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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 Art 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.
Cyrus Ardalan
Chairman of OakNorth
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About : OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Carl Edward Rasmussen
Chief Scientist & Chairman of Secondmind
Carl is professor of machine learning in Cambridge. He believes that probability theory is the foundations of information, modelling, inference, learning and rational decision making. He is chairman at Prowler. Carl occasionally leaves Cambridge to run up mountains, as he has already conquered all the peaks of Cambridgeshire.
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About Secondmind: Machine learning for automotive innovators
Clive Scrivener
Non-Executive Chairman of Oxbotica
Clive Scrivener serves as the chairman of Dukosi.
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About Aceleron, Bramble Energy, Oxbotica, Vehicle Certification Agency: Oxbotica powers the navigation, perception, user interface, fleet management, and other features needed to run self-driving vehicles.
Jonathan Feuer
Co-Founder and Chairman of Eigen Technologies
Jonathan Feuer is the Co-Founder and Chairman at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Eli Talmor
Chairman of Cipia (formerly Eyesight Technologies)
Eli Talmor is a professor at London Business School and was previously on the finance faculty of UCLA and Wharton. He serves on the board of governors of Tel Aviv University and the advisory board of the African Venture Capital Association among others. A renowned authority on private equity, he testified to the UK Parliament and advised the UK Prime Minister’s Office. Business-wise he is a serial cornerstone investor with multiple exits, notably a co-founder of SunRay Renewable Energy which was acquired in one of Europe’s largest venture exits of that year.
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About Coller Institute of Private Equity: Cipia, formerly Eyesight Technologies, is a leading provider of computer vision AI based solutions for the automotive in-cabin industryץ
Charles Cooper-Driver
Chairman, Investor & Director of Limitless
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About : The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Stewart Easterbrook
Chairman and Strategic Adviser of MiQ
Stewart is an advisor to the boards of several companies operating in the fields of media communications, data analytics, technology and mobile communications. He is Chairman of Media iQ, the leading global analytics technology and programmatic media specialist. He holds advisory roles with the video and animation production marketplace, Wooshii, mobile brand advertising experts, Widespace, and the world’s leading social music business, Instrumental.
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About MediaLab Group, MiQ: MiQ is an independent marketing intelligence company with the people and technology that help businesses win.
Bill Fitzgerald
Chairman of Featurespace
Bill Fitzgerald is a Co-founder at Featurespace.
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About Featurespace, University of Cambridge: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Roy Pounder
Founding Chairman of Rotageek
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About Alimentary Pharmacology & Therapeutics, Rotageek: Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency.
Neeshu Lukha
Chairman of the Board of Realeyes
Neeshu chairs Realeyes’ Board and leads business development with key brands. Neeshu comes to Realeyes with over 17 years brand management experience at Procter & Gamble (where he obtained P&G peak advanced level in marketing and advertising) and running Yum! Restaurants in Europe for another 3 years. He has successfully grown businesses over a diverse spectrum, including US, Europe and 15+ years in emerging markets, 50+ brands over 25 categories, and a wide variety of business situations like launching and designing new brands, expanding established brands, entering new geographies and segments, turnarounds, high-growth markets, economic downturns, joint ventures, technology and innovation partnerships and numerous acquisitions. Neeshu has worked across businesses such as Olay, Hugo Boss, Pampers, Pizza Hut, KFC, Gillette, Crest, Braun, Vicks, and in marketing these brands has also lead development of new marketing models and new research & innovation approaches.
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About : Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Steve Davies
Chairman Of The Board of Phrasee
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About Phrasee: Phrasee is AI that specializes in language generation for email marketing, push, and Facebook copy.
Thomas Balk
Chairman and Co-founder of StockViews
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About StockViews: StockViews is an investment research platform.
Robert Thong
Chairman & Chief Executive Officer of Multiomic Health
Robert has made the art of consulting his life’s work. As Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Unleash, he applies a wealth of experience to his personal mission: creating world-beating organisations. A supportive advisor to senior executives, Robert combines experienced know-how with an open mindset, delivering results that keep his clients coming back for more. Moving to the UK from Malaysia as a super-smart, teenage maths whiz, Robert started his career as an actuary. Finding business more interesting than statistical models, it wasn’t long before he decided to pursue the MBA that would introduce him to the world of management consulting. Initially focusing on analytical strategy development and operations improvement across various industries, Robert was soon drawn towards managing strategic change in R&D-driven organisations. Robert’s deep understanding of the inner workings of the pharmaceutical industry combined with his appreciation of a senior executive’s daily pressures, is a rare find indeed. He has not only been the pharmaceutical practice head in major consultancies, held P&L accountability and board positions, Robert has also spent much of his time on the ground understanding the real-life issues facing clients in laboratories, factories, pharmacies and physician offices. Coming from an analytical background himself, Robert had to learn in practice about the importance of managing change and engaging people to ensure lasting results, and was inspired to help clients do the same. Robert is dedicated to his clients winning long-term. After founding a boutique consultancy focused on the management practices of small-to-mid sized outfits competing with Big Pharmas, he decided to follow his true calling: guiding leaders and organisations of all types and sizes to success through people-driven strategy execution.
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About Multiomic Health, Selvedge Venture: Multiomic Health is building a precision therapeutics discovery platform for metabolic syndrome diseases
Yann Gindre
Deputy Chairman and Head of Advisory board of Akoni Hub
Advisory Board Member, bringing international finance and diverse experience servicing corporate banking clients. Senior executive with global experience In Corporate Investment Banking, Hedge Funds with a front to back experience. Previous roles from 2004 to late 2012, include CEO Natixis, The Americas & CEO Natixis UK, Chairman of the New York and London Executive committees, Chairman of Natixis Alternative assets. Yann has been a financial consultant and a Director at UNPRI until 2015. Between 1988 and 2004 he was MD Global Head of DCM at JP Morgan Chase, UBS and Barclays Capital and Global Head of Markets at Commerzbank. Yann Gindre holds an MBA from London Business School.
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About Akoni Hub: Akoni provides simple cash management tools for individuals and SMEs.
Simon Black
Chairman of Lexical Labs
Simon Black is the chairman and co-founder at Lexical Labs.
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About Lexical Labs: Lexical Labs is an AI-powered platform that helps lawyers to review their contracts and generate a counter-proposal.
Simon Black
Chairman of Lexical Labs
Simon Black is the chairman and co-founder at Lexical Labs.
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About Lexical Labs: Lexical Labs is an AI-powered platform that helps lawyers to review their contracts and generate a counter-proposal.
Julie Ashworth
Chairman of Clear Returns
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About : Clear Returns is predictive analytics technology helping enterprise retailers protect profits by tackling returns.
Julie Ashworth
Chairman of Clear Returns
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About : Clear Returns is predictive analytics technology helping enterprise retailers protect profits by tackling returns.
