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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 CEO’ operating in the Residential 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.
Robert Bull
CEO of RoyaleLife
Robert Lee Jack Bull serves as Chief Executive Officer of RoyaleLife, which has been developing properties since 1945. Under Bull’s guidance, the company has pursued the construction of single-story residences for adults age 45 and older, even as other developers have moved away from this segment of the housing market. Within RoyaleLife, Robert Bull’s role is largely to cast a vision for the company and to build a team. He touches base with department directors on a daily basis to ensure that the entire company is working together toward the same common goals. Right now, those goals are providing more housing for the U.K.’s aging population.
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About RoyaleLife: The UK’s Largest Bungalow Provider
Russell Gould
CEO & Co-founder of Vesta Property
Russell has held leadership, director, operating board, advisory and senior level positions across the FinTech, digital, technology, travel retail, holiday tour operating and cruise, financial services, insurance and banking sectors. He also started and ran two new ventures in consulting and digital business finance (selling one of them). He has extensive experience across the full e-commerce model including – new product development, omni-channel marketing and branding, including customer acquisition, retention (CRM & eCM), customer conversion (look to book / user experience) and performance optimisation (decision science / analytics). He has managed large online businesses (+£500m sales), built start-ups and worked in major FTSE companies, built large high performance teams, lead the redesign and launch of many websites including the full rebuild and implementation of over seven completely new e-commerce platforms (including a full multi-million pound ATG implementation). Russell has over 30 caps representing England and achieved a Bronze Medal at the 2015 Touch World Cup in Coffs Harbour, Australia, a Gold Medal at the 2013 Touch Home Nations in Dublin, a Gold Medal at the European Touch Championships 2012 in Italy, a Bronze Medal at the 2011 Touch World Cup in Edinburgh and a Silver Medal in the 2010 European Touch Championships in Bristol. For more information visit http://www.englandtouch.org.uk/
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About Vesta Property: Vesta (www.vestaproperty.com) is a data-driven marketplace for buying and selling residential investment property.
William Rice
CEO of Groupladder
William Rice is a Co-founder & CEO of Generation Home.
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About Generation Home, Groupladder: Groupladder is a provide a unique mortgage product.
Nitin Aggarwal
CEO, Founder of Property Deals Insight
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About NY Cloud Solutions, Property Deals Insight: A Proptech company that empowers users to make Smart hassle free property investment decisions with a click of a button
Charlie Bryant
Chief Executive Officer of Hometrack
Charlie was appointed Chief Executive of Hometrack in June 2013. He has extensive experience of working with high growth, technology-enabled companies, most recently as Head of Technology Investment Banking for Europe at Deutsche Bank. Previously, Charlie held a number of senior operational roles within Misys plc, including Chairman of Assureweb, Chief Executive of Sesame Technology and Commercial Director of Sesame Group.
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About Hometrack: Hometrack publishes market insight and analysis of residential property trends in the UK
Nuno Almeida
CEO of Nourish Care
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About Nourish Care: Nourish empowers people who care with clever thinking and smart tools.
Sharon Costi
CEO of Decology
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About Decology: Decology is an interior design platform that helps anyone design & furnish their perfect home.
Tim Hammond
Chief Executive Officer of Four Seasons Health Care
Tim Hammond has been Chief Executive Officer of Four Seasons Health Care Limited since May 2014. Tim Hammond has been the Chief Executive Officer of Dementia & Nursing Care Business at Four Seasons Health Care Limited since February 3, 2014. Tim Hammond served as Chief Executive/Managing Director of Elior UK, a division of Elior. Previously, he served as the Managing Director of Barchester Healthcare. He served as the Managing Director of TGI Friday’s of Whitbread PLC since July 2004. He joined Whitbread in 2001 as Corporate Development Director, charged with seeking new business growth opportunities. He arrived from Unilever, where he worked 19 years in a variety of roles, including a three year secondment to McKinsey & Co. He is a Board member of Care England. Tim Hammond is a Trustee of Age UK and a member of The Malnutrition Task Force, a group of experts to address the problem of preventable malnutrition in older people.
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About Four Seasons Health Care: Four Seasons Health Care is a provider of nursing, residential, and dementia care services.
Charles Armitage
Co-Founder, CEO of Florence
Charles Armitage is a co-founder and CEO at Florence.
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About Florence: Florence is an online marketplace that connects vacant care home shifts to local nurses and carers looking for extra work
Sebastien Goldenberg
CEO and Co-Founder of TheHouseShop.com
Seb is co-founder and CEO at TheHouseShop.com, UK’s largest property marketplace. It offers free property advertising for private landlords, private sellers and estate agents. TheHouseShop is disrupting the whole property ecosystem, using technology to make rental transactions fully-digitized, safe, secure and cost-effective. TheHouseShop is also the only fully secure property website, where every private advertiser is verified. Seb is the also chair of the start-up and SME club at the French Chamber of Commerce in the UK.
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About TheHouseShop.com: The House Shop is the UK’s number 1 place for property, working with homeowners, landlords, estate agents.
Hugh Lloyd-Jukes
CEO and Chairman of Oxehealth
Hugh Lloyd-Jukes is the CEO and Chairman at Oxehealth.
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About Oxehealth: SaaS workflow solution gives carers and custodians more time for hands on care where and when it’s needed most.
Galia Jordanova
CEO of Gaida.ai
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About Gaida.ai: Gaida.ai is a care of all your digital enquiries (leads) across their full journey all the way until deal.
Ben Leonard
CEO of FirstHomeCoach
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About FirstHomeCoach: FirstHomeCoach is an app designed to guide you through the entire house buying process.
Ben Leonard
CEO of FirstHomeCoach
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About FirstHomeCoach: FirstHomeCoach is an app designed to guide you through the entire house buying process.
Pam Batth
Co-Founder, CEO of nu:move
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About nu:move: Nu:Move inline estate agents specialise in selling, letting and auctioning of residential properties.
Muhammad A. Bhatti
CEO of Apex Housing Group
The founder of Apex Airspace and Apex Housing Group, Arshad is responsible for developing the business strategy and delivering consistent growth. He is a pioneer in airspace development and highly passionate about how innovative development methods can produce new housing supply. He utilises a hands-on and personable approach to provide day-to-day operational and personnel direction, ensuring functional efficiency and sustainability across the company.
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About Apex Airspace Housing, Apex Housing Group: Apex Housing Group specialises in property management and social housing solutions plus property
