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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 Executive Director operating in the Enterprise space. If you think a Executive 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.
Richard Little
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
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About Azur Group, CENTURY Tech, Concirrus, IQ Capital, Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Andy Phillipps
Non Executive Director of Thought Machine
Andy Phillipps is the Advisor, IC and Venture Partner at IQ Capital.
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About Cambridge Judge Business School, Prodigy Finance, PROfounders Capital, Thought Machine, Trainline: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Robert Kilgour
Non Executive Director of Storii
Robert is a Scottish serial entrepreneur, investor and property developer who was the founder of Four Seasons Health Care in 1988. He left in 2000 (when Four Seasons had 101 care homes and 6,500 staff) and later made his final financial exit from the company in 2005. Four Seasons is now the UK’s largest care home operator with nearly 400 care homes, some 20,000 beds and employing around 30,000 staff. He is founder and chief executive of Dow Investments, now celebrating its 27th year, the founder and now chairman of Scottish care home operator, Renaissance Care (which operators 12 homes and employs around 800 staff), co-founder and director of video and security systems specialists, NW Systems Group, and founder shareholder and director of Kingdom FM Radio. Robert holds several other
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About : Software for Senior Care
Pascal Baker
Non Executive Director of RPA Supervisor
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About RPA Supervisor: RPA Supervisor accelerate digital transformation by reducing cost and increasing insight and control of your business processes.
Gareth Williams
Founder & Non-Executive Director of YellowDog
Gareth hounds the YellowDog kennel, spearheading the vision to build a world where people do more, create more, discover more; unleashed from limited computing power. Following an MEng in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Durham, Gareth cut his canines working in software and telecoms at companies including Orange, Experian QAS, FREEDOM4 and Arieso, where he was part of the Management Team that completed the successful sale of the company to JDSU in March 2013 for $85m. One day he had a brilliant idea for using spare mobile capacity which, following a chat with someone in the animation department at the University of the West of England, gave birth to what is now YellowDog. When not coming up with brilliant ideas, he is a dad, a keen cyclist, an ardent reader, a Samaritans Listening Volunteer. He also likes ale and talking to anyone (usually together). You can email Gareth on gareth@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.
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About YellowDog: Helping businesses power their innovations with the most scalable cloud native scheduling and provisioning technology.
Emma Priestley
Executive Director, Customer of Board Intelligence
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About Board Intelligence: Board Intelligence is a SaaS business with a mission to improve the quality of decision making in the boardroom
John Giles
Executive Director of Safeguard Global
John is an industry veteran with more than 40 years of experience in payroll outsourcing. After serving SafeGuard World as our original Chief Operating Officer, he continues to provide his expertise and guidance as Executive Director and Board Member. In this advisory capacity, he assists us in ensuring continued Service Excellence and Corporate Governance.
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About Safeguard Global: Safeguard Global is a provider of an innovative technology platform intended to efficiently manage payroll and outsourcing services.
Mark Sage
Executive Director of Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance
Mark Sage is the founder and managing director of Sagey11 Ltd. His company providers strategic and operational consulting on marketing and business development, focusing on building lasting partnerships especially for technology start-up and scale-up companies. With a background in telecoms (15 years with Orange) he has also worked with and led various Alliances and Associations. Mark is currently the Executive Director of the Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance (AREA). The AREA is the only global non-profit, member-based organization dedicated to widespread adoption of interoperable AR-enabled enterprise systems AREA. With a focus on creating value and ROI for its members his goal is to develop a robust and active ecosystem for AR within the enterprise. His background includes a strong interest in mobile, AR, VR, and IoT and he is excited to work with AR customers, providers and research organizations.
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About Augmented Reality for Enterprise Alliance: AREA Webinar: Forecasting Enterprise AR Growth
Mark Lee
Non-Executive Director of onkho
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About : onkho helps accountants delight their clients and grow their business
Margaret Coughtrie
Non-Executive Director of Cognitive Geology
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About : A specialist software provider for the oil industry
David Terrar
Executive Director of ITBrix
David is the Founder and CXO of Agile Elephant, a digitial transformation consultancy and solutions provider. He also heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting and Cloud based solutions for content, collaboration, web publishing, online accounting and ERP. He is a director of EuroCloud UK, on the governance board of the Cloud Industry Forum, and Chaired techUK’s Software as a Service Group. This year he is one of the judges of the UK Cloud Awards. He is a regular speaker at digital, social business, social media and Cloud Computing events including keynoting at the CeBIT Social Business Arena in 2015, chairing London’s Cloud Computing World Forum in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and lecturing on digital at Henley Business School and INSEEC. Agile Elephant co-produces the London edition of the Enterprise Digital Summit London, and David organizes the Combined Social Business Sessions London (incorporating London Wiki Wednesdays), was one of the founders of CreativeCoffee Club and Amplified (the Network of Networks).
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About Agile Elephant, Bloor Research, Cloud Industry Forum, Cloud Industry Forum, EuroCloud, ITBrix: ITBrix’s WordFrame Community Platform covers blogging, wikis, RSS feed aggregation, document management and social networking, using
Ron Goddard
Non-Executive Director of Netberg
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About Netberg: Netberg is a crowdfunded, revenue-generating startup that empowers small business to develop their online presence.
Franco Di Cicco
Non-Executive Director of Netberg
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About Netberg: Netberg is a crowdfunded, revenue-generating startup that empowers small business to develop their online presence.
Fabio Torlini
Non Executive Director of Netberg
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About Netberg: Netberg is a crowdfunded, revenue-generating startup that empowers small business to develop their online presence.
Fabio Torlini
Non Executive Director of Netberg
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About Netberg: Netberg is a crowdfunded, revenue-generating startup that empowers small business to develop their online presence.
