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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 CEO’ operating in the Higher Education space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Brendan Webb
Chief Executive Officer of Cambridge Education Group
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About Cambridge Education Group: Cambridge Education Group provides academic, creative, and English language programs in Europe and the United States.
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Dave Sherwood
Co-Founder & CEO of BibliU
Dave Sherwood co-founder and CEO of Bibliotech, a core etextbooks platform that provides academic libraries and students with unlimited access. He is the co-founder and Chairman of Teach Learn Grow Inc. Dave earned his bachelor’s degree at the University of Western Straya, coming to Oxford University on a Rhodes Scholarship shortly afterwards. Dave dropped out to found Bibliotech.
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About BibliU: An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Fadl Al Tarzi
Founder & CEO of Nexford University
+15 years of experience in media & technology-related businesses. Hands-on experience building successful strategies, growing companies, raising VC funds, building & managing teams. Founded and played pivotal role in growing several successful businesses,
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About Nexford University: A next generation online university providing students with access to quality, affordable, dynamic education.
Milenko Pilic
CEO of HeySuccess
CEO of HeySuccess.
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About HeySuccess, One Young World: The default platform for international student mobility.
Abhishek Nakhate
Founder & CEO of Zoom Abroad
Abhishek is a serial entrepreneur with a problem-solving attitude, challenging the status quo. With over 13 years of the international student recruitment industry, Abhishek has experience working as a Director in International University, as an agent, as a service provider and have fist hand experience of being an international student. Determined to address and solve some burning problems in the student recruitment industry. With passion & compassion towards a student’s career, Abhishek also expertise in Career advisory and mentoring. Likes public speaking, motivational stories, Table tennis and ofcourse family.
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About Zoom Abroad: A free AI platform which connects students to the best-fit universities globally, saving them TIME and MONEY.
Norbert Morawetz
CEO of Potential.ly
Norbert is founder and CEO of lifelong learning platform Potential.ly, which is used at 50+ institutions to develop professional competences, employability and career readiness. Potential.ly is supported by the Young Foundation for its social impact on widening participation, diversity and inclusion. Norbert also designed and launched open educational resource team-match.com, which helped create more cognitive diverse learning teams at 100+ universities and was selected and has been awarded by the highly prestigious wayra.org tech accelerator programme. Norbert is als Associate Professor in Entrepreneurship and Entrepreneurial Learning at Henley Business School, where he leads flagship modules in entrepreneurship and digital leadership at UG, PG and MBA levels. He has extensive experience in learning and programme design, and is Programme Director for the BA in Entrepreneurship, and BA Entrepreneurship and Management. He is Senior Fellow of the Higher Education Academy (HEA), and has been recognized for his innovative work with the UK National Enterprise Educator of the Year Award. Norbert’s research interests are at the intersection of creativity, management and technology – key drivers of entrepreneurship and learning. He has used his expertise in psychometrics to consult with o2 and YSC on situational judgement tests, and is the creator of the pi psychometric Indicator, which has been completed by 60,000+ students in the UK. Prior to joining Henley, Norbert built up and ran the UK’s largest entrepreneurship programme at the University of Hertfordshire, which received the Times Higher Entrepreneurial University of the Year Award. Norbert holds an MA in Business Administration and Economics from the Karl Franzens University Graz (Austria) with distinction, and a PhD in Creative Industries Economics from the University of Hertfordshire. Norbert started his career in radio and film production, winning Filmmaker of the Year from ScreenEast in 2012.
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About Henley Business School, Potential.ly: The smart lifelong learning platform
Rachel Fletcher
CEO and Co-founder of UniQuest
Rachel is an internationally experienced business operations expert with a decade of experience optimizing student recruitment and conversion with higher education institutions in the US, UK, and Australia. Rachel co-founded UniQuest to build a flexible service that could adapt to the rapidly changing needs of colleges and universities in relation to student engagement and conversion operations. Rachel’s always had a passion for international education. Rachel grew up in New Zealand and studied in 5 different countries while in university.
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About UniQuest: UniQuest helps streamline and improve student conversion and delivers great higher education student experiences.
Dr Liz Durden-Myers
CEO / Managing Director of PE Scholar
Education Consultant, Physical Educator and International Speaker. Co-Founder & Managing Director at Scholary Ltd and PE Scholar Ltd. Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at Bath Spa University, UK and University of Gloucestershire, UK. Chair of the International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA).
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About PE Scholar: PE Scholar is an international publisher of high quality physical education resources, curated research, and sector-wide insight.
Darren Hill
Founder & CEO of Inzite
Founder & CEO, Inzite (inzite.com)
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About Inzite: Smart discovery tools and streamlined scheduling help your customers hold meetings with the right people, at the right time.
Flóra Raffai
Chief Executive Officer of The Cambridge Access Validating Agency
Flóra Raffai is the Chief Executive Officer of the Cambridge Access Validating Agency (CAVA), a membership organisation committed to helping adults achieve their aspirations through education. More than 4,000 students undertake a CAVA Access to HE Diploma every year, across CAVA’s 30+ further education college members.
Flóra is the Chair of Trustees at the Cambridge Council for Voluntary Service (CCVS) and she is the Founder and small organisation coach at Rapport Coaching. Flóra has spent her career working with charities and non-profits, with 7 years as Chief Executive. She holds a BSc in International Relations from the London School of Economics and an MSt in Social Innovation from the University of Cambridge Judge Business School. She recently published her first book ‘Chief Everything Officer: a field guide for small organisation leaders’.
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About The Cambridge Access Validating Agency: The Cambridge Access Validating Agency creates, validates, certifies, and awards access to Higher Education degrees.
Norma Jozef
CEO of The Academic Papers UK
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