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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Principal operating in the Cloud Computing space. If you think a Principal 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.
Nowi Kallen
Principal of Salesforce Ventures
Nowi Kallen is a Principal at Salesforce Ventures.
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About Salesforce Ventures: Salesforce Ventures invests in the next gen of enterprise tech to help companies connect with their customers in entirely new ways.
Andy Sutton
Principal Network Architect of BT Global Services
Andy Sutton is a Principal Network Architect within BT Architecture and Technology. He is responsible for end to end 5G network architecture with a particular focus on RAN and backhaul/x-haul strategy and architecture. He has over 30 years of experience within the telecommunications industry, mainly in radio access, transmission and transport network strategy, architecture and design. Andy Sutton’s research interests include; distributed and centralised RAN architectures and protocols, RAN dimensioning, QoS and mobile backhaul (optical transmission, microwave and millimetre wave radio systems, network architecture and protocols along with synchronisation and time distribution in telecommunications networks). During his career Andy has worked for Mercury Communications Ltd, Orange, H3G, EE and now BT. Andy is a Visiting Professor at the University of Salford and a research mentor at the 5G Innovation Centre at the University of Surrey. He sits on the industry advisory boards of the EU FP8 H2020 iCirrus project and Tweether project. He contributes to International telecommunications standardisation activities and several industry forums. Andy is a Chartered Engineer, Fellow of the IET and Fellow of the ITP.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Paul Gunning
Principal Researcher of BT Global Services
Paul Gunning is a Principal Researcher in the Converged Networks practice at BT Research & Innovation investigating Optical, Ethernet, and Software Defined Networking. He received his BSc in Applied Physics from Dublin City University in 1992. Paul joined BT in 1994, was awarded an MSc in Laser Physics (1995) and a PhD in Photonic Switching (2001) from Essex University.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Andy Wilkinson
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Pivotal
Andy is a software developer on the Spring team at Pivotal where he’s currently working on Spring Boot, Spring REST Docs, and the Spring IO Platform. When he’s not working with server-side Java, Andy enjoys the different challenges presented by developing for iOS.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Wilcock
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Spring of Pivotal
Ben Wilcock is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal Labs and helps Pivotal’s Fortune 500 clients to go cloud-native using the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Ben has a passion for CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, cloud, and mobile applications. He’s also an established technology blogger whose articles have featured in DZone, Java Code Geeks, InfoQ, The Spring Blog and more.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Owens
Principal Cloud Consultant Lead of Cloudreach
Ben is a Principle Cloud Consultant Lead at Cloudreach. Ben has over 20 years experience spanning Financial Services and Technology. He is currently concentrating on helping senior leadership teams in large organisations, both Private and Govt Sector, achieve really business benefit from Public Cloud Adoption by focusing on People and Processes. Ben’s area of interest are Culture, Organisational Design, Organisational Change and People and spans across AWS, Azure and GCP.
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About Cloudreach: Cloudreach is a Global cloud enabler with extensive experience across all industries, workloads and use cases.
Stuart Paterson
Principal Software Development Engineer of Chef Software
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Corey Burke
Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect of Rackspace
Corey Burke is a Principal Architect with Rackspace Hosting, a Managed Cloud Hosting provider located in Hayes, London in the UK. He is a contributing author for the Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration book, and a Technical Editor for Beginning SharePoint 2013: Building Business Solutions. Corey has presented at various SharePoint Saturday events as well as User Group Meetings and Microsoft TechEd Europe. He is a huge fan of SharePoint and using PowerShell for automation.
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About Rackspace: Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Neil Cullum
Principal Solution Engineer of BMC Software
Neil Cullum is a senior solutions engineer on the Innovation IT team at BMC, where he specializes in Control-M and workload automation in areas such as Hadoop, DevOps, and the cloud. Neil has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry, helping customers through technical and business challenges.
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About BMC Software, BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Jon Hall
Principal Product Manager of BMC Software
Based in the UK, Jon has worked in Service Management for over 20 years, focusing primarily on the development and alignment of tools and practices. He joined BMC in 2008, where he is currently Principal Product Manager for BMC Helix ITSM. A moderniser, user experience devotee, and DevOps advocate, his work on the alignment of DevOps and Service Management has been cited by leading DevOps figures such as Gene Kim. Jon is a contributing author for the new ITIL 4 framework and a regular presenter at conferences spanning ITSM, DevOps and IT Asset Management.
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About BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
