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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 Partner operating in the Analytics space. If you think a Partner 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.
Tom Singell
Partnerships Manager of Showpad
Tom Singell is the Partnerships Manager at Showpad.
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About Showpad: The best thing to ever happen to your sales team
Ekaterina Almasque
General Partner of OpenOcean
Ekaterina (Katya) Almasque is a Venture Partner at OpenOcean and she leads the London Team and Operations. Before joining OpenOcean, Katya was a Managing Director of the Samsung Catalyst Fund in Europe, Samsung’s Electronics $500M venture capital multistage investment fund focused on core technology areas including robotics, autonomous driving, artificial intelligence, digital health, data infrastructure and device level technologies. She led investments across Europe in leading companies such as GraphCore, Mapillary, AIMotive, Sentiance and Quobyte, as well as several venture funds. For over ten years prior to that, Katya was part of several corporate and independent venture capital funds in Silicon Valley and Europe, including EMC and Siemens Venture Capital. Additionally she was a founding partner of a global private equity advisory firm specializing in high-tech growth companies with $1B+ markets in the technology and environmental sectors, where she led investments in the US, Brazil, and Europe.
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About Creative Destruction Lab (CDL), OpenOcean, Samsung Strategy and Innovation Center: OpenOcean is an early-stage venture capital firm investing in B2B software across Europe.
Leila-Mari Ryynänen
Partner of Claned Group
Leila-Mari has over 30 years of experience in management and business development both in the public and private sector. She has extensive experience with start-ups from start to exit, and was the director of new business development at Finpro from 2006 to 2013. Leila-Mari has successfully ran a healthcare software company in UK and contract business in Norway. Leila-Mari is used to working in international markets, and she has lived and worked in all the Scandinavian countries, the UK, the Netherlands, Canada and USA. Additionally, she has experience in Asian and Russian business.
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About Claned Group: The unparalleled digital learning solution – Modern LXP enabling superior engagement and measurement of impact
Patrick Hable
Managing Partner, Founder of 2iQ Research
Patrick is a founding member and Managing Director of 2iQ Research. He is responsible for sales and business development. Prior to his work with 2iQ, Patrick Hable spent four years working in the portfolio management division of DWS, Germany’s leading fund management company, and was responsible for the portfolio management of various European equity funds.
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About 2iQ Research: 2iQ is the leading Insider Transaction data provider with a global coverage of 60,000+ stocks.
Anthony Hess
Client Partner of MiQ
Anthony Hess is a Client Partner at MiQ.
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About MiQ: MiQ is an independent marketing intelligence company with the people and technology that help businesses win.
Quentin Michard
Founder & Senior Partner of Ekimetrics
Founder – Ekimetrics, data science for business.
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About Ekimetrics: Ekimetrics is a global consulting firm, provides industrialized corporate data science solutions.
Martin Sutton
Partnership Director of Peak
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About Peak: Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services.
Steve Madincea
Managing Partner of Fantastec
Steve Madincea is a recognised international sports industry entrepreneur having created, built and led sports sponsorship teams around the world to serve blue chip clients such as Aston Martin, Ford, Coca-Cola, Rolex, Subway, Casio, Samsung, PUMA, Jaguar, AT&T, Bridgestone, Red Bull, Land Rover, Shell, the NFL, the NBA, The UEFA Champions League, Formula 1 and The FIFA World Cup amongst others. Founder of PRISM, global leader in sports marketing and WPP’s first acquisition in the sponsorship and brand activation space. Founder & Group Managing Director, PRISM & Sports Marketing Global Leader, WPP (2000 – 2016); Startup Engineer, Outside the Box (1998 – 2004); Founder, of PRISM (Public Relations & International Sports Marketing) (1993 – 1999) (acquired by WPP); Commercial Director, Benetton-Ford Formula One team (1990 -1992).
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About Fantastec: Fantastec invents the future of international sports fan engagement.
Ruth Mortimer
Managing Partner of Econsultancy
Ruth Mortimer is Managing Partner for Econsultancy, which provides digital transformation services through content, research, training, capability work and data. She was formerly the director of the award-winning Festival of Marketing and content director for Centaur Marketing, which comprises Marketing Week, Econsultancy, Festival of Marketing, Creative Review, Design Week, Celebrity Intelligence, Fashion/Beauty Monitor, Year Ahead and Foresight News. She is a PPA award-winning writer and author of five books on marketing. She is regularly asked to host events for brands such as Google and remains on the advisory board for the Festival of Marketing, which under her tenure, featured high profile figures such as Apple founder Steve Wozniak, 13 simultaneous stages, an awards scheme, a gig and a partner fringe programme.
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About Econsultancy: Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Pavel Dolezal
Partner of Keboola
Pavel has been building companies since 1999, starting with the largest portal network, CEE, under the group name Atlas Portal. After the group was sold, he built Ataxo, one of the EU’s largest digital agencies in the performing media space. Ataxo serviced 15,000 customers and had almost 200 agents in Customer Support. In addition, Pavel actively invests in early-stage tech companies in the EU, Brazil and the USA. In 2014, Pavel became a partner at Keboola.com and is responsible for its international expansion and business development, currently focusing on UK and Singapore operations.
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About Keboola: Keboola is a cloud platform helping clients combine, enhance & publish crucial information for internal analytics & data products.
Dr Rana Ghosh-Roy
IBM Partner, Business Analytics of illumr
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About : illumr helps organizations to better understand and predict patterns of behavior that affect them.
James Baldwin
CEO, Founder & Partner of Unai
James Baldwin was the managing director at ERN.
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About Unai: Software Development and Data Science
Katayoun Rezaiamiri
Partner of Gallup
Katayoun Rezaiamiri has been with Gallup since 2008 and is responsible for development of strategic partnerships with global enterprises. She consults in particular with senior executives in financial services companies to think strategically about the value of human capital, and leads the design of transformational human capital programs that improve business performance. Katayoun has a track record of providing unique thought leadership and customised solutions to support the employee and customer experience and leverage the human capital element to drive sustainable business growth for her clients.
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About Gallup: Gallup.com provides data-driven news based on the U.S. and world polls, daily tracking, and public opinion research.
Kerry Wright
Director Of Partnerships of Purple
Kerry Wright is one of the driving forces behind the world-wide success of Purple WiFi – one of the hottest Wi-Fi startups around. Kerry’s vision on how Wi-Fi is driving consumer engagement and how analytics can monetize free, social-media-based Wi-Fi services is unique and compelling. Don’t miss Kerry at Wi-Fi NOW.
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About Purple: Purple is a WiFi analytics and marketing platform.
Doug Ayres
Founding Partner of Policy Radar
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About Policy Radar: Discover & analyse the opinions of UK members of parliament across News, Social Media & Hansard
Simon Hobbs
Founding Partner of Policy Radar
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About Policy Radar: Discover & analyse the opinions of UK members of parliament across News, Social Media & Hansard
Michael Kightley
Partner and Data Scientist of Inflexion Analytics
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About Inflexion Analytics: A team of Data Analytics experts whose purpose is to help more firms to benefit from advanced analytics
Michael Kightley
Partner and Data Scientist of Inflexion Analytics
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About Inflexion Analytics: A team of Data Analytics experts whose purpose is to help more firms to benefit from advanced analytics
Sarah Lewthwaite
Strategic Partnerships Director – EMEA of Movio
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About Movio: Movio is the global leader in marketing data analytics and campaign management software.
