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 Managing Director operating in the Web Hosting space. If you think a Managing 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.
John Paul
Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data of Liberty Global
John Paul is Managing Director, Advanced Advertising and Data for Liberty Global and is based in the Company’s London office. He is responsible for the development of new advertising models, partnerships and employment of data across the company. John has over 25 years experience in the broadcast and cable sector with a focus on operations and emerging product strategy. Before rejoining Liberty Global in 2014 he was CTO of Special Broadcasting Service (SBS Australia), COO of Australia Network, and Founder & Managing Partner of Trident Media Partners where he advised Tier 1 media firms: NBC, News Corporation, Telstra and Foxtel on strategy and infrastructure. Prior to this, he was part of UGC, Liberty Global’s predecessor, where he worked in Australia on the launch of AUSTAR and its triple-play products and helped the company explore investment opportunities in Asia. He was a principal architect of Australia’s early pay TV industry – with Australis Media and has served on the boards of SANZAR (South Africa, New Zealand and Australia Rugby) and Freeview Australia. He began his career in family trade publishing businessTV Editorial Corporation and NBC Affiliate operations. He holds a Bachelor of Science in Finance from American University and is a Dux graduate of the Royal Australian Naval College.
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About Liberty Global: Liberty Global is an international cable company providing television, broadband internet, and telephony services.
Frederik Poelman
Managing Director of team.blue Denmark
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About Combell Group, Intelligent, team.blue Denmark: team.blue provides hosting and cloud solutions.
Oliver Adderley
Founder and Managing Director of Jobster
Oliver Adderley is the founder and managing director at Jobster.
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About Jobster: Jobster is an online recruitment agency based in the United Kingdom
Chris Fraser
Managing Director of Aspire Technology Solutions
Chris is the Managing Director and joint founder of Aspire. Perhaps unusually for a managing director, Chris has over 20 years’ experience in the IT and Technology industry. He also has over 12 years of intensive, hands-on technical experience managing enterprise class IT environments and global network infrastructure deployments. Chris has responsibility for oversight and management of all of the company’s technical operations and managed service platforms.
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About Aspire Technology Solutions: Aspire is an award-winning managed services company specialising in hosted services, data centre solutions, communications and IT support.
Fabio Torlini
SVP & Managing Director International of WP Engine
Over 15 years experience in the hosting & cloud industry. I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. One of the original employees at Rackspace I helped build the company to what it has become today. A leader in the cloud industry and revenues of $1.5B. I am now MD for WP Engine, based in Tech City helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. Specialties: Professional B2B Marketer. Branding, lead generation, direct sales, channel sales, alliances, online marketing.
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About WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Steve Robinson
Managing Director and CEO of Little Fish (UK)
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Matthew Pullen
Managing Director, Europe of CyrusOne
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About CyrusOne: CyrusOne is a data center operator that offers colocation and peering services.
Graham Jones
Managing Director of UiDIGITAL
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About UiDIGITAL: UiDIGITAL is a U.K.-based online service company that designs, builds, and operates solutions for enterprises.
Sean McAvan
Managing Director of NaviSite
Sean McAvan is responsible for directing the growth of Navisite, LLC. through active development of channel and partner programs and building the direct channel through targeted new business development and marketing activities. Sean has over 15 years work experience in complex IT solution provision, with a proven track record in the Hosting and Cloud Computing industry. He has demonstrable skills in building and motivating teams to exceed targets, to increase client service levels and to both build new partnerships and to actively develop these for mutual gain. He has consistently been highly successful in the management of his business. Prior to his second tenure at Navisite, Sean was the Chief Commercial Officer at Global Nexus Telecom in the Bahamas and Vice President EMEA Sales for Datapipe.
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About NaviSite: Navisite is a managed cloud service provider and renders database services, data analytics, compliance and platform services.
Karl Mendez
CEO & Managing Director of CWCS Managed Hosting
Karl Mendez is CEO & Managing Director at CWCS Managed Hosting.
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About CWCS Managed Hosting: CWCS Managed Hosting is the UK’s leading hosting specialist. We offer a fully comprehensive range of hosting products, services and support.
James Ketchell
Managing Director of Serchen
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About Serchen: The recognised leader in matching buyers and sellers of Online Services.
Mike Carter
Founder and Managing Director of Ixis IT
A Drupal expert, solutions architect and big fan of open source software and contribution.
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About Ixis IT: Ixis IT is a company providing Drupal services including development, hosting and support.
Alexander Green
Managing Director of Zenchi
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About Zenchi: Digital Asset Consultation Firm.
Christopher Dean
Managing Director of Digital Tactics
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About Digital Tactics: Digital Tactics is a technology consultation company that works with businesses in a variety of capacities.
Christopher Dean
Managing Director of Digital Tactics
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About Digital Tactics: Digital Tactics is a technology consultation company that works with businesses in a variety of capacities.
