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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 Information Services 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.
David Woodhouse
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Tim Boeckmann
Principal Business Development Manager of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Martin Beeby
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Ed Jackson
Principal, Strategic Accounts of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Manuel Tagliavini
Senior Associate – Principal Analyst MEMS and Sensors of IHS Markit
Manuel Tagliavini, a principal research analyst at IHS Markit, covers MEMS and sensors technology. Manuel joined IHS Markit in 2017. His key areas of focus are MEMS and Sensors for Consumer Electronics & Mobile and he is responsible for the tracking of sensors in handsets, tablets, laptops, sports and fitness products and other IoT applications. Prior to IHS Markit, he spent over 10 years with STMicroelectronics working in various roles including product engineering, program management and marketing and business development in the company’s MEMS division. Manuel earned an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and his Master’s of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of Parma, both in Italy.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
David Johansson
Principal Consultant of Synopsys
David Johansson has worked as a security consultant for several leading IT-security companies and has 10 years of experience in software security. Among other things, he has worked with software development and architecture, web security testing and training developers and testers in security. David lives in London where he works as an Associate Principal Consultant for Synopsys Software Integrity Group (formerly Cigital).
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
TP Honey
Principal Engineer of Puppet
TP has worked at Puppet for four years developing their supported modules. This includes working with the Puppet community on FOSS modules for Apache / MySQL / Postgresql / Tomcat … and also on device-based modules like the Cisco / Netscaler / F5 / Netapp modules. Before Puppet he was employed by F5 and BTI Systems. Then he moved on to IBM, working in the security space developing QVM, a networked vulnerability scanner, maintaining the penetration tools.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Rob Lamb
Client Principal and CTO of Dell Technologies
Rob Lamb is a Client Principal in Dell Technologies Global Transformation Office and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the UK and Ireland. His role is to bring industry expertise and transformation experience, helping customers achieve key business outcomes in times of change. Taking a business centric perspective as a trusted advisor; counseling them on how they can accelerate their IT transformation, while balancing the need for consistent delivery to ensure the desired business outcomes are achieved. Prior to joining Dell EMC Rob was head of infrastructure & CTO in EMEA for a large multi-national, delivering IT services to over 16000 users in 69 locations across 44 countries. He has particular expertise in leadership of major IT transformation programmes, including cloud, data centre consolidation, outsourcing and helping drive the cultural change associated with such major change initiatives. Away from work Rob is a keen yachtsman and is a Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Yachtmaster Instructor and Cruising Instructor Trainer.
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About Dell Technologies: Dell Technologies provides essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future.
Dean Stevenson
Principal Pre-Sales Consultant of HID Global
Dean is a Senior Security Consultant with over 10 years’ experience in IT, specialising in security for Identity and Access Management. At HID Global, the trusted source for Secure Identity Solutions, Dean has responsibility as Technical Account Manager for European, Middle Eastern and Sub-Saharan Africa regions. Dean has led many major security projects with HID Global including projects within Government, Security Agencies, Police, Telcos, Petrochemical and Financial Services. With Dean’s in-depth knowledge and understanding of organizations security requirements and of HID Global’s portfolio consisting of strong authentication, credential management, and single-credential solutions, Dean has enabled enterprise, financial services and government customers to meet their security and compliance requirements using the industry’s broadest range of identity assurance solutions. Dean is a graduate of Bournemouth University with a First class Honours degree in Computing. Prior to joining HID Global he held a Graduate position at Kingfisher PLC.
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About HID Global: HID Global develops access control and secure identity solutions such as smart cards, readers, printers, RFID tags, and software.
David Christiansen
Principal Technologist of Leidos holdings
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About Leidos holdings: Leidos holdings is a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
Chris Drake
Principal Analyst, Data Center Technology of GlobalData
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About GlobalData: GlobalData is a business Intelligence firm focused on the Pharmaceutical & Device Space.
Jonas Partner
Principal Engineer of Trade Ledger
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About Trade Ledger: Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.
Richard Collins
Principal Analyst of IDTechEx
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About IDTechEx: IDTechEx is a consultancy that provides market research, business intelligence, and events on emerging technology to its clients.
Neil Cullum
Principal Solution Engineer of BMC Software
Neil Cullum is a senior solutions engineer on the Innovation IT team at BMC, where he specializes in Control-M and workload automation in areas such as Hadoop, DevOps, and the cloud. Neil has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry, helping customers through technical and business challenges.
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About BMC Software, BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Jon Hall
Principal Product Manager of BMC Software
Based in the UK, Jon has worked in Service Management for over 20 years, focusing primarily on the development and alignment of tools and practices. He joined BMC in 2008, where he is currently Principal Product Manager for BMC Helix ITSM. A moderniser, user experience devotee, and DevOps advocate, his work on the alignment of DevOps and Service Management has been cited by leading DevOps figures such as Gene Kim. Jon is a contributing author for the new ITIL 4 framework and a regular presenter at conferences spanning ITSM, DevOps and IT Asset Management.
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About BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Paul Gerrard
Founder & Principal of Gerrard Consulting
Paul Gerrard is a Founder and Principal at Gerrard Consulting Limited since September 2006. Paul is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. Paul has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specialising in test assurance. Paul has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them. Paul was the founding Chair of the British Computer Society Information Systems Examination Board (BCS ISEB) of the Software Testing certification board. Paul is also the host of the UK Test Management Forum. Paul earned his M.Sc. degree in Concrete Structures from Imperial College London and M.A. in Engineering Science from Pembroke College. Paul wrote “Risk-Based E-Business Testing” with Neil Thompson in 2002 and the “Business Story Pocketbook” with Susan Windsor in 2012. He wrote “The Tester’s Pocketbook” in 2009. Paul won the EuroSTAR European Testing Excellence award in 2011 and The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013. Paul is the Programme Chair for the EuroSTAR 214 conference in Dublin.
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About Gerrard Consulting: Gerrard Consulting has been delivering testing services since 1992.
