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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 Manager operating in the Asset Management space. If you think a Manager 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.
Roy Bailey
Delivery Lead & Senior Development Manager of UBS
More than two decades of leadership in designing and engineering software solutions. Always customer facing, always team management, always delivering. Clarity is my focus. Keeping it simple, commercial, fit for purpose. Management of technical debt and total support costs are first class considerations. A broad range of technologies, front to back, I can easily turn my hand to new business domains and technical challenges. Specialising in financial markets, market and instrument data, risk systems, trading systems, and just about anything that requires quality software engineering.
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About UBS: UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.
Megan Matter
Team Business Manager of UBS
Megan Matter is a Director of Strategic Partnerships at CoatChex.
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About UBS: UBS is a global financial services company that engages in the provision of financial management solutions.
Jan Schuster
Portfolio Manager – Private Equity Division of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
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About Abu Dhabi Investment Authority: Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is an investment management agency investing funds on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi.
Sebastian Shea
Portfolio Manager – Private Equity of Abu Dhabi Investment Authority
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About Abu Dhabi Investment Authority: Abu Dhabi Investment Authority is an investment management agency investing funds on behalf of the Government of Abu Dhabi.
Beverley Boettcher
Personal Assistant & Manchester Office Manager of GP Bullhound
Beverley is the Personal Assistant to Hugh Campbell and the Manchester office manager. Beverley is a senior Executive Assistant with extensive exposure operating at Board level for a variety of businesses, large and small, with the latter part of her career spent with a technology company and an international software company. Beverley has been an Executive Assistant to the CEO of we7 and to the CEO and CFO of Surfcontrol Plc.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Beverley Boettcher
Personal Assistant & Manchester Office Manager of GP Bullhound
Beverley is the Personal Assistant to Hugh Campbell and the Manchester office manager. Beverley is a senior Executive Assistant with extensive exposure operating at Board level for a variety of businesses, large and small, with the latter part of her career spent with a technology company and an international software company. Beverley has been an Executive Assistant to the CEO of we7 and to the CEO and CFO of Surfcontrol Plc.
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About GP Bullhound: GP Bullhound is a technology advisory and investment firm that provides transaction advice and capital to entrepreneurs and founders.
Freya Macken
Investment Manager of AURELIUS Equity Opportunities
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About AURELIUS Equity Opportunities: Aurelius Equity Opportunities is an investment firm that provides equity, growth, debt and real estate investments.
James Newbery
Investment Manager of British Pearl
James Newbery brings broad experience from the portfolio management and wealth management markets having spent two decades in financial services, including Salomon Brothers, Citigroup, Western Asset Management and Legal & General. He has worked extensively on risk and investment frameworks in both large institutional and smaller new start-up businesses together with systems design and project and team management. He is currently a consultant in the wealth management sector providing guidance on investment strategy, risk profiling and business controls. He graduated from Bangor University with a B.A. (Hons) in Banking, Insurance and Finance. He is a member of the CFA Institute.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Carl Deguara
Control and Risk Manager – UK Local Operations of BNP Paribas Private Equity
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About BNP Paribas Private Equity: BNP Paribas is a French private equity firm that provides a range of asset management services to its institutional and retail clients.
Leon Howard-Spink
Fund Manager of Schroders
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About Schroders: Schroders is an asset management company.
Colin Moar
Director – Global Equities – Investment Manager – Global Technology of Barings
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About Barings: Barings is a global financial services firm dedicated to meeting the evolving investment and capital needs.
Colin Moar
Director – Global Equities – Investment Manager – Global Technology of Barings
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About Barings: Barings is a global financial services firm dedicated to meeting the evolving investment and capital needs.
Alan Gauld
Investment Manager of Aberdeen Asset Management
Alan is an Investment Manager in the Aberdeen Standard Private Equity team. Alan focuses on buyout funds, co-investments and secondary investments. His fund portfolio includes a mixture of leading pan-European and mid-market Iberian funds. He is involved in all aspects of investing in these areas including sourcing, appraising and executing investments as well as portfolio monitoring. Alan holds a BSc (Hons) in Genetics from the University of Edinburgh and is a qualified chartered accountant.
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About Aberdeen Asset Management, Aberdeen Standard Investments: Aberdeen Asset Management PLC is a global investment management group, managing assets for both institutional and retail clients from
David Szabo
Product Manager of Capdesk
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About BrandVee, Capdesk: Capdesk is an equity management platform helping companies manage cap tables, shareholder registers, and employee shares.
Tom Bailey
Learning Experience Manager of AXA UK
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About AXA UK: AXA UK is part of the AXA Group, the largest insurance brand in the world and the largest insurer by revenue.
Harry Jawanda
Group Product Manager of Allocate Software
Harry Jawanda is a young entrepreneur with a passion for technology. Harry has proven success as an athlete, and as an investment banking professional with Morgan Stanley. Harry’s role as CEO of WAMBIZ Limited is to drive technology strategy and idea generation. Formulating sales and marketing strategy are also his responsibilities in conjunction with the company’s COO, Andrew West. WAMbiz is at the forefront of social media’s user evolution developing industry specific “controlled” social networks. We believe that communities based on commonality foster loyalty and thus increased engagement and revenue generation for our clients. WAMbiz is the technological hub that enables a business to achieve closer alignment to it’s customers and provide better access to that business’ resources. Harry graduated with First Class Honours in Information Technology Management for Business (ITMB) at Birmingham City University. Harry has also played field hockey for England for many years. He has won three English Premier Division titles among other accolades. In 2005, Jawanda proudly launched Youth Hockey Camps, a hockey coaching company he created to provide coaching camps for school children in England.
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About Allocate Software: Allocate Software is the leading workforce optimisation software applications provider for global organisations with large, multi-skilled
Janet Forbes
Finance Manager of Frontier IP Group plc
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About Frontier IP Group plc: Frontier IP Group plc is a specialist asset management group.
Xiang Yu
Senior Product Manager of Investment Metrics
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About Investment Metrics: Investment Metrics provides investment analytics and benchmarking software solutions for the global institutional investment community.
