Best Startup
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 Music 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.
Anna Gradil
Manager, YouTube Partnerships of YouTube
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About Yoola, Yoola, YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Matthew Thomas
Strategy Manager of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Katie Jenkins
Southern Europe Manager, YouTube Partner Development & Management of YouTube
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About YouTube: YouTube is a video-sharing platform, allows users to upload, view, and share videos, including movie and music clips and amateur content.
Emma Young
Senior Global PR Manager of SoundCloud
Emma Young is the head of public relations at [Sound Cloud](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/soundcloud), an online platform that enables people to discover and enjoy music from the world’s most diverse creator community. Prior to that, she was the press and media manager at The Place. Young holds a bachelor’s degree in English Literature from the University of Birmingham.
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About SoundCloud: SoundCloud is a social sound platform where anyone can create and share sounds.
Dan Weingartner
Customer Support Manager of ROLI
After 15 years touring the world as Keyboard Technician for artists such as Britney Spears, Lionel Richie and Leonard Cohen, Dan now leads ROLI customer support team. He still tinkers with modular synthesisers and loves physics and cosmology.
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About ROLI, ROLI: ROLI is a London-based music technology company that produces musical instruments and software products.
Jamie Oborne
Owner & Manager of Dirty Hit
Jamie Oborne is the owner of Dirty Hit Records, founded in 2010, and located in London, United Kingdom. Jamie also heads up All on Red Management, where he has served as the Manager of the 1975 for the past 8 years, and has worked to support and lead the band to the immense success it sees today.
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About Dirty Hit: Shop About Dirty Hit is an independent record label that was formed in 2009.
John Dollin
Senior Product and Engineering Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Kaj Phoenix
Mobile Product Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Alex Theophanous
Interim General Manager UK & Ireland of Boxine
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About Boxine: Boxine develops an audio system to make children listen to stories and music.
Angela Murphy
Senior Project Manager of Barbican
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About Barbican: Barbican is a world-class arts and learning organization supporting art forms, including dance, film, music, theatre, and visual arts.
Dominika Dronska
Senior Digital Manager of Abbey Road Studios
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About Abbey Road Studios: The world’s most famous recording studios.
Michael Turkington
Community Manager of little concert
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About little concert: little concert is a community marketplace that enables anyone to book live music for anything
Ian Duncan Thompson
Marketing and Community Manager of little concert
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About little concert: little concert is a community marketplace that enables anyone to book live music for anything
Lawrence Galkoff
General Manager of UK Radioplayer limited
Lawrence Galkoff has been the General Manager of Radioplayer Worldwide since the beginning of the year. With a solid background in technology which began in the BBC Radio Central Control Room in the mid-eighties, he brings with him over thirty years of experience across all sectors of the broadcast industry. In the intervening years, Lawrence has managed the technical planning for many key radio and TV programmes and so has always worked hard to be at the forefront of new technology. Having closely followed the transformation from analogue to digital and as an early adopter of IP for programme delivery, Lawrence is fully aware of the opportunities that the digital world brings to broadcasters and is determined that broadcasters make the most of these opportunities to enhance the services they already provide to their audiences and to make sure that they stay one step ahead of the new forms of entertainment that are competing for that audience. As an avid radio consumer, Lawrence wants to make sure that radio stays the first choice for the majority and that access remains simple and obvious on all platforms.
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About UK Radioplayer limited: UK Radioplayer limited is a radio streaming service for customers in the UK.
Valerie Hall
Editorial and Marketing Manager of Equinox Publishing
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About Equinox Publishing: Equinox Publishing Ltd is an independent academic publisher founded in 2003.
Peter McVerry
Station Manager and Executive Director of U105
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About U105: Radio station in the greater Belfast area.
Tasha Collins
Production Manager of Flying Tiger Productions
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About Flying Tiger Productions: Video and Film production
Keith Johnson
General Manager of Beatgrid Media
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About Beatgrid Media: Beatgrid Media provides light ACR solutions to make TV & Music content Clickable and Measurable in real-time from any device
