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 Founder operating in the Cloud Management space. If you think a Founder 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.
Ditlev Bredahl
Co-Founder & CEO of OnApp
Ditlev has over a decade’s experience in the web hosting industry and has led the development of many acclaimed web hosting brands. As CEO of OnApp, Ditlev’s commercial and technical leadership saw the company expand from its July 2010 launch to 500+ clients and 80+ people in just 12 months. Ditlev moved into the rapidly-growing Internet sector in the mid-1990s, after a number of roles working for the European Parliament. He quickly developed a reputation as an entrepreneur and a specialist in start-up and turnaround scenarios. He has led UK2Group’s hosting companies as MD and CEO since February 2006, and played a key role in the group’s transformation. Ditlev is a Danish national and an incurable technophile. He lives in the UK but travels frequently to see clients and speak at events across the globe.
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About Kickass Capital, OnApp, PlatoScience: OnApp is a company that develops cloud management, CDN and storage software for service providers and enterprises.
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Andrius Kazlauskas
Founder & CFO of Heficed
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About Heficed, IPXO: Heficed provides full-range services for IP lease, monetization, and management services.
Julian Bowden
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of InvestCloud
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About InvestCloud: InvestCloud is a global company specializing in digital platforms that enable the development of financial solutions.
John Yeo
Co-Founder & CEO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Gyan Chawdhary
Founder & CTO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Gareth Williams
Founder & Non-Executive Director of YellowDog
Gareth hounds the YellowDog kennel, spearheading the vision to build a world where people do more, create more, discover more; unleashed from limited computing power. Following an MEng in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Durham, Gareth cut his canines working in software and telecoms at companies including Orange, Experian QAS, FREEDOM4 and Arieso, where he was part of the Management Team that completed the successful sale of the company to JDSU in March 2013 for $85m. One day he had a brilliant idea for using spare mobile capacity which, following a chat with someone in the animation department at the University of the West of England, gave birth to what is now YellowDog. When not coming up with brilliant ideas, he is a dad, a keen cyclist, an ardent reader, a Samaritans Listening Volunteer. He also likes ale and talking to anyone (usually together). You can email Gareth on gareth@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.
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About YellowDog: Helping businesses power their innovations with the most scalable cloud native scheduling and provisioning technology.
Alex Heneveld
Co-Founder & CTO of Cloudsoft Corporation
Alex brings twenty years experience designing software solutions in the enterprise, start-up, and academic sectors. Alex was with Enigmatec Corporation where he led the development of what is now the Monterey® Middleware Platform™. He founded PocketWatch Systems, commercialising results from his doctoral research. Alex holds a PhD (Informatics) and an MSc (Cognitive Science) from the University of Edinburgh and an AB (Mathematics) from Princeton University.
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About Cloudsoft Corporation: Cloudsoft develop powerful automation software, enabling customers in industries like banking, finance, energy and defence to orchestrate and govern services across complex hybrid IT environments.
Martin Papik
Co-Founder and CEO of LXC.Cloud
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About LXC.Cloud: Contifier is platform for running software containers and containerized applications accross many cloud providers.
David Barker
Founder & CTO of 4D Data Centres
David B. is the Founder & CTO at 4D Data Centres.
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About 4D Data Centres, techUK: Cloud, Connectivity and Colocation, with data centres in Sussex, Surrey, Kent & London.
Gerry Croarkin
Chief Executive Officer/Founder of AircraftEasy
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About AircraftEasy: AircraftEasy develops as a cloud-based solution that managing aviation assets.
Nigel Wright
Founder and CEO of Converge Technology Specialists
Nigel Wright CEO and founder of Converge Technology Specialists, Nigel has 18 years’ experience delivering technology services to the legal profession in both the enterprise and SME sectors. Nigel’s expertise in providing strategic analysis of IT systems and identifying opportunities for improved efficiency, drives competitive advantage for clients. Well-known and respected within the sector, Nigel is often invited to speak at events and to advise industry bodies on the issues and opportunities facing law firms today.
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About Converge Technology Specialists: Converge Technology Specialists is a specialist provider of hosted and managed IT services through private cloud.
