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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 CFO’ operating in the Analytics space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Arvi Chana
CFO of Quantexa
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Chris Williams
Chief Financial and Commerical Officer (CFO) of RwHealth
Chris was the CEO of a fast-growing SaaS business in Health sector for 6 years, working on all aspects of development including: Sales, Product, Operations and Finance. Within this time, Chris reshaped the business, and finally managed the transaction processes to exit (initially IPO, then Trade sale). Chris has also worked as a Deloitte Partner, within the Corporate Finance – Technology & Media sector, including 7 years as National Head with deals ranging from £10m to £400m
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Lloyd Pitchford
Chief Financial Officer of Experian
Lloyd Pitchford is a Chief Financial Officer at Experian.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Jamie Thomas
Chief Financial Officer of Qubit
Jamie Thomas has been serving as Chief Financial Officer at Qubit.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Peter West
Chief Financial Officer of Reward Insight
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About Reward Insight: Reward is a global data monetisation company that helps the worlds largest banks and retailers understand and change consumer behaviour
Carmel Warren
Chief Financial Officer of D4t4 Solutions
Carmel joined the Group in 2015 following the acquisition of Speed-Trap Holdings Limited, parent company to Celebrus Technologies, where she held the position of CFO and played a key role managing the sale process to D4t4 Solutions. Carmel is an experienced financial director with over 20 years’ experience across multiple industries. Her operational and board level experience ranges from start-ups to blue chip companies and, prior to joining Celebrus, she held senior positions with UK insurance broker and financial services provider Brightside Group Plc (as Director of Education) and at business services company Marshall Keen Limited (as Finance Director).
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About D4t4 Solutions: D4t4 Solutions is a business-to-business provider of information technology products and services.
Jonathan Crossfield
CFO of Featurespace
Jonathan leads Featurespace’s finance team and is responsible for financial reporting and investor relations. He works closely with the commercial and operational teams around all aspects of internal analysis and business planning.Prior to joining Featurespace, Jonathan worked in strategic consultancy and equity research, including several years as a senior technology analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Patrick Dowling
CFO of Opensignal
Patrick leads OpenSignal’s finance, legal and administration functions, and works with the leadership team to plan and execute the company’s commercial growth strategy. With more than 20 years of corporate financial experience, he has held multiple executive positions, including COO, Digital for the Telegraph Media Group and CFO for the Diffusion Media Group.
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About Opensignal, The 7th Chamber: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
William Harris
CFO of Senseye
William Harris is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience of working in publicly quoted and private companies in the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) sector. He has been working with Senseye since its formation.
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About Senseye: Senseye is a cloud-based software for predictive maintenance.
Matthew Ritchie
Co-Founder & CFO of Dendra Systems
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About Dendra Systems: We equip you with the data and tools to restore biodiverse ecosystems at scale.
Roger England
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Spikes Cavell & Co
Co-founder of Spikes Cavell, Roger has 26 years software/information industry experience with the majority of that time spent in subscription-based data businesses. While at Spikes Cavell, in addition to spending a number of years in business development, Roger has run the customer service, operations, HR and finance functions. Roger is process-oriented, cost-conscious and has a keen, some say obsessive, eye for detail. An avid cyclist, he can often be found making the arduous trek from his home deep in the Wiltshire countryside to the office in Berkshire regardless of what the British weather throws at him.
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About Spikes Cavell & Co: Spikes Cavell is focused on data-based solutions to support decision making and programme execution in the private sector.
Steve Robertson
Chief Financial Officer of Asset Control
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About Asset Control: Asset Control provides financial data management solutions to banks, insurers, investment managers and market infrastructure firms
James Bailey
CFO of emoquo
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About emoquo: Emoquo is an award winning digital coaching app and real-time people analytics platform for everyone at work.
Michael Lifford
Chief Financial Officer of Celerity
Michael Lifford is the Chief Financial Officer at Celerity Information Services and ORM.
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About Celerity: Celerity is a data-driven marketing agency specializing in helping brands to maximize value from marketing technology and customer data.
Adam Simon
Global Managing Director & CFO of CONTEXT
Adam joined CONTEXT in February 2013 to develop the company’s research coverage of ICT and technology. Adam is growing the CONTEXT panel of ICT retailers across Europe and, using the panel data, brings fresh thinking for exploiting new market opportunities. In June 2015 he formed a pan-European Smart Home Research Group including Smart Home Associations, retailers and manufacturers and also pioneered research into the opportunities for retailers selling technology to small businesses (“R2B”). In May 2016 he formed a specialist research group on Virtual Reality. In September 2015 he launched the 1st CONTEXT Smart Home Survey which compares consumer attitudes to Smart Home across UK, France and Germany. In January 2016 he launched the 2nd survey covering in addition Spain and Italy. These surveys have become established as an authoritative source of information and understanding of the emerging smart home market. He is the organiser and speaker at a number of conferences and summits – he chairs the CONTEXT Smart Channels Summit which takes place at DISTREE EMEA in Monaco and APAC in Singapore, the Melco Forum in Valencia and the CONTEXT Retail CEO breakfasts at IFA and CES. In these events he brings together CONTEXT technology vendors, distributors, retailers and other partners around topical issues. He is a Director of the Smart Homes & Building Association (based in the UK) and member of the Fédération Française de Domotique (French Smart Home Association) and the German based Smart Home initiative. Prior to joining CONTEXT, Adam spent his career in professional services, introducing operational best practices in large retailers across multiple market sectors. He has worked with many of the largest retailers in Europe at senior executive level. Adam is a qualified Chartered Accountant, having spent 10 years working at KPMG, and has a degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He is married with 2 daughters and a son.
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About CONTEXT: Leading the company’s efforts to offer its customers unrivalled research coverage of the IT channel landscape in Europe.
Adam Simon
Global Managing Director & CFO of CONTEXT
Adam joined CONTEXT in February 2013 to develop the company’s research coverage of ICT and technology. Adam is growing the CONTEXT panel of ICT retailers across Europe and, using the panel data, brings fresh thinking for exploiting new market opportunities. In June 2015 he formed a pan-European Smart Home Research Group including Smart Home Associations, retailers and manufacturers and also pioneered research into the opportunities for retailers selling technology to small businesses (“R2B”). In May 2016 he formed a specialist research group on Virtual Reality. In September 2015 he launched the 1st CONTEXT Smart Home Survey which compares consumer attitudes to Smart Home across UK, France and Germany. In January 2016 he launched the 2nd survey covering in addition Spain and Italy. These surveys have become established as an authoritative source of information and understanding of the emerging smart home market. He is the organiser and speaker at a number of conferences and summits – he chairs the CONTEXT Smart Channels Summit which takes place at DISTREE EMEA in Monaco and APAC in Singapore, the Melco Forum in Valencia and the CONTEXT Retail CEO breakfasts at IFA and CES. In these events he brings together CONTEXT technology vendors, distributors, retailers and other partners around topical issues. He is a Director of the Smart Homes & Building Association (based in the UK) and member of the Fédération Française de Domotique (French Smart Home Association) and the German based Smart Home initiative. Prior to joining CONTEXT, Adam spent his career in professional services, introducing operational best practices in large retailers across multiple market sectors. He has worked with many of the largest retailers in Europe at senior executive level. Adam is a qualified Chartered Accountant, having spent 10 years working at KPMG, and has a degree in Modern History from the University of Oxford. He is married with 2 daughters and a son.
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About CONTEXT: Leading the company’s efforts to offer its customers unrivalled research coverage of the IT channel landscape in Europe.
