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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 Manager operating in the Enterprise space. If you think a Manager 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.
Derrick McCourt
General Manager, Customer Success Unit of Microsoft
Derrick McCourt is leading a team responsible for supporting customers to deliver cutting-edge services and drive real business impact through Microsoft cloud technologies. Since joining Microsoft in 2001, Derrick has held multiple leadership roles, including General Manager for Microsoft’s Public Sector Business, and is a member of the Microsoft UK Senior Leadership Team. In July 2017 Derrick took on the role as executive sponsor for Microsoft UK’s Diversity and Inclusion plan to ensure that all current and future employees feel encouraged to contribute their unique insight and skills that help solve some of the most complex technology challenges for our customers. Derrick is a strong supporter of accessibility in tech, digital skills, girls in STEM and Women in Technology initiatives. He has played a leading role in Microsoft’s strategic partnership with the Institute of Technology at Bletchley Park as well as UA92; empowering people of all ages, skills and abilities in a technology driven world.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Diego González-Zúñiga
Program Manager of Microsoft
Zúñiga is a computer engineer from Costa Rica. He holds a doctorate in Informatics and a master degree in Multimedia from the Autonomous University of Barcelona, as well as a master degree in Information Systems from the Costa Rican Institute of Technology. These studies served as a starting point for his 3D journey, studying stereoscopic Graphical User Interfaces, and more recently VR, where he focused on WebVR and is interested in defining the “semantics of depth”. He currently works for Samsung Research UK, as a Senior Engineer/Web Advocate for the Samsung Internet browser. You can find more information about his projects at diekus.net.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marianne Roling
General Manager Global System Integrators for TCS, Infosys, Cognizant, Wipro and HCL of Microsoft
Marianne joined Microsoft in 2005 to lead the EMEA business for the Mobile Communications Business, managing the growth of Windows Mobile, working closely with mobile device makers, mobile operators, resellers and software developers. In 2007, she then took on global responsibility for the strategy development of the global expansion program of Microsoft’s Mobile Business and subsequently was asked to lead the Global Sales of Windows Phone. In 2011, Marianne moved to the Central and Eastern Europe team to become the Managing Director for the Operator Channels working on joint partnerships of Microsoft Devices and Services. In the summer of 2014, she became Partner and GM in CEE for the division that leads the Partner network, Corporate Account Sales, and SMB sales, covering a large majority of Microsoft’s sales and marketing for the 33 countries in Central and Eastern Europe. Marianne brings with her a wealth of relevant industry experience, in both the fixed line and mobile space across Europe, USA and Latin America.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Hugh Milward
General Manager, Corporate, External and Legal Affairs of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Manuela Pichler
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Edward Ryan
Senior Customer Success Account Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stuart McCarthy
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
Customer Program Manager in Microsoft Teams Engineering, working with strategic customers to help them deliver value on Microsoft Teams and gain insights into how we can further improve the product.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rakhi Sachdeva
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Rakhi Sachdeva is a Customer Success Manager for Modern Workplace Solutions working with Public Sector customers in the UK. Rakhi has worked in global customer success & partner management roles across Dynamics 365 & Modern Workplace solutions both in India and UK. She comes to Microsoft with over 11 years of work experience in Business Development, Customer Service and Project Management positions. Rakhi is an active member of Women at Microsoft Community and is a vivid supporter of events like Microsoft YouthSpark Program for middle and high school girls, TechHer (A learning Event for women) to help bring more women in the technology world. Rakhi is super enthusiastic about working with customers around their Diversity & Inclusion efforts. She also loves working with UK charities to promote Microsoft’s Tech for Good initiative which provides non-profit organisations an opportunity to understand how technology can solve their business problems.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Liz Leigh-Bowler
Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Liz Leigh-Bowler recently joined Microsoft as the Product Marketing Manager for finance, supply chain management and fraud protection. Within this role, Liz is responsible for the commercial success of Microsoft’s core ERP products in the UK across all customer segments. Before coming to Microsoft, she started her career as an assistant language teacher in Japan before making a complete change and jumping to finance at Barclaycard. Since then, she has specialised in proposition and product marketing where she can ensure customer needs are put at the heart of business decisions and Go-To-Market strategies. Following her time at Barclaycard, Liz implemented the global payments and banking strategy across Sage Accounting solutions and took up the position as Director for Product and Marketing at Sage Pay with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce and fraud.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
George Adams
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
George Adams is a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft and is the recently appointed chair of the Working Group Steering Committee at Adoptium. He has been leading the community outreach efforts at AdoptOpenJDK for the last year and is heavily involved in the Java ecosystem. George also contributes to both the OpenJS Foundation and the Node.js Foundation where he is a core collaborator and plays an active role in several of the work groups.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Joel Bloomfield
