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 President operating in the Social 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.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
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Harry ‘Tomi Davies
Co-Founder and President of African Business Angel Network
Harry Tomi Davies (TD) is a versatile technology business leader, keynote speaker and advisor with over two decades of outstanding experience building large-scale, national and regionwide IT infrastructure projects across Africa. He has held a variety of executive and non-executive leadership roles with influential global brands like Ernst & Young, Marks & Spencer, Elf, Sapient and the One Laptop Per Child project. Over the last decade TD has looked after a growing portfolio of Africabased tech-enabled early stage businesses and is the Founder of the Lagos Angel Network (LAN). He is also President of the African Business Angel Network (ABAN). He is a seasoned technology strategist and project development expert with significant market intelligence, research and project management skills. Author and regular keynote speaker with a substantial network of connections globally including on most major social media platforms. He is an inspiring thought leader TD is a volunteer to a number of non-profit organizations and Guest lecturer at the Pan Atlantic University’s Enterprise Development Centre. His rich and varied experience has been leveraged by organisations for advisory services, speaking engagements and nonexecutive board roles at companies like MBO Capital Limited (Private Equity), TextNigeria Limited (Telecoms) and Sproxil Nigeria (Anti-Counterfeit Technologies)
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About African Business Angel Network: ABAN is a non-profit association that seeks to promote a culture of Angel investing across Africa.
Cornelia Bargmann
President, Chan Zuckerberg Science of Chan Zuckerberg Initiative
Cornelia Bargmann is the Torsten N. Wiesel Professor and head of the Lulu and Anthony Wang Laboratory of Neural Circuits and Behavior at The Rockefeller University, New York. She has been a Howard Hughes Medical Institute investigator since 1995. She is a neurobiologist who studies the relationships between genes, neural circuits and behaviour using C. elegans, a tiny roundworm, as the model for her work. Many of the genes and neural pathways in C. elegans are similar to those of mammals and their study provides an insight into the development and functioning of neural circuits. Cori holds a degree in biochemistry from the University of Georgia and a Ph.D. from the Massachusetts Institute of Technology, where she studied oncogenes with Robert Weinberg. She pursued a postdoctoral fellowship with H. Robert Horvitz at MIT until 1991, when she accepted a faculty position in the Department of Anatomy at the University of California, San Francisco, spending 13 years there, latterly as Vice-Chair of the department. She took up her current position at The Rockefeller University in 2004. Cori was the recipient of the 2015 Benjamin Franklin Medal in Life Science, one of nine individuals presented with awards by The Franklin Institute, Philadelphia in 2015. The award is for her contributions to neurobiology that have led to major discoveries elucidating the relationship between genes, neurons, neural circuits and behaviour.
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About Chan Zuckerberg Initiative, The Rockefeller University: Chan Zuckerberg Initiative supports community-driven solutions to accelerate progress in science, education, and justice.
James Lamar Jacobs
Senior Vice President – Entertainment Technology of Anakando Media Group
Mr. James Lamar Jacobs, “Jake”, joined the company in 2014. He is an accomplished engineering technologist and senior business executive with over 35 years of focused experience in a range of technology based roles across operations management, business process optimization and strategic planning. Jake has held executive management assignments at Honeywell, Teledyne, ITT, Cubic Defense and AVK Kyocera and most recently, as the CEO of consulting company, Lamarjean Group, Inc. He is a US Army veteran having served in a number of command roles with the 101st Airborne Air Assault Division. He received a BS from the United States Military Academy, West Point. And an MBA from the Florida Institute of Technology, Melbourne, Florida and a Phd in Theology from North Western. As Senior Vice President – Entertainment Technology, Jake plays a critical role in supporting the Anakando Media Group’s technology mediated strategic planning.
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About Anakando Media Group: The Anakando Media Group is a rapidly expanding and innovative digital media company with global interests.
