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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 Principal operating in the Internet space. If you think a Principal 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.
Alexander Mann
Principal of Concentric
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About Concentric: Concentric invests in software technology business in the financial services, mobility, real estate, industrial, and logistics sectors.
Yannick Oswald
Principal of Mangrove Capital Partners
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About Mangrove Capital Partners: Mangrove Capital Partners provides financing, advice, relevant experience, and industry relationships to its portfolio companies.
Neha Tanna
Principal of Social Starts
Neha is a medical doctor in London. Neha spent years as a General Practitioner before transitioning to the Life Sciences industry, where she held various roles in pharmaceutical companies. She holds an MBA from London Business School, where she fell in love working with entrepreneurs and startups. She has since worked with a startup med-tech company, as well as several accelerators and VCs in the healthcare space, most recently with a global venture builder with a focus on early-stage tech companies. Neha is an angel investor, loves tennis and dance, and is a strong advocate for personal fitness and nutrition. She also has a soft spot for wildlife and conservation.
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About Social Starts: Social Starts is a venture capital partnership that focuses on the emerging science of individual health.
Stephen Greenslade
Principal Solutions Architect of EE
Stephen is a Principal Solutions Architect at EE, operator of the UK’s largest mobile network. He has architected major network projects such as NGN Gi, IP interconnect, femtocells, EE WiFi on the London Underground and QoS enablement. Architecture lead during EE’s successful response to the UK government’s tender to provide mobile network services for the Emergency Services Network, he has 20 years of architecture experience with mobile operators starting with his first telecoms role in Accra, Ghana. Stephen graduated from the University of Cambridge, is a member of the IET and holds an MBA.
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About EE: EE is a telecommunications company that provides 4G mobile and fixed fiber broadband services to personal and business customers.
Gautham Gnanajothi
Principal, Energy & Environment | Regional Leader, BP Research of Frost & Sullivan
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About Frost & Sullivan, Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Leo Prakash
Principal Engineer of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Mark Rutland
Senior Principal Engineer of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Eddie Ashfield
Principal Engineer of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings, DadShed: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Chris Styles
Principal Architect of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Ian Cooper
Principal Engineer of Just Eat
Ian Cooper has over 20 years of experience delivering Microsoft platform solutions in government, healthcare, and finance. During that time he has worked for the DTI, Reuters, Sungard, Misys, Beazley, and Huddle delivering everything from bespoke enterprise solutions, ‘shrink-wrapped’ products, and cloud services to thousands of customers. Ian is a passionate exponent of Software Craftsmanship and Agile Architecture. When he is not writing code he is also the and founder of the London .NET user group and speaks at events throughout the UK.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Miryka Rule
Principal Delivery Manager of Just Eat
During Miryka’s career she has worked in different industries from universities to ecommerce. Miryka is now at Just Eat leading delivery for key parts of the platform. Miryka’s passion is to help people at all levels work better together. She has used her 10 years experience in the technology industry to support teams to be happier, more focused and increase their productivity. Starting as front end engineer Miryka saw gaps for change and made it her mission to cultivate environments and ways of working which work for the “do-ers” not the HIPPO.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Sylwia Kechiche
Principal Analyst, IoT of GSMA
As the principal IoT analyst in GSMA Intelligence, Sylwia leads the IoT product development. Her responsibilities range from sizing the IoT opportunity, including the role of operators, to researching and analysing IoT technologies, applications and business models. Sylwia has also moderated and presented at a number of conferences. Sylwia previously worked in telecommunications, media and technology with Pyramid Research.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Raj Fowler
Principal DevOps Consultant of DevOpsGroup
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About DevOpsGroup: We make Cloud & DevOps fast, secure and simple, empowering organisations to thrive in the Digital Economy.
Nikolas Markou
Principal Engineer of Yodiwo
Lifelong technologist, pragmatic software engineer and machine learning practitioner with a strong mathematical background and a passion for bringing innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions.
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About Yodiwo: Yodiwo is an Internet of Things Technology Enabler with a unique framework for bridging things and applications over the cloud.
Steve Goodman
Principal Technology Strategist of Content and Code
Steve Goodman works as Principal Technology Strategist for Content and Code, spending his time helping people understand how to best utilise Office 365. He enjoys getting hands-on, solving some of the more complex problems associated with migrating to the cloud or to newer versions of Exchange Server. As an eight time Microsoft MVP award recipient, Steve regularly talks at conferences and user groups. He also enjoys recording podcasts and writing articles to share advice.
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About Content and Code: Content and Code solves business challenges with creative IT solutions.