Business Manager of Microsoft
Joel has been at Microsoft for 3 years and is the Industry lead for Higher Education in the UK. In his role Joel is responsible for working with Microsoft’s Global Education team to bring best practise and learnings to Universities in the UK, he is also responsible for setting the strategy in the UK and working with customers to deliver their vision around Digital Transformation. Joel also manages 25 customers relationships across the South of the UK and has a particular interest in driving Microsoft’s position in the Academic Research space as well as leading on how Artificial Intelligence can enhance the learning experience.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rebecca Jones
Program Manager – Mixed Reality Studios of Microsoft
Becky is a developer and specialist in emerging technologies. Her company builds mixed reality prototypes and solutions for clients using Microsoft HoloLens, with a keen focus on elucidating best practices for user experience in this new paradigm. Becky also organises the meetup group Mixed Reality London.
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About Bektio, Microsoft, Portal Entertainment: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Gary Pretty
Senior Program Manager, Conversational AI of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ken Liu
Talent Acquisition Manager of Microsoft
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Chris Webb
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
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Elena Cordova Russ
Customer Success Manager of Microsoft
Elena Cordova Russ has been a Customer Success Manager in the technology industry for the past 7 years. She is currently working on the Financial Sector at Microsoft helping customers maximise the value of their O365 investment. Her focus is to identify and align her customer’s business objectives to the Modern workplace solutions and increase their productivity and collaboration. Elena has also been an accessibility champion at Microsoft where she discovered how much technology can help everyone.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Edward Thomson
Principal Program Manager of Microsoft
Edward Thomson is a Program Manager for Git in Microsoft Visual Studio Team Services. Previously, he was a software engineer, building version control tools at Microsoft, GitHub and SourceGear. He is the co-maintainer of the libgit2 project, an author of books and video training about using Git, and the co-host of All Things Git, the podcast about Git.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
James Marshall
Senior Customer Program Manager | Azure of Microsoft
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Paul Collinge
Senior Program Manager of Microsoft
Paul Collinge is Senior Program Manager in the Microsoft Office 365 product team, primarily looking after network connectivity and performance to the service. Working directly with customers to plan and optimise their enterprise connectivity to the cloud whilst also driving engineering changes to help improve the service in this area has enabled him to gain a wide experience of the challenges and solutions to enterprise Office 365 connectivity. Paul has worked at Microsoft since 2004, previous roles include, Senior Support Escalation Engineer within the Windows Core and Networking teams and also as a Principle Premier Field Engineer concentrating on network problem isolation, specifically within the Cloud/Office 365 space.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Theo van Kraay
Sr. Program Manager of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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Stuart Kent
Group Program Manager of Microsoft
Stuart is a Group Program Manager at Microsoft working on services and tools to help developers be more productive. Current areas of focus include approaches to identify and remove technical debt from code, and a new feature in Visual Studio Online to search code and components across an enterprise. He has also worked on, and remains responsible for, Code Map and CodeLens features in Visual Studio. He lives in the UK, working with teams in Cambridge, Redmond and Hyderabad. Before joining Microsoft in 2003, Stuart was an academic and consultant. He worked with IBM and others on the UML and MOF standards, and was active in software modeling and visualization research.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Graham Fox
Schools Business Manager of Microsoft
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About European Electronique, Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Marcus Robinson
Principal Technical Program Manager of Microsoft
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Graham Fox
Schools Business Manager of Microsoft
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Andy Gordon
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft
Andy Gordon is a Principal Research Manager at Microsoft Research Cambridge. Gordon’s main project is Calc Intelligence, which brings intelligence to end-user programming, especially spreadsheets. Gordon also holds the Chair in Computer Security and is a member of the Laboratory for Foundations of Computer Science and the Security and Privacy group in the School of Informatics in the University of Edinburgh. Gordon convenes the University of Edinburgh Microsoft Research Joint Initiative in Informatics, and participates in both the Data Science PhD program and the Cyber Security & Privacy Research Network. Before joining Microsoft in 1997, Gordon was a Royal Society University Research Fellow at the University of Cambridge Computer Laboratory. Gordon has been a Visiting Professor in the School of Computing Science at the University of Newcastle upon Tyne. Gordon’s research is on programming languages and their semantics and logics, with application to security and privacy, machine learning, concurrency, and databases. Gordon has published and lectured on: input/output in pure functional programming, hardware description languages, mobile computation, security protocols, web services security, distributed authorization, configuration management, and database programming languages. He has also worked on probabilistic programming for machine learning.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Victoria Domalik
Principle Product Manager 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.
