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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 COO’ operating in the Hospitality 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.
Nakul Sharma
Chief Operating Officer of Vista Rooms
Nakul Sharma is the Chief Operating Officer at Vista Rooms.
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About Vista Rooms: Vista Rooms is a South Asia’s largest luxury holiday home rental management company. We are on a mission to build the “Marriott for Homes”
Roland Fasel
Chief Operating Officer of Aman Resorts
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About Aman Resorts: Aman Resorts is a group of hotels specialized in hospitality and destination management.
Jason Pinto
Co-founder & COO of Pace Revenue
Jason is a co-founder at Pace. Pace has built the first solution that gives hotels real-time forecasting, price sensitivity analysis and automation. We use machine learning and statistics to turn pricing into a real-time exploration how to optimally match supply and demand. Our algorithms are proprietary and actively worked on by our science team. Prior to co-founding Pace Jason was a Partner at Amadeus Capital where he focused on opportunities in online services and fintech. Since joining the firm as an associate in 2007, he has worked closely with several Amadeus companies including Edgeware and Liquavista, helping Edgeware to a public listing on the NASDAQ Stockholm market and Liquavista to a sale to Samsung. He was also an active observer on the board of Unruly helping it exit to News Corp. Jason started his tech career as a lead member of a technology and product development team at E Ink Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he worked on commercialisation of the world’s first electronic ink display. The technology has been widely deployed in a range of consumer products most notably Amazon’s Kindle electronic book. Jason holds Engineering and Science degrees from MIT, Stanford University and Cambridge University. Jason is mostly Trinidadian with a bit of Jamaican and American added in for good measure.
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About Amadeus Capital Partners, Pace Revenue: Pace is revolutionising revenue management with a suite of tools to deliver science, real-time and automation.
Daniel Jefferys
Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Resooma
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About Resooma: We’re building an end-to-end rental marketplace with simplified payment solutions that serves both tenants and property owners.
Jon Clarke
Chief Operating Officer of Onvi
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About Onvi, Viage UK: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
Martin Kuczmarski
Chief Operating Officer of Soho House
Martin Kuczmarski is the Chief Operating Officer at Soho House.
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About Soho House: Soho House is a private members’ club for people in the creative industries.
Adrian Maseda
Co-Founder & COO of Cheerfy
Adrian has worked for many years for large corporations like Nortel and Aricent Group in various Business Management and Sales roles. Adrian then became an entrepreneur: Co-Founder @ We2 (Social Wifi), Founder @ Protos (an advisory firm). Adrian is now focused is his latest project, Cheerfy. Adrian believes in using technology to solve problems and reshape how things work. In particular, he sees opportunity in the intersection between social and hyper-localised interactions in a mobile world.
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About Cheerfy, Protos Global Services: The new way restaurants sell post-COVID
Paul Loram
Co-Founder / COO of YourWelcome
With over 10 ten years experience working in media and mobile, Paul Loram raised VC funding to start a cross platform social gaming company that is run with his business partner Henry Bennett. Paul Loram also oversees a joint venture mobile apps agency that he founded with the global post production company Deluxe Digital Studios. Clients range from BBC WorldWide / 2Entertain, ITV, 20th Century Fox, Universal Pictures, The History Channel, Random House Books and various advertising agencies. Winner of the “BT Entrepreneur of the Year Award” 2009.
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About Island Wall Entertainment, The Question Company, YourWelcome: YourWelcome is a SaaS platform enabling short term rental managers to add a service layer to their business.
Neil Williams
COO of Airangel WiFi
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About Airangel WiFi: Enterprise guest WiFi solutions for hospitality, apartment buildings, and large public spaces
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.
Laura Baines
COO of Flowify Limited
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About Flowify Limited: Helping the hospitality industry increase revenue whilst reducing costs.
