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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based COO’ operating in the Delivery space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Phill Burton
COO of Bloom & Wild
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About Bloom & Wild, Future London Academy, Seedcamp: Bloom & Wild is an online flower delivery platform developing a modern approach for sending flowers to loved ones.
Elizabeth Swanton
Co-Founder and COO of Feedr
Elizabeth Swanton is the founder and COO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Tony Hoggett
Chief Operating Officer of Tesco
Tony joined the Executive Committee on 1 April 2017. Tony is responsible for developing the operational capability and strategy across the Group as well as leading the operations of the UK business. Tony also has responsibility for Tesco’s joint ventures in both China and India. Tony joined Tesco in 1990 and has served in a range of leadership roles in the UK and Asia over the last three decades. Between 2007 and 2011 he held the roles of VP South China, as well as President North China, before moving to Turkey as Chief Operating Officer for Tesco Kipa. In 2011, Tony returned to the UK and held Managing Director roles across all of our large store formats. He also joined the board of Tesco Mobile in 2012. In 2014, he joined the UK Leadership Team as Retail Director and then was appointed Chief Operating Officer UK in 2016 and CEO, Asia in 2017. Tony was appointed to his current role on 1 June 2018.
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About Tesco: Tesco PLC is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England.
Graham Corfield
Chief Operating Officer of Just Eat
Graham is the UK Managing Director, responsible for running the UK business and driving its continued growth. He joined Just Eat in July 2011 as UK Finance Director and was instrumental in helping just-eat.co.uk to its current market leading position. Graham began his career with KPMG, where he trained as a Chartered Accountant. Before joining Just Eat, he held a number of senior financial and management roles at technology and service-based companies, helping scale businesses during periods of aggressive growth and expansion, integrating acquisitions and turning around loss-making operations. Graham has an Honours degree in Accounting and Financial Management from Loughborough University.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Chris Rennoldson
COO, Co-Founder, Head of Operations and Finance of Pasta Evangelists
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About Pasta Evangelists: Pasta Evangelists is freshly made by Italian hands every day.
Ben Cranham
Chief Operating Officer of MTI
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About MTI: A leading multi-national provider of professional services and comprehensive data storage solutions
Alexandra Farley
COO of Portland Communications
As Portland’s COO Alex is responsible for all non-client facing elements of Portland including Finance, HR, Legal, Commercial and Office Management. Alex joined Portland in January 2010 from Taylor Herring Public Relations Ltd where she was Financial Controller. She completed her ACA in 2003 and also holds a degree in Law from Leicester University.
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About Portland Communications: We design and deliver communications strategies for some of the world’s highest profile organisations, governments and individuals.
Lee Parker
Co-founder | COO of Bloomingdeals.co.uk Limited
Established as a reputable professional with extensive experience in; Tech startups, Assessment & Selection internal/external consultancy. Providing solutions in Cost, Time and Quality improvement within the people selection/hiring process • Structuring company hiring strategies • OEM Social Media consultancy • Technical and Specialist Recruitment (Blue & White Collar) • Understanding and consultancy of resourcing market demographics • Talent pool creation and management • Employer brand construction and evolution • Tender management • Technical experience within Electronics, RF, Manufacturing • RPO Planning (Bid proposal) and Management of Projects. • FTSE100 and FTSE250 Account Management. • Exposure to hiring solutions throughout EMEA • Small Business Saturday UK TOP 100 Business 2014 Specialties: Internet Startups | Business Stratagy | Aerospace & Automotive | Defence | FMCG | Manufacturing | IT | Electronics | Design | Social Media | Sales
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About Bloomingdeals.co.uk Limited, Hiringmadesimple.co.uk Limited, Parker Sourcing Limited: Bloomingdeals offers produce delivery services for gardeners and interested parties.
Sam Martin
Chief Operating Officer & co-founder of Peckwater Brands
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About Peckwater Brands: Peckwater Brands is a provider of delivery franchises to kitchen operators.
Pete Shannon
Chief Operating Officer of HelloDone
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About HelloDone: Automating social messaging for online retail brands
Stephen Boyes
Founder and COO of Kurve Kiosks
As a devout technical engineer within IT businesses, I was thrown into the hospitality IT sector in 2000 when I acquired what later become known as, “EPoS Group”, growing it to become a thriving and well-known national player delivering solutions to household names including Chester Zoo, Parkdean Resorts, and Crussh. Following my successful sale and exit of EPoS Group (now re-branded Cunnighams Epos Group) in 2015, I’m now back in the hot seat as COO for Kurve, our vibrant self-serve and kiosk software solutions business which is shaping the UK’s adoption of self-serve across kiosk, online and mobile in the restaurant and hospitality sector.
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About Kurve Kiosks: Bringing the best-in-class self-serve solutions for quick service restaurants & the hospitality sector.