Elizabeth Marsh
Executive PA to CEO/President. Member of Board of Advisors. of Compumatrix
Dr. Liz as she is fondly called serves as Director, Executive Assistant to the CEO and the Site Administrator of the Compumatrix.us Social Network. Dr Elizabeth Marsh has over 25 years experience on clinical work and medical research prior to joining Compumatrix. Dr. Liz had always been passionate about innovation with an unwavering dedication and loyalty to the pursuits of Compumatrix.
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About : Compumatrix provides social media currency monetization, web development, and management services.
Joel Churcher
Vice President Marketing & Partnerships – Britbox North America of BBC Studios
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About BBC Studios: BBC Studios is a global content company with British creativity.
Mark Curtis
President of enter:marketing
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About Accenture Interactive, enter:marketing, Fjord: Entermarketing is a marketing consultant for SMEs, start-up business, recruitment, sales force, marketing actions and strategies.
Magnus Djaba
Global President of Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising Co.)
Magnus Djaba is the Global President of Saatchi & Saatchi.
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About Saatchi & Saatchi (Advertising Co.): Saatchi & Saatchi is a global creative communications company headquartered in New York with 130 offices in 70 countries.
Matt Bourn
Senior Vice President of MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations
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About MikeWorldWide Integrated Public Relations: One of the top mid-sized public relations firms & one of the 5 largest independent agencies in the US, with European headquarters in London.
Alexander Mark Lemon
President,Co-Founder & Executive Director of Mkango Resources
Mr Lemon is a graduate of the Royal School of Mines, Imperial College, London (MSc Mineral Exploration) and Oxford Brookes University (BSc Geological Sciences) He has 21 years experience in mineral exploration and business development and from 1994 to 2001 was the Managing Director of a Gold Mining company, which owned and operated a producing gold mine in Central Asia, where he gained extensive operating experience in emerging markets including government negotiations and project management. From 2001 to 2005, he worked for a family office Allied Commercial as an investment advisor. Mr Lemon is a founding Director and President of Mkango Resources Limited which listed on the TSX.V in January 2011 and is a founding director of its major shareholder Leo Mining and Exploration Limited. He is a Fellow of the Geological Society and a Member of the Southern African Institute of Mining & Metallurgy.
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About Mkango Resources: Mkango Resources Ltd. is a mineral exploration and development company.
Geeta Raj
President and Founder of The Global Sleepover
Geeta brings over 15 years of experience in international development and humanitarian assistance to The Global Sleepover, including over 9 years as a Senior Program Analyst with the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Geeta’s experiences working and living in Afghanistan, South Sudan, South Africa, Colombia, the U.K., Albania, Serbia, Kosovo, Bulgaria, Bosnia and Herzegovina and Moldova influenced her as an entrepreneur to found and grow The Global Sleepover. Geeta’s experience ranges from: entrepreneurship, creative direction and design, interactive and multi-media technology, creative writing, international development project implementation and management, and cultural, global and literacy education. A 2003 graduate of the Presidential Management Fellowship program in Washington, DC and a 2011-2012 Innovation Fellow with ConvergeUS, Geeta is a two-time recipient of the Washington, DC Commission on the Arts Folk and Traditional Arts Grant and speaks Hindi, Urdu, and basic Spanish and Serbian. Geeta holds a BA in Creative Writing from University of Houston and a MA in International Peace and Conflict Resolution from American University in Washington, DC. Geeta learned about the unequivocal power of education through her father. A refugee from an ethnic partition in India in 1947, he overcame economic and social adversity through earning five higher education degrees – truly transformative education. This is Geeta’s motivation behind founding Global Sleepover – harnessing the power of technology to make education and literacy more accessible to children who have least access.
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About The Global Sleepover: The Global Sleepover improves literacy & global citizenship for young children through interactive and multi-media storytelling & the arts.
Peter George
Chairman & President of Enigma Holding Group
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About Enigma Holding Group: Enigma is an investment company that focuses on the areas of health and wellbeing, sport, learning, community programs, and social housing.
Anthony Leaper
Senior Vice President and Sales GM – Enterprise Social Software at SAP of Insightfulinc
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About : Insightfulinc is a cloud-based enterprise search service that helps employees find the right people at the right time.
Kieran Williams
Vice President – Business Development of Captini
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
