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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 CFO’ operating in the Automotive space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Stephen Morana
Chief Financial Officer of Cazoo
Stephen Morana is the Chief Financial Officer at Cazoo.
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About Cazoo, Flutter Entertainment, PrimeLocation.com: Cazoo is an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars.
Nitesh Shah
CFO of Metalysis
Nitesh Shah is the Group CFO, Power Resources Group of Metalysis.
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About Metalysis: Metalysis, a manufacturer of metals and alloys, offers both economic and environmental benefits over traditional metal production methods.
Kenneth Gregor
Chief Financial Officer of Jaguar Land Rover
Kenneth Gregor is Chief Financial Officer of Jaguar Land Rover, a position he was appointed to in June 2008. As a member of the Executive Committee of Jaguar Land Rover, his focus is on the financial management of the business to deliver shareholder value and support the company’s growth ambitions. His direct responsibilities include corporate finance, treasury, financial reporting, accounting, tax and internal control as well as providing business partnering support to all areas of Jaguar Land Rover’s global operations. Kenneth joined Jaguar Cars in 1997 and before his appointment as CFO held a number of roles within the Jaguar and Land Rover businesses including Group Financial Controller and financial control roles within Marketing, Sales and Service and Product Development. Ken was also one of the executives responsible for leading the transition of the worldwide commercial activities of Jaguar and Land Rover from Ford Motor Company to Tata, following the latter’s acquisition of the business in 2008. Between 1989 and 1996 Ken worked for HSBC Samuel Montagu in London advising on mergers, acquisitions and privatisations. Kenneth holds a BSc (Hons) in Applied Maths from the University of St Andrews and an MBA from Cranfield University. Based in Kenilworth, Warwickshire Kenneth’s interests include cycling and hill walking.
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About Jaguar Land Rover: Jaguar Land Rover manufactures and sells high-performance luxury saloons, specialist sports cars and four-wheel drive off-road vehicles.
Alizay Saeed
Co-Founder and CFO of VavaCars
Alizay Saeed is the Co-Founder and CFO at VavaCars.
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About VavaCars: VavaCars is an online used car transaction platform
Trisha Miller
Chief Financial Officer of Sunamp
Trisha Miller serves as Chief Financial Officer of Sunamp Limited.
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About Sunamp: Sunamp is a company that provides industrial and residential heat battery storage systems.
Mark Phillips
Chief Financial Officer of Zenith
Mark has overall responsibility for the finance functions within Zenith. He also leads our risk management, treasury and legal teams. Since joining Zenith in 1998, Mark has been instrumental in designing, managing and implementing the securitisation facilities used by the group.
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About Zenith: Zenith is an independent leasing, fleet management and vehicle outsourcing business.
Stuart Williams
CFO of Blue Motor Finance
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About Blue Motor Finance: Blue is one of the UK’s premier consumer motor finance companies, lending over £750m to over 80,000 customers.
Tim Lampert
CFO of Constellation Automotive Group
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About BCA Marketplace, Constellation Automotive Group: Constellation Automotive Group is a vertically integrated digital used car marketplace.
Adrian Pattern
CFO of Rockar
A commercially aware senior finance executive with a broad experience of financial management, control and reporting. Experienced in building strong working relationships across large matrix managed organisations with a drive and commitment to achieving results through clearly defined strategies and motivated teams. Worked within entrepreunerial SMEs and large global PLCs within the retail and service sector. Now looking to utilise this balanced experience in a company with growth aspirations. Specialties:Management of key stakeholders (Board/Banks/Investors) to ensure “no surprises” Implementing and improving financial and management controls and reporting. Acquisitions, disposals and closures. Business integration. Change management. Procurement.
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About Rockar: Rockar’s digital stores use innovative digital content to provide customers with information
Andrew Reynolds
Chief Financial Officer of Tusker
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About Tusker: Tusker is the UKs market leading and award winning salary sacrifice car provider.
Dan Benhardus
SVP/CFO of Haynes Group
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About Haynes Group: Haynes Group Provides online sales of car manuals and automotive related sites.
Peter Bullivant
Chief Financial Officer of Tantalum Corporation
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About Secondmind, Tantalum Corporation: Tantalum Corporation is a company within the Connected Car and Telematics industry.
Dylan Murphy
COO & CFO of DriveTribe
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About DriveTribe: DriveTribe is a digital media platform that allows businesses to create & publish automobile-related contents to their customers.
David Brockwell
Chief Financial Officer of Synergy Car Leasing
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About Synergy Car Leasing: Synergy Car Leasing is a car leasing agency that offers personal and commercial leases on all makes and models of vehicles.
