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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 Chairman operating in the Telecommunications space. If you think a Chairman 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.
Ian Campbell
Executive Chairman of Airfi Networks
See https://www.linkedin.com/in/iancmpbll/
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About Airfi Networks: We help Original Equipment Manufacturers launch and monetize cellular connected products worldwide through our Catalyst IoT Platform
Nick Land
Chairman of the Board of Trustees, The Vodafone Foundation of Vodafone
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About : Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Mike Parton
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Arqiva
Mike brings a wealth of relevant experience from the telecoms and technology industry to Arqiva. Mike started his career as a Chartered Management Accountant, working for a number of UK technology companies including ICL, GEC, STC and Marconi. He moved into General Management in 1995 at Marconi, and became CEO in 2001. Between 2001 and 2006 Mike was CEO of Marconi before overseeing a sale of the company to Ericsson. In 2007, Mike became Chairman of Damovo and joined the Board of Tele2, becoming Chairman there in 2010. Mike stepped down from the Board of Damovo in 2015 following a sale of the company.
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About : Arqiva is a communications infrastructure and media services company.
David Williams
Founder Chairman and CEO of Arqit Limited
David Williams is a Founder at Arqit company.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Jens Montanana
Executive Chairman of Westcon-Comstor
Jens is the founder and principal architect of Datatec, established in 1986. Between 1989 and 1993, Jens served as Managing Director and Vice-President of US Robotics (UK) Limited, a wholly owned subsidiary of US Robotics, Inc. which was acquired by 3Com in 1997. In 1993 he co-founded US start-up Xedia Corporation in Boston, Massachusetts, an early pioneer of network switching and one of the market leaders in IP bandwidth management, which was subsequently sold to Lucent Corporation in 1999. In 1994 Jens became Chairman and CEO of Datatec. He has previously served on the boards and subcommittees of various public companies. Jens graduated with a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Reading in the United Kingdom.
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About Comstor, Datatec, Logicalis, Westcon-Comstor: Westcon-Comstor is a value-added technology distributor of category-leading solutions in security.
Mike Hickey
Chairman of pureLiFi
Mike Hickey held the position of Chief Executive Officer at Wolfson Microelectronics from January 2009 until its acquisition by Cirrus Logic Inc in Sept 2014. Mike joined Wolfson from Motorola Inc. where he was Senior Vice President & General Manager of Multimedia Mobile Products. Prior to joining Motorola, he served as Chief Executive Officer of Alcatel Optronics UK, Chief Executive Officer of Kymata Ltd and also held senior positions at Motorola, Digital Equipment and Philips. He has also served as a director of Motorola Ltd and as a non-executive director at Incline Global Technology Services Ltd and UIQ Technologies.
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About pureLiFi: pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
Andrew Barron
Chairman of the Board of Director of Com Hem
Andrew Barron was COO of Virgin Media and MTG, CEO of Chellomedia, Executive Vice-President Walt Disney Europe and management consultant at McKinsey & Co.
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About : Com Hem is a communications company on a mission: to transform our business entirely around what customers want and need.
Pat Carroll
Founder and Executive Chairman of ValidSoft
Pat Carroll is a Founder and Executive Chairman at ValidSoft.
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About ElephantTalk Communications, ValidSoft: ValidSoft develops a secure, accurate, precise, and fastest commercial voice biometric engine.
Matthew Riley
Chairman of Daisy Corporate Services
Since founding Daisy in 2001, Matthew has driven the rapid growth of the company to create one of the UK’s leading business technology and communications service provider. He floated the company on the Alternative Investment Market in the midst of the 2009 recession, grew the business to revenues of £350m and, in January 2015, took it back into private ownership in a £494m deal. An award-winning entrepreneur and highly successful business leader, Matthew was born in and still lives in Burnley, Lancashire. A fervent advocate of UK enterprise, regional growth, and entrepreneurship, he is passionate about providing practical career guidance for young adults. As well as Daisy, he is chairman of three start-up businesses, each with training and career development at their core.
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About Daisy Corporate Services, PROfounders Capital: Daisy Corporate Services | #1 independent provider of IT, communications and cloud
Dennis Millard
Chairman of the Board of Directors of Connect Group
Dennis’ former appointments include Chairman of Connect Group plc, Non-Executive Director and Senior Independent Director of Premier Farnell plc, Chief Financial Officer of Cookson Group plc, Finance Director of Medeva plc and a member of the Economic Affairs Committee of the CBI. Dennis has a broad commercial and financial experience in the retail, service, distribution and manufacturing sectors in the UK and internationally. Dennis is a member of the South African Instituted of Chartered Accountants and holds an MBA from the University of Cape Town.
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About : Connect Group is a leading certified supplier of production systems, printed circuit boards and cable assembly services.
David Chater-Lea
Vice Chairman of 3GPP
David is a senior technologist working for Motorola Solutions in the area of advanced system architecture and design, and a specialist in wireless communication system security. He is active in the standardisation of mission critical communications systems, and holds a number of positions of responsibility in that field, acting as vice chairman of ETSI TC TCCE, chairman of TC TCCE WG4, responsible for advanced air interfaces, vice chairman of TC TCCE WG6, responsible for security, and vice chairman of 3GPP SA6, responsible for mission critical application design.David holds a BSc in Electronic and Electrical Engineering from the University of Birmingham, England; and is a Chartered Engineer and a Fellow of the IET. He holds a number of patents in the field of radio communications systems.
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About 3GPP, 3GPP: The 3rd Generation Partnership Project (3GPP) unites [Seven] telecommunications standard development organizations.
Peter Burridge
Chairman of the Board of Director of Team Telecom Group
Peter became Chairman of TTG in May 2008 having previously worked as group managing director since 2003.Prior to this he spent many years in the technology investments and restructuring sectors in various senior roles.
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About : Operating in markets ranging from the emergency services and transport, to mobile networks and airports, each of our companies has a
Brian Murgatroyd
Chairman TC TCCE of ETSI
He is a Chartered Engineer and a Member of the UK Institution of Engineering Technology. He has actively involved in TETRA and its EVOLUTION F002 critical communications since 1998 and for the past 6 years he has been chairman of ETSI technical committee TCCE (formerly TC TETRA. He has previously been a member of ETSI TETRA Working Group 6 (Security) and the TCCA Security and Fraud Prevention Group (SFPG) for 7 years and was chairman of both groups for four years until retiring from these positions at the end of 2006In his previous career with the UK Police IT organisation (PITO) he headed up the Communications Security section and has been heavily involved at a senior level in leading the successful implementation of the security functionality and features on the UK national emergency service communications system (Airwave).He has been a regular speaker at international events over the last 16 years
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About ETSI: ETSI is a non-profit organization that produces globally-applicable standards for information and communications technologies.
Richard Bampfylde
Chairman of 4Sight Communications
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About 4Sight Communications: 4Sight Communications is one of the leading providers of business telecommunications and managed services for public sector organisations.
Roger Wilson
Chairman and Founder of Adept Technology Group Plc
Roger has worked in telecommunications since 1993. In addition to being the first Managing Director for Telewest’s residential consumer business in the UK he spent 3 years in Poland successfully building a business for American investors. He was Managing Director of the European Competitive Telecommunications Association until January 2006.
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About Adept Technology Group Plc: Adept Technology Group is one of COMMS Integrators offering best-in-class breed solutions from any UK network, customized to your needs.
Ian MacKenzie
Chairman of Genesis Technical Systems
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About : Genesis Technical Systems is a provider of patented, awarding winning, cutting-edge broadband solutions.
Pat Curran
Chairman of FSI
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About FSI: FSI provides workplace technology and services.
