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 CEO’ operating in the Database space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Peter Dabrowa
CEO of Wonde
CEO at Wonde.
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About Bay Tree PR, Koala, Wonde: Wonde provides third party applications access to secure school data.
Peter Kear
Chief Executive Officer of D4t4 Solutions
Peter co-founded D4t4 Solutions with John Lythall in 1985. Prior to this he was Divisional Director for Hawke Electronics, then a subsidiary of Lex Service Plc. Peter became CEO in 2016, having been responsible until then for both the sales and business development aspects of the company. His position as CEO involves overall responsibility for the management of the group’s activities and he works closely with the other executive directors on the determination of the group’s overall strategy.
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About D4t4 Solutions: D4t4 Solutions is a business-to-business provider of information technology products and services.
Mihai Ivascu
CEO of Modex
Serial social impact and technology entrepreneur, CEO and Founder of London based tech group M3 Holdings which comprises 3 fast-growing companies: Moneymailme, a Neo-Banking technology infrastructure provider; M3 Payments – FX management and global payments platform; Modex Blockchain Database – SaaS technology provider, which in less than 4 years has come to be valued at GBP 250 million. Founder of Ingenium Group – the technology infrastructure and logistics provider for M3 Holdings, which employs 60 software developers, engineers and business executives in 4 offices around the world: London, Bucharest, Monaco, Gibraltar. During its 12 years of existence, the company has worked with over 200 clients. Mihai holds an MBA in Innovation Management and is currently enrolled in a Doctorate of Business Administration at INSEEC Group with a Thesis on Disruptive FinTech Technologies. Awarded Forbes 30 Under 30 and finalist of Ernst and Young’s Entrepreneur of the Year, Mihai is an experienced speaker and entrepreneurship mentor. As an early-stage tech investor and result-driven executive, he holds positions in various tech startups and advisory Boards, managing to have a transformational role given his practical expertise. Over the years, Mihai graduated from various executive training programs from Harvard, MIT, Stanford University, and Silicon Valley Innovation Center. Passionate about chess, martial arts, and motorsports, the youngest member of the prestigious Monaco Impact is focused on tech applied in social impact projects that range from financial inclusion, charity, and shared value initiatives.
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About Modex, Moneymailme: We help organizations, businesses, and people to protect their digital data.
Simon Riggs
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of 2ndQuadrant
Simon Riggs is the Founder and CEO of 2ndQuadrant. Simon has worked with enterprise-class database applications and uses his operational experience to contribute to many features of PostgreSQL’s internal design and usability. He is also co-author of the “PostgreSQL Administration Cookbook” series.
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About 2ndQuadrant: 2ndQuadrant provides solutions for mission critical PostgreSQL databases, ensuring high availability, backup & disaster recovery, & more.
Leo Anthias
Co-Founder and CEO of Datapane
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About Datapane: Datapane is a Python framework for developing data science documents for companies, clients, or communities.
Dominik Tomicevic
Co-Founder and CEO of Memgraph
Dominik Tomicevic serves as the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Memgraph.
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About Memgraph: Memgraph makes creating real-time streaming graph applications accessible to every developer.
Steve Marsh
Founder and CEO of GeoSpock
Steven Marsh is a Co-Founder of GeoSpock Limited and serves as its Chief Executive Officer. Steven Marsh is also the lead architect of the Collide platform and co-lead architect of GeoSpock DB. He has experience of building real-time and highly-scalable systems he has overseen the creation of GeoSpock’s state-of-the-art geo-location and social networking mobile development platform. Steven Marsh is a computer scientist. As part of his research, Steve is part of a team building a customisable FPGA-based super-computer designed to carry out real-time simulation of extreme-scale neural networks such as the brain. He holds a PhD from the University of Cambridge.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Merita Memisi
Chief Executive Officer of Bart
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About Bart: Bart provides risk data that enhance underwriting strategies through a single application programming interface.
Duncan Clark
Co-founder and CEO of Flourish
Duncan Clark is the Co-founder and CEO of Flourish.
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About Flourish: Flourish is a powerful and flexible platform for data visualization and storytelling.
Jeremy Hendy
CEO of Skurio
Jeremy Hendy serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Skurio. He brings Nujira considerable experience of semiconductor sales and marketing across multiple technologies for wireless communication and digital video. Previous positions include Marketing Director of wireless USB start-up Artimi, VP Marketing for Aspex Semiconductor, and Strategic Technology Director of Cadence’s Wireless and Multimedia business unit. He started his career with Texas Instruments and holds a first-class honors degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Liverpool.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
Nathaniel Burke
CEO of Diginius
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About Diginius: Diginius is an advertising technology company that turns complex reporting data into improved sales conversions.
Philip Callow
CEO of OAG
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About OAG: OAG is a leading global travel data provider with the world’s largest network of flight information data.
Russell McAthy
CEO and Co-Founder of Ringside Data
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About Deliver Insight, Ringside Data: Ringside Data is a marketing data platform that offers cutting-edge marketing analytics solutions to help businesses.
Mike Oaten
CEO of Regulation Technologies
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About Regulation Technologies: We transform open data into meaningful networks, overlay client or 3rd party data and then query to surface high-value insights.
Sean Hynes
CEO of Esports Gold
Sean Hynes is the CEO of Esports Gold.
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About Esports Gold: Esports data creator and provider, globally and across multiple titles
Jon Mead
CEO/ Co-Founder of Rittman Mead
CEO/ Co-Founder at Rittman Mead
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About Rittman Mead: Rittman Mead is a data and analytics consulting firm.
Mark Rittman
CEO of Rittman Analytics
Founder at MJR Analytics, ltd.
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About Rittman Analytics: Data Engineering, Data Strategy and Data Analytics Consultancy
Mark Rittman
CEO of Rittman Analytics
Founder at MJR Analytics, ltd.
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About Rittman Analytics: Data Engineering, Data Strategy and Data Analytics Consultancy
