Best Startup
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 CMO’ operating in the SaaS space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
Andrew Davies
Chief Marketing Officer of Paddle
Andrew is currently the Head of Brand & Digital at Episerver, after it acquired Idio in November 2019, the business he co-founded. He also advises, supports & invests in early-stage startups, helping them problem-solve around proposition development, people & teams, and B2B/SaaS marketing. Previously, he co-founded Idio, serving as CMO and also leading people ops. He helped build the business to a market-leader in B2B personalization, with a very successful B2B SaaS account-based-marketing approach, a superb team in NYC, SF & London, and enterprise clients including IBM, BNY Mellon and Fitch Group. Idio raised $13m+ from angels & institutional investors. He also sits on the board of Ninety, an agile digital transformation consultancy with clients including Generali, Axa, Allianz & Zurich. Ninety is a social enterprise, with 90% of distributable profits given to alleviate global poverty.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
David Miller
CMO of Mercaux
David Miller is the Chief Marketing Officer at Mercaux
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About Mercaux: Mercaux brings the benefits of digital into retail stores to drive sales uplift.
Scott Hitchins
CMO of Interact
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About Interact: Interact supplies an award-winning employee experience platform that boosts productivity and drives engagement.
Toby Britton
Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Miappi
Toby Britton joined Miappi as Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer in 2012.
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About Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Jason Hemingway
CMO of Thunderhead
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
John Dillon
Chief Marketing Officer of Exact
John Dillon is the chief marketing officer of Exact.
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About Exact: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
Carolina Molossi
Co-Founder & CMO of Bookalook
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About Bookalook, MOLOTOF Studio: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Alan Gleeson
CMO of NorthRow
Alan is a B2B Marketing Consultant based in London. Alan previously established Palo Alto Software’s UK subsidiary, which focused on the sales and marketing of Business Plan Pro, the best selling business planning software product. In recent years Alan has been heavily involved in the transition to a SaaS offering called Liveplan.com Prior to that Alan was a business development manager at Barclays Plc the leading global financial services provider. He joined Barclays on their graduate programme in 1998 from University College Cork, Ireland and spent 5 years there, including time at Clearlybusiness a London-based innovation unit within Barclays. Alan has an MBA from Oxford University, an MSc and B.Comm from University College Cork, Ireland and a Post Grad Diploma in eCommerce from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also on the board of the Irish International Business Network (www.iibn.com) You can follow Alan on Twitter @alangleeson or view his website at www.alangleeson.com
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About Carmichael Communications, NorthRow: NorthRow helps businesses to efficiently protect themselves from financial crime, from failures to comply with related legislation.
Alison Levy Bringé
Chief Marketing Officer of Launchmetrics
Alison is the Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics. She joined Fashion GPS in 2013 as the Global Director of Brand Development. Previously she held roles at companies such as IMG Fashion and Net-A-PORTER managing Marketing & PR. She has also spent time guest lecturing at Parsons, The New School, Condé Nast College and Il Sole 24Ore’s Business School. Alison holds a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising & Communications from the Univ. of Central Florida and a Masters from SDA Bocconi’s School of Management.
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About Launchmetrics: Launchmetrics is a provider of social influencer data and insights technology intended to connect the industry through technology.
Zsuzsa Kecsmar
Co-founder & CMO of Antavo Loyalty Management Platform
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About Antavo Loyalty Management Platform: Antavo is the leading customer loyalty technology for fashion and retail.
Rob Beck
CMO of Elephants don’t forget
Rob Beck is the CMO of Elephants don’t forget. He is also the current director of Stich Creative.
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About Elephants don’t forget: A low cost, cloud-based online application that continually measures individual employee knowledge gaps and automatic retrains as needed.
