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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 CEO’ operating in the Fleet Management space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Andrew Yeoman
Co-Founder and CEO of Concirrus
Andy is the founding CEO of Concirrus and since then has led the company’s strategy to solve a problem in the insurance industry – how to harness the power of big data and artificial intelligence to improve loss ratios. Andy has driven the vision and product roadmap of the company built a solid customer base and reputation for the business. In 2019 Andy was voted the second most influential person Worldwide in Marine Insurance. Prior to Concirrus Andy had extensive experience in telematics, big data, and insurance in start-ups, turnarounds, and M&A. He’s passionate about discovering new business models that technology can unlock for the insurance market and their customers.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
David Keene
CEO of Aurrigo
BSc. (Electronics Electrical Engineering) MIET. CEng. FRSA. 39 years in the Automotive industry, including 29 years ownership of RDM Group. Full member of the UK Automotive Council and Niche Vehicle…
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About Aurrigo, RDM Group: Aurrigo’s self-driving pods offers mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, and other areas.
Ed Leon Klinger
CEO of Flock Ltd.
Flock is a fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles. We provide personalised, seamless insurance products for commercial motor fleets, enabling and incentivising proactive risk management. We achieve this by leveraging connected vehicle & contextual data to quantify road risk on a per-second, per-meter basis, providing our customers with risk insights and highly personalised pricing that reflect their real risk profile. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. We’re on a mission to make the world a safer, smarter place. — I graduated from Oxford University (M.Eng – Engineering, Economics and Management) where I specialised in High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for brain cancer ablation. I graduated from Cambridge University (M.Phil – Technology Policy, Judge Business School), where I published papers for various academic think-tanks on the opportunities and risks of autonomous vehicles. I have past experience in Private Equity (The Blackstone Group), Technology Policy (Facebook Inc.), and have lived and worked in Asia, lecturing at Zhejiang University in China and at Hong Kong University.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Peter Blease
Chairman & CEO of Nexus Business Solutions
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About Nexus Business Solutions: Nexus Business Solutions is a leading service provider to the automotive industry.
Bill Holmes
CEO of Radius Payment Solutions
In 1990, Bill founded UK Fuels, a new diesel bunkering company after previously working for Esso Petroleum. The company developed rapidly over the next 20 years, supplying fuel cards and associated services direct to customers as well as major international oil companies. During the same period the evolving group extended its geographical coverage, initially to Ireland in 1996 and then into mainland Europe in 2004. In March 2013 after over 20 years of growth, Bill then led a merger of over 20 European Fuel Card companies and resellers to form Radius Payment Solutions a new major player in the European fuel card market.
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About Radius Payment Solutions, The Helvellyn Foundation: Radius Payment Solutions operates as a service provider to the fleet and logistics market.
Sébastien Louit
CEO of mondaycar
Sébastien Louit is the CEO and founder of mondaycar. He also co-founded magic makers, coding classes for kids. This edTech startup ranked in the top 10 French edTech startup in 2016. He exited in 2018.
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About mondaycar: Hassle-free car subscription
Trygve P. Munthe
Co-CEO & Founder of DHT Holdings
Trygve P. Munthe is the Founder & Co CEO of DHT Holdings Inc.
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About DHT Holdings: DHT operates as an independent crude oil tanker company.
Svein Moxnes Harfjeld
CEO of DHT Holdings
Joined DHT in 2010. He has over 20 years of experience in the shipping industry. Before DHT he was a partner in Munthe & Harfjeld AS. Prior this, he came from the BW Group were he held several positions; Group Executive Director, CEO of BW Offshore, Director of Bergesen dy and Director of World-Wide Shipping. He previosly served as Managing Director with Andhika Maritime Services, Director at Coeclerici and General Manager with Mitsui O.S.K. He started his shipping career in shipping with the Torvald Klaveness Group of Norway.
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About : DHT operates as an independent crude oil tanker company.
Pratik Patel
Founder & CEO of RideKleen
Pratik is an environmental engineer from Drexel University whose passion for cars gave him the idea of combining both industries to come up with a viable and effective eco-friendly solution for car cleaning. As a sports car enthusiast himself, he knew what cars mean to their owners and the importance of a clean ride. In addition, Pratik realized the need for a reputable, national mobile cleaning company that can deliver consistent work for companies with fleets of vehicles. Now with over 8 years of experience in the auto cleaning and customer service industry, he is the Chief Executive Officer of RideKleen.
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About RideKleen: RideKleen is a mobile cleaning and fleet management company.
Marco Lessacher
CEO of Alphabet Business Mobility
Marco Lessacher became Head of Alphabet International in July 2019. He started his career at the BMW Group in 2007 and held various CEO functions, among others at BMW Financial Services and Alphabet Germany. He was subsequently responsible as Head of International Corporate, Direct and Special Sales at the BMW Group. In 2017, he assumed responsibility for BMW Group’s Financial Services business in Central and Southeastern Europe and further developed the region with its eleven markets in a very successful and forward-looking manner as Chairman of the Board of BMW Austria Bank GmbH.
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About Alphabet Business Mobility: Alphabet operates as a provider of business mobility solutions.
Aldo Monteforte
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of The Floow
As CEO Aldo leads the sales and business development efforts and is responsible for growing The Floow into the world leading provider of analytical insights at the service of the global automotive ecosystem. He conceived and founded The Floow in 2012, with the vision of making vehicles safer and cheaper for all. In particular Aldo saw the potential to transform the telematics industry from the convergence of mobile technologies, large scale data mining and psychology applied to driver behaviour. After a career in investment banking, in 2000 Aldo became an entrepreneur and investor in high growth telematics companies.
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About The Floow: The Floow designs the world’s most advanced and lowest-cost telematic systems to make vehicles safer and cheaper for all.
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
