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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 Compliance 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.
Jonathan Draper
Product Director, Onboarding and Monitoring of ComplyAdvantage
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About ComplyAdvantage: ComplyAdvantage provides AI-driven financial crime risk data and detection technology.
Ian Evans
Managing Director, EMEA of OneTrust
Ian Evans is vice president and managing director, EMEA, at AirWatch. He is responsible for growing AirWatch’s business in the European, Middle Eastern and African regions. Evans brings more than 20 years of experience in the software industry to AirWatch, with more than 10 years in direct and channel sales. He has been successful in helping companies achieve forecasted goals by structuring sales and operation processes and coaching sales teams to deliver multi-year, multimillion-dollar contracts.
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About OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Nial Ferguson
Regional Director of Sourcepoint
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About Sourcepoint: Sourcepoint is the data privacy software company for the digital marketing ecosystem.
Barry Sage
Global Service Operations Director of CUBE
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Rob West
Delivery and Operations Director of CUBE
Rob has led several business streams within The Content Group. Over many years, he has built deep experience in working with highly complex global customers, managing delivery and operations. Rob is focused on leading his experienced team of regulatory experts and technical specialists to meet ever-changing customer challenges. Building upon his knowledge of technology and operations, Rob’s teams support customers, enabling them to deliver on their regulatory transformation goals.
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Peter Fell
Technical Director, International of Anonos
Peter Fell is the international technical director at Anonos.
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About Anonos: Transform your data into a state-of-the-art asset, making secure, borderless innovation lawful.
Alex Cooper
Director of Support and Technical Operations of Lumeon
Alex is a Support and Technical Operations management professional, with over 20 years in the IT and software industries. His range of experience encompasses work with a wide variety of organizations and customers, from small non-profit organization to the largest global companies. His background is in Content Management and enterprise-class infrastructure and applications, with over 10 years’ experience managing multiple technical teams across geographies. Alex has extensive experience implementing scalable support service organizations and processes, focused on delivering positive outcomes for customers. He has developed operationalized partnerships with blue-chip companies including SAP, HP, Cisco and Capita.
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About Lumeon, Lumeon: Lumeon is a digital health company providing management care solutions to the healthcare industry.
Patrick Curry
Director – Innovation & Strategy of Sedicii
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About Sedicii: Sedicii verifies identity data between two organisations without exposing the underlying data.
Ashkan Jabbari
Director of Konsolute Ltd
Ashkan Jabbari is the co-founder and director at Konsolute.
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About Konsolute Ltd: Microsoft Gold Partner headquartered in London offering professional services and products for the Microsoft Cloud
Nigel Oakley
Product Marketing and Business Development Director of Ampliphae
As a senior executive at Ampliphae, Nigel is helping IT Directors at medium and large enterprises, to reduce the risks they face as their organisations embrace cloud computing. With the insight and wisdom gained over 40 years in the IT, Networking, Infrastructure and Cloud industry, Nigel is ideally placed to make a difference to client businesses.
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About Ampliphae: SaaS Risk Management – discover and manage the SaaS in your organisation
BIlly Williams
Director & Co-Founder of Cufflink.io
Billy has worked in the IT professional services and Sales arena for over 20 years primarily on customer orientated data projects. He has been a Company Director for 2 successful UK Startup consultancy companies and has full sales cycle experience Billy has worked globally (UK, Ireland, Norway, Switzerland, UAE, Egypt, Australia) for some of the largest multi-national Organisations across multiple different business streams. Billy has been involved within the Ethereum and wider Blockchain community for the past 3 years having attended DEVCON1, DEVCON4, EDCON and has forged links with key individuals within the DLT (Blockchain) Ecosystem and the Ethereum community. His previous role was as both SME (Subject Matter Expert) and Programme Manager in executing the GDPR Programmes at a large UK Airport and multinational Legal Firm based out of London.
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About Cufflink.io: Cyber Security Software as a Service
Nick Wakefield
Founder & Managing Director of inAsia Media
Nick has over 18 years of experience in technology, media and finance. He started his first tech business in 1999 building an e-commerce platform. He spent 7 years in London focusing on financial sales in the risk management and derivatives market, before moving to Asia to help build Euromoney’s portfolio of conferences across emerging markets. Over this period he ran teams in New York, London and Hong Kong. In 2010 he setup inAsia Media and in 2013 launched Regulation Asia, the leading regulatory information service. He still plays an advisory role in the business. His passion for technology and experience working within the financial markets partner well for Bambu in the role expanding into Europe. He holds a Diploma in Economics and is currently studying a Software Engineering MicroMasters at University of British Columbia.
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About : Online publisher headquartered in Singapore. Publishes market leading titles Regulation Asia & ESG Investor
Terry Chow
Operations Director of Sphonic
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About Sphonic: Sphonic is a Context-Broker that leverages 3rd party vendor data with a workflow engine to enable fraud prevention, AML, KYC
Marek Wakar
Managing Director, Catelas UK of Catelas
Marek has 20 years experience in retail financial services covering strategy, distribution, operations, and general management. He has held senior positions within the Lloyds Abbey Life Group (within three business units and centrally in the plc) and then moved on to Accenture where he was an Associate Partner. In the last five years Marek has run and part-owned a consultancy company which specializes in advising insurance companies; he has also invested in and advised smaller companies. Marek graduated in 1980 from the University of Durham and in 1987 obtained an MBA from the London Business School.
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About Catelas: Catelas offers e-surveillance and risk analytics software that caters to the financial services industry.
