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 Outsourcing 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.
David Turner
Chief Executive Officer of Webhelp
David joined Webhelp in 2009 as CEO of UK operations. He is also part of the Executive Committee of the Webhelp Group and manages Webhelp’s operations in South Africa and India. David’s experience and passion has led Webhelp to its position as a regional BPO leader with expertise in customer experience engineering. David led the development of Marks and Spencer’s online channels between 1990 and 1999. He then joined Trinity Horne Consulting as Executive Director, where he developed strategic growth solutions for blue-chip organisations. David has degree from the University of Strathclyde and a keen interest in omni-channel customer strategy and insight-led solutions.
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About Webhelp: Webhelp is a business process outsourcer (BPO), specialising in customer experience and payment management.
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Edwin Harrell
Chief Executive Officer of WNS Assistance of WNS (Holdings) Ltd
Edwin Harrell is the Chief Executive Officer of WNS Assistance. Edwin is based in the UK. Prior to joining WNS, he was a consultant in the insurance industry and has worked closely with WNS Assistance since 1994. In 2001, Edwin Harrell was part of the team that helped set up our back-office processing center in India and subsequently integrated it to our U.K. delivery centers.
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About WNS (Holdings) Ltd: WNS (Holdings) Limited (NYSE: WNS), is a leading global business process outsourcing company.
Adam Hewitson
Chief Executive Officer of Throgmorton
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About Throgmorton: Throgmorton is one of the leading financial and administrative outsourcing companies serving the financial services sector.
Ian Beaumont
Chief Executive Officer of IBA Group
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About IBA Group: Software development, IT outsourcing, software solutions.
Robert Tezescu
CEO & Founder of Antares Code Studio
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About Antares Code Studio, Xtraordinary Ltd: Custom software services, including web and mobile application development.
Christian Nentwich
Chief Executive Officer of Duco
Christian Nentwich is co-founder and CEO of Duco, a true disruptor in the data quality and reconciliation market. A lifelong technologist with a relentless passion for simplifying complex data using augmented machine learning and AI automation, Christian has led Duco from a few lines of code five years ago to an award winning global enterprise. He has a proven track record of building successful businesses and leadership teams that deliver transformational experiences to clients. Prior to Duco, Christian founded Systemwire, which exited to Message Automation and further to Broadridge. He holds a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from University College London and is a winner of its Faculty Medal in Mathematical and Physical Sciences.
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About Duco: Duco is a data engineering technology company that provides self-service data engineering in the cloud.
Fernando Ventureira
Chief Executive Officer of Stratence Partners
Fernando is CEO at Stratence Partners, a global Consulting, Systems and Outsourcing well-known company, and has more than 25 years of experience helping the organizations, worldwide, optimizing Strategies, enhancing Commercial Effectiveness and implementing successfully Pricing Excellence. Fernando is a recognized expert in producing tangible economic results through pragmatic “Short Term Solutions” and delivering long term vision as “Sustainable World Class Capabilities”. Fernando is usual Chairman, VIP Workshop owner and Speaker at leading conferences, globally, and he is regularly editing expert articles and Whitepapers. His professional career highlights include roles as CEO, CSO, VP, GM, Marketing, Sales, Operations, Program & Project Manager at leading companies such as Proudfoot (US), Matrix (UK), PwC (Spain), McKinsey (Portugal), IIC (Belgium) and IMP (France). Fernando owns a DipHE in Industrial Engineering by the Science School of Cachan (Paris), a BScIT by the ESCP (Paris), a MBA by the EAP (Oxford), and he is finishing his Phd in Strategy & Organization at the Swiss Management Center (Zurich). He speaks fluently French, English, Spanish, Portuguese, Galician and Catalan and enjoys international Projects to continuously improve his Italian, German and Chinese.
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About Stratence Partners: Stratence Partners is a Consulting, Systems and Outsourcing Company.
Xenios Thrasyvoulou
Founder & CEO of PeoplePerHour
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About PeoplePerHour: PeoplePerHour is a marketplace connecting small businesses and freelancers.
Mark Williams
Founder & CEO of CloudSaver
Mark has extensive experience in taking blue chip companies in the IT and telecommunications industry to the next level in their growth phase. At OrderDynamics, Mark creates the business development strategy for the European market with a focus on developing and managing the Business Development Team.
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About CloudSaver, FishNet Security: CloudSaver is a cost optimization firm that offers outsourcing, cloud computing and technical support to IT organizations.
Simon Williams
CEO of NTT DATA UK
Simon Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of NTT DATA UK.
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About NTT DATA UK: NTT DATA UK is a consulting and IT service provider to manufacturing, banking public sector, telecom, and financial services.
Phil Morgan
Founder, CEO & Managing Director of Intelling
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About Intelling: Intelling is a communications business that provides customer services support for companies such as Telefonica and Misguided.
Simon Broch
CEO of Alpha Dealing
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About Alpha Dealing: Alpha Dealing assists investment managers to efficiently execute their trades.
Craig Hooper
Co-Founder and CEO of DWCC
Craig Hooper is the founder and CEO of DWCC. He has over 20 years’ experience in global solution selling and has also worked in senior IT buying positions across a number of successful global technology start-ups. His other experience includes stints at Airbus and JP Morgan, where he served as SVP of EU Supply Chain Product Management.
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About : One Partner for Immediate In Country, Dedicated White Label Presence with offices in US, UK, Spain, Germany and Australia
Robert Berkeley
CEO of Express KCS
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About Express KCS: Express KCS provides companies around the world with a turnkey route to offshoring their media production.
Tom Hunt
CEO/Cofounder of AskTina
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About AskTina, Repairly: AskTina is Monetise your Expertise
Catherine Burke
CEO of Banner Managed Communication
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About Banner Managed Communication: Banner Managed Communication is a supplier of business marketing and essential communication services.
