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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based COO’ operating in the Content space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Richard Evetts
COO of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Steffen Tjerrild
COO, CFO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Marc Schipper
Chief Operating Officer of GB News
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About GB News: GB News is a British television news channel that provides news, opinion, and debate for all of its viewers.
Per Lauritzson
Chief Operating Officer of Flexion
Per Lauritzson is a Co-Founder & COO at Flexion.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Gummi Eggertsson
Co-Founder,COO & CFO of Takumi
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About Sidekick Health, Takumi: Takumi is a platform that gives large brands and advertising agencies access to branded influencer creative at scale.
Paul Zimmerman
COO of Invotra Ltd
An accomplished executive in the technology sector for nearly 20 years, having joined Amazon.com in 1999. Communications & Technology Currently COO of Invotra, an enterprise Intranet-as-a-Service, used by 200,000 end users in the UK and the US. Customers include the UK’s Home Office, Department for Works & Pensions (DWP), Department for Transport (DfT) and HMRC. In America, the venerable environmental organisation Sierra Club became a customer in 2017. I’m a public speaker and guest lecturer on diverse subjects ranging from entrepreneurship to the future of communications in the workplace to accessibility to Brexit’s impact on the UK. Ecommerce CEO for online gift and gadget site Firebox.com from 2010 to 2012, and COO of Stanley Gibbons’ ecommerce operations in Jersey from 2013 to 2014. Prior to this, I served Play.com as Marketplace Director in 2010 and Head of Business Development from 2005-2010. Previously I was a senior manager at both Amazon.com’s UK division, Amazon.co.uk (4 years), and Woolworths Group (2 years), where I led the business units responsible for driving e-commerce retail sales for both physical and digital music products. Specialties digital communications strategies, ecommerce, consulting and stakeholder engagement, p&l management, general management, product management, marketplace strategies, vendor management, purchasing, user experience & web design, SEO, search technologies, content management systems, digital distribution technologies, competitive analysis and research, market analysis and research, international experience
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About : Enterprise Intranet and Portal solutions for organisations worldwide
Mark Bond
Chief Operating Officer of Croud
– Customer focussed commercial leader with B2B and Consumer P&L experience in senior sales, marketing, strategy and customer operations roles. – Experience of large scale digital transformation and numerous “turnaround’ roles. – Involved in a number of ac
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Mark Bond
Chief Operating Officer of Croud
– Customer focussed commercial leader with B2B and Consumer P&L experience in senior sales, marketing, strategy and customer operations roles. – Experience of large scale digital transformation and numerous “turnaround’ roles. – Involved in a number of ac
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Brandon Mensinga
Chief Operating Officer of Trint
Brandon is a commercially oriented Chief Operations Officer that specialises in scaling VC-backed technology companies. He has successfully ramped three VC-backed startups, two of which successfully exited to Nuance Communications (2009) and Microsoft (2016) both with 200M+ annual device shipments. His latest efforts at Signal Media (2018) helped transform a young, inexperienced Series A organisation into a mature, professionalised Series B operation ramping from £600K to £6M in two years.
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About Trint: Trint reinvents transcription extending automated-speech-to text so that users can trust the output. Recorded content becomes searchable.
Nathalie du Preez
COO of Jellyfish
Born and raised in South Africa, Nathalie began her career in 2005 with Goldman Sachs in their investment banking division in New York. In the years since, she has worked in brand management at Colgate-Palmolive, led performance search marketing at Net-a-Porter, co-founded a start-up and, most recently, held the title of COO at on-demand beauty services company blow LTD. She holds a BSc in Economics magna cum laude from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
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About Jellyfish: Jellyfish is a ecommerce content production platform for online businesses.
Sybil Wong
COO of Sparrho
Sybil completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham and Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL. Prior to joining Sparrho, Sybil was SVP Business Development & Director of OneStart, the world’s largest biotech and healthcare startup accelerator, at the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable. Through OneStart, Sybil supported 70 budding biotech and healthcare startups from across Europe, North America and Asia, and managed partnerships with top pharma and venture firms, including SR One/GSK, Roche, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca/MedImmune.
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About Sparrho, Synthace: Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence.
Mike Nott
Chief Operating Officer of Ayima
With a background in IT and System Administration, Mike was an early convert to SEO, working for various Media agencies in London before heading the Search Function at PartyGaming PLC at the time of their IPO on the FTSE in 2005. The technical and strategic lessons learned from that venture fed directly to the foundation of Ayima in 2007 with his colleagues, Mike Jacobson and Tim Webb. Mike has spearheaded Ayima ever since then, never losing sight of the company’s goal to deliver top-level expertise via superior technology and exceptional talent. He is also a strong proponent of providing a flexible environment in which experts can thrive, a factor that has helped Ayima grow into a prosperous international operation and develop industry-leading solutions for the SEO community.
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About Ayima: Ayima is a specialist Search consultancy focused on ROI, data analysis and brand development.
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.
Gary Neal
Chief Operating Officer of Smartology
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About Smartology: Digital advertising technology company
Gary Neal
Chief Operating Officer of Smartology
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About Smartology: Digital advertising technology company
