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 Product operating in the Automotive space. If you think a Product 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.
Hugo Grimmett
Staff Product Manager, Level 5, Autonomous Vehicles division of Woven Planet Holdings
Hugo has a Ph.D. in robotics from the Oxford Robotics Institute where he worked on self-driving cars and computer vision.He built maps for self-driving cars and devised machine learning methods for how they should behave in uncertain environments.
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About Woven Planet Holdings: Woven Planet Holdings develops technologies designed to achieve zero casualties and provide mobility for all.
Juha Seppa
SVP, Product Delivery of Secondmind
Juha is a SW engineer with over 20 years of experience in product development. He is originally from Finland and moved to the UK with his family in 1999. He is responsible for heading up our product delivery and engineering activities. He is a keen classic rock fan and loves going to concerts with his wife. He seems to have a large collection of band t-shirts, and a somewhat questionable sense of style.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Carl Smith
Innovation and Product Management – Connected Car and Telematics at Jaguar Land Rover of Jaguar Land Rover
Carl Smith is a Product Marketing Manager, Connected Car at Jaguar Land Rover.
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About Jaguar Land Rover: Jaguar Land Rover manufactures and sells high-performance luxury saloons, specialist sports cars and four-wheel drive off-road vehicles.
Stephen Jones
Chief Product Officer of AppyWay
Stephen has been in technology roles for over 20 years, from support, engineering, architecture, and latterly into management. He has worked in banking designing and building integration systems, in aerospace managing maintenance cycles for fast jets, through online gambling and events and now is utilising all that varied knowledge to solve the world’s parking problem!
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Stephen Jones
Chief Product Officer of AppyWay
Stephen has been in technology roles for over 20 years, from support, engineering, architecture, and latterly into management. He has worked in banking designing and building integration systems, in aerospace managing maintenance cycles for fast jets, through online gambling and events and now is utilising all that varied knowledge to solve the world’s parking problem!
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Tom Elvidge
CEO Arrival Mobility UK & Chief of Product of Arrival
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About Arrival: Arrival is a developer and manufacturer of zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.
Michael Willmott
Head of Product of Beryl
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About Beryl: The UK’s leading micromobility company
Leslie Nooteboom
Chief Product Officer, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Jose Gaspar
Chief Product Officer of Constellation Automotive Group
José Gaspar is the Chief Product Officer at Constellation Automotive Group.
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About Constellation Automotive Group: Constellation Automotive Group is a vertically integrated digital used car marketplace.
Ed Rochfort
Chief Product Officer of IMS – Part of Trak Global Group
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About IMS – Part of Trak Global Group: IMS (Insurance & Mobility Solutions) is a global provider of connected car solutions, services, and analytics.
Rob Skidmore
Chief Product Director and Co-Founder of CarVue
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About CarVue: CarVue is simple but smart automotive management software in the cloud.
