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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 United Kingdom based COO’ operating in the Digital Marketing space. If you think a COO’ 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 Bond
Chief Operating Officer of Croud
– Customer focussed commercial leader with B2B and Consumer P&L experience in senior sales, marketing, strategy and customer operations roles. – Experience of large scale digital transformation and numerous “turnaround’ roles. – Involved in a number of ac
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Mark Bond
Chief Operating Officer of Croud
– Customer focussed commercial leader with B2B and Consumer P&L experience in senior sales, marketing, strategy and customer operations roles. – Experience of large scale digital transformation and numerous “turnaround’ roles. – Involved in a number of ac
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Michael Taylor
COO of Ladder
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About Ladder: Full-funnel growth marketing powered by a custom growth technology.
Nathalie du Preez
COO of Jellyfish
Born and raised in South Africa, Nathalie began her career in 2005 with Goldman Sachs in their investment banking division in New York. In the years since, she has worked in brand management at Colgate-Palmolive, led performance search marketing at Net-a-Porter, co-founded a start-up and, most recently, held the title of COO at on-demand beauty services company blow LTD. She holds a BSc in Economics magna cum laude from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
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About Jellyfish: Jellyfish is a ecommerce content production platform for online businesses.
Liz Wilson
Chief Operating Officer of Karmarama
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About Karmarama: Karmarama is a full service communications agency, combining creative excellence with technology-inspired solutions
Mike Nott
Chief Operating Officer of Ayima
With a background in IT and System Administration, Mike was an early convert to SEO, working for various Media agencies in London before heading the Search Function at PartyGaming PLC at the time of their IPO on the FTSE in 2005. The technical and strategic lessons learned from that venture fed directly to the foundation of Ayima in 2007 with his colleagues, Mike Jacobson and Tim Webb. Mike has spearheaded Ayima ever since then, never losing sight of the company’s goal to deliver top-level expertise via superior technology and exceptional talent. He is also a strong proponent of providing a flexible environment in which experts can thrive, a factor that has helped Ayima grow into a prosperous international operation and develop industry-leading solutions for the SEO community.
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About Ayima: Ayima is a specialist Search consultancy focused on ROI, data analysis and brand development.
Emma Nicol
Chief Operating Officer of Kin and Carta
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About Kin and Carta: Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation business that advises, creates, and connects marketing and customer experience.
Ian McWilliams
COO & Co-founder of Inzura
Ian McWilliams is a seasoned senior executive with over 30 years experience in the Telecoms and IT market covering both the Enterprise market and Mobile Network Operators. A business developer and leader for major business divisions in global vendors such as Motorola, Lucent Technologies & Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. Ian brings a wealth of maturity and experience in managing strategic relationships and running large internationally diverse teams across EMEA, AsiaPac and the Americas. Ian also has extensive experience in multiple start-up companies, covering Sales & Marketing, Business Development, Product Management, Application Development and Customer Support.
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About Inzura: Inzura’s customer engagement Apps and cloud-based services cover the major personal insurance lines.
Jon Bailey
Chief Operating Officer of Precision Proco Group
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About Precision Proco Group: Precision Proco Group is a group of industry-leading businesses united by a shared culture of innovation.
James Lewis
COO of DigitalBridge
James Lewis is the COO at DigitalBridge.
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About DigitalBridge: DigitalBridge is a Guided Design platform that enables retailers to help their customers design and buy their dream bathroom or kitchen.
