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 CEO’ operating in the Point of Sale space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
George Urdea
Co-founder & CEO of Nobly POS – Point of Sale
Founder @ Nobly POS – POINT OF SALE
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About Nobly POS – Point of Sale: Nobly is the point-of-sale, inventory management and CRM app for the iPad. A system that is beautiful designed, quick and easy to use.
Ohad Folman
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Practi
Founder & CEO at Practi.
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About Just Eat, Practi: Practi develops cloud based software solutions to manage retail businesses.
Yoyo Chang
Co-Founder, CEO and President of KodyPay
Yoyo is a Taiwanese born British entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the current CEO of KodyPay. Yoyo co-founded KodyPay in the final year of High School and successfully raised US$6 million over 2020/21. Hoping to build a career in investment banking, Yoyo had started to invest in the stock market at the age of 13. With returns of over 80% in Q4 2016, he led his school team to first place in a national investment competition. During Yoyo’s first year at the University of York, Yoyo self-invested £120,000 of trading profits to build a pilot product for KodyPay. Yoyo has studied at King’s College, University of Cambridge and Langwith College, University of York.
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About IIC Holdings, KodyPay, Nerd Ventures: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Derek O’Carroll
Chief Executive Officer of Brightpearl
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About Brightpearl: Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place.
Maggie Sanchez
CEO & Co-Founder of myCircle
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About myCircle: myCircle is a U.K.-based SaaS and data company that provides merchants with analytics and mobile financial app services.
Daniel Holden
Chief Executive Officer of Trust Payments
Daniel is responsible for all financial and commercial aspects of the UC Group. He previously held senior positions at Deloitte and Capita, and was involved in a number of venture capital-backed companies.
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About Emerging Payments Association, Trust Payments: Trust Payments is a global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies.
Cerys Johnson
Chief Executive Officer of REPL Group
As chief executive officer, Cerys is responsible for the company’s global growth and future direction. With a background across utilities, manufacturing, wholesale and retail environments, Cerys is a qualified accountant with wide-ranging business strategy and change experience. Cerys joined REPL in 2011 as a project manager and progressed to chief operating officer responsible for digital and operational delivery before becoming CEO in November 2017. Previously, Cerys worked in enterprise-level roles including head of strategic planning, business change manager and head of retail IT. She also has hands-on experience of implementing workforce management and back office systems.
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About REPL Group: REPL Group delivers technology and management solutions which transform business operations and processes.
Prask Sutton
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Onvi
Founder & CEO of Wi5.
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About Onvi: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
Ben Brown
Founder & CEO of Shopwave
Ben founded Shopwave following the acquisition of his first startup, VouChaCha. VouChaCha managed multi-channel coupon distribution and redemption for many of the UK’s top 200 retailers. VouChaCha was acquired as part of Markcomedia in a deal worth £55 million by Monitise PLC.
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About Shopwave: Kitchen & Ops Automation, POS, App Integration & Payments. Shopwave helps the worlds leading restaurant and retail brands to scale globally.
Adrian Thompson
CEO of imageHOLDERS
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About imageHOLDERS: Tablet Kiosk and Enclosure Manufacturers
Ebbe Groes
Member of board, Investor, Phd Economics, Harvard, CEO & Founder Everymatrix ltd of Shopbox
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About : Shopbox is a cloud-based checkout system that empowers business owners in hospitality to run their business hassle-free.
Mike Camerling
CEO of AEVI
Mike Camerling, AEVI’s former Director Marketplace, has been appointed President and Managing Director AEVI taking leadership of AEVI with immediate effect.
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About AEVI: AEVI provides a platform for merchant-facing businesses that enables them to upgrade to more agile, more data-driven propositions.
David Buckingham
CEO of Ecrebo
David Buckingham joined Ecrebo as CEO in March 2017 where he oversees the company’s global presence, international growth strategy and technology offering. With over 25 years’ experience within the retail and CPG insights and analytics space, David has held senior leadership positions at leading retail insights and analytics providers including Kantar Retail, IRI, Loyalty Management Group and i2c. Prior to joining Ecrebo, David was President of Aimia Shopper Insights in New York, where he headed up its North America division.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Greg Barden
Founder and CEO of Pixie
Greg Barden is the Founder and CEO at Pixie.
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About Pixie: Pixie is a community marketplace for people to discover, pay and earn loyalty across independent businesses
Karen Rossouw
Chief Executive Officer of Kashing
An energetic, proactive and highly dynamic leader with exceptional managerial and motivational skills and a proven ability to achieve immediate and long-term goals and meet operational demands. Excellent communication, marketing, project management skills, combined with extensive experience and a successful track record leading strategy and building strong relationships.
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About Kashing: Kashing uses smart payment technology that enables independent businesses to accept card payments.
Steven Rolfe
CEO of Kurve Kiosks
Passionate foodie & passionate about IT within hospitality, I’m an enthusiast for creating new solutions for great customer journeys and operational efficiency to meet and advance the exciting technology changes happening across our sector.
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About Kurve Kiosks: Bringing the best-in-class self-serve solutions for quick service restaurants & the hospitality sector.
