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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 Identity Management 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.
Stan Stalnaker
Founding Director of Hub Culture
Stan Stalnaker is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Hub Culture, an ecosystem that includes the Ven the digital currency, Ultra Exchange, AQUA quarantine system and HubID digital identity. Previously, Stan was the international director of marketing for the Time Inc. Business and Finance group, based first in Hong Kong, then London.
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About Hub Culture: Hub Culture is a global collaboration platform focused on digital currency and identity, knowledge brokerage and community services.
Graeme Blackwood
UX / Design Director of Argent
Graeme Blackwood is a UX design director at Argent.
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About Argent: Argent is the most simple and secure smart wallet for crypto.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Daniel Cox
Financial Director of Fingopay
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About Fingopay: Identity authentication platform
Michael Gollner
Independent Director of Axway
Michael S. Gollner is the Founder of Operating Capital Partners LLP. He has served at Court Square Capital Partners and Citigroup Venture Capital, after working for ten years in European Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs International and Lehman Brothers International.
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About Axway, Madison Sports Group: Axway provides multi-enterprise cloud integration and API and identity management software.
Christopher Hogg
Managing Director, EMEA of Lotame
Chris Hogg leads Lotame’s EMEA operations where he is responsible for maintaining and increasing existing business and overseeing new customer acquisition. Chris has more than 17 years of experience in digital ad technology and operations for Independent News and Media, France Telecom – Wanadoo / Orange UK and Unanimis. Chris has held senior management roles for the last 9 years, successfully recruiting, training and leading large teams to deliver commercial results.
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About Lotame: Lotame is the leading provider of data enrichment solutions for global enterprises.
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.
Chris Henry
Sales Director of iSignthis
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About iSignthis: iSignthis Ltd is the global leader in dynamic, remote AML/CFT KYC enhanced due diligence identity proofing.
Colin Wallis
Executive Director of Kantara Initiative
Being based in New Zealand adds significant challenges of distance and time, but that hasn’t hindered Colin noticeably. With typical Kiwi pragmatism, he has cultivated an enviable understanding of North American and European identity programs, and a corresponding network of relationships with key stakeholders around the world.
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About Kantara Initiative: Kantara Initiative establishes new status as Autonomous Corporation. Kantara Initiative has changed its entity type by filing Articles.
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
Tom Eggleston
Managing Director & CEO of ProofID
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About ProofID: ProofID is a specialist provider of fully managed identity management solutions, both on-premise or cloud hosted.
Leon Mallett
Director of Marketing of IAM Cloud
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About IAM Cloud: IAM Cloud is an advanced identity management & migrations platform, built in the cloud to be scalable & customised to meet any requirement.
Mark Lockie
Managing Director, Landmark Identity, Strategic Advisor, Science Media Partners of Landmark Identity
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About Landmark Identity: Landmark offers knowledge in the identity sector and offers marketing, events, community building, research and content services.
John Atherton
Director & Founder of Sonalytic
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About Sonalytic: Sonalytic develops a content identification approach that enables us to connect creators and rights-holders to monetization opportunities.
