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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 Knowledge Management 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.
Ajay Patel
Founder & CEO of HighQ
Ajay Patel As Founder of HighQ, Ajay continues to deliver on his vision of enabling a new, modern, highly efficient and ‘best in class’ secure platform of collaborative engagement and transaction for security, compliance and regulatory minded enterprises. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads the company growth strategy, product direction and senior management team. Ajay graduated with a first-class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University and later completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems at LSE. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London and later occupied roles in leading investment banks Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. After spending several years in the City, he realised the corporate environment didn’t fulfil his creative, professional or personal ambitions and subsequently started HighQ.The idea was simple: to create a dynamic, fun and successful company that puts its employees and clients at the centre of everything it does.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Sam Glasswell
Founder & Co-CEO of Arbolus
Sam Glasswell is the Founder & Co-CEO at Arbolus.
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About Arbolus: Arbolus is a networking platform that uses technology to help build and maintain advisory relationships.
Will Leeming
Founder & Co-CEO of Arbolus
Will Leeming is the Founder & Co-CEO at Arbolus.
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About Arbolus: Arbolus is a networking platform that uses technology to help build and maintain advisory relationships.
Fintan Galvin
CEO of Invotra Ltd
Fintan is the founder / owner of Invotra. He has a passion for delivery and keeping things focussed and connected. With over 25 years in enterprise technology he has a vast array of knowledge in getting large scales systems developed and deployed out to the people that count.
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About : Enterprise Intranet and Portal solutions for organisations worldwide
Rafie Faruq
Co-founder and CEO of Genie AI
Rafie Faruq is Co-founder and CEO at Ginie AI.
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About Genie AI: Automatic legal contract drafting platform for anyone.
Elizabeth Vega
CEO of Informed Solutions
Informed Solutions, CEO, Elizabeth Vega, has over 25 years experience at Board level, advising on and leading successful business transformation and enterprise IT programmes. A graduate of Sydney University, Elizabeth gained international experience with Unilever, Oracle and Hawker Siddley before establishing technology consultancy, InfoTechnics, in Australia. She launched Informed Solutions in the UK in 1992 and has built the company into a multi-award winning market leader, expanding its operations in Australia with offices in Sydney and Melbourne. Informed is a leading independent provider of Digital Transformation and Systems Integration Services to both public and private sectors. A high profile champion of SMEs in the UK, Elizabeth is a member of both techUK’s Public Services Board and Main Board, and of the UK Government Cabinet Office SME Panel, where she is a respected and influential contributor. She is very much at the forefront of the UK’s Digital Revolution, committed to the Government’s Digital by Default and eCloud agendas. Informed recently won the prestigious Nominet Internet Award for Digital Innovations in Public Services. Increasingly seen as a thought leader, Elizabeth is a sought after speaker and blogger on subjects including SME procurement, the Digital Skills gap and Women in IT.
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About Informed Solutions: Informed Solutions is a leading independent provider of digital transformation, technology, advanced data analytics.
Kuba Misiorny
CEO of Untrite
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About Untrite: Untrite helps to unify information from different silos, automatically enriching it with context driving action.
Kamila Hankiewicz
Co-founder and CEO of Untrite
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About Untrite: Untrite helps to unify information from different silos, automatically enriching it with context driving action.
Jim Agren
CEO of DigiZmart
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About DigiZmart: DigiZmart offers e-learning solutions to test the knowledge of children based on school curriculum.
Ray Gibbs
CEO of Haydle
Ray Gibbs is the CEO of Haydale Plc, an emerging technology company based in the UK that is facilitating the application of graphenes and other nanomaterials in fields such as inks, sensors, energy storage, photovoltaics, composites, paints, and coatings. He is a Chartered Accountant and for nine years was a Deloitte audit and corporate finance partner. He has spent the last 19 years in industry as CFO or commercial director of high-technology and fast-moving consumer goods businesses, both in the quoted and private arenas, with sales ranging from £500,000 to £500 million. Ray was a former CFO of the UK listed defense company Chemring Group Plc.
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About Haydle: Haydle is software that improves team productivity through a question and answer system that lets people ask, answer, and rate questions.
Jake Peters
CEO of HelpDocs
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About HelpDocs: Drive down support ticket volume and guide customers with a fully-featured knowledge base.
