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 Director operating in the Android space. If you think a 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.
Zoe Wong
Finance Director of Depop
Zoe is a finance and operations specialist within high-growth digital platforms. She is currently Director at Depop, an international ‘social shopping’ app that is hugely popular with Generation Z, with over 8 million users.
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About Depop: Depop provides a mobile application that allows users to buy, sell, discover, and explore various things.
Joyce Adeluwoye
Global Director of Diversity and Inclusion of King.com
Joyce Adeluwoye-Adams is the Global Director of Diversity and Inclusion at King. Joyce joined King in March 2018, shortly after receiving a MBE for her services to diversity in the media industry. Joyce is responsible for the delivery of King’s Diversity and Inclusion programme, ensuring that it remains a top priority for the company, whilst celebrating King’s diverse pool of talent and gamers. Joyce has worked on diversity issues for over 20 years. Prior to joining King, Joyce was Diversity Lead at the BBC for two and a half years, and before that, Head of Diversity at the Producer’s Alliance for Cinema and Television (PACT) for six years.
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About King.com: King.com is an interactive entertainment company that provides online games for global portals, websites, and other media companies.
Karin Bergvall
Strategy Director at Candy Crush of King.com
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About King.com: King.com is an interactive entertainment company that provides online games for global portals, websites, and other media companies.
Roberto Kusabbi
Director of Community and Social Marketing, Global of King.com
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About King.com: King.com is an interactive entertainment company that provides online games for global portals, websites, and other media companies.
Andrew Munden
Live Operations Director of Space Ape
Andrew Munden serves as a live operations director at Space Ape Games.
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Amanda Brearley
Operations Director of Space Ape
Amanda Brearley serves as an operations director at Space Ape Games.
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Simon Watmough
Technical Director of Space Ape
Simon Watmough is a technical director at Space Ape Games.
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Ian Weston
Director of The Developer Network Ltd
Ian Weston helps companies find and build digital business solutions. After a 10 year period building aerospace control and training systems for agencies including the UK MoD, ESA, Inmarsat and Eumetsat, Ian Weston joined Psion and was one of the original management team when Symbian was formed in 1998 to kickstart the smartphone industry. At Symbian, he was responsible within the software engineering department for establishing structured project management approaches, including supplier selection and management, and eventually ran the delivery programmes for Symbian OS (which was the dominant smartphone OS for the industry’s first decade). Transferring to an outward-facing role, he then set up and ran the licensing arrangements for Symbian’s 300 technology partners, providing technical consultancy and training, while running the application developer support forums and Symbian Press. After leaving Symbian in 2005 he founded and co-founded a series of technical consultancy businesses focusing on smartphones and mobile web, covering technical training and accreditation, contract middleware development, mobile app development and mobile web services and products. He is currently active in the digital media space concentrating on mobile advertising and marketing solutions as well as educational training simulations.
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About Devnet Inc, The Developer Network Ltd: The DevNet specialises in the procurement, sourcing, implementation and management of web and mobile software development.
Adrian Leu
Director Of Operations of GameBench
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About GameBench: Featured in Forbes and Engadget, GameBench helps companies deal with Android fragmentation through performance related tools & services.
Andy Powell
Director of Andibee
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About Andibee: Andibee is an embedded system and control company that focuses on electronics, software, and Android app development.
Jack Symons
Director (Product) of Gamban
Jack Symons is Co-Founder & Director at Gamban.
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About Gamban: RegTech, Mobile, Healthcare
Akshay Dashrath
Director of Tengio Ltd
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About Tengio Ltd: Mobile Consultancy specialising in Android development
