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 Principal operating in the SaaS 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.
Richard Whitehead
Principal Product Marketing Manager of Adobe
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About Adobe: Adobe is a software company that provides its users with digital marketing and media solutions.
Patrick Galbraith
Principal Platform Engineer of Oracle
Patrick Galbraith is a principal engineer at HPE as a member of the Advanced Technology Group. He is the author or two books: Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl (Wiley), and Expert PHP and MySQL (Wiley). In his “spare time”, he also works on various projects related to Kubernetes, MySQL perl driver DBD::mysql, Ansible Modules for HP Switches, and generally tinkers with new technologies. Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife and children, as well as his Kubota tractor.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Mike Hobbs
Principal Engineer of Oracle
Mike Hobbs works as a Principal Engineer at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Vikram Kimyani
Principal Cloud Sales Consultant of Oracle
Vik has many years’ experience of running a private cloud operations and on-boarding team for Credit Suisse. He now works as a solutions architect for Oracle, advising customers on cloud migrations, API and Blockchain strategy.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Stephen Bourke
Master Principal IaaS Consultant of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ben Haworth
Principal Sales Consultant (IaaS) of Oracle
Ben Haworth is a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle UK&I in their Infrastructure as a Service Specialist team, responsible for educating and assisting customers (start-ups through to enterprise) to design and deliver solutions on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in conjunction with Oracle Platform and Software as a Service offerings. Ben has worked with Public, Hybrid and Private Cloud technology since 2010, first at a global System Integrator as a Cloud Platform Architect, then at a Converged Infrastructure vendor before joining Oracle to work with their next generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in 2016. Ben has 15 years’ experience in IT, starting as a network architect before progressing in to the broader Infrastructure services of Cloud but he remains interested in networking with the developments in software-defined and function virtualisation amongst others. He graduated from University of St. Andrews with First Class Honours in Computer Science. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young sons and playing golf.
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About Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Fiona Maini
Principal – Global Compliance and Strategy of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
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.
Swen-Helge Huber
Director, Principal Architect IoT of Solace
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About Solace: Solace’s event broker technology helps enterprises become real-time by making business operations and customer interactions event-driven.
Olly Stephens
Principal Architect of Adarga
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About Adarga: Adarga builds powerful analytical software that allows you to analyse vast volumes of data quickly and accurately.