Duncan Gillingwater
Strategic Solutions Manager UK&I (SC Cleared) of Dynatrace
Email: duncan.gillingwater@worksiq.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/duncangillingwater/
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About Dynatrace: Software intelligence to help DevSecOps teams across every industry tame cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation
Jerome Bugnet
Senior Manager of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Mark Rushton
SOLIDWORKS Product Portfolio Manager, Design & Engineering Products, 3DEXPERIENCE Works of Dassault Systemes
Mark Rushton is a Product Portfolio Manager for SOLIDWORKS, in the Desktop products team, focused on Additive Manufacturing. Mark has been involved with 3D CAD and 3D Printing for over 15 years in several capacities from research to consulting for the likes of Rolls Royce, GE, JCB and Dyson.
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About Dassault Systemes: Dassault Systemes provides project lifecycle management solutions that enable businesses to create and share experiences in 3D.
Andy Steven
HCX Product Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Douglas Davis
Senior Technical Account Manager of VMware
After working in the IT industry for 12 years, working with VMware products whilst designing and building shared private cloud platforms, Doug Davis joined VMware as a Technical Account Manager in the UK in 2012. Over the past 7 years, he has worked with a number of large Enterprise customers across multiple industries including public transport, government, financial services and media and is passionate about customer success in the world of digital transformation.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nigel Venables
Technical Account Manager of VMware
Nigel Venables works in our PSO EMEA Team as a Senior Consultant covering a wide range of technologies including vRealize Operations Manager, vSphere and Site Recovery Manager .
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About VMware, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
James Hallam
Senior Project Manager of VMware
James Hallam serves as senior project manager at VMware.
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James McClung
Account Manager – Higher Education of DataDirect Networks
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About DataDirect Networks: DDN is the leading provider of data management and storage solutions for AI and analytics.
Andrew Dickerson
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Responsible for a team of Product Marketeers for Backup, Recovery and Archive Products and Solutions within the Storage Organization.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Jordan Fish
Project Manager of Enki
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About Enki: Enki is maximizing employee potential through modern, tech-enabled skills training.
Martin Lee
Manager, Talos Outreach EMEA of Cisco
Martin is technical lead of security research, and manager of the Outreach EMEA group within Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence and research organization. As a researcher he seeks to improve the resilience of the Internet and awareness of current threats through researching system vulnerabilities and changes in the threat landscape. Martin started his career researching the genetics of human viruses, but soon switched paths to follow a career in IT. With 15 years of experience within the security industry, he is CISSP certified, a Chartered Engineer, and holds degrees from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Paris and Oxford.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Steve McKee
Account Manager of Cisco
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Rishi Tank
Regional Sales Manager of Cisco
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Matt Cooling
UKI Business Development Manager of Cisco
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Jonathan Stevenson
Manager, EMEAR Customer Success, Cisco Security of Cisco
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Tom Davies
Senior Manager of Cisco
Tom Davies has over 17 years experience as a Senior Manager & Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, Developer & Technology Evangelist, working across the Enterprise and Service Provider sectors. He has been part of start-ups, scale-outs, and worked for a number of world leading technology companies. At Cisco, he is part of DevNet, leading DevNet Sandbox and it’s mission to provide free, fast, frictionless access to Cisco, third party, and open source technologies for everyone.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Neil MacDougall
Technical Software Development Manager of SUSE
Neil MacDougall. Senior Software Engineering Manager, SUSE.
