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 United Kingdom based Advisor operating in the Crowdfunding space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Rajiv Shah
Advisor of Hubbub
Graduated from Cambridge University in 2005; then trained and practised law at two global law firms in London and Abu Dhabi. He is experienced in advising FTSE 100 clients and financial institutions in the corporate, financial and UK tax law, and is a qualified Solicitor of the Senior Courts of England & Wales.
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About : Build fundraising communities for organisations using crowdfunding
James Barrett
Advisor of Hubbub
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Maggie Lee
Advisor of Hubbub
Maggie Lee Senior Advisor to venture capitalist Beringea, with significant experience in helping entrepreneurs and investors grow and fund businesses. Extensive media skills having previously worked in television and business journalism. A Governor of the University of Westminster, Maggie was a founding non-executive director of the FOS and non-executive director of NHS Professionals.
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About : Build fundraising communities for organisations using crowdfunding
Andy Powell
Advisor of Hubbub
Andy Powell Following a degree from Cambridge, a doctorate in organisational behaviour and an initial career in industry, primarily IBM, Andy has spent over 25 years as CEO of various not-for-profit organisations. He has extensive experience and contacts within education and skills, and now acts as a strategic advisor to various education companies.
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Alexander Fink
Advisor of British Pearl
Alex Fink worked in the City 10 years in sales and broking, including at MF Global and Lehman Brothers. He moved to Marex Spectron where he headed the interest rate futures and options desk. There he managed relationships with high net worth individuals, banks, hedge funds, asset managers and multinational institutional investors from across the globe, providing market insight and trade and investment strategy to help manage risk or hedge against global interest rate changes.
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About Argonaute RNA, Bud, Curve, Seneca Learning: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Mike Ullmann
Advisor of Prodigy Finance
Michael Ullmann has been involved in more than 40 different entrepreneurial businesses in various capacities; always as a shareholder. His main focus has been on turnarounds in the bakery business and engineering. He has served as chairman of the board for more than a dozen companies. He is currently chairman of Prodigy, an educational debt provider and an investor in H2O, a business in water management and Black Mountain Insulation, a company providing environmentally friendly house insulation; the first two have INSEAD CEO’s and the third has been primary financed via an INSEAD network. Michael was an affiliate professor in entrepreneurship at INSEAD from 1987-2005 where he helped the Entrepreneurship Department develop into one of the most vital and popular departments in the school. Michael has backed many of his former students in their own business ventures and continues to be a mentor to several companies. He has written many cases and articles on Entrepreneurship. He has an MA from St Catherine’s College, Oxford and an MBA from INSEAD. He has been a fellow of St Catherine’s since 2004. Apart from his main hobby and passion, business, Michael enjoys games of skill and chance, along with outdoor pursuits such as shooting, sailing, skiing and golf.
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About : Prodigy Finance provides postgraduate student loans to international students to attend a top school.
Dimitris Tsitsiragos
Senior Advisor Emerging Markets of PIMCO
Dimitris Tsitsiragos leads IFC’s investments and advisory services across 52 countries with over 800 staff, and oversees an integrated strategy that aims to create jobs, plug infrastructure gaps, increase access to finance, and tackle climate change. Before taking on his role as Vice President, Dimitris Tsitsiragos was the Director of the Middle East, North Africa and Southern Europe department in IFC, where he developed a strategy to support the region’s private sector in the wake of the Arab Spring. During his tenure, he oversaw several important initiatives, including the education for employment (e4e) in the Arab World program, which brings together public and private providers of education and private companies to improve the quality of education in the region. Dimitris Tsitsiragos also helped launch the Arab Financing Facility for Infrastructure, which supports much-needed infrastructure projects and kick-started a facility expected to channel over $500 million to smaller businesses in the Middle East and North Africa region. Dimitris Tsitsiragos has extensive experience in several sectors including manufacturing and oil & gas. Prior to joining the Middle East and North Africa region, he directed the Global Manufacturing and Services (GMS) department of IFC which was responsible for IFC’s activities in the areas of tourism, retail and property development; construction materials; the forest products chain; life sciences; and energy-efficient machinery. During his time with GMS, Dimitris Tsitsiragos refined the strategic focus of the department, emphasizing IFC’s global expertise in select sectors, thus helping IFC clients to increase their international competitiveness. In addition to his experience in the Middle East and North Africa, Dimitris Tsitsiragos has worked in South Asia, and Central and Eastern Europe, where he held several leadership positions. He spent two years based in New Delhi as IFC’s Director of the South Asia department, where he doubled commitments for the region in all sectors; doubled IFC’s portfolio in India; and significantly improved regional profitability as a result of decreased non-performing assets and the successful execution of an equity divestiture strategy. Before his South Asia assignment, Dimitris Tsitsiragos served as Manager of New Investments for IFC’s Eastern/Central Europe region and Manager of IFC’s Oil & Gas division.
