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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 VP’ operating in the Marketing Automation space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Greer Hahn
VP of Marketing of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Cinz Ricciardone
VP of Product of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Pavel Kilovatiy
VP Engineering of Beamery
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Product Marketing of Drift
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Warrick Godfrey
VP, Industry Solutions of Braze
Warrick has a wealth of international experience in marketing with a focus on growth, ecommerce, retail and mobile applications. Warrick has specialised in startups in emerging markets over the past 15-years and is VP of Industry Solutions at Braze, a leading customer engagement platform built for today’s mobile-first world. Earlier Projects; *From 2016 to 2019, Warrick ran the regional/central marketing function as Sr Regional Marketing Director at Souq.com. Souq was acquired by Amazon in 2017 and remains the largest marketplace operating in the MENA region. *On-demand delivery application in the Middle East called Fetchr, built to overcome the issue of no physical addresses in the region. The app launched in May 2015. *Warrick joined Namshi in 2014 as CMO where he led the marketing function directing the overall strategic direction of the companies brand and marketing efforts. *In 2013 Warrick joined Facebook to bring the platform’s presence to Sub-Saharan Africa. Specialising in retail, media, and E-Commerce, Warrick looked after a portfolio of top advertisers in the continent. This work was instrumental in Facebook’s regional office launch in South Africa. *Prior to Facebook, he successfully built one of the Middle East’s leading ecommerce businesses, Cobone.com in 2010. As co-founder and CMO, Warrick led marketing, PR, platform, CRM, and brand strategy, making Cobone.com one of the fastest-growing ecommerce ventures in MENA.
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
Tim Norris
VP Sales EMEA of mParticle
Tim Norris is the VP of Sales EMEA at mParticle.
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About Habu, mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Alex Timlin
VP Client Success of Emarsys
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About Emarsys: Emarsys enables brands around the world to deliver truly personal customer interactions across email, mobile, social, and web.
Tom Ball
VP Global Demand Generation of Emarsys
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About Emarsys: Emarsys enables brands around the world to deliver truly personal customer interactions across email, mobile, social, and web.
Kevin Taylor
VP Communications of Ensygnia
Kevin is a highly experienced PR consultant with an impressive track record of success. Skilled in company positioning and messaging he is an accomplished writer and widely respected commentator on PR issues. Well connected, with wireless technology and telecommunications a particular area of specialisation, Kevin is a valued member of the sales and marketing team.
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About Ensygnia, Jargon PR, Robertson Taylor PR: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Jennifer Yorke
VP of Customer Success of Ometria
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Jane Risby-Rose
Global EVP, Events of UBM Plc
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About UBM Plc: UBM is a global events-led marketing and communications services business.
Raman Sidhu
VP Business Development of Beemray
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About Beemray: Beemray is the API and analytics for human context data. Anonymously. In real-time.
Adrian James
VP Sales and UK MD of Walkbase
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About Walkbase: Walkbase, the in-store analytics and marketing platform for retailers and airports to personalize the omnichannel customer experience.
Adrian James
VP Sales and UK MD of Walkbase
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About Walkbase: Walkbase, the in-store analytics and marketing platform for retailers and airports to personalize the omnichannel customer experience.
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.