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About SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
Zoe Vance
Senior Product Manager, RabbitMQ for Cloud Foundry of Pivotal
Zoe Vance is a Product Manager of RabbitMQ and Redis for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously she was Director of Product of a Y Combinator startup creating a tool for developers to create APIs from any website, and prior to that she worked for McKinsey & Co. Zoe holds a MSc from Imperial College in CS and a BS from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time, Zoe likes to read fiction and nerd out on economics podcasts.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Chisara Nwabara
R&D Technical Program Manager of Pivotal
Chisa is a Service & Product Specialist experienced in helping enterprises across diverse industries and stages of development improve their operational performance and capabilities through the application of evidence-based programme management methodologies. As Pivotal’s Research & Development Technical Program Manager in London, she works across various product teams to make feedback loops and communication more effective through the use of experimentation, process engineering and service design. As Pivotal’s EMEA Diversity and Inclusion Co-Lead, Chisa supports the EMEA region in continuously improving Pivotal’s organisational culture to be more psychologically safe and equally opportunistic for Pivots. This work also entails building bridges between Pivotal and local communities, as well as being a representative face in public spaces where Chisa works to be visible to peers and those looking for role models that she found where lacking in the earlier stages of her tech career.
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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.
Nicole Pretorius
Senior Product Manager of Emitwise
Nicole was born and raised in South Africa, educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently immersed in the tech industry having cofounded SheCanCode – a career consulting and coaching platform that aspires to bridge the digital skills gap by empowering diverse technologists to enter and remain in the tech industry.
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About Emitwise: Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Dan Chester
Unstructured Data Solutions Manager – UK Enterprise & Public Sector of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Dale Archer
Senior Business Development Manager of EPAM Systems
With an addiction to all things tech and social media, not to mention a background in Biz Dev within Social Media Tech at the likes of SocialBro and SocialBakers, the opportunity to take the lead on a Social iPhone app was too hard to turn down! Loves Pugs, Gadgets, Football and snapchat and hates bad shoes, bad manners and wires!
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About EPAM Systems: EPAM leverages its core engineering expertise as a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company.
Sonny Bardhan
Senior Manager, Intellectual Capital of Omidyar Network
As a senior manager on the intellectual capital team, Sonny advances Omidyar Network’s strategy, research, impact and learning agendas across regions and initiatives. Prior to joining Omidyar Network in 2014, Sonny served as an investment manager at the Children’s Investment Fund Foundation, where he developed strategy, built the investment pipeline, and originated and developed high impact opportunities to improve children’s welfare in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia. Sonny previously served as an engagement manager at McKinsey & Company, where he worked in both the financial institutions group and the social sector office. He began his career at Capital One, and has also worked with Innovations for Poverty Action and UnLtd. Sonny received an MPA in international development from the Harvard Kennedy School, where he was a Reynolds Fellow in social entrepreneurship. He holds an MBA with distinction from the University of Oxford and a first class MA in natural sciences from the University of Cambridge.
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About Omidyar Network: Omidyar Network is an investment firm.
Richard Davis
Group Product Marketing Manager of Proofpoint
Richard is a seasoned Cybersecurity professional with over 20 years’ experience and passionate about helping organisations protect their people. Richard has been at Proofpoint for the last 10 years and has held various roles including Principal Architect, EMEA Product Manager and is currently part of the Global Cybersecurity Strategy team. As part of this team Richard regularly meets Proofpoint Customers to advise on their cyber security strategy. Richard holds an Engineering degree from the University of Exeter and started his career working as a software engineer for a small security vendor, followed by a number of years working in the IT Security Channel.
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About Proofpoint: Proofpoint provides cloud-based email security, e-discovery, and compliance solutions for companies to protect sensitive business data.
Enzo Raso
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Enzo Raso is a senior product manager for Citrix XenServer in the Citrix Core Infrastructure Group. He has overseen delivery of every Citrix XenServer release since 6.2, and is responsible for customer outreach, product strategy and roadmap formulation. Prior to joining Citrix, Enzo spent five years as head of R&D with Betfair, the world’s biggest betting exchange. He holds a bachelor of science degree in mathematics.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Andrew Cresswell
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Andy is the Citrix release product manager for XenApp and XenDesktop for current releases across the products, both on-premises and cloud versions. He is also the PM for Studio, AppDNA, App-V and Workspace Environment Manager. Relatively new to Citrix, Andy brings 12 years’ experience from a Citrix customer view and has a large portfolio of experience with many technologies supporting virtualized computing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Andrew Cresswell
Senior Product Manager of Citrix Systems
Andy is the Citrix release product manager for XenApp and XenDesktop for current releases across the products, both on-premises and cloud versions. He is also the PM for Studio, AppDNA, App-V and Workspace Environment Manager. Relatively new to Citrix, Andy brings 12 years’ experience from a Citrix customer view and has a large portfolio of experience with many technologies supporting virtualized computing.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Tom Singell
Partnerships Manager of Showpad
Tom Singell is the Partnerships Manager at Showpad.
