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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 Managing Director operating in the B2B space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Peter Maskell
Managing Director of Koninklijke Philips
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About Koninklijke Philips: Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services.
Haitham Al-Khatib
Managing Director of Clearmove
Founder @ Clearmove
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About Clearmove: Clearmove specializes in the fields of relocation services, global mobility, travel, and enterprise solutions.
Abi Hanna
Managing Director of Instrumental
Ms. Abigail Hanna, also known as Abi, has been Managing Director of BC Music Media Ltd., (Formerly, Instrumental & Popshack) since January 2013. Ms. Hanna served as Head of Marketing at The Rights Company Limited since November 2003 until November 2006. Ms. Hanna looks after all the marketing needs for The Rights Company by working closely with distributors and talent to deliver a wide variety of marketing solutions to aid in the launch of new products. Prior to joining TRC, she was head of commercial marketing at Penguin where she worked on high profile launches from Victoria Beckham, Roy Keane, Darren Gough and Viv Richards. She also handled the Mind, Body, Spirit range and dealt with an annual marketing budget of over £1m. She holds BA in French & International Studies from Warwick University in 1994.
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About Instrumental: Our TalentAI platform uses machine learning to discover emerging talent, predominantly for the music and entertainment industry.
Dan Price
Managing Director of BVG Group
Dan joined BVG Group in 1996, being promoted to Sales Purchasing Director in 2000. Dan heads up a large team that is responsible for developing Clifford James trade distribution, reader offer and mail order channel businesses. Dan spends several weeks a year with his team in the Far East sourcing new and innovative products for the group.
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About BVG Group: BVG Group is a true multichannel retailer selling via online, B2B distribution, catalogues, off page and newspaper reader offers.
Rob Withagen
Managing Director of Asoko Insight
Rob Withagen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Asoko Insight.
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About Asoko Insight: Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Felix Winstone
Managing Director of Talkative
Felix Winstone is a Co-Founder and Director of Talkative, a pioneer of web calling and browsing technologies.
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About Talkative: Talkative enables companies to communicate with their customers through websites/apps.
Stephen Worn
CTO & Managing Director of DatacenterDynamics
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Pierre Coombes
Founder / UK Managing Director of Big Wolf Marketing
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About Big Wolf Marketing, Big Wolf Marketing, Callgro: B2B Telemarketing Agency
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
