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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 Rental 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.
Rosie Dallas
Co-Founder & COO of Fat Llama
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About Fat Llama: Fat Llama is a peer-to-peer rental marketplace which allows people to rent spare items to others nearby, fully insured.
Michael Altom
COO of Virtuo
Michael Altom is the COO at Virtuo.
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About Virtuo: Virtuo provides car-on-demand services.
Nakul Sharma
Chief Operating Officer of Vista Rooms
Nakul Sharma is the Chief Operating Officer at Vista Rooms.
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About Vista Rooms: Vista Rooms is a South Asia’s largest luxury holiday home rental management company. We are on a mission to build the “Marriott for Homes”
Marcos Elvira
CFO and COO of Vesta Property
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About Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
Graham Foulds
Chief Operating Officer of Plum Guide
A former Planner at Sony Music’s creative agency, Iona worked for labels including Simon Cowell’s SYCO, Columbia and RCA Records, developing brand positioning and marketing strategies for priority international artists like Daft Punk, One Direction and Beyoncé. She’s also worked in consultancy, led business development at a luxury travel company and founded her own cold brew tea business. Unsurprisingly, she loves tea and all things Japanese.
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About Plum Guide: Plum Guide is the definitive list of the world’s best vacation rentals.
Steven Kemp
COO of Howsy
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About Howsy: Howsy is a real estate management platform that provides repairs management and renewal services for landlords and tenants.
Daniel Jeczmien
Founder & COO of flatfair
Daniel Jeczmien is the founder and COO of Flatfair.
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About flatfair: Secure your rental with flatfair’s flexible solutions
Matthew Daines
Co-Founder & COO of LettingaProperty.com
Matthew Daines is the Co-Founder & COO at LettingaProperty.com.
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About LettingaProperty.com: The UK tech-based lettings & property management platform that makes renting simple, secure & affordable.
Paul Loram
Co-Founder / COO of YourWelcome
With over 10 ten years experience working in media and mobile, Paul Loram raised VC funding to start a cross platform social gaming company that is run with his business partner Henry Bennett. Paul Loram also oversees a joint venture mobile apps agency that he founded with the global post production company Deluxe Digital Studios. Clients range from BBC WorldWide / 2Entertain, ITV, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, The History Channel, Random House Books and various advertising agencies. Winner of the “BT Entrepreneur of the Year Award” 2009.
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About Island Wall Entertainment, The Question Company, YourWelcome: YourWelcome is a SaaS platform enabling short term rental managers to add a service layer to their business.
Kevin Moorhouse
Chief Operating Officer of Gravity Media Group
Kevin Moorhouse has worked in the broadcast industry for twenty five years. From Senior Technician for South Africa Broadcasting Corporation to Technical Manager responsible for Technical Operations of Facilities and Manpower for Outside Broadcast, Studio, News and Flyaway facilities. 1997 saw Kevin leave his native South Africa with a move to the UK as Engineering Manager for Gearhouse Broadcast. Subsequently Kevin has taken responsibility for group wide technical operations and he is currently focused on ensuring first class delivery of all large scale projects alongside his role as Managing Director of the UK business which includes teams handling sales, rental, system integration and flyaway projects globally.
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About Gravity Media Group: Gravity Media Group is a global provider of live broadcast facilities and production services.
