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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 President operating in the Infrastructure space. If you think a President 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.
Dayne Turbitt
Senior Vice President of Dell EMC
Dayne holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Jean-Philippe Barleaza
EMEA Vice-President Mid-Market, Channel & Cloud Providers of VMware
Jean-Philippe Barleaza is a EMEA Senior Director OEM, SI SO & Service Providers at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joe Baguley
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA of VMware
Joe Baguley is VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA. He joined VMware in July 2011 and helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use today’s advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes. Joe is a recognised leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. He is a regular commentator on BBC World News, last appearing in January 2018 talking about edge computing with Aaron Heslehurst on Talking Business. In addition, Joe is also on several advisory boards at the European Commission and ETSI and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Wendy Mars
President of EMEAR of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Darren Crowder
Vice President and Head of Solution Engineering of TIBCO
Darren Crowder is the vice president and head of solution engineering at TIBCO.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
James Cullens
Executive Vice President Human Resources of SNC Lavalin
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About Atkins, SNC Lavalin: SNC-Lavalin is an engineering and construction group.
Peter Williams
Executive Vice President, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
Peter is a member of the Ricoh Europe Board, responsible for multiple lines of business including the Production Printing Business Group, Additive Manufacturing, Service and Annuity, Business Process Services and the European Technology Centre. In this role, Peter drives Ricoh Europe’s long-term strategy to become a leader in the production printing market. In 2009, he established the European Production Printing Business Group headquarters in London and launched Ricoh’s European Production Printing Innovation Centre. Peter’s current focus is building the Ricoh brand in the corporate and commercial printing markets, as well as developing the production printing sales and support infrastructure across all European operations. Peter is responsible for Ricoh’s Additive Manufacturing strategy in the EMEA region, the Business Process Services, and Service and Annuity lines of business, and the European Technology Centre, which brings customer-driven innovation to Ricoh both regionally and globally.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Peter Williams
Executive Vice President, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
Peter is a member of the Ricoh Europe Board, responsible for multiple lines of business including the Production Printing Business Group, Additive Manufacturing, Service and Annuity, Business Process Services and the European Technology Centre. In this role, Peter drives Ricoh Europe’s long-term strategy to become a leader in the production printing market. In 2009, he established the European Production Printing Business Group headquarters in London and launched Ricoh’s European Production Printing Innovation Centre. Peter’s current focus is building the Ricoh brand in the corporate and commercial printing markets, as well as developing the production printing sales and support infrastructure across all European operations. Peter is responsible for Ricoh’s Additive Manufacturing strategy in the EMEA region, the Business Process Services, and Service and Annuity lines of business, and the European Technology Centre, which brings customer-driven innovation to Ricoh both regionally and globally.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Charlie Doubek
Vice President, Advanced Services EMEA of Arkadin
Charlie Doubek has been in the Telecommunications industry for 15 years working for providers such as MCI-Verizon, Genesys, West Corporation, and now NTT with experience in the NA, EMEA, and APAC markets. His primary focus has been professional services related to the adoption of collaborative services and technical integrations for the last 10 years. Now he is focusing on end to end digital transformation services around cloud datacentre and intelligent communications.
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About Arkadin: Arkadin provides businesses with online collaboration solutions using audio, web and unified communications tools.
Robert Neave
Co-Founder, CTO & Vice President of Product Management of Nlyte Software
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About Nlyte Software: Nlyte automates the management of DCIM so organizations can become more agile, reduce costs and operate more efficiently.
Peter Claydon
President of Picocom
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About ContinuumBridge, Picocom: Picocom is a 5G open RAN baseband semiconductor and software specialist.
Giordano Albertazzi
President – Europe, Middle East and Africa of Vertiv
Giordano Albertazzi is the President of Vertiv in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Giordano began his career at Emerson Network Power, now Vertiv, as Materials Planning Manager for Liebert Europe in 1998 and held positions with increasing responsibility, including Plant Manager, EMEA Marketing and Product Management Director, and Managing Director for the Italian market unit. In 2006, he was promoted to Vice President Services for the Liebert Europe business. In 2011, Giordano was appointed Vice President Services for the broader Europe, Middle East and Africa region, and in 2014 became Vice President Sales. Since 2016 he serves as President of Vertiv in Europe, Middle East and Africa. Giordano holds a bachelor’s degree in Mechanical Engineering from the Polytechnic University of Milan as well as a master’s degree in Management from Stanford University.
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About Vertiv: Vertiv designs, builds and services critical infrastructure that enables vital applications for data centers, communication networks.
Justin Kearney
Vice President of Human Resources of Logicalis
Justin Kearney joined Logicalis Group in August 2013 as Vice President of Human Resources with responsibility for providing people management leadership within Logicalis Group. Prior to this, Justin was the HR Director for the Corporate function leaders at Invensys, the engineering and technology business. He has also held international HR business partner roles within the aviation and financial service industries with General Electric, and in retail, with Sainsburys in the UK. Justin has an honours degree in Psychology and a Masters degree in Leisure Management, as well as being a Member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel Management.
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Joanne Nelson
Vice President of International Marketing of Logicalis
Joanne Nelson was appointed to Vice President of Marketing in August 2004, to head up the UK marketing department, and in addition, take responsibility for the corporate marketing function of the Logicalis Group. In January 2008, she became VP International Marketing with responsibility for corporate strategy, branding and analyst relations across the organisation. Joanne brings over fifteen years of ICT marketing experience to her role having previously worked at Ericsson Enterprise, and then its spinoff, Damovo, where she was VP Marketing & Communications, across the Group. She had sole responsibility for re-branding the multi-million dollar global Communications Provider (then ranked 36th top global brand, Interbrand, Citigroup, August 2001) and managing the global corporate marketing function across 20 markets worldwide. Joanne has first-hand international experience, having studied at the Institut Universitaire de Technologie (IUT), Nice, Côte d’Azur, France, and at Haarlem Business School, in The Netherlands, and worked in Antibes, South of France.
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Nikki Mendonca
President of OMD
Nikki Mendonca is the EMEA President of OMD Group, the largest and most awarded marketing communications company in the world. She presides over 4,300 employees, across 60+ offices in 56 markets and oversees over $17.1 billion in marketing investment from leading world class companies like McDonald’s, PepsiCo, Estee Lauder and The Walt Disney Company. Under her leadership, OMD has won several Agency of the Year accolades including coming top of the Gunn Report for Media eight years in a row, which measures marketing innovation and most recently being named Media Agency Network of the Year 2013 by Adweek and Most Effective Global Network by the Effies Index 2013. Prior to joining OMD EMEA in 2002, Nikki ran the Strategic Marketing Division at Capital Radio Plc, responsible for the commercial research and marketing of all 19 radio stations owned by the group, helping to drive an annual turnover of $190m. Previous to that she worked at Leo Burnett UK running the $150m+ media divisions of Procter and Gamble, Kellogg’s and Grand Met and at CIA Media Network trading TV airtime for Kraft and Wrigley’s. She is a fierce champion of a mobile first approach to marketing communications and sits on the Advisory Boards of Adweek Europe and Webit Congress.
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About OMD: OMD is a media communications agency committed to delivering sharper insights, smarter ideas and stronger results.
