienna Networks: Mob76 Outlook is a collection of daily exclusive news, satire and information on the tech and creative industries.
Carl Bennett
Founder & CEO of Trade Skills 4U
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About Trade Skills 4U: Trade Skills 4U offer electrical courses including Part P and City & Guilds 17th Edition.
Stuart Hehir
Co-Founder of Stirred
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About Stirred: Stirred offers communications, marketing, and creative consultancy to businesses and organizations.
Clare Griffiths
Founder and Chief Enabler of The Thrive Effect
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About The Thrive Effect, University of Brighton: The Thrive Effect provides business coaching and professional training to aspiring female entrepreneurs.
Arni Lochner
Creative Marketing Consultant and Founder of Infinite
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About Infinite: Infinite is a marketing agency that specializes on small and medium-sized enterprises.
Penina Shepherd
Founder of Acumen Business Law
Penina is an award winning entrepreneur, the author of the inspirational book The Freedom Revolution and founder of the innovative Law Firm ACUMEN BUSINESS LAW listed by the Financial Times’ Top 50 Groundbreaking & Innovative Law Firms in the UK and Europe. She set up the firm on her own, from a complete standstill, at the start of the worst economic climate in decades, with a shoestring budget, in an industry that doesn’t welcome change, immediately after giving birth to her third child and when she was diagnosed with a terminal illness. What she did have, however, was an abundance of passion for making a difference in her industry. Her revolutionary vision, innovation and business model have been remarkably successful. The firm now boasts a great team of commercial lawyers, offices in Brighton & Gatwick and an impressive long line of business clients
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About Acumen Business Law: A business specialist law firm and in a bold move in the legal industry,
Jon Mead
CEO/ Co-Founder of Rittman Mead
CEO/ Co-Founder at Rittman Mead
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About Rittman Mead: Rittman Mead is a data and analytics consulting firm.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
James Dean Miet
Director & Founder of Circuitree Energy Independence
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About Circuitree Energy Independence: Circuitree systems capture and store energy from new or existing P.V installations.
James Dean Miet
Director & Founder of Circuitree Energy Independence
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About Circuitree Energy Independence: Circuitree systems capture and store energy from new or existing P.V installations.
Dom Robinson
Co-Founder & Director and Creative Firestarter of id3as
Dom Robinson has spent over 20 years focussed specifically on the complex challenges facing the exploding ‘Streaming Media’ market. A pioneer in the sector, he was responsible for the propositioning, architecture, technical design and implementation of many, now well established, online media publishing workflows. He has always had a strong focus on live / linear content delivery, which requires not only a deep understanding of the computational issues involved, but also of intricacies of network provisioning. He founded the first large-scale Content Delivery Network in Europe. This CDN was pioneering in its focus on driving IP Multicast adoption in the consumer markets, and between 2001 and 2009 it grew to carry over 150m streams each month for clients as diverse as Sky Sports, RT News and over 60% of the UK’s Internet Radio. Between 1999 and 2009 he was closely involved with projects including live streaming of the UK Parliament, Number 10 Downing Street, Glastonbury Festivals (for the BBC) and FatBoySlim; in many cases breaking new ground while doing so, both technically and in terms of providing entirely new consumer propositions. He produced the world’s first 3D webcast (for Universal, broadcasting a Keane concert) and coauthored several Patents that now underpin many common media workflows. He also began using Satellite IP for Contribution and Distribution models in 1998, building a satellite-based CDN for Enfocast / Microsoft in 2001/2002 and consulting with Eutelsat and Astra on several of their deployments. Widely recognised as a sector visionary, he holds several International Awards for his work, and regularly Chairs or speaks at conferences ranging from Cloud TV, SDN/NFV, CDN, Distributed Compute, OTTTV and IPTV. He has been a Contributing Editor of StreamingMedia.com (and its print magazine) for 15 years, and has been published by Wiley Academic Press including 2017 Content Delivery Networks: Fundamentals, Design and Evolution
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About id3as: id3as provides best in class professional services and consultancy to the streamingmedia sector.
