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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Manager operating in the News space. If you think a Manager 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.
Giulia Toniolo
Account Manager of Bloomberg
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Christine Flounders
Engineering Manager of Bloomberg
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About Bloomberg: Bloomberg provides news, data, analytics, and communication services for the global business and financial world.
Damian Benstead
Event Partnerships Manager of TechCrunch
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About TechCrunch: TechCrunch is an online magazine reporting on technology opinions, news, and analysis.
Katie Roberts
Software Engineering Manager of BBC
Katie is the Software Engineering Manager for Content Discovery at the BBC. In this role she manages the development teams who are responsible for the BBC Homepage and Search and Navigation across the whole of the BBC’s digital online presence. She has over 15 years of Software Development experience, working in diverse sectors from games development to advertising. During her last 7 years at the BBC she has worked on projects including the Connected TV Sport App for the 2012 Olympics, BBC Food, the Bitesize App and BBC Bitesize. She loves solving problems and is passionate about working collaboratively, which has led to her becoming interested in InnerSource and how it can help with software development.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
David Buckhurst
Software Engineering Manager of BBC
David Buckhurst is the Software Engineering Manager at BBC.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Stephanie May
Executive Product Manager of BBC
Stephanie is a product management expert who was included in Product Management Festival’s 50 Women in Product in Europe List in 2018. Having gained an MEng from the University of Cambridge, she spent the next two years volunteering as a Biomedical Engineer on the MV Africa Mercy, the world’s largest charity hospital ship, before moving into software development. She’s passionate about collaboration and design thinking and has a range of product management experience across FinTech, B2B and consumer products. Stephanie now leads the Content Discovery product team at the BBC, looking at the strategy and delivery of products such as the BBC Homepage, Discovery Engine and Search.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Amy Nicholson
Product Manager of Financial Times
In 2016 Amy graduated from Makers Academy, a coding bootcamp in London, and joined the Financial Times as a junior developer. After 18 blissful months of coding she decided to dive into the curious world of Product and has since been a product manager working on FT.com.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Piyush Kumar Singh
Technical Project Manager | CSM of Capgemini
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About Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Rose Keen
Research Manager of Econsultancy
Rose Keen is a Research Manager at Econsultancy.
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About Econsultancy: Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Craig Vile
Client Success Manager and Head of ValPal of Angels Media
Craig, who joined Angels in 2013 to head up their new online valuation product, has been involved in property and new technology throughout his working life. As owner and part-owner of overseas property businesses, he marketed property in Spain, Portugal, Majorca and Cyprus, becoming increasingly interested in the potential of PropTech during this time. And so, with this in mind, The ValPal Network – which now consists of over 800 agents with over 4,000 branches – was eventually born. During his career, Craig has struck up great relationships with agents on a national basis. As is the modern way, he can also be found tweeting at @craigvile. In his spare time you will find Craig at Selhurst Park as a long-suffering (his words) Crystal Palace season ticket holder. He also enjoys playing golf, although his actual handicap is far higher than what he says it is!
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About Angels Media: Angels Media is a marketing & public relations agency working in the property and finance spheres.
Stephen Portlock
Marketing Communications Manager of NHST Media Group
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About NHST Media Group: NHST Media Group aims to be the best and leading provider of business news in Norway.
Lili Strokosz
Social Media Manager of Chipper
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About Chipper: A company based on happiness and brightening everyone’s day with multitudes of content.
Keith Johnson
General Manager of Beatgrid Media
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About Beatgrid Media: Beatgrid Media provides light ACR solutions to make TV & Music content Clickable and Measurable in real-time from any device
Dan Tookey
Business Strategy Manager of NewsFixed
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About NewsFixed: NewsFixed is a international journalism marketplace allowing media organisations and information-heavy businesses to commission content far