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About Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
Wayne Lloyd
Senior Manager – Digital Business Transformation / Blockchain / AI Company Name of Publicis Sapient
Having spent the vast majority of his career providing centralised technology solutions to investment banks and large corporate companies around the world, Wayne now advocates the adoption of decentralised ways of working since discovering blockchain in early 2016. As the official UK Ambassador for EOS Nation, Wayne represents the worlds most cutting edge blockchain technology project, specifically designed for enterprise adoption. A member of the Blockchain Council and a Founder Member of The Oxford University Blockchain Foundation, Wayne believes society is approaching the era of the democratization of value through tokenisation and as the Blockchain & Crypto asset advisor for the largest Digital Marketing Agency in the world Wayne presents’ thought leadership to how this event horizon is set to disrupt multiple industries in the not too distant future.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Martin Percival
Pre-sales Manager UK&I Commercial vertical of Red Hat
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About Red Hat, Red Hat: Red Hat is a multinational software company engaged in providing open-source software products to the enterprise community.
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
David Lyons
Manager, Solution Consulting EMEA of Saba Software
David Lyons is the Solution Consultant Team Leader at Saba Software in EMEA. He has over ten years of experience in advising C-level and HR professionals on the best technical solutions to meet their business needs across a range of industries including Financial Services, Telco, Utilities and Education.
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About Saba Software: We want to help transform your talent management processes to help you drive better business results and gain competitive advantage.
Jon Cowie
Senior Manager, Customer Architecture of Progress
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About Progress: Progress is a global software company that simplifies the development, deployment and management of business applications.
Gareth Jones
Technical Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Technical Implementation Manager at Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Ashly Harwood
Product Manager of Autologyx
Product Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx, Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Rachel Chambers
Implementation Manager of Autologyx
Implementation Manager at autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Hugh Daly
General Manager, Message Automation of Broadridge
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Daniel Bull
Investment Manager of Columbia Lake Partners
Daniel Bull is an Investment Manager at Columbia Lake Partners. He is responsible for the sourcing, financial analysis, structuring, documentation, and management of debt relationships with technology companies. Prior to joining CLP, Daniel worked as an Assistant Vice President in the Venture Capital Group at Comerica Bank in San Francisco. Daniel graduated with a Bachelor of Arts (BA) in Business Administration from the University of Oregon.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
George Bartlett
Investment Manager of Columbia Lake Partners
George Bartlett is an Associate at Columbia Lake Partners. He is responsible for the financial analysis, structuring, documentation, and management of debt relationships with technology companies.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Michael Murphy
Sales Manager Scotland and Ireland of Zerto
Michael Murphy helps organisations improve resilience of services and enable their change programmes with confidence. Michael has worked in the technology market for 14 years across a diverse range of industries and geographies. For four years he worked with the fintech sector in East Africa and is passionate about technology as a driver for financial inclusion. Michael is responsible for Zerto’s business in Scotland and Ireland and is heavily involved in a range of transformative projects in Banking and Healthcare sectors.
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About Zerto: Zerto is an IT resilient all-in-one converged disaster recovery, data protection, and cloud mobility solution.
Jon Harrison
Pre-Sales Manager of Embarcadero Technologies
Jon is Technical Pre-Sales Manager at Embarcadero, and has over 20 years of software development and database experience. Previously Jon has been Product Line Manager for major development IDE products and worked at Borland as a manager and senior consultant. Current specialist interests include strategies for developing mobile and multi device apps. Jon has a BSc in Computing from the University of Northumbria.
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About Embarcadero Technologies: Embarcadero Technologies offers cross-platform solutions for database design, development and management.
