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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 Founder operating in the Scheduling 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.
Dev Amratia
Co-Founder and CEO of nPlan
CEO of nPlan. Worked as head of Emerging Sectors @UK Government. Project Manager on several megaprojects @Shell. Antarctic Explorer. Aerospace Engineer
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About nPlan: Artificial Intelligence to provide schedule certainty for projects, by highlighting risk and suggesting optimal execution paths.
Charlie Cannell
Co-Founder of Kadence
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About Inflexion Private Equity, Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Daniel Bladen
Co-Founder & CEO of Kadence
Co-founder and CEO of Chargifi, a smart wireless charging solution. Dan came up with the idea of Chargifi whilst travelling for six months in 2012. He realised that he made strategic decisions about where to visit/stay based on the availability of power sockets, so he could recharge and reconnect with friends and family. Chargifi is deployed by over 90 organisations in 21 countries and is backed by leading technology investors including; Intel Capital, Hewlett Packard Enterprise, Techstars, Accelerated Digital Ventures, firstminute capital and R/GA Ventures. Prior to Chargifi, he oversaw a team of 50, designing and implementing a network and AV infrastructure for a £6.5 million building project in West London.
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
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.
Glenn Shoosmith
Founder of JRNI
After graduating in 1997 with a degree in computer science, Glenn spent 10 years working as a developer, consultant, team and project manager in the pharmaceutical, television and financial industries. In 2008 he founded BookingBug with the ambitious objective of building a platform through which time could be treated as if it were a stock innovatory item. BookingBug has become JRNI and has since grown to become the market-leading multichannel appointment scheduling and customer journey platform helping leading global retailers, banks, central and local governments enhance their customer experience and save costs. JRNI has a team of over 100 based in London, Boston and Sydney. Glenn has been a passion advocate for London and the UK as a technology hub within Europe and in the past has helped shape government policy towards innovation and technology, both as an early advocate for Tech City, and an advisor and representative of the government nationally and internationally. In 2019 Glenn swapped his CEO role to get back to the technology as Chief Architect, and is in charge of driving platform and innovation at JRNI.
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About ABN AMRO Bank, Bank of America: JRNI is an experiential relationship management (XRM) platform for scheduling and managing personalized experiences at scale.
Jake Jenner
Co-Founder & CFO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Louise Doherty
Founder and CEO of Yoller
Louise is CEO and founder of PlanSnap, the social planning platform that uses machine learning and group psychology to help people to meet in real life, really quickly. An ex strategic marketer working for the BBC, ASOS and AB InBev, Louise specialises in scaling consumer digital products. PlanSnap is a Techstars alumni, and Louise was a finalist for Most Inspirational Startup Founder 2018.
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About Yoller: Yoller gets people to meet in real life, really quickly – even if your friends don’t have the app.
Leah Hutcheon
Founder & CEO of Appointedd
Leah Hutcheon is the founder and CEO of Appointedd, an Edinburgh-based startup revolutionising the way small businesses sell their timeslot appointments online. From personal trainers to massage therapists, serviced offices to large corporations, Appointedd enables online booking on any device in any timezone. Appointedd offers businesses access to CRM, marketing and business management tools, and fits seamlessly with 25+ two-way integrations. Appointedd has launched the world’s first truly multi-timezone online booking system, enabling people to take bookings across different timezones seamlessly. Leah is a proud Ambassador for Women’s Enterprise Scotland, Director of Future Leaders for Entrepreneurial Scotland and #ScotEDGE Award winner. An Entrepreneurial Spark supported company, Appointedd was featured in BBC documentary, The Entrepreneurs. – See more at: https://leah.appointedd.com/#sthash.9u1vWztJ.dpuf
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About Appointedd: Appointedd is a cutting-edge online booking and scheduling solution that makes it easier for you to connect with your customers.
Spencer Kelly
Co-Founder of Workstack
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About Workstack: Workstack is a task management tool that helps users to manage work.
Spencer Kelly
Co-Founder of Workstack
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About Workstack: Workstack is a task management tool that helps users to manage work.
