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 CEO’ operating in the Employee Benefits 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.
Yusuf Sherwani
Co-Founder & CEO of Quit Genius
Yusuf is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quit Genius. He is a Y Combinator alumni and was featured by Fast Company’s as one of their Most Creative People of 2019 as well as Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List of 2018.
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About Quit Genius: Quit Genius is pioneering digital therapeutics for multiple addictions.
Asesh Sarkar
Co-founder & Global CEO of Salary Finance
Asesh Sarkar co-founded SalaryFinance Limited in 2015 and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Asesh Sarkar was a Partner at PA Consulting, where he advised a range of financial institutions on their strategic programmes. He is an advocate of business with a social purpose and disruptive FinTech.
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About Salary Finance: Salary Finance partners with employers to improve employee wellbeing by helping get people out of debt and into saving.
Matt McCambridge
Co-Founder and CEO of Eden Health
Matt McCambridge is the Co-Founder and CEO at Eden Health.
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About Eden Health: Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers seeking to elevate the health and wellbeing of their employees.
Daniel Shellard
CEO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Wouter Wytenburg
CEO & Co-Founder of Sharefinance
London based Dutch serial-entrepreneur with a successful track record of spotting opportunities, assembling high-performance teams, building solutions and launching them into the marketplace.
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About Sharefinance: Sharefinance democratises employee share ownership through innovative financing solutions
Alex Hind
CEO & Co-Founder of Heka
Alex Hind, CEO & Co-Founder of GoSweat.
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About Heka: The personalised health platform to make your employees feel valued.
Craig Unsworth
Chief Executive Officer of Upgrade Pack
Craig is CEO and Founder of Upgrade Pack, the closed marketplace for airline and hotel upgrades. He has 16 years’ experience adding value to companies through the creation of proprietary technology and innovation. His core strength is building product teams, and new products, that add to the company’s valuation. He has consistently delivered this within corporate, agency, startup and consultancy environments – resulting in MBO, private equity, trade sale, and capital market (AIM IPO) exits. Craig was Chair of ad:tech London from 2012 to 2016, and a Member of its Advisory Board. He is an Advocate for Tech London Advocates (TLA); and served on the Executive Committee of BIMA (British Interactive Media Association), leading the Technology and Inclusion committee groups. He is London-based but has worked globally for the past decade.
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About Upgrade Pack: Upgrade Pack is your key to a better hotel room or airplane seat.
Grant Stobart
CEO of Broadstone
Prior to joining Broadstone in January 2017, Grant was Chief Executive of Alexander Forbes International based in London and managed the Alexander Forbes group’s businesses across Europe, the Middle East and sub-Saharan Africa, outside of South Africa. In addition, Grant was responsible for mergers and acquisitions’ activity globally. Grant has over 20 years’ experience, predominantly in regulated financial services. He has worked in businesses spanning distribution, short- and long-term insurance, investment management, banking and consulting across multiple geographies. He has a strong interest in strategy, and improving and building growth-oriented companies through aligning teams, a ‘Higher Purpose’ culture, digital disruption and non-organic growth. Grant started his career with Arthur Andersen in South Africa before moving to Rand Merchant Bank after a stint as a partner in niche advisory business. Grant moved to London in 1999 to help restructure the FirstRand group’s investment bank and wealth management business, before joining Alexander Forbes in 2003.
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About Broadstone: Broadstone provides pensions, employee benefits, actuarial and investment services advice to small and medium sized employers.
Paul Roberts
Founder & CEO of Nomify
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About Nomify: Nomify is an app that provides the entire company’s employee engagement with news, events, nominations, and staff holiday planning.
Fionnuala O’Conor
CEO of Wevolve
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About Wevolve: Wevolve gets work to work by giving employees personalised, interactive app coaching and leaders real-time x-ray vision into change.
Nikolaos Lygkonis
CEO & Founder of PeopleGoal
Co founder of PeopleGoal.
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About PeopleGoal: PeopleGoal is a configurable employee performance and engagement platform.
Paul Putman
Chief Executive Officer of Talkout
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About Talkout: Talkout provides cutting-edge software, a virtual reality platform, and training to promote workplace wellness.