Gregoire Frileux
Software Engineering Manager of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Sam Machin
Senior Product Manager of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Greg Taylor
General Manager, Tigerspike Next of Tigerspike
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About Tigerspike: Tigerspike is a global digital products company specializing in strategy, design, development and systems integration.
Rinat Nazmutdinov
Manager of Intentex
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About Intentex: Next-generation text-analysis technology that lets you understand how others are impacted by the the way you communicate.
Nathan Sansby
Strategic Partnership Manager of Sorted Group
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About Sorted Group: Sorted Group is a global SaaS company that provides data-driven software for checkouts, warehouses, and shipping.
Paul Gowans
Mobility Marketing Manager of Viavi Solutions
Paul Gowans, Mobile Strategy Director for Viavi has more than 20 years’ experience in the communications and mobile industries. He currently leads the Marketing team responsible for Viavi’s Mobile Location Intelligence & RAN Solutions. Paul’s expertise in IP, Mobile, LTE, VoIP, VoLTE & SON comes from developing, supporting, marketing and consulting on major mobile communications projects. Prior to Viavi, Paul was Global Marketing Manager for Agilent Technologies’ Network Systems Division. He is a seasoned spokesperson on many mobile issues for a variety of international conferences and forums and has written many articles. Paul is a graduate of Edinburgh University in Scotland with a Bachelor of Science in Computer Science and Management Science.
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About Viavi Solutions, Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
Dotan Ginsbourg
General Manager EMEA of Idomoo
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About Idomoo, Idomoo: Idomoo delivers video-based digital CRM solutions for enterprises to improve communication with their customers.
Suzy Carter Kent
Customer Success Manager of Adestra
Suzy has over 5 years digital marketing experience, now specialising in email. Suzy is dedicated to helping clients achieve their marketing goals and empowering clients to realise the full potential of the MessageFocus platform and their wider marketing technology ecosystem.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Monita Ness
Key Account Manager of Ocean Outdoor
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About Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Helen Beacham
Marketing Manager of Ocean Outdoor
Helen Beacham is a Head of Marketing at Ocean Outdoor.
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About Ocean Outdoor, Ocean Outdoor: Ocean is a media advertising company specialized in designing iconic landmark large-format digital banners in super-premium locations.
Jon Windover
Business Development Manager – EMEA of Ocean Software
Jon manages Business Development and customer relations across Europe, the Middle East and Africa. He is considered a trusted advisor to many air arms, airlines and industry OEM’s as he helps them to realise value by adopting software to drive efficiencies and optimise operations and business process. Jon has detailed knowledge of many contracting and consulting methodologies to drive maximum value with client investments in operations and training related software.
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About Ocean Software: Ocean Software designs, develops, and delivers Enterprise Software solutions for military, government, and corporate customers.
Louise Chawich
Operations Manager of BookingLive
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About BookingLive: BookingLive provides powerful scheduling, reservation and purchasing experiences that create profitable customer relationships.
Kaspar L. Palgi
Project Manager, Coder, Co-Founder of CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency
I’m a BA IT graduate that’s best at UX/software planning, software architecture and developing software in various programming languages/frameworks/platforms, including Python, PHP, Node.js, Ruby and more. I’m worked with various frameworks like Django, Flask, Rails, CodeIgnitor, Yii, Zend etc. I have experience also with most of the popular open source solutions like Django CMS, KeystoneJS, MODx, Magento, WordPress, OpenCart, Prestashop, vTiger, Odoo, Rhadoop/Hadoop and the list goes on. I always keep my eyes open for the most promising new technologies such as MEAN Stack, Kivy, Meteor and many various others that facilitate building multi-platform applications. I’m a very adept project manager that can always come up with a short/smart and simple solution that works. I’ve completed a teaching course at university that has given me plenty of experience teaching in front of a classroom, performing remote one-on-one training and creating easy to follow manuals. My general skills are in business development. I started my first business when I was 13 and my first IT company when I was 17. Right now I’m a shareholder of four different companies and am currently working on establishing a promising new start-up that will utilise IT management to make freelancers (like us) much more productive.
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About CrewNew.com – Freelancers’ Agency: Platform for project managers. Work with hand picked freelancers used to work together & managed by local PMs. Mostly European developers.
