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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 CFO’ operating in the Information Services space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Lloyd Pitchford
Chief Financial Officer of Experian
Lloyd Pitchford is a Chief Financial Officer at Experian.
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Courtney Grant
CFO of Kalo
Courtney became Kalo’s first angel investor in 2014 before joining the team as CFO in 2016. Before diving into the startup world, he spent his career in finance with a variety of corporate finance roles at leading North American and European investment banks.
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About Kalo: Kalo provides an online platform that enables businesses to manage their external workforces.
Carolyn Clark
Chief Financial Officer of Teneo
Working across the Teneo group, Carolyn ardently leads the finance, administration and logistics team to deliver accurate, effective and very timely services to the business in a fast-paced environment.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Jean-Philippe Lecourt
CFO & Co-founder of Datamaran
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About Datamaran: Datamaran is one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful semantic business intelligence tools.
Christopher Jenkins
CFO of Lightvert Ltd.
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About Lightvert Ltd.: Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Jon Stratford
Chief Financial Officer of Smart Communications
Jon leads the financial and operational functions at Smart Communications, driving the company’s growth strategy and supporting all of its strategic and operational initiatives. Jon brings over 20 years of experience as a qualified chartered accountant, where he has led the financial, commercial, and business operations of global businesses. Before joining Smart Communications, Jon directed strategic and commercial initiatives at Xchanging plc, where he led the company’s IPO and entry into the FTSE 250. In his spare time, Jon is a windsurfer, rugby player, and an avid tri-athlete with a passion for Ironman competitions.
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About Smart Communications: Smart Communications is a privately held company that provides cloud-enabled customer communications management services.
Mark Boote
CFO of Zapaygo
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About Badminton England, Pro Active Financial Consultants, Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
Nigel Drakeford Lewis
CFO of Logicalis
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Hannah Lowry
Chief Financial Officer of Ecrebo
Hannah joined Ecrebo in July 2017 and brings proven experience in driving business performance and robust financial management for multinational companies in Europe and the Middle East. In her role as CFO, Hannah is responsible for all financial matters for Ecrebo and as part of the senior leadership team, will help set and implement the strategic direction of the company. Hannah previously served as finance director for the data and analytics business at Aimia, as well as tenures with GE Capital in Dubai, and Barclays in London.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Simon Corley
Co-Founder & CFO of CloudApps
Simon is a co-founder of CloudApps and is responsible for Finance, Administration & Operations and brings over 18 years of relevant experience to this role gained whilst working at Salesforce, Siebel Systems and Informix. Prior to founding CloudApps, Simon spent over 6 years at salesforce.com, joining in 2003 before its IPO. Simon has been a member of the European Management team since hire and initially was responsible for the company’s Finance and Administration for EMEA. In 2007 Simon was promoted to Vice President, Operations for EMEA, and in 2009 to Vice President of Strategy for International Sales. Simon’s focus was to optimise sales performance through targeted go-to-market strategies, coverage models, and evaluation of sales execution. Prior to joining Salesforce, Simon spent 6 years at Siebel and 5 years at Informix within the European Finance functions, providing infrastructure support to enable explosive growth in their sales teams. Simon is a Chartered Accountant who gained his professional qualification with Deloitte and Touche in London in 1990. He has a BSc in Geography from King’s College, London University. Simon is married with two children and lives in Hampshire, UK.
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Roger England
Co-Founder & Chief Financial Officer of Spikes Cavell & Co
Co-founder of Spikes Cavell, Roger has 26 years software/information industry experience with the majority of that time spent in subscription-based data businesses. While at Spikes Cavell, in addition to spending a number of years in business development, Roger has run the customer service, operations, HR and finance functions. Roger is process-oriented, cost-conscious and has a keen, some say obsessive, eye for detail. An avid cyclist, he can often be found making the arduous trek from his home deep in the Wiltshire countryside to the office in Berkshire regardless of what the British weather throws at him.
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About Spikes Cavell & Co: Spikes Cavell is focused on data-based solutions to support decision making and programme execution in the private sector.
Rob Tragen
CFO of Trade Ledger
Rob Tragen is the CFO at Trade Ledger.
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About Trade Ledger: Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.
Paul Buddin
Chief Financial Officer of TopHat.Io
Paul Buddin is the Chief Financial Officer at TopHat.
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About McLaren Group, TopHat.Io: TopHat.Io is a technology-driven modular housing manufacturing.
David Linsley
CFO of eCommonSense
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About eCommonSense: eCommonSense is an eCommerce and product data management solution (PIM) with full back-office integration for merchants and their suppliers.
Shane McCourt
CFO & Co-founder of Sensum
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About Sensum: Empathic AI for smart mobility, places and people
Mark Foster
CFO of Vianet Group
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About Vianet Group: Vianet Group delivers Internet of Things (IOT) solutions.
Adam Prickett
CFO of AppLearn
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About AppLearn: AppLearn is a pioneering digital adoption company and creator of the Adopt digital adoption solution.
Chris Pennington
Chief Financial Officer of SSP
Chris joined SSP in 2009 and held a number of senior finance positions prior to his appointment as CFO in May 2018. Before joining SSP, Chris spent 12 years with PwC, latterly as a Director in the Corporate Finance practice. Chris is a Chartered Accountant.
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About SSP: SSP is a provider of technology systems and solutions for the insurance industry.
