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 President operating in the Automotive space. If you think a President 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.
Mark Cooper
Vice President and Managing Director, Avery Europe and Asia Pacific of CCL Industries
Mark Cooper is a Vice President and Managing Director, Avery Europe and Asia Pacific at CCL Industries.
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About Avery, CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Jamie Robinson
Vice President and Managing Director, Home & Personal Care Europe of CCL Industries
Jamie Robinson is a Vice President and Managing Director, Home & Personal Care Europe at CCL Industries.
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About CCL Industries: CCL is the largest label company in the world and provides innovative solutions.
Wendy Tan White
Vice President of X, the moonshot factory
Wendy Tan-White is Founder and CMO of fast growth software company Moonfruit which provides small businesses with a simple but powerful DIY website builder giving them total design control. She founded www.moonfruit.com in 1999, as CEO raising significant venture capital from Macromedia and LVMH. Moonfruit was sold to Gandi Group in 2005 where Wendy became Marketing Director but catalysed by high growth it was spun back out as a separate company, raising $2.25m from Stephens(US) in Sept 2010 to scale internationally. A BEng in Computer Science from Imperial College, London led her to a career in IT and finance. She was part of start-up team which set up www.egg.com, the UK’s first Internet bank. Wendy was also part of the team who set-up www.zopa.com in 2004, the first European peer to peer lending website. Wendy mentors for 500startups, silicon valley based seed fund and incubator, she’s on the investment panel of Mobius Lifesciences incubator and a mentor for Astia Women Entrepreneur’s Programme. She has an MA in Design for Future Textiles from Central St. Martins and is a smart textile designer for fun. She works with her husband Joe White who is CEO, Moonfruit and they live in West London with their 6 yr old son and 3 yr old daughter.
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About Business Growth Fund, Moonfruit, X, the moonshot factory: X, the moonshot factory invents and launches breakthrough technologies and radical solutions.
Rodney O’Neal
CEO & President of Aptiv
Rodney O’Neal is the chief executive officer and president of Delphi. O’Neal began his automotive career at General Motors (GM) in 1971 as a student at General Motors Institute (currently Kettering University). In 1975, he joined the Inland Division where he held a number of engineering and manufacturing positions in Ohio, Portugal, and Canada. He was named director of industrial engineering for the former Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada Group in 1991 and the following year became a director of manufacturing for Delphi. O’Neal was named general director of Warehousing & Distribution for GM Service Parts Operations in 1994. In 1997, he was elected a GM vice president and named general manager of Delphi Interior Systems. When Delphi became an independent company following its spinoff from GM, O’Neal was elected a Delphi vice president and president of Delphi Interior Systems in November 1998. In 2000, O’Neal was named executive vice president of the former Safety, Thermal & Electrical Architecture Sector. O’Neal was named president of the Dynamics, Propulsion and Thermal Sector in 2003 and was named president and chief operating officer in 2005. He was named to his current position of chief executive officer in January, 2007. O’Neal earned a bachelor’s degree from General Motors Institute and a master’s degree from Stanford University. O’Neal serves on the board of directors for Delphi and the board of directors of Sprint/Nextel. O’Neal is a member of the Executive Leadership Council and former member of the board of directors for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, the board of directors for Inroads, Inc., the Michigan Manufacturers Association, the Woodward Governor Company and the advisory board for Focus: HOPE.
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About Aptiv: Aptiv is a global technology company that develops safer, greener, and more connected solutions, which enable the future of mobility.
David Bailey
Vice President, Global Merchandising of SmartThings
David Bailey, Vice President, Marketing Communications at SmartThings
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About SmartThings: SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
Jess Brown
Vice President and Chief Information Officer of RelaDyne
Jess Brown is responsible for RelaDyne’s Information Technology platform, including all IT services and support. Under Brown’s leadership RelaDyne has leveraged leading-edge technology to install a common computing platform throughout the organization and has integrated the new computing system into all of its business units to foster common operating procedures and capitalize on economies of scale. Other technology highlights include the deployment of a CRM system, a demand planning and forecasting system, and an industry leading B2B customer-facing website. Prior to joining RelaDyne, Brown spent nearly 24 years with Wolseley PLC, holding positions at group companies Ferguson Enterprises and Stock Building Supply and at Wolseley’s head office. Ferguson, located in Newport News, Va., is the nation’s leading plumbing, HVAC and building supply distributor. There, Brown held a variety of technical and business operations positions. He began his career at Ferguson in 1987 as an IT Support Analyst and was promoted into programming, analyst and IT management roles; he steadily rose through the ranks to Ferguson’s Director of IT. In 2004, Brown assumed international responsibility for all Wolseley companies’ software as Director of Software Applications. In addition to creating and deploying technology during his Wolseley group tenure, Brown held roles in business reengineering and optimization, programs to gather market intelligence and gauge customer service, and business restructuring for operational efficiency. During his tenure at Stock Building Supply, he was Director of Business Operations. In this role he developed common business processes to facilitate system utilization. Brown received a B.S. Degree in Management Information Systems from Christopher Newport University. He has completed executive development programs at the University of Virginia’s Darden School of Business, the International Institute for Management Development in Lausanne, Switzerland, and management development at the Gallup School of Management.
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About RelaDyne: RelaDyne is a supplier of comprehensive equipment reliability products and value added services.
Roger Vidal
Vice President Of Engineering, Inventory Software Solutions of Cox Automotive
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About Cox Automotive: Cox Automotive is a digital marketing, software, e-commerce for consumers, manufacturers and the overall automotive ecosystem worldwide.
Neil Packham
CEO | President International of CDK Global
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About CDK Global: CDK Global is transforming how cars, trucks, and vehicles of all kinds are marketed, sold, and serviced around the world.
Russell Alexander
Vice President of Legal of CDK Global
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About CDK Global: CDK Global is transforming how cars, trucks, and vehicles of all kinds are marketed, sold, and serviced around the world.
Julian Hughes
Senior Vice President, US of Intelligent Energy
Julian is based out of our San Francisco Bay Area office and heads up the Group’s Commercial activity as well as US operations. Prior to joining Intelligent Energy, Julian held senior positions within the automotive industry at General Motors (Vauxhall) and TWR Group (Tom Walkinshaw Racing) which then led into the Cleantech sector with Microgen Engine Corporation where he held the position of CEO. Microgen developed and manufactured Stirling engines for the CHP, Military and Solar markets. In addition to his role as Group Corporate Development Director, Julian is also a Non-Executive Board Member for IECHP Ltd, which is a subsidiary of Intelligent Energy.
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About Intelligent Energy: Intelligent Energy is a clean power systems company offering fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies.
Ramchander S.
Vice President of Global Marketing of Castrol
Ramchander A.S. is a Vice President of Global Marketing at Castrol.
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About Castrol: Castrol is a worldwide leader in high performance lubricants for the automotive, industrial, marine and aerospace industries.
Jason Walker
President, Operations of Eagle Auto Sales
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About Eagle Auto Sales: My objective is to provide individuals lacking cash or access to credit the opportunity to own dependable vehicles.
Jason Walker
President, Operations of Eagle Auto Sales
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About Eagle Auto Sales: My objective is to provide individuals lacking cash or access to credit the opportunity to own dependable vehicles.
