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 VP’ operating in the Delivery space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Henry Harris-Burland
VP of Marketing of Starship Technologies
Marketing Director proficient in launching world first products and services, driving growth within aggressive timeframes and translating complex “tech talk” into clear communications and stories. Has worked within a number of high-profile organisations including Starship Technologies and Rolls-Royce Motor Cars.
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About Starship Technologies: Starship Technologies is a robotics company building fleets of self-driving delivery robots designed to deliver goods.
Harkirit Singh
Associate Vice President and Cluster Head of Tata Communications
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About Tata Communications: Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across
Rob Minns
Sales VP of Metapack
Rob is Sales and Business Development Director in the UK. He is responsible for the UK Sales, European Pre-Sales, European Implementation, Carrier relationship management teams within the business. Rob has over 25 years of experience in B2C and Supply Chain services. Prior to joining MetaPack, Rob was Sales Director at GXS, the world’s largest Business to Business eCommerce Service Provider. Rob aided the strategic development of most of the major supply chains in Europe.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Steve Allen
VP New Business Sales of Metapack
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Iain McNeill
VP Digital Product of Gousto
Iain McNeill serves as vice president of digital product at Gousto.
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Charles Whitehead
VP of Operations of Gousto
Charles Whitehead serves as vice president of operations at Gousto.
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Gavin Howe
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of Elsevier
Gavin Howe is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Elsevier. He led the successful integration of the Harcourt businesses into Reed Elsevier and led the sale of and transfer of the Harcourt college business to Thomson Reuters. Previously, he was Chief Operations Officer at Elsevier and CEO of the Reed Elsevier Technology Group based in Boston. Having joined Elsevier in 1998, Gavin’s responsibilities have included central marketing, social sciences and economics publishing, IT, production and customer services. For the 15 years prior to joining Elsevier, he worked for another Reed Elsevier company, Reed Business Information in Marketing, Publishing and Electronic Publishing. Gavin rose to be a divisional MD at Reed Business Information and joined the board in 1993. Gavin started his publishing career in Journalism, becoming an editor of a Yachting Magazine.
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About Elsevier: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Steve Miller-Jones
Vice President of Strategy, Industry & Partners of Limelight Networks
As Vice President of Product Strategy at Limelight Networks, Steve focuses on driving the long term product roadmap for the company with a focus on delivering the highest quality online experiences. This includes live and on-demand online video streaming, edge services, downloadable software and updates, online video games, as well as web application acceleration, cloud storage and security services. Steve has extensive experience designing and delivering solutions to help companies manage and optimize their online presence. His expertise ranges from defining, planning, implementing and managing complex streaming, content distribution and workflow solutions across Broadcast, Media & Entertainment and Enterprise verticals. Prior to joining Limelight in 2010 he served as Chief Operating Officer for Global MIX and SetTopSolutions before that. Steve holds an MBA from Henley Management College and resides in Brighton, England.
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About Limelight Networks: Limelight Networks provides content delivery network services to deliver digital content over the internet.
Joe Marsella
Vice President PLM – Routing & Switching Portfolio of Ciena
Joe Marsella works as EMEA CTO at Ciena Corporation. With more than 20 years of experience in the software and telecoms industry, Marsella has expertise in both packet and optical networking, including detailed knowledge on SDN, NFV, photonics, dense wavelength division multiplexing, optical transport networks, Carrier Ethernet and control planes. Prior to this new role, Marsella served in several capacities within Ciena; most recently as the senior director of Product Line Management, responsible for the software strategy of Ciena’s Agility software portfolio, now part of Ciena Blue Planet. He also held leadership positions in Ciena’s product line management and R&D organisations, providing expertise and direction in key vertical markets and product portfolios. He worked as Principal Member Technical Staff and Engineer at Siemens Stromberg Carlson.
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About Ciena: Ciena collaborates with customers to unlock the strategic potential of their networks and and change the way they perform and compete.
Ray Berry
SVP, Finance of Vibrant Media
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About Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media is dedicated to contextual marketing, advertising, content marketing and digital media.
Michelle Weston
SVP, Global Human Resources of Vibrant Media
Michelle Weston heads global human resources and recruitment for Vibrant Media, the world’s leading provider of in-content contextual technology. Michelle has almost a decade’s experience in senior HR roles in the media industry. Prior to her career in HR Leadership, Michelle spent 15 years as a senior advertising sales executive in leading international publishers including Thomson Reuters, EMAP and Centaur. While at Centaur, Michelle was responsible for the successful development and subsequent sale of the industry leading online service Lawtel to Thomson Reuters.
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About Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media is dedicated to contextual marketing, advertising, content marketing and digital media.
Richard Newton
co-founder + VP marketing of Clarify
Co-founder of OP3Nvoice. VP Marketing.
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About Clarify, Screendragon: The world has moved beyond text. Our platform makes searching AV files simple for developers to integrate into their applications.
Amanda Steward
VP, Marketing of Pushfor
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About Pushfor: Pushfor is a secure content sharing platform that pushes, controls and tracks content of any type or size.
Paul Bassa
EVP Mobile Cloud of Digitalk
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About Digitalk: Digitalk is an agile, experienced provider of innovative, cloud-based real-time communications platform-as-a-service solutions.
