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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based VP’ operating in the Compliance space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Gavin Millard
Vice President of Product Marketing of Tenable
Gavin is a trained, ethical hacker who works with medium and large enterprises to address their cybersecurity challenges. With a deep understanding of how attackers plot a breach, he helps bring these companies to a trusted state of IT infrastructure. He previously worked as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) technical director for Tripwire. He has also spoken frequently on data integrity, hacking and other key security topics. Current Position: As Technical Director, Gavin is involved with the major clients in the EMEA region, helping to manage and reduce their attack surface.
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About Tenable, Tenable: Tenable helps organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk across the full range of modern computing assets.
David Byron
SVP Global Alliances and New Markets and General Manager of Global Sales and Marketing of CUBE
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Jamie Hoyle
SVP of Product of MirrorWeb
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About MirrorWeb: We archive thousands of websites a year, hundreds of social media accounts, and index billions of documents.
Ricky Patel
VP Engineering of Lumeon
Ricky Patel is VP of Engineering at Lumeon.
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About Lumeon: Lumeon is a digital health company providing management care solutions to the healthcare industry.
Jeffrey Ball
VP of Customer Satisfaction of Lumeon
Jeff is an experienced customer success strategist, with over sixteen years’ experience growing operational, sales and service line departments within start-up and enterprise environments. He has extensive experience in the Telcoms, SaaS and IT consultancy sector, having held the position of Director of Service Operations at companies including PassivSystems, Affinity, Viatel and RSL COM. Jeff was also Head of National Service Centre for Volkswagen Group, where he headed a team of over 300 people, helping the company achieve the highest possible quality scores as rated by the automobile industry.
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About Lumeon: Lumeon is a digital health company providing management care solutions to the healthcare industry.
Alex Ford
VP Operations & Marketing of encompass
In a journey that has taken her from Sydney to Scotland, Alex has worked with Encompass Corporation since the company was founded in 2012. Alex re-located to Glasgow in 2015 when Encompass launched in the UK and played a key role in the establishment of the UK operation. With a pivot or two under her belt along the way, Alex has seen Encompass become a leading provider of KYC software for automating AML/CTF compliance in professional and financial services. As Vice President of Operations and Marketing, Alex brings customer focus, strategic thinking and innovation to the business. In addition to overseeing the UK operation from the head office in Glasgow, she leads the marketing, customer success and product teams. Previously, Alex was Marketing and Innovation Manager for the Institute of Executive Coaching and Leadership in Sydney and Hong Kong, and prior to that marketed software company The Distillery. She holds degrees in Japanese and Marketing, as well as Digital Marketing qualifications from ADMA and Product Marketing from UC Berkeley. When she is not engrossed in all things Encompass, Alex is exploring Scotland, serves as a Director in her family’s Wholesale Coffee Distributorship business (despite letting down the Aussie stereo type and actually being tea-devotee!) and practices yoga.
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About encompass: encompass robotically automates information and news discovery for KYC requirements for onboarding, event-driven refresh and remediation.
Ed Lloyd
Executive Vice President, Global Head of Sales of encompass
Over the past decade, Ed has led sales and served as a member of the Executive Management Teams at a number of organisations in the Know Your Customer and Governance Risk & Compliance space. Ed managed the New Business Sales and Account Management teams covering EMEA and Asia Pacific for these firms, delivering new business sales growth and increasing the brands’ footprints in new logos and new geographies, that helped take two of them to successful sale, one to a FTSE 100 company, the other to Private Equity.
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About encompass: encompass robotically automates information and news discovery for KYC requirements for onboarding, event-driven refresh and remediation.
Chris Beaumont
Vice President Marketing of SHE Software
Chris is Vice President Marketing and masterminds all marketing, public relations, events and business development activities across the globe. His main focus is to build SHE Software’s reputation globally as the leading health and safety software provider, and develop new creative routes to market to meet acquisition and retention targets. Chris joined SHE Software in 2013, bringing over 15 years marketing leadership experience. In his previous role at BP, he worked on product development, creating a number of successful go-to-market strategies. He holds a Professional Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing and BSc Hons Management & Information Technology, UMIST. When not putting his creative brain to the test, outside work, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife, young daughter and eating!
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About SHE Software: Health and Safety software. Transforming how companies engage with their employees, delivering safe, nurturing and compliant workplaces.
Wouter Beek
Vice President of uPnP Forum
Wouter is a home networking architect at Cisco System SPVSS. He started his career in Philips at the Physics Labs, where he worked on simulation applications for cathode ray tubes. Later he migrated to Applied Technologies, also a department of Royal Philips Electronics. Among one of the many topics that he tackled, he started working on home network connectivity. Later he moved to the Television department where he functioned as technology leader in home connectivity. Wouter moved to Cisco Systems and functions as home networking architect. In this role he is the main representative of Cisco Systems in the UPnP standardization organization and currently acting as Director on the UPnP Steering Committee and has technical responsibilities among others as UPnP Compliance Committee Chair and IOT Datamodel chair. His contributions in the UPnP Forum are now standardized in UPnP: AV3 AV4, Multi-Screen and other specifications of the UPnP Forum.
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About Cascoda, Open Connectivity Foundation, uPnP Forum: UPnP Forum is an industry initiative of members working to enable easier device-to-device interoperability and better home networking.
Wouter Beek
Vice President of uPnP Forum
Wouter is a home networking architect at Cisco System SPVSS. He started his career in Philips at the Physics Labs, where he worked on simulation applications for cathode ray tubes. Later he migrated to Applied Technologies, also a department of Royal Philips Electronics. Among one of the many topics that he tackled, he started working on home network connectivity. Later he moved to the Television department where he functioned as technology leader in home connectivity. Wouter moved to Cisco Systems and functions as home networking architect. In this role he is the main representative of Cisco Systems in the UPnP standardization organization and currently acting as Director on the UPnP Steering Committee and has technical responsibilities among others as UPnP Compliance Committee Chair and IOT Datamodel chair. His contributions in the UPnP Forum are now standardized in UPnP: AV3 AV4, Multi-Screen and other specifications of the UPnP Forum.
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About Cascoda, Open Connectivity Foundation, uPnP Forum: UPnP Forum is an industry initiative of members working to enable easier device-to-device interoperability and better home networking.
Amanda Steward
VP, Marketing of Pushfor
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About Pushfor: Pushfor is a secure content sharing platform that pushes, controls and tracks content of any type or size.