Joe Lomako
EMC, Wireless, IOT, Protocols Product Manager and BDM of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
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About Underwriters Laboratories (UL): UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment,
Andrew Hollister
Chief Architect & Product Manager of LogRhythm
Andrew Hollister, Sr. Technical Director EMEA oversees LogRhythm’s regional technical resources in order to advance LogRhythm’s vision of providing an unrivalled platform for Unified Threat Lifecycle Management. Andrew studies the threat landscape to understand how customers can leverage analytics to detect and respond to cyber threats. For the past 20 years, Andrew has worked in a variety of IT consulting roles, in both the private and public sector, including SIEM, DLP and application level firewall design and implementation.
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About LogRhythm: LogRhythm is a NextGen SIEM Platform combining advanced security analytics, UEBA, NDR, and SOAR in a single end-to-end solution.
Martin Hodgson
Country Manager, UK and Ireland of Paessler
Martin Hodgson has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years in a variety of technical and commercial roles. Along with his extensive experience in many areas of technology, he has an ability to break down and communicate sometimes complex technologies in simple terms. His engaging and humorous public speaking style, delivering a presentation that is light on vendor speak, and peppered with real life examples and anecdotes, make this a must-see session for all IT administrators, managers and directors interested in regaining control of their IT infrastructure and significantly reducing costs.
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About Paessler: Paessler’s network monitoring solutions provide peace of mind, confidence and convenience at a price you can afford.
Zaid Sulaiman
Technical Delivery Manager of Constant Commerce
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About Constant Commerce: We are the only platform to offer marketers every tool to support an end to end shopper journey from inspiration to (any) checkout
Dian Ivanov
Manual & Automated Test Manager of Constant Commerce
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About Constant Commerce: We are the only platform to offer marketers every tool to support an end to end shopper journey from inspiration to (any) checkout
Aaron Romero
Marketing Manager, UK of Flock
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About Flock: Flock is a real-time messaging and collaboration app for teams that speeds up and simplifies communication and boosts productivity.
Ruth Bardot
Public Relations Manager of DadShed
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About DadShed: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Richard Young
User Experience Manager of DadShed
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About DadShed: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Peter Hoffman
Manager Sales Engineering of Demandware
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About Demandware, Salesforce: Demandware provides enterprise cloud commerce solutions that empower world’s leading retailers to continuously innovate.
Lee Brant
Senior Account Manager & New Business Development of Serchen
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About Serchen: The recognised leader in matching buyers and sellers of Online Services.
Ian Clarke
Product Development Manager of ServiceTracker
Ian started his career as a salesman in the water industry and has always had a passion for what could be achieved with technology. Ian has held a variety of technical roles over the past 10 years redesigning processes and developing software for large corporations throughout the UK.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Froso Ellina
Product Design Manager of Pivotal Labs
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About Pivotal Labs: Pivotal Labs develops web and mobile products that develops enterprise infrastructures for business platforms.
Russell Jones
Development Manager of Hudman Solutions
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About Hudman Solutions: Hudman Solutions is an award winning SaaS ERP software solution, cost-effective for small businesses.
David Ward
Investment Manager of Enterprise Ventures
Following a career of over 40 years in banking in various roles, the most recent being Corporate Banking Manager with the Co-operative Bank in South Yorkshire, David joined Finance South Yorkshire (now part of Enterprise Ventures) in 2008. He is the portfolio manager for EV Business Loans and manages the team responsible for the monitoring and realisation of investments in the Finance Yorkshire Small Loan Fund and the South Yorkshire Investment Fund Small Business Fund and subsequent follow-on investments.
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About Enterprise Ventures: Enterprise Ventures is a Preston-based venture capital that provides early-stage finance to SMEs in England and Wales.
Ian Atkinson
Investment Manager of Enterprise Ventures
Ian joined Finance South Yorkshire (now part of Enterprise Ventures) in 2010 as an Investment Manager for the Finance Yorkshire Small Loan Fund, having previously worked as a Lending Manager for the Regional Loan Fund in Yorkshire & The Humber. He has considerable experience in business banking,having spent over 20 years with Barclays Bank in a variety of lending roles, providing funding solutions for start-up, small and medium sized businesses. He also has previous experience working as a Project Manager delivering government-backed grant schemes in the Yorkshire & Humber region, including assessment of grant funding applications.
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About Enterprise Ventures: Enterprise Ventures is a Preston-based venture capital that provides early-stage finance to SMEs in England and Wales.
