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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 VP’ operating in the Content space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Harkirit Singh
Associate Vice President and Cluster Head of Tata Communications
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About Tata Communications: Tata Communications, a member of the $62.5 billion Tata Group, leverages its advanced solutions capabilities and domain expertise across
Nick Stone
VP Engineering of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Gavin Howe
Executive Vice President, Human Resources of Elsevier
Gavin Howe is Executive Vice President of Human Resources at Elsevier. He led the successful integration of the Harcourt businesses into Reed Elsevier and led the sale of and transfer of the Harcourt college business to Thomson Reuters. Previously, he was Chief Operations Officer at Elsevier and CEO of the Reed Elsevier Technology Group based in Boston. Having joined Elsevier in 1998, Gavin’s responsibilities have included central marketing, social sciences and economics publishing, IT, production and customer services. For the 15 years prior to joining Elsevier, he worked for another Reed Elsevier company, Reed Business Information in Marketing, Publishing and Electronic Publishing. Gavin rose to be a divisional MD at Reed Business Information and joined the board in 1993. Gavin started his publishing career in Journalism, becoming an editor of a Yachting Magazine.
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About Elsevier: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Steve Miller-Jones
Vice President of Strategy, Industry & Partners of Limelight Networks
As Vice President of Product Strategy at Limelight Networks, Steve focuses on driving the long term product roadmap for the company with a focus on delivering the highest quality online experiences. This includes live and on-demand online video streaming, edge services, downloadable software and updates, online video games, as well as web application acceleration, cloud storage and security services. Steve has extensive experience designing and delivering solutions to help companies manage and optimize their online presence. His expertise ranges from defining, planning, implementing and managing complex streaming, content distribution and workflow solutions across Broadcast, Media & Entertainment and Enterprise verticals. Prior to joining Limelight in 2010 he served as Chief Operating Officer for Global MIX and SetTopSolutions before that. Steve holds an MBA from Henley Management College and resides in Brighton, England.
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About Limelight Networks: Limelight Networks provides content delivery network services to deliver digital content over the internet.
David ONeill
VP Sales of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Fabio Torlini
SVP & Managing Director International of WP Engine
Over 15 years experience in the hosting & cloud industry. I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. One of the original employees at Rackspace I helped build the company to what it has become today. A leader in the cloud industry and revenues of $1.5B. I am now MD for WP Engine, based in Tech City helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. Specialties: Professional B2B Marketer. Branding, lead generation, direct sales, channel sales, alliances, online marketing.
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About WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Samantha Glynne
SVP, Branded Entertainment (Global)/ Digital & Branded Entertainment of FremantleMedia
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About FremantleMedia: FremantleMedia is one of the world’s largest and most successful creators, producers and distributors of outstanding entertainment brands.
Ray Berry
SVP, Finance of Vibrant Media
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About Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media is dedicated to contextual marketing, advertising, content marketing and digital media.
Michelle Weston
SVP, Global Human Resources of Vibrant Media
Michelle Weston heads global human resources and recruitment for Vibrant Media, the world’s leading provider of in-content contextual technology. Michelle has almost a decade’s experience in senior HR roles in the media industry. Prior to her career in HR Leadership, Michelle spent 15 years as a senior advertising sales executive in leading international publishers including Thomson Reuters, EMAP and Centaur. While at Centaur, Michelle was responsible for the successful development and subsequent sale of the industry leading online service Lawtel to Thomson Reuters.
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About Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media is dedicated to contextual marketing, advertising, content marketing and digital media.
Kenneth Pouliot
Global SVP of Sales of Percolate
Ken Pouliot serves as global SVP of sales at Percolate, leading the company’s sales, account management, business development, system engineers, channel, enablement, and sales operations teams.
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About Percolate, SheerID: Percolate is a content marketing platform offering solutions to introduce visibility into the marketing process.
Sean Bennett
SVP of Sales of Triptease
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About Triptease: Triptease is a travel SaaS company that empowers hotels to recapture guest relationships and increase direct bookings.
Giovanni Dolci
Vice President, Theatre Development and Managing Director, Europe and Africa of IMAX
Giovanni Dolci joined IMAX Corporation in October 2012 as Vice President, Theatre Development. In January 2017 he was also appointed Managing Director Europe and Africa, where he is responsible for growing and expanding the IMAX theatre network across the two continents. He previously served as Director of Business Development and Commercial Operations at Arts Alliance, where he was in charge of negotiations with cinema exhibitors and film distributors throughout EMEA to support the market’s transition to digital projection technology and where he helped establish a worldwide digital distribution platform. Prior to Arts Alliance, Giovanni Dolci worked in film financing and oversaw a number of projects based in New Zealand, Italy and the UK. He has a degree in Economics and Management from Bocconi University in Milan and an MSc in Management from Cass Business School in London. He is a Junior Fellow of the Aspen Institute Italy.
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About IMAX: IMAX Corporation is one of the world’s leading entertainment technology companies, specializing in immersive motion picture technologies.
Terence Greer-King
VP EMEA of SonicWALL
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About SonicWALL: SonicWALL provides network, content, web, and email security, remote access, and business continuity solutions.
Terence Greer-King
VP EMEA of SonicWALL
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About SonicWALL: SonicWALL provides network, content, web, and email security, remote access, and business continuity solutions.
Richard Newton
co-founder + VP marketing of Clarify
Co-founder of OP3Nvoice. VP Marketing.
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About Clarify, Screendragon: The world has moved beyond text. Our platform makes searching AV files simple for developers to integrate into their applications.
Manos Macromallis
VP of SEKEE
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About PARKGURU, SEKEE: SEKEE is engaging in the development of a mobile application that focuses on innovative communication, content, and application services.
Peter Ballard
Co-founder and VP Head of Marketing of Zensar Technologies
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About Zensar Technologies: Zensar is a digital solutions and technology services company. It is focused on engineering, marketing, conceptualizing, designing, etc.,
Amanda Steward
VP, Marketing of Pushfor
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About Pushfor: Pushfor is a secure content sharing platform that pushes, controls and tracks content of any type or size.
Ian Wilson
VP Sales of Titan IC
Ian graduated with an Honours degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the University of London in 1991. For the last 15 years Ian worked in various account management, sales and business development roles in the high-end SOC and home networking semiconductor segment, within companies such as Conexant, NXP, Trident and Entropic.
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About Titan IC: Titan IC is a supplier of hardware engines for content and network processing, for both low cost
