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 Mobile Advertising 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.
Gerard Keeley
CEO & Co-Founder of Vidsy
Co-Founder & CEO at Vidsy.
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About Vidsy: Vidsy is the creative technology engine powering mobile video ad creation for brands.
Adrian Pearmund
Founding Partner & CEO of Cablato
Adrian has been working in programmatic marketing since 2010. Founded Intelligent Futures independent trading desk in 2013 and subsequently Cablato in 2015. Strong media and business background (LBi, KPMG, WPP) proven success at building innovative businesses.
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About Cablato, Conviva: Cablato develops and deploys broadcast quality video personalisation technology for OTT & addressable TV industries.
Sonny Michael Holmqvist
CEO of Basebone
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About Basebone: Basebone is a digital content business focused on the mobile phone user. We are the creators and owners of baseplay streaming services.
Christophe Collet
CEO of S4M
Christophe Collet is Founder & CEO at S4M.
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About S4M: S4M is an advertising technology that connects brands to consumers by bridging the gap between digital advertising and the real-world.
Shumel Lais
Founder & CEO of Appsumer
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Neil Garner
Founder & CEO of Thyngs
Neil founded Proxama in 2005 (then called Glue4 Technologies). The business focused on creating services that link people and brands using consumer technologies. In 2008, the company was rebranded as Proxama with a focus on the applications of mobile, smartcard and NFC technologies. Neil passionately believes in using emerging technologies to create valuable services for people. Prior to founding Proxama, Neil ran a division of a niche consultancy, Consult Hyperion, where he led the systems implementation teams for a number of ground breaking products including Vodafone’s m-Pesa, MasterCard’s PayPass, Sky and Barclaycard’s SkyCard and American Express Blue card. Neil has a MEng and DPhil from York University and is a Chartered Engineer. Any precious time at home is split between renovating an old property and enjoying life with his wife and three young children.
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About Thyngs: Thyngs is a touch-free, physical-digital payment platform that helps charities, retailers, and publishers drive engagement with customers.
Paul Coggins
CEO of Adludio
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About Adludio: Adludio is a next generation mobile advertising platform to create, distribute, and optimise campaigns.
Jo Eckersley
CEO & Founder of Bubbl Ltd
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About Bubbl Ltd: Cutting-edge mobile app plug-in that allows companies to hyper-focus their marketing efforts with geo-triggered customer engagement tools.
Abhishek Sen
CEO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
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About NumberEight: On-device AI software to predict user context using mobile sensors
Chris Sahota
CEO and Founder of Ciesco
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About Ciesco: Corporate finance advisors to technology-enabled media and marketing businesses
Si Brown
Founder & CEO of skignz
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About skignz: skignz: A Precise Location AR platform providing an Enterprise API/SDK that is capable of placing digital content anywhere on the planet
Zheng Zhang
CEO and Co Founder at ENVISIONX of ENVISIONX LTD
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About BitCasts, ENVISIONX LTD: EnvisionX innovates the next generation of global advertising by interconnecting programmatic platforms through one ecosystem.
Zheng Zhang
CEO and Co Founder at ENVISIONX of ENVISIONX LTD
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About BitCasts, ENVISIONX LTD: EnvisionX innovates the next generation of global advertising by interconnecting programmatic platforms through one ecosystem.
Graham Williams
CEO of Cloudbanter
Extensive experience and successful track record of building high growth technology organisations within general industry sectors with venture capital investment including multiple stock exchange lists, mergers & acquisitions and exits. Held Chairman, Director, CEO, President and Vice President positions with Europe, Americas, Middle East and Asia Pacific responsibility plus lived in UK, Netherlands, Sweden, Spain and USA.
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About Cloudbanter: Cloudbanter provides AI monetization & personalization of mobile messaging, apps and phones plus TVs.