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About PIMCO: PIMCO, a global investment solutions provider that manages investments for public and private pension and retirement plans and other assets.
Nigel Payne
Non-Executive Director Advisor Channel of rebuildingsociety.com
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About rebuildingsociety.com: peer to business loans platform connecting lenders directly with businesses needing debt funding.
William Knight
Advisory Board of Movement Capital
William is an alternative Asset Investment Specialist who has spent almost his entire career involved with financial development of companies and projects in developing economies. He originally specialised in project finance at Lazard Brothers, following which he spent 18 years in various senior positions in the Lloyds Bank group based in London, Hong Kong and Portugal. Since 1991 he has served in a wide range of non-executive positions as an independent director or adviser based in London. William Knight is Chairman of the JP Morgan Chinese Investment Trust, Myanmar Investments International Ltd and three Chinese joint venture companies : MCS (HK) Ltd, Henry Cotton’s (Greater China) Ltd and Marina Yachting (Hong Kong) Ltd. He also serves on the boards of the GNet Group Plc, Guardian Ceylon Investment Trust Plc and Smith Tan Asia Phoenix Fund Ltd. His previous company board experience has encompassed early stage biotechnology investing in advanced economies and investment funds for India, Korea, Mauritius, Portugal, Russia, Thailand and Vietnam. William’s advisory assignments have included: the Asian Development Bank, Campbell- Lutyens, the government of Mauritius, the British Government Know-How fund, Aureos Capital, CDC and Clearwater Capital; (investors in and restructuring specialists of Asian debt). He is a regular member of City of London missions around the globe and is a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of World Traders, where he is involved in Commonwealth initiatives.
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About : Movement Capital is a crowdfunding platform that facilitates investments opportunities for its users.
Paulo Gomes
Advisory Board of Movement Capital
In his capacity as an Executive Director of the World Bank, Paulo, represented 24 Sub-Saharan African countries, including all UEMOA countries, on the Board of Directors of the said Bank (IBRD, IDA, IFC, MIGA and ICSID). During his term in office, major milestones were reached in advancing the African agenda, in particular: focusing World Bank policies on African regional integration; increasing World Bank resources to support infrastructure development; emphasizing Africa’s agricultural sector; providing more financing for training and capacity building programs; and increasing the African voice at the World Bank Board of Directors. Paulo is key advisor for the advancement of reconstruction and reconciliation efforts in Guinea-Bissau. He is Chairman of the Constelor Group and AFIG (West African Investment Fund). Paulo is a member of the Board of Directors of the BOAD (West African Development Bank;) member of the Board of Ecobank Transnational Incorporated (“ETI”), a leader in the banking sector in Africa. He also sits on the Board of Directors of the African Capacity Building Foundation (ACBF) a World Bank agency. Paulo obtained a Master’s degree with Honors in Economic Policy and Management from the Kennedy School of Government (USA). While a student, Paulo also served with the Monitor Group, a consulting firm; and with Citizens Energy, an energy corporation owned by the Kennedy family, as an assistant to Michael Kennedy. Paulo obtained a Certificat d’Etudes Politiques from the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (Sciences Po Paris) and obtained a B.A. in Economics and International Trade from the Institut d’Etudes des Relations Internationales (ILERI).
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About : Movement Capital is a crowdfunding platform that facilitates investments opportunities for its users.
