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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 Director operating in the Data Visualization space. If you think a Director 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.
Doug Oppenheim
Non Executive Director – Advisor of RwHealth
Doug is a Managing Partner of Fram Investment Partners. He moved into private equity in 2002 having previously worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Merrill Lynch. A significant proportion of Doug’s career has been focused on investing in and building businesses in healthcare. With interests spanning both the clinical and digital domains, Doug is passionate about the power of technology to transform both health outcomes and the affordability of care. He currently serves on the board of Healthcare at Home, which with 200,000 patients is the UK’s largest provider of complex clinical care in the home; he previously served on the board of Dedalus, one of Europe’s largest health software groups. Doug graduated from Cambridge University with first class honours. He has travelled extensively in the polar regions and has skied to the South Pole. He serves as Chairman of the British Exploring Society, a youth development charity established in 1932.
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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.
Alistair Jones
Director of Engineering of Neo4j
Alistair is an engineer at Neo4j, specializing in clustering and consensus algorithms. He also has a side interest in graph visualization.
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Jesús Barrasa
EMEA Sales Engineering Director of Neo4j
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About Neo4j: Neo4j is the leader in graph technology. We help global brands to reveal and predict how people, processes & systems are interrelated.
Simon Kirby
Senior Director, Customer Success of Qlik
Simon is the Director of Financial Services Industry Solutions at Qlik and works with customers and partners to build value driven solutions for banks, insurers and capital markets firms. Simon has over twenty five years’ experience working in the insurance and banking sectors with a focus primarily on Audit, Risk Management and Regulation at companies including RSA Insurance Group, PWC and The Royal Bank of Scotland. Prior to joining Qlik in 2015, Simon worked for the Financial Services Authority in the UK where he headed a team of insurance regulators supervising the activities of over thirty companies in complying with regulations such as Solvency II.
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About Qlik: Qlik simplifies the way people use data by making it a natural part of how they make decisions.
Ian Monaghan
Development Director of rtobjects
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About rtobjects: “World Streaming” — delivering rich interactive visuals to everyone everywhere.
Neil Hutchinson
Technical Director of rtobjects
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About rtobjects: “World Streaming” — delivering rich interactive visuals to everyone everywhere.
Steve Gallagher
Director and Chief Executive Officer of Dotmatics
Steve obtained a first degree in biochemistry and a doctorate in biophysics and molecular modelling. After completing his post-doc at Los Alamos National Laboratory, New Mexico, Steve joined Merck in 2000. While at Merck, Steve was responsible for delivering global applications in data-mining, information management, decision-support tools and text-mining. Steve left Merck in 2005 to found Dotmatics Limited.
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About Dotmatics: Dotmatics is a scientific informatics software and services provider that offers automation of laboratory workflows.
Tom Griffin
Director and Co-Founder of Ripjar
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Rob Biggs
Director of Ripjar
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Kenny Fraser
Non Executive Director of Mallzee
Kenny Fraser is the CEO at Triscribe Limited.
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About Appointedd, Mallzee, My1Login, Social Investment Scotland, Sunstone Communication Ltd, Triscribe, University of Stirling: Mallzee is a B2C clothing retail app and a B2B data suite for clothing retailers to improve margins and make smarter buying decisions
Daniel Lewis
CEO & Cofounder-Director of Awen Collective Ltd
CEO & Cofounder @ Awen Collective – reducing the risk of cyber attacks to critical national infrastructure, automated manufacturers & the defence sector. BLURB: Cofounder, Director & CEO of Awen Collective – a company specialising in developing cyber security & incident response software for industrial organisations. Most recent previous job was as a Senior Researcher in cyber security and digital forensics at University of South Wales. I enjoy R&D and innovation in Cyber Security, Artificial Intelligence, Fuzzy Set Theory, Data Mining, Big Data & Robotics. I am Entrepreneurial, Altruistic & Autodidactic.
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About Awen Collective Ltd: Awen is a software company making society safer by increasing cyber resilience in our critical national infrastructures and manufacturers
Adam Collison
Founder/Director of Soak Digital Ltd
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About Soak Digital Ltd: A digital experience and design agency, creating award winning digital & data solutions for some of the worlds leading brands
Jim Havers
Founder/Director of Soak Digital Ltd
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About Soak Digital Ltd: A digital experience and design agency, creating award winning digital & data solutions for some of the worlds leading brands
Jake Hithersay
Company Director of Soak Digital Ltd
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About Soak Digital Ltd: A digital experience and design agency, creating award winning digital & data solutions for some of the worlds leading brands
Andy Richardson
Director of Dynistics
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About Dynistics: Dynistics produces graphical dashboard reporting tools that allow organisations to monitor, analyse and improve operational performance.
John Simpson
Director of Dynistics
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About Dynistics: Dynistics produces graphical dashboard reporting tools that allow organisations to monitor, analyse and improve operational performance.
Richard Harris
Director of Metric Central
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About Metric Central: B2B Data Information Company
