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 CMO’ operating in the Finance space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
Chris Marjara
Chief Marketing Officer of The Access Group
Chris comes to Access with a top-class record of leading successful marketing teams at fast-growing tech companies. Chris’s previous roles include Global Marketing Director for Stepstone – one of the earliest SaaS HR solutions. Before that, he spent four years as Vice-President International Marketing at Kronos Inc, a $1 billion Workforce Management software company. Most recently, Chris was Chief Marketing Officer International for McGraw-Hill Education, managing a marketing team of 115 people, driving the fast growth of digital learning solutions. Chris is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Sally Allan
Chief Marketing Officer of Wealthify
Sally Allan is the Chief Marketing Officer at Wealthify.
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About Wealthify: Wealthify offers effortless, transparent, and affordable investing for everyone.
Matthew James Low
Chief Marketing Officer at QPQ of QPQ
Matthew James Low is the CMO at QPQ.
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About QPQ: QPQ is a network infrastructure to enable a digital universe.
Andrew Tomlinson
Chief Marketing Officer of Calastone
Andrew Tomlinson joined Calastone in 2015 and is responsible for the strategic planning and execution of Calastone’s global marketing and corporate communications programmes. Andrew brings over 20 years international marketing experience gained in the financial, payments and technology sectors. Before joining Calastone, Andrew was Global Head of Marketing at Temenos, a Swiss based financial software company. Prior to this he has held senior marketing positions at HSBC and payment specialist VocaLink.
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About Calastone: Calastone is a global transaction network for the mutual fund industry.
Yoann Pavy
Chief Marketing Officer of Nude
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About Nude: The new way to save for and purchase your first home.
Sally Scott
CMO of Advanced
Sally Scott is Chief Marketing Officer at Advanced, having been promoted to the role in December 2015. She had previously been marketing director of its Business Solutions division, delivering a breadth of back office and specialist CRM solutions to the mid and enterprise market. Sally is now responsible for aligning the company’s marketing initiatives and brand awareness to its ambitious growth plans. Sally is passionate about ensuring that marketing makes a real and measurable contribution to sales revenue and is responsible for delivering the company’s integrated new brand, launched in April 2016 as part of the company’s transformation process. Sally brings over 15 years of senior marketing experience to Advanced. Prior to Advanced, she was head of marketing at UNIT 4.
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About Advanced, Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Sally Scott
CMO of Advanced
Sally Scott is Chief Marketing Officer at Advanced, having been promoted to the role in December 2015. She had previously been marketing director of its Business Solutions division, delivering a breadth of back office and specialist CRM solutions to the mid and enterprise market. Sally is now responsible for aligning the company’s marketing initiatives and brand awareness to its ambitious growth plans. Sally is passionate about ensuring that marketing makes a real and measurable contribution to sales revenue and is responsible for delivering the company’s integrated new brand, launched in April 2016 as part of the company’s transformation process. Sally brings over 15 years of senior marketing experience to Advanced. Prior to Advanced, she was head of marketing at UNIT 4.
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About Advanced, Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Jasper Martens
Chief Marketing Officer of PensionBee
In the dusty old pension world, Jasper brings pensions back in people’s mind with PensionBee, UK’s first online pension manager. Leading up brand and marketing, he brings 12 years of experience to the fintech startup, voted as one of the innovations of the year by Financial Times. Jasper started his career working for various startups in Amsterdam through his own online marketing agency. In 2009 Jasper moved to London to join online insurance provider Simply Business as Head of Marketing and Communications. He won a DADI award (online marketing) and Digi Award in 2014 (customer insight) for his campaigns. There’s almost nothing Jasper likes more than collaborating to make cool things happen.
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About PensionBee: PensionBee: the clever way to find and combine all your old pension plans in one good-value, online plan Capital at risk.
Francisco van Zeller
Chief Marketing Officer of Netwealth
Over 15 years’ experience in marketing across different industries and countries. Digital entrepreneur and former director at Samsung Electronics.
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About Netwealth: Netwealth is an online wealth management service that brings together an experienced team, user-friendly technology and lower fees.
Carl Robertson
Chief Marketing Officer of FNZ
Carl Robertson joined Temenos as Chief Marketing Officer (CMO) in 2017. In this role he is responsible for planning and execution of Global Marketing and Corporate Communications programs. Prior to joining Temenos, Carl was VP Global Marketing at Tata Communications, a global telecom and cloud organisation. Carl has over 18 years of experience in senior executive roles within leading technology organisations, including Xerox and Orange and more recently Colt where he was CMO and VP of Products. He holds a bachelor’s degree in management, innovation and business strategy from Aston University, UK.
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About FNZ, Temenos: FNZ partners with financial institutions to enable them to provide multi-channel wealth management services to their clients.
Kyrre Riksen
Chief Marketing Officer / Co-founder of Jaja
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About Jaja: Jaja is a fintech company that provides digital and physical credit cards and other financing services.
Viktor Nebehaj
CMO & Cofounder of Freetrade
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About Freetrade: Freetrade is a challenger stockbroker that offers free share trading in mobile phones.
Mark Magnacca
CMO of Unbolted
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About Unbolted: Unbolted is a UK leader in personal asset financing through peer to peer lending (P2P).
John Dillon
Chief Marketing Officer of Exact
John Dillon is the chief marketing officer of Exact.
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About Exact: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
Deb Hennessy
CMO of The Sandpit
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About The Sandpit: Applying the Private Equity model to start-up acceleration.
Simon Vella
Chief Marketing Officer of Profile Pensions
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About Profile Pensions: Our pension experts track down your pensions and tell you how we can make you better off in retirement.
John Humpish
CMO of tibit
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About : pocket change for the internet — tips and tiny payments spent without a second thought.
Paul Duggan
Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Marketing Advisor of Canstar
Paul Duggan is the Chief Commercial Officer and Chief Marketing Advisor at CANSTAR.
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About Canstar, Zookel: Canstar provides general financial product advice through the provision.
Bjorn Laku
Director & CMO of Cashbook Finance
Mr. Laku is an experienced Business Development Manager skilled in Project and Brand Management, Strategic Planning, Data Analysis and Digital Marketing. Past industry experiences include “Big 4” Management Consulting, Telecommunications, Specialty Foods, and the Digital Industry.
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About Cashbook Finance: FCA registered company offering Invoice Finance & Factoring services in the UK.
