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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 Founder operating in the Marine Technology 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.
Craig Hollingworth
Co-Founder & Business Development Officer of Concirrus
Craig is Concirrus’ Business Development Officer and a pioneer in the Internet of Things (IoT). Craig has held senior positions with O2, France Telecom, and Masternaut. Craig is passionate about helping clients leverage the IoT to effectively manage risk, develop a competitive edge and drive profitable growth.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Andrew Yeoman
Co-Founder and CEO of Concirrus
Andy is the founding CEO of Concirrus and since then has led the company’s strategy to solve a problem in the insurance industry – how to harness the power of big data and artificial intelligence to improve loss ratios. Andy has driven the vision and product roadmap of the company built a solid customer base and reputation for the business. In 2019 Andy was voted the second most influential person Worldwide in Marine Insurance. Prior to Concirrus Andy had extensive experience in telematics, big data, and insurance in start-ups, turnarounds, and M&A. He’s passionate about discovering new business models that technology can unlock for the insurance market and their customers.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
Jasper Smith
Co-Founder & Chairman of Arksen
Jasper Smith is the Co-Founder & Chairman of Vala Capital & he attended Henry Moore Studio in 1987.
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About Arksen, PlayJam, PlayStack, Vala Capital: Arksen is a developer of autonomous systems used to offer innovative explorer vessels.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Ishaan Hemnani
Founder and Director of BunkerEx
Ishaan Hemnani is the founder and director of BunkerEx. He earned his degree at Imperial College London.
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About BunkerEx: A new world for Marine Fuel.
Willem Muller
CTO and Founder of BunkerEx
Willem Muller is the CTO and founder of BunkerEx. He is an experienced technologist with deep knowledge of the Microsoft stack in an enterprise environment. I’ve worked extensively in digital security, online betting and insurance using web and middle tier technologies. Also have experience in entrepreneurial settings, as CTO, founder and as technical hand heavily involved in online customer acquisition. Willem Muller earned his degree at Victoria Park.
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About BunkerEx: A new world for Marine Fuel.
Dennis Sandmark
CTO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Dennis has six years experience as a full-stack software engineer working for global companies such as Spotify, Sky and McKinsey.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Chris Jones
CEO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Chris co-founded CargoMate with Dennis to solve the inefficiencies experienced during his 12 years of working on container ships. He spent the last five years of his seagoing career operating icebreaking container ships in the North Atlantic for OOCL.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Lucy Hughes
Founder of MarinaTex
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About MarinaTex: MarinaTex manufactures and develops bioplastics and a biodegradable flexible film for home composting.
Leonardo Zangrando
Founder of Startup Wharf Ltd
Designed a hands-on training methodology for startups to learn-by-doing the startup development process, and developed blended learning material currently used by major Italian Bank Intesa Sanpaolo in their startup incubator Officine Formative. Redesigned and project managed the overall conversion of a logistics facility involving £20m investment, change of technology and processes, with operations running 24/7. Achieved 90% increase in capacity and 50% increase in turnaround time.
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