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 Director operating in the Information Technology 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.
Mark Bayne
Sr. Director of WW Sales Engineering of Cato Networks
Mark Bayne is the Sr. Director of WW Sales Engineering and Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA at Cato Networks at Cato Networks.
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About Cato Networks, Cato Networks: Cato Networks is a provider of a SASE platform that converges SD-WAN and security into a cloud-native service.
Phil Arnold
Managing Director, Censhare UK of censhare GmbH
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About censhare GmbH: A proven omnichannel content platform letting you master your content in any language, locally or globally.
Tim Scoffham
Managing Director of New Media Services Pty Ltd
Tim has worked with emerging platforms within digital marketing (mainly in mobile) for over a decade and has been part of a number of start ups that went on to be acquired by larger corporate organisations. Prior to working on more specialised technologies Tim worked for some of the UK’s most recognised media companies in Channel 4, Virgin Media and the BBC. Now the Managing Director or NewMediaServices, a global communications company – Tim provides on and off line communication platforms for companies to maintain and manage customer relations as well as help to increase offline communication for online sales.
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About New Media Services Pty Ltd: New Media Services Pty Ltd Manage Communications and Content of Consumers.
Nick Jacobs
Technical Director of WinMan ERP Software
Nick Jacobs wants to live in a world where software has no bugs and computers do what they are told. Based in Brighton within his role as WinMan Technical Director his core focus is to oversee the development and product roadmap of WinMan ERP Software. From building revolutionising applications to stunning websites he has a wealth of experience in HTML, JavaScript, JQuery, CSS, T-SQL and Visual Studio. When he’s not improving WinMan, you can find him in the sky flying his Cessna light aircraft or catching up on the latest episodes of Peppa Pig with his two sons.
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About WinMan ERP Software: WinMan ERP Software is a highly scalable and leading class business solution for a broad range of manufacturing,
Mark Roberts
Owner & Technical Director of Prosperon Networks
Mark is the Technical Director at Prosperon Networks, a Platinum SolarWinds Partner in the UK, specialising in Network & Systems Management and Monitoring. He is responsible for a team of engineers who together provide consultancy, installation and training services to organisations of all sizes throughout the UK and Europe.
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About Prosperon Networks: Prosperon Networks is a reseller and provider of consultancy, installation and training services for Network Monitoring.
Dave Sandbach
Director Of Innovation of Thrive Wearables
Dave is a prolific inventor, with over 30 patent families to his name. As co-founder and CTO of Eleksen™ Group PLC, he took the company from concept, through start-up and venture capital investment to established production and AIM IPO; Eleksen™ grew to become the world leader in touch-sensitive smart fabrics. Dave is responsible for the identification and diligence on new products and smart materials. David can assist our licensee partners bring their inventions to market at industrial strength quality.
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About Thrive Wearables: Thrive Wearables is a European Wearables Agency who invent, innovate and deliver from idea to global mass production.
Philip Hartley
Director Client Services of Gresham Technologies
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About Gresham Technologies: Gresham is a leading software and services company that specialises in providing real-time data integrity and control solutions.
Esther Cochrane
Director of Eunoia Agency Ltd
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About Eunoia Agency Ltd: Mobile Technology Specialists
Nick Cochrane
Director of Eunoia Agency Ltd
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About Eunoia Agency Ltd: Mobile Technology Specialists
Judith Humby
Director of Financial Machineries
Judith started as a client trainer across all desktop and trading solutions for Reuters in 1996. She followed with roles in many tier 1 banks in London and New York, covering market data analysis and management. As well as a consultant to a Spanish market data firm, she spent over 6 years as a senior analyst/manager at 3d innovations (3di) in the Research and Analysis (R&A;) team, researching and producing bespoke reports on market data vendors and products. Her experience spans data and technology products for both buy- and sell-side clients across all markets, from equities to energy. She enjoys problem solving, researching, writing and maintaining close relationships with vendors and clients.
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About Financial Machineries: Financial Machineries are specialist market data information, technology and services company.
Liam Thorpe-Young
Technical Director of Lunar Works
Technical Director at Lunar Works. Bespoke web, app, and Progressive Web App (PWA) developer. Building Tech For Good.
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About Lunar Works: A specialist digital design & development agency based in Kent, UK. High performance websites, apps and PWAs for businesses & startups.
Rob Elder
Director of Keysource
Rob Elder is a Director at Keysource.
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About : With over 30 years’ experience, we deliver services and solutions specifically for data centres and other business critical environments
Kingsley Davies
Director of D-limitd
Kingsley is a Director at D-limitd, and has spent over a decade designing, developing and supporting large scale systems for a number of clients including, Betfair, the BBC, Barclaycard and others that don’t start with a B 😉 While working to make things better, he’s seen a steady evolution towards functional programming, a sharper focus on development operation teams and tools and decomposing big things into smaller composable things commonly called services.
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About D-limitd: D-limitd are a network of tech professionals orchestrated by a small core, committed to adding business value and shaping the future.
