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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 Director operating in the Delivery Service 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.
Lynn Fordham
Director of Delivering London
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About Delivering London: Delivering London builds an open, hyper-local out of home parcel delivery network for the UK.
Shane Lake
Co-Founder and Managing Director of hungryhouse
Shane Lake is co-founder and managing director at Hungryhouse.
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About hungryhouse: hungryhouse is a U.K.-based online platform for takeaway and food delivery that provides a wide range of cuisines and dishes.
Lorenzo Franzi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Zipjet
Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JP Morgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.
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About Zipjet: Zipjet is an online laundry and dry cleaning service that enables its users to order laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery services.
Tim Linssen
Co-Founder & Director of Product of Quiqup
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Des McManus
Co-Founder – Director of Operations of Friction Free Shaving
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About Friction Free Shaving: UK razor delivery service designed exclusively for women.
Anna Szanto
Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Goodness Project
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About The Goodness Project: The Goodness Project is a highly regarded e-commerce platform offering quality free from gifts, subscription boxes.
Serge Lubensky
Founder | Executive Managing Director of ReTool Ventures
Serge is a geek who enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to difficult problems. Along the way, he managed to become a successful entrepreneur with a track record of starting, growing and selling technology companies. Serge grew up in a family of scientists and artists. Not smart enough to become a scientist and not creative enough to be an artist, Serge chose to pursue a computer engineering degree in his hometown of Minsk strictly to avoid being drafted into the Russian Army during the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan. Serge’s first successful exit, from a failing 70-year old startup called the USSR, occurred in 1988. Fresh off the boat, Serge joined a computer company in Queens, NY, developing software for service contractors. Architecting and supporting a system that businesses relied on allowed Serge to learn the intricacies of the commercial repair and maintenance trades and ways to apply technology to solve real-life challenges for business owners and their field technicians. In the process, Serge and the company’s founder, Steven Gottfried, became friends and business partners and started to formulate plans for their next business venture. In 1999, Steven and Serge founded a cloud-based facilities management platform, ServiceChannel, with the goal of transforming the highly inefficient multi-billion dollar commercial repair and maintenance industry. As with their previous company, which was successfully sold, Steven was the idea generator and a master salesman, while Serge worked behind the scenes as CTO to help ServiceChannel achieve a dominant position in the global facilities management marketplace. In 2016, Serge moved to London to accelerate ServiceChannel’s expansion in Europe. In the summer of 2017, Accel, an elite technology VC firm, invested $54M in ServiceChannel continuing to fuel its growth and allowing Steven and Serge to realize a highly successful exit. Now Steven and Serge run ReTool Ventures, a technology investment firm.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: ReTool Ventures is a new technology investment firm that seeks to retool the facilities management industry by curating a “digital toolbox”
Arun Singh
Co Founder, Director of e-CARGOWARE Ltd
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About e-CARGOWARE Ltd: e-Cargoware is a cargo logistics applications on cloud for cargo airlines, ground handlers, cargo GSAs and freight forwarders
Daniel Blignaut
Managing Director of UCook
An articulate and passionate entrepreneur looking to utilise my unique background in management, finance and software engineering by taking on a role that challenges me to innovate business and drive value creation
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About UCook: UCOOK is a food and beverage platform that offers meal kit delivery service.
Simon Tutton
Founder & Director of TheFullWorks
Simon Tutton, founder of ecommerce platform Thefullworks.
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About TheFullWorks: Thefullworks is a subscription based end-to-end eCommerce services solution, providing webshops, storage, and distribution.
Simon Collins
Director of Cup of Tea
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About Cup of Tea: Cup of Tea is a specialising in the sourcing and distribution of some of the world’s finest teas.
Christine Collins
Director of Cup of Tea
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About Cup of Tea: Cup of Tea is a specialising in the sourcing and distribution of some of the world’s finest teas.
Christine Collins
Director of Cup of Tea
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About Cup of Tea: Cup of Tea is a specialising in the sourcing and distribution of some of the world’s finest teas.
