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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 Music Streaming 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.
Nico Perez
Co-founder & CEO of Mixcloud
Nico Perez is a co-founder of Mixcloud.com He graduated from Cambridge University with a Masters in Engineering and has worked for multinational companies in both the green tech and travel sectors before setting up Mixcloud in the summer of 2008. With a background in freelance webdesign, he has a wide range of client experience working with various small and medium size organisations. He has a passion for great design and a strong understanding of information architecture and user experience.
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About Mixcloud: Mixcloud is an online long-form audio platform providing content such as radio shows, podcasts and DJ mixes.
Hans-Holger Albrecht
CEO of Deezer
Hans-Holger Albrecht is the chief executive officer of Deezer, a global on-demand audio provider that offers a digital music streaming service in more than 180 countries. Prior to Deezer, he served Modern Times Group for 12 years as the president and chief executive officer of the company. Previously, he served the same company holding different positions such as head of pay-TV operations, business area manager, and chief operating officer. Albrecht holds a PhD in law from Ruhr Universitaet Bochum and a Master of Law degree from Albert-Ludwigs-Universität Freiburg im Breisgau.
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About Deezer, Veon: Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming company and includes a unique personalisation model, Flow.
Laurent Cordonnier
Chief Financial, Legal & Human Capital Officer & Deputy CEO of Deezer
Laurent Cordonnier is the deputy CEO/chief financial, legal and human capital officer at Deezer.
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About Deezer: Deezer is the world’s most diverse, dynamic and personal global music streaming company and includes a unique personalisation model, Flow.
George Meek
CEO of InPlayer
CEO at InPlayer
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About InPlayer: InPlayer is a video and digital asset monetization platform.
Kevin Brown
CEO & Founder of FanCircles
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About Brandaisy, FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Elomida Visviki
CEO & Co-Founder of Weav
Elomida Visviki is CEO and Co-founder at Weav and Cute Little Apps Ltd. She used to work at TEDxAthens ad Ambassador and Vice President at NGO Aniksi.
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About Weav: Weav Music has created a new format that relies on two pieces of software.
Conrad Withey
CEO of Instrumental
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About Instrumental: Our TalentAI platform uses machine learning to discover emerging talent, predominantly for the music and entertainment industry.
Andy Agar
Co-Founder and CEO of Music TCHR
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About Music TCHR: Music TCHR is a platform that focuses on music, teaching, songwriting, live events, and the marketplace.
Alex Hunter
Founder & CEO of Rushmore.fm
Alex Hunter is an angel investor and company incubator.
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About Ignite Accelerator, Rushmore.fm: We want to bring artists and music fans closer together.
Paul Custance
Founder and CEO of Lirica
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About Lirica: Lirica harnesses the power of music to make learning both memorable and fun.
Rob Lewis
Founder & CEO of Electric Jukebox
Rob Lewis is an English businessman and serial entrepreneur. Lewis has established several successful publishing and technology ventures including Business & Technology magazine, Cromwell Media, Silicon Media Group, Omnifone, rara.com, and most recently The Electric Jukebox Company. Lewis is a 2009 Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year. Lewis was educated at Latymer Upper School, London. He gained a MA degree in Economics from Jesus College, Cambridge.
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About Electric Jukebox: Electric Jukebox: Taking on music streaming services, home entertainment systems
David Courtier-Dutton
CEO of SoundOut
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About Slicethepie, SoundOut: SoundOut is a research and audience insight tool for new music content that guarantees accurate and objective insight into music.
Mark Moriarty
CEO and Founder of Awesound
Mark Moriarty is Founder and CEO at Awesound. Previously, he was consultant at McKinsey and Company. He also used to work at UC Berkeley as an open educational resources researcher, and at Claritics as predictive analytics software developer.
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About Awesound: Awesound is a platform for personalized and interactive audio.
