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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 Photography 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.
Caroline Drucker
Director of Strategic Partnerships EMEA of Instagram
Vice, SoundCloud, Etsy, and now Instagram – the NEXT regular knows her stuff.
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Arnaud Ginioux
Regional Director of 123RF
Regional Director at 123RF.
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About 123RF, Inmagine Group: 123RF is a royalty-free microstock photography library that hosts millions of stock photographs, vector illustrations, footages, and logos.
Christian Woolfenden
Managing Director of Photobox
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About Photobox: PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
Scott Worger
Retail Operations Director of Jessops
Scott Worger is Retail Operations Director @ Jessops.
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About Jessops: Jessops offers compact cameras, mirrorless cameras, SLR cameras, lenses, camcorders, optics, memory cards, and camera accessories.
Christopher Humphrey
Non-Executive Independent Director of Vitec Group
Non-Executive, independent, British, aged 59, appointed to the Board on 1 December 2013; Chairman of the Audit Committee and member of the Nominations and Remuneration Committees. He is also a Non-Executive Director of SDL PLC and AVEVA Group plc. He was formerly Group Chief Executive Officer of Anite plc, holding that position from 2008 until August 2015. Previously he was their Group Finance Director between 2003 and 2008. He has held senior positions in finance at Conoco, Eurotherm International plc and Critchley Group plc. He was previously a non-executive director of Alterian plc between 2011 and 2012. He is a Chartered Management Accountant and a Fellow of CIMA.
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About : Vitec’s purpose is to support the capture and sharing of exceptional images in its chosen Broadcast and Photographic markets.
Martin Green
Group Development & HR Director of Vitec Group
Group Development and HR Director, British, aged 48, appointed June 2005. His responsibilities include strategy and M&A, and were expanded in 2012 to include human resources and internal communications. Previously he held corporate development positions at Bunzl plc, at a broadcast equipment rental business and worked in investment banking at N M Rothschild. He trained and qualified as a solicitor with Linklaters & Alliance in the UK and is a Certified Accountant.
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About Vitec Group, Vitec Group: Vitec’s purpose is to support the capture and sharing of exceptional images in its chosen Broadcast and Photographic markets.
Caroline Thomson
Non-Executive Independent Director of Vitec Group
Non-executive, independent, British, aged 61, appointed to the Board on 1 November 2015; Chairman of the Remuneration Committee and a member of the Audit and Nominations Committees. She is currently Chair of Digital UK, the body which is responsible for digital terrestrial television, a Non-Executive Director of CN media group, a Non-Executive director of NHS Improvement and a Director of London First. She is also a Non-Executive Director of UKGI (formerly the Shareholder Executive) and Chair of its Remuneration Committee. In the arts world she recently retired as Executive Director of English National Ballet, is deputy Chair of the National Gallery and a trustee of Tullie House Gallery in Cumbria. Until September 2012 Caroline was Chief Operating Officer at the BBC, serving twelve years as a member of the Executive Board. As Chief Operating Officer she was the deputy director general and was responsible for all the non-programme parts of the BBC except finance, including the property portfolio and the negotiation of the Royal Charter and two licence fee settlements. Caroline received an honorary doctorate from York University in 2013 and was made an honorary Fellow of the University of Cumbria in 2015. She is a member of the council of the University of York and a trustee of The Conversation.
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About : Vitec’s purpose is to support the capture and sharing of exceptional images in its chosen Broadcast and Photographic markets.
Ania Wadsworth
Operations Director of World Photography Organization
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About World Photography Organization: The World Photography Organisation is a global platform for photography initiatives. W
Emily Shelley
Managing Director of Alamy
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About Alamy: Alamy is the world’s largest online photo agency for stock, video and live news.
Tony Xu
Founder and Managing Director of Perfocal
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About Perfocal: Perfocal is the easiest way to hire an awesome photographer, on-demand.
Andy Bell
Non-exec Director & Co-founder of Boomf
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About Boomf, SIDE Labs: Boomf is an initial product, Boomf is a quite simply a better way to send a sentiment.
Zac Barrett
Director of Country Matters
Zac Barrett has undying passion for the English countryside and its pursuits. Based in the Wiltshire Somerset boarders there are always plenty of rural activities on offer, armed with camera, gun, riding crop or rod, every moment spent in the countryside is time well spent. When not indulging in his countryside passions he spends most of his time expanding Country Matters ever growing range of products and designs. Zac Barrett is also the Co-founder of Country Matters Ltd.
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About Country Matters: Country Matters specialising in high quality country photography, these unique pictures are used on all our products.
Pierdavide Marcolongo
COO & Board Director of V-Nova
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About : Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Sally Hart
Creative Director & COO of Picfair
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About Picfair: Picfair is an open-to-all image licensing marketplace.
Lindsy Agana
Founder and Director of Greybox Studio
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About Greybox Studio: Creative content and photography studio.
Christopher De Silver
Commercial Director of Permissionmachine
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About Permissionmachine: Permissionmachine help photographers protect and license their content.
Tsol Keoshgerian
Director of SNAPCAM
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About SNAPCAM: Our mission is to make it easy and affordable to have beautiful photobooks delivered direct to your door.
Nick Redford
Managing Director of Caterforce
Nick Redford is the managing director of Caterforce.
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About Caterforce: Caterforce is a foodservice buying and marketing consortium in the UK.
Rod Boswell
Founder/Director of Altispire
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About Altispire: Altispire is the UKs premier aerial imaging and thermal imaging specialists.
