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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 Management Information Systems 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.
Chris Bayne
Chief Executive Officer of The Access Group
As well as holding the position of CEO for Access UK & Ireland, Chris is the CEO of Access Technology Group (ATG) – the parent company. In his position, Chris contributes to ATG’s growth targets with the aid of Access’ private equity partner, TA Associates. Chris is a product visionary and still gets involved in technical sales and product development. Because he works in close collaboration with the sales team and customers, he’s influenced by the customer demands. All of this helps him to foresee trends and brief the development team on new features and user requirements.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Joe Root
Co-Founder & CEO of Permutive
Joe is co-founder and CEO of Permutive, the only publisher-first Data Management Platform (DMP) that allows publishers to see 100% of their audience and target them in real-time. Y Combinator and EQT backed, Permutive counts Conde Nast, Immediate Media, Hubert Burda, IDG, Dennis and ESI Media among its growing list of clients. Following a BEng Computing at Imperial College and MSc Computer Sciences at Oxford, Joe chose to drop out of a PhD in Mathematical Genomics at Cambridge to start Permutive.
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About Permutive: Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
Dan Vahdat
Co-founder & CEO of Huma Therapeutics
Dan Vahdat is Co-founder & CEO of Medopad, a British healthcare technology company enabling connected care, headquartered in London, UK. Dan is an award winning innovator in the fields of science and technology. His professional career spans from IT to medical technology including several years at Johns Hopkins in the US. Dan studied Engineering and Mathematics, after which he pursued his PhD in at Johns Hopkins including 2 years of abroad study at Oxford University. Before finishing his degree, he left to focus on his business.
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About Huma Therapeutics: Huma provides a digital health platform used for predictive care and research.
Brandon Stephens
Founder & CEO of Anthem
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About Anthem, Mamma Roma, REVL, Thunderbird Fried Chicken, Tortilla Mexican Grill: Anthem embraces the seismic changes in work, entertainment, and wellbeing.
Nat Edington
CEO of Dukosi
Nat has over 20 years’ experience in fast paced technology companies, from start-ups and SMEs to global players. Prior to CCS, he was VP & General Manager at Wolfson Microelectronics for 8 years, managing their largest revenue businesses in excess of $100m with blue chip consumer customers. Previous roles include Board Directorship, General Management, Business Development, Strategic Marketing and Engineering in the semiconductor, electronic products and manufacturing sectors
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About Dukosi, Dukosi: Dukosi is bringing new technology to market drawing on its extensive experience in battery systems
Silvio Di Crosta
CEO of Domotz
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About Domotz: Remote Monitoring & Management in an IoT World.
Justin Reilly
Chief Executive Officer of Impero Software
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About Impero Software: Classroom/Workplace Management Software
Gav Winter
CEO of RapidSpike
Gav has been in the technology industry for over 20 years and founder of The Test People, the Leeds based Technical Testing Consultancy, one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK and fastest growing in Yorkshire & the North East from 2013 to 2015. He won Yorkshire Overall & SME Director of the Year in 2014 and 2015, alongside multiple company awards like Deloitte Fast50, and the Sunday Times TechTrack100 before architecting a merger (£27 million) to create Ten10 in 2015, the UKs largest independent testing consultancy. He is a non-exec director at Ten10. He is a CEO who loves building people focused companies with passion & purpose and his experience working as a fast growth director, in client facing roles and a programme manager has also given him skills as an advisor in strategy, people, communications and marketing along with technical skills in testing, performance and automation, agile and qualified scrum master.
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About RapidSpike, Wintervention Properties: Digital Experience Monitoring SaaS Platform (Magecart Detection, Website Performance Improvement, Customer Interaction Monitoring and More)
Gav Winter
CEO of RapidSpike
Gav has been in the technology industry for over 20 years and founder of The Test People, the Leeds based Technical Testing Consultancy, one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK and fastest growing in Yorkshire & the North East from 2013 to 2015. He won Yorkshire Overall & SME Director of the Year in 2014 and 2015, alongside multiple company awards like Deloitte Fast50, and the Sunday Times TechTrack100 before architecting a merger (£27 million) to create Ten10 in 2015, the UKs largest independent testing consultancy. He is a non-exec director at Ten10. He is a CEO who loves building people focused companies with passion & purpose and his experience working as a fast growth director, in client facing roles and a programme manager has also given him skills as an advisor in strategy, people, communications and marketing along with technical skills in testing, performance and automation, agile and qualified scrum master.
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About RapidSpike, Wintervention Properties: Digital Experience Monitoring SaaS Platform (Magecart Detection, Website Performance Improvement, Customer Interaction Monitoring and More)
Christian Testorf
Chief Executive Officer – Europe of NiQ Health
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About NiQ Health: One of the leading care management systems for hospitals and aged care applications in January 2010.
Mitchell Appel
CEO of EULAV Asset Management
Mitchell Appel is the President of the Value Line Funds and Chief Executive Officer of EULAV Asset Management (“EAM”), the Funds’ investment adviser. Mr. Appel is responsible for the long term strategy of the investment adviser and the Funds, in addition to the day to day management responsibilities of the firm. One of his initial goals is to introduce the Value Line Funds to a wider investment audience, becoming a partner to RIAs, B/Ds, and retail investors. Mr. Appel has streamlined the fund line up in recent years and continues to work to add value to shareholders by making sure the Value Line Funds are competitively positioned with their peers and providing the portfolio management team the necessary tools to best manage the Funds. Mr. Appel’s other roles in the organization include being a member of the Board of Directors for the Value Line Funds and a Trustee of EAM. Mr. Appel has held positions in the mutual fund industry since 2001. He received an MBA from New York University and holds several industry licenses (Series 7, 24 -Principal, and 27 -FINOP).
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About EULAV Asset Management: EULAV Asset Management is the investment adviser.
