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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 CFO’ operating in the Consumer space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Sacha Jacobs
CFO of Fabacus
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About Fabacus, Reporo: Fabacus is a technology business that transforms brand licensing through the power of data.
John Gallemore
Chief Financial Officer of THG
Chief Financial Officer & Co-founder of The Hut Group. Chief executive Matthew Moulding and chief operating officer John Gallemore launched The Hut Group in 2004, both having previously worked for the mobile-phone retailer The Caudwell Group. They established the company to sell home-entertainment goods, using £500,000 of personal funds, and buying the domain name TheHut.com for £3,000.
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About THG, THG, THG Ingenuity: The Hut Group is an online retailing platform focused on fast moving consumer goods, specifically focused on health and beauty.
Graeme Pitkethly
Chief Financial Officer of Unilever
Graeme joined Unilever in 2002 and was previously Executive Vice President and General Manager of the Unilever UK and Ireland business. Prior to this he held a number of senior financial and commercial roles within Unilever, including Senior Vice President of Finance for Global Markets, Global Head of M&A, Head of Treasury, Pensions and Tax and Chief Financial Officer of Unilever Indonesia. Graeme brings considerable internal and external experience to the role having spent the earlier part of his career in senior corporate finance roles in the telecommunications industry and at PricewaterhouseCoopers. Graeme is a Chartered Accountant and holds a bachelor’s degree in Applied Chemistry from Strathclyde University.Graeme is married with two children with whom he enjoys skiing and golf. With a passion for blues music, he is also an enthusiastic, but poor, guitarist. In a personal capacity, Graeme is Vice-Chair of the Financial Stability Board Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (“TCFD”).
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About Unilever: Unilever produces and supplies fast-moving consumer goods in food, home, and personal care product categories worldwide.
Jennie Gower-Smith
Chief Financial Officer of Good Club
Jennie Gower-Smith is the Chief Financial Officer at Good Club.
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Lambro Anastasiou
Chief Financial Officer of Modern Milkman
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About Modern Milkman: The Modern Milkman, a return & reuse grocery delivery service on a mission to reduce waste
Alok Bhushan
CFO of Charlotte Tilbury Beauty
Alok Bhushan is a seasoned CFO with 15+ years experience leading finance, legal, and people functions while scaling software and consumer businesses through periods of hyper growth to $250MM+ in annual sales. He has broad transactional experience, including multiple rounds of equity financing for $120MM+, and has been the internal lead for M&A transactions on both the buy- and sell-side. He was also part of the team that built Yext and took it public at a valuation of $1B+ on the New York Stock Exchange. Prior to Yext, he spent several years on Wall Street in index arbitrage and quantitative finance. Alok Bhushan graduated with high honors from Harvard University with a bachelor’s in economics and a master’s in computer science.
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About Charlotte Tilbury Beauty: Charlotte Tilbury Beauty provides makeup, skin care & beauty collection, including Magic Cream & film star Bronze & Glow.
Nik Jhangiani
Senior Vice President and Chief Financial Officer of Coca-Cola Enterprises
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About Coca-Cola Enterprises: Coca-Cola Enterprises is a marketer, producer, and distributor of non-alcoholic drinks.
Sean Watherston
CFO of UENI
Sean Watherston is the Chief Financial Officer at UENI.
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About UENI: UENI is a London based tech company that’s empowering businesses to get online and find the tools they need to succeed.
Wissam Jabre
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of Dialog Semiconductor
Wissam joins Dialog after serving as Corporate Vice President of Finance at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) since 2014. Between 2003 and 2014, Wissam Jabre held various executive positions at Freescale Semiconductor, including Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Vice President Global Pricing, Chief Financial Officer of the Networking & Multimedia Solutions Group as well as senior roles within Corporate Treasury. During this period he gained extensive experience in accounting, financial planning, treasury, procurement, and merger and acquisition integration. He began his career at Schlumberger, gaining international experience in the Middle East, Europe and North America, before joining Motorola in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and received an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York in 1998.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Graham Screawn
Chief Financial Officer of Ultimate Products
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About Ultimate Products: Ultimate Products is a brand and product development house in the UK that specializes in house-ware and electrical goods.
William Kane
Chief Financial Officer of Africa Mobile Networks
William Kane is a UK Chartered Accountant, with 20-years experience at senior and board-level Finance Director level, including Group Finance Director at Wall Family Europe Ltd and as Finance Diretor and Company Secretary at Demco Europe Ltd.
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About Africa Mobile Networks: Africa Mobile Networks is finances, builds, and operates mobile network base stations in Sub-Saharan Africa region.
William Kane
Chief Financial Officer of Africa Mobile Networks
William Kane is a UK Chartered Accountant, with 20-years experience at senior and board-level Finance Director level, including Group Finance Director at Wall Family Europe Ltd and as Finance Diretor and Company Secretary at Demco Europe Ltd.
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About Africa Mobile Networks: Africa Mobile Networks is finances, builds, and operates mobile network base stations in Sub-Saharan Africa region.
Peter Fosh
CFO EMEA of Optoma USA
Peter Fosh is CFO EMEA at Optoma. He once with Samsung Semiconductor as finance director.
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About Optoma USA: Optoma is a designer and manufacturer of projection and audio products for business, professional audio/video, and home entertainment.
Mark Higgins
Chief Financial Officer of AO World
Mark Higgins is a Chief Financial Officer at ao.com.
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About AO World: AO World is a online retailer company.
Steve Chamberlain
CFO of Sepura
Steve was appointed Chief Financial Officer in 2012, joining Sepura from Autonomy, where he spent seven years as the VP Finance with worldwide responsibility. During that time, Steve played a pivotal role in key acquisitions with a combined value of $2 billion. He has over 15 years of experience in the technology sector, including time in practice at Arthur Andersen and Deloitte.
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About Sepura: Sepura is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of digital radio products
Jonathan Lovell
CFO of Core Communication Group
Jonathan has led the Finance team since the inception of the Core Group. He trained as a Chartered Accountant with PwC before moving to Dolphin Telecommunications, Inquam Telecom and then Centrica where he held senior finance positions. Having spent over 10 years in the telecoms industry, Jonathan’s expertise includes: the support of field operations, major change projects and customer infrastructure solutions. As main board director at Core, Jonathan has managed the group through its growth phase and developed its international structure.
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About ADComms, Core Communication Group: Core Communication Group is a supplier of pre-paid SIMs and mobile accessories.
Robbie Bell
Chief Financial Officer of Holland & Barrett
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About Holland & Barrett, McColl’s Retail Group, Ultimate Products: Holland & Barrett is a chain of health food shops with over 1,300 stores in 16 countries.
Nic Hellyer
Chief Financial Officer of Byotrol
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About Byotrol, Pelatro: Byotrol operates as a developer of consumer and professional antimicrobial technologies and products.
Adam Fraser-Harris
CFO of Blow
Former corporate financier and chartered accountant turned Tech entrepreneur and NED – Smartolgy, M9 Holdings.
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About Blow: Blow is an online platform that provides its users with a range of beauty services.
Patrick Sinclair
Chief Financial Officer of 3T Energy Group
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About 3T Energy Group: 3T Energy Group is to harness the power of technology to transform training and enhance performance.
