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 Advisor operating in the Non Profit space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Manisha Dahad
Advisory Board of Head Held High
Manish Dahad has over 20 years of experience in a wide variety of professions ranging from social entrepreneurship, management consulting, partnership engagement, leadership development and IT. She brings fresh and new perspectives to the area of social change. Manisha is passionate about 2 areas: Collective Change and People’s Potential. She has initiated projects and enterprises (namely Centre for Social Brilliance , and World Changers & Co) that have inspired, mobilised and mentored social entrepreneurs and intrapreneurs to create new business models and have social impact. She has also developed a strong network of entrepreneurs & built relationships with senior executives from global companies (Accenture, Barclays, M&S, Unilever, BT, Novartis, Kroll, Colliers CRE, RBS), NGOs (Save the Children, VSO,NEST, LDA) and social enterprises (Jamie Oliver’s Fifteen, Turquoise Mountain, MaFoi) in the UK, Denmark, Afghanistan and India. Working as a management consultant at IBM, Manisha engaged in large IT and business transformation projects of telecom companies that combined strategic advice, programme management, business process re-engineering & implementation capabilities. Manisha has an MBA from London Business School, a Masters in Science and Technology from Birla Institute of Technology and Science, a leading engineering institute in India and is a trained Visionary and Executive Coach from Coaches Training Institute and Visionary Network. She is also an active visionary speaker and consultant on social change.
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About : Head Held High is a social enterprise that aims to build careers for rural youth to drive their socio-economic prosperity.
Emilie White
Advisor, Education Technology & Communications of Amnesty International
Emilie is Amnesty International’s global Education Technology Adviser. She has nine years of experience in developing strategy and executing projects to make human rights accessible at international and global levels using the latest advances in communications and technology. Her work has focused on the areas of innovation, story-telling, equality, anti-discrimination, and migration. She currently leads on applying education technology to the human rights field to increase access to human rights education at the global scale. Prior to her work in human rights, she draws on a further ten years of experience working for companies and on her academic advancement at both international and regional level. This included EU level science journalism, building her fluency in Spanish, French and Italian, studying Art and Literature, and gaining a Masters in International Relations at the University of Kent’s Brussels School of International Studies in 2005.
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About Amnesty International: Amnesty International is a global charity organization of people fighting injustice and promoting human rights.
Sheree Atcheson
Advisory Board Member of Women Who Code
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About Forbes, Kogan Page: Women Who Code is a global organization dedicated to inspiring women to pursue and excel in technology careers.
Sheree Atcheson
Advisory Board Member of Women Who Code
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About Forbes, Kogan Page: Women Who Code is a global organization dedicated to inspiring women to pursue and excel in technology careers.
Terri Dowty
Advisor of Foundation for Information Policy Research
Terri Dowty is Advisor at Foundation for Information Policy Research.
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About : The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is the leading think tank for Internet policy in Britain.
Martin Keegan
Member of the Advisory Council of Foundation for Information Policy Research
I’m in my 30s and live in London or Cambridge, England, where I studied law and linguistics. A lot of my growing up however was done in Australia, where I was born. I am interested in languages, history, economics (particularly of information systems), computing and politics (I have been closely involved in campaigns against ID cards and the over-extension of copyright laws). I am very easily sidetracked by the philosophy of language and philosophy of law, particularly where they intersect and when I am not working in the IT industry, drinking too much or campaigning, I am trying to write a book on the comparative history of Westminster-style democratic constitutions.
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About : The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is the leading think tank for Internet policy in Britain.
Becky Hogge
Advisor of Foundation for Information Policy Research
Becky Hogge is Advisor at Foundation for Information Policy Research.
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About : The Foundation for Information Policy Research (FIPR) is the leading think tank for Internet policy in Britain.
Claudia Trauffler
EU Policy Advisor of British Bankers Association
Claudia joined the BBA in November 2013 as EU Policy Advisor. Prior to this she worked for an MEP in Brussels and in the European Parliament office in London. Claudia holds a Master degree in International Relations from the London School of Economics.
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About : The BBA is the leading trade association for the UK banking sector with more than 230 member banks headquartered in over 50 countries
Nick Smith
Policy Advisor of British Bankers Association
Nick’s key responsibilities at the BBA include issues relating to tax, corporate governance and diversity. Nick also manages the BBA’s Private Banking and Wealth Management Panel.
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About : The BBA is the leading trade association for the UK banking sector with more than 230 member banks headquartered in over 50 countries
Robert Driver
Policy Advisor of British Bankers Association
Rob’s key responsibilities at the BBA include issues relating to reporting requirements, COREP, FINREP and wider data management issues. Rob also manages the BBA’s small banks panel.
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About : The BBA is the leading trade association for the UK banking sector with more than 230 member banks headquartered in over 50 countries
Helena Ward
Scotland National Advisory Board Member of Creative Skillset
Helena Ward is Portfolio Manager at Creative Scotland.
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About Creative Scotland: Creative Skillset is the creative industries’ sector skills council that works across film, television, fashion, games, and many more.
Emma Douthwaite
Quality and Accreditation Advisor of Creative Skillset
Emma Douthwaite is Quality and Accreditation Advisor at Creative Skillset.
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About : Creative Skillset is the creative industries’ sector skills council that works across film, television, fashion, games, and many more.
Paul Wilson
Smart City Trusted Advisor of TMForum
Paul Wilson is Managing Director of Bristol Is Open, a city-scale research infrastructure for the study of software defined networks, internet of things and big data technologies that contribute to smart city solutions. Paul was Chief Executive of the West of England LEP which owns the economic strategy for the Bristol & Bath City Region, where he led the development of the regions Strategic Economic Plan. Before this Paul worked as Chief Marketing Officer of SunGard Financial Systems, during this fifteen year period the business grew from $2.8bn to $5bn and became a Fortune 500 company. Paul has an MBA from Cass Business School and Political Science degree from the University of Birmingham, UK. He is married with two children, his family enjoy life in Bristol and have previously lived in London and Geneva and have travelled widely together for work and fun.
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About : TM Forum is a global trade association that connects enterprises, service providers, and suppliers in the digital ecosystem.
Arthur Hanna
Senior Advisor & CEO of World Energy Council
Board member Copenhagen Institute of Future Studies. Visiting Professor of Energy Economics at Loughborough University. Fellow, Payne Institute, Colorado School of Mines. Responsible for supporting a number of agendas focusing on the development of strategies to promote energy transition across multiple energy sources. Arthur retired from Accenture in 2016 after 26 years working in the Energy consulting sector. He was a Senior Managing Director, leading the Global Energy Strategy business. Prior to joining Accenture in 1990 he spent 10 years with BP in a variety of international roles spanning the Middle East and Europe.
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About World Energy Council: World Energy Council is a UN-accredited global energy body dedicated to delivering a sustainable energy system worldwide.
James Koons
Research Advisory Board of International Association of Privacy Professionals
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About International Association of Privacy Professionals: IAPP a not-for-profit association with more than 16,000 members across 83 countries, focused on education and certification.
Liv Boeree
Co-founder and Advisory Board Member of Raising for Effective Giving – REG Charity
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About PokerStars, Raising for Effective Giving – REG Charity: REG is a community of poker players trying to maximize their expected positive impact on the world.
Lillian Kuan
Alumni Advisory Committee Board Member of Chiasma
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About Chiasma: Chiasma is New Zealand’s premier student-led non-profit organisation.
