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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 Credit 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.
Leonardo Trabuco
Senior Director of Engineering of Nubank
Leo is the CTO at DueDil, responsible for leading the engineering team and the company’s technology strategy. He joined DueDil in 2013 as a data scientist, progressing to lead an engineering team focused on the development of data products, before becoming CTO in 2015. Leo holds a PhD in Biophysics and Computational Biology from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign, USA. While in academia, he published 20 peer-reviewed research articles, including top journals like Science and PNAS, in addition to contributing to open-source software development, training, fund raising, and working as a reviewer for 7 international scientific journals.
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About Nubank: Nubank is a digital bank that offers digital credit cards, transfers, and payments.
Thierry Edde
Director of Investor Relations of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Tobias Borkowski
Director of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Markus Noe-Nordberg
Managing Director and Head of Europe mid-market Private Equity of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Kenneth Borton
Managing Director of WhiteHorse Capital of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Joe Nathan
Director of Digital & Data Services of H.I.G. Capital
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About H.I.G. Capital: H.I.G. Capital is a global private equity and alternative assets investment firm with $42 billion of equity capital under management.
Luca Bassi
Managing Director of Bain Capital
Luca Bassi is the Managing Director at Bain Capital.
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About Bain Capital: Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.
Christophe Jacobs van Merlen
Managing Director of Bain Capital
Christophe Jacobs van Merlen is the Managing Director at Bain Capital.
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About Bain Capital: Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.
Nigel Walder
Managing Director of Bain Capital
Mr. Walder joined Bain Capital Private Equity in 2015. He is a Managing Director in the Consumer, Retail & Dining Vertical and a member of the European Private Equity team. He also leads our European capital markets activity and is a member of the recruiting team. Prior to joining Bain Capital Private Equity, Mr. Walder was an investment banker with J.P. Morgan. He occupied a variety of positions in London & Hong Kong, and most recently was a senior Managing Director in the European leveraged finance business. Mr. Walder received a BA (Hons) from Oxford University.
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About Bain Capital: Bain Capital is a global alternative investment firm specializes in private equity, venture capital, and credit products.
Marion Delille
Director of Capital Markets and Origination of CrossLend
Marion Delille is a Director of Capital Markets & Origination at CrossLend, a digital debt marketplace with a mission to make the European lending and investment ecosystem more efficient and transparent. Prior to joining CrossLend, Marion was an Executive Director at Morgan Stanley, where she worked across Global Capital Markets and their Securitised Products Group. Over the years, she was involved in the origination, structuring, and syndication of European securitisations. Marion began her career at Goldman Sachs where, as part of the Structured Credit & Bank Solutions team within Fixed Income, she focused on secured funding and regulatory capital transactions. Marion holds a Master of Finance from HEC Paris (France).
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About CrossLend: CrossLend designs a cross-border marketplace lending platform that makes pan-European investments possible via a single platform.
Daniel Kellett
Senior Director of Data Science of Capital One
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About Capital One, Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Rachel Hover
Director of Capital One
Starting her career in Traditional Banking by joining NatWest on the Accelerated Management Programme, instead of heading to University, Rachel Hover became one of the first Personal Account Managers involved in setting up the Primeline Telephone Banking team before joining Capital One in 2000 to help set up the Sales department. Moving quickly into roles to work with and then in Tech, heading up teams in Business Service Support, Mission Control and Business Continuity. Moving into the Cyber team in 2012 where she is now a Director responsible for Tech and Cyber Risk Management and is the UK Women in Tech Chapter Lead.
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About Capital One: Capital One is a diversified banking company that offers early and later stage venture, and debt financing investments.
Jostein Svendsen
Founder & Executive Director of Jaja
Jostein Svendsen currently serves as executive director of Jaja Finance since October 2015.
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About Jaja: Jaja is a fintech company that provides digital and physical credit cards and other financing services.
Iliyana Tsanova
Deputy Managing Director of European Investment Bank
Ms. Iliyana Tsanova is Deputy Managing Director of the European Fund for Strategic Investment (EFSI or the Junker plan) – a EUR 16 billion guarantee facility, launched jointly by the European Commission and the European Investment Bank Group to restore growth and support strategic investments in the European Union. Before joining EFSI, Ms Tsanova held various senior banking positions with the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) Infrastructure team in London, UK. Ms. Tsanova has also held non-executive board positions in international utility companies and investment funds for infrastructure investments. In 2013 and 2014, Ms. Tsanova was appointed Deputy Prime Minister and Minister in charge of the management of the European Structural and Investments Funds in two separate caretaker governments of Bulgaria. Ms. Tsanova’s academic background is in Corporate and Business Finance. She holds a MSc. in Finance from University for National and World Economy – Sofia, Bulgaria, and a postgraduate studies in Financial Management as а visiting scholar at Georgetown University – Washington DC, USA.
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About European Investment Bank: European Investment Bank provides lending, borrowing, and treasury services.
Neil Lover
Board Directors of The UK Cards Association
Neil Lover is Board Directors at The UK Cards Association.
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About : The UK Cards Association is the leading trade association for the card payments industry in the UK.
Philip Eagle
Tax Director of Hallidays
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About CapitalStackers, Hallidays: Hallidays is a business development and accounting service company.
Toni Dare
Managing Director & Founder of Pulse Cashflow Finance
With over 30 years’ experience in the asset-based lending market, Toni delivers a proven track record at a senior level in both operational and risk environments. She has successfully built and managed teams and processes in this space, consistently hitting performance targets. Having worked at Director level for the least 15 years in both the banking and independent sector from Barclays Bank to Bibby Financial Services, she has built a credible reputation for managing group and divisional risk portfolios. A consummate industry professional with a wealth of experience she is committed to facilitating quick decision making and well-structured facilities for clients. As such, she made her move in 2008 to lead her own firm to enable businesses to access funding quickly, simply and on their terms giving them greater control. Her reward comes from seeing others succeed in the work place and clients flourish from the firms flexible and transparent funding solutions.
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About Pulse Cashflow Finance: Pulse Cashflow Finance is a invoice finance and credit management specialist.
Loren Barton
Founder, Managing Director of Kaleidoscope Group Ltd
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About Kaleidoscope Group Ltd: Consultancy and advisory firm focused on bridging the gap between innovation and performance in the market
