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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 Managing Director operating in the Construction space. If you think a Managing 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.
Amir Malik
Managing Director of Accenture
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About Accenture, Accenture Interactive: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Nigel Gilbert
Managing Director of Accenture
Nigel Gilbert is the Vice President of Strategic Development of EMEA at AppNexus. Digital media pioneer, Nigel leads AppNexus’ strategic development across Europe. Prior to joining AppNexus, he served as Head of Orange Ad Market (UK & FR) for France Telecom. Nigel was responsible for all commercial operations at Orange Ad Market, the real-time bidding (RTB) exchange. In 2001 Nigel co-founded Unanimis, the first and largest digital publisher network in the UK. As Commercial Director for Unanimis, Nigel established and managed operations for eBay, BBC, Channel 5, and the London Stock Exchange, among others.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Sulabh Agarwal
Managing Director, Global Head of Payments of Accenture
Sulabh is a Managing Director in Accenture’s UK/Ireland Finance Services practice. He leads the payments and cards practice for the UK and Ireland banking market. His area of expertise is management consulting and programme delivery in areas of payments and regulatory compliance. In addition he has been advising banking clients on strategy and target operating models. His experience encompasses several payments and regulatory programmes including payments transformation, transaction banking revenue enhancement and ring fencing, FATCA, PSR, BCOB, SEPA, RDR, Sanctions, AML. In addition, he has experience in post-merger integration, payments change delivery, wholesale bank target operating model, retail and corporate bank product strategy, credit card marketing strategy, innovation strategy, governance model options, sourcing strategy and payments operations and technology.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Peter Lacy
Senior Managing Director -Global Sustainability Practice Lead; Europe Strategy Practice Lead of Accenture
Peter Lacy is managing director for Growth, Strategy and Sustainability within Accenture Strategy and is part of its Leadership Team. He is also a member of Accenture’s Global Leadership Council, and leads Accenture’s relationship with the World Economic Forum and the Digital Transformation of Industries program. His role focuses on strategy development, offering development, innovation centers and mergers and acquisitions (M&As). Mr. Lacy is a world authority on sustainability in areas such as circular economy, stakeholder management and trust issues in sectors such as pharmaceuticals, mining, energy and consumer goods. He works with the CEOs and senior management of a range of Fortune 500 companies, including the United Nations, the European Union and public sector organizations. He specializes in growth and strategy, with a strong focus on environmental, social, governance and ethics issues. Prior to consulting he spent several years working in the dotcom industry.
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About Accenture, Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Olivier Vuichard
Managing Director, Wealth Management of Accenture
Olivier heads their UK business with responsibility for local business development and growth in their delivery capabilities. He has worked closely with top tier clients in the UK on their change programmes. A Swiss national, Olivier has delivered several strategic transformation projects across the UK, Switzerland and Luxembourg. He is an experienced project manager and has supported clients on challenging platform delivery transformations including the integration of remote delivery elements.
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About Accenture, Orbium: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Davinder Gautam
Managing Director of Accenture
Davinder Gautam Managing Director – Products Technology Consulting.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Anthoula Madden
Managing Director of Accenture
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Tom Graham
Managing Director, Banking of Accenture
Tom Graham is a Managing Director in Accenture’s UK Banking consulting practice, helping clients deliver change and innovate. He also sponsors the successful FinTech Innovation Labs in London, which, partnered with 30+ banks and insurers, takes 20 startups a year through a rapid accelerator for growth and innovation.
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About Accenture: Accenture is a professional services company, providing services and solutions in strategy, consulting, digital, technology and operations.
Gregory Dewerpe
Managing Director of A/O PropTech
Gregory is a seasoned real estate and technology investor with over 15 years of experience across I-Banking, real estate and venture, a multi-billion deal-making history, and a deep understanding of the financial markets, real estate and venture capital eco-systems. A/O Proptech has emerged from AMD Capital, a dedicated real estate investment company ( direct real assets, public real estate markets, and venture) also founded by Gregory after he left I-Banking where he started his career a decade earlier, at Credit Suisse and Citigroup, looking after investments, structuring and financing for Sovereign wealth funds and other large institutions. Gregory sits on the board/advisory board of a variety of companies in the tech and Real estate space including amongst others Placemake.io, Plentific, Wildstone, Fornova, Residently, Livelike and Tiger Media. Gregory is a Swiss national, fluent in English, French and Italian; he attended HEC Lausanne University, London School of Economics (Masters) and Harvard Business School. Gregory is passionate about sports, travelling, nutrition/food-tech, cancer research and fighting the destructive long-lasting impact of bullying amongst children and younger generations. Gregory currently lives between London and Berlin.
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About A/O PropTech: Europe’s largest Proptech VC firm investing in technology companies transforming the real estate industry.
William Allan
Regional Managing Director Scotland, Ireland & Investments of Currie & Brown (Australia)
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About Currie & Brown (Australia): Currie & Brown is a project services consultancy firm.
Philip Cheevers
Managing Director of Cheevers Howard
Phil has been involved in the London residential construction industry, specifically on high end, super prime residential projects since 2002. His core focus is on delivering the finest quality finishes for discerning clients. His talents lie in working to set budgets and constrictive programmes, within a logistically demanding environment. Phil’s contracts have included the renovation of some of London’s finest listed Grade I and II* properties, as well as new build fit-out projects for some of the capital’s most sought after apartments. Phil has developed a reputation for delivering projects to exacting standards which you’ll see reflected in our testimonials. Accustomed to working with demanding clients, Phil has a clear understanding of what a project’s priorities are and aims to over-deliver on each and every Cheevers Howard venture.
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About Cheevers Howard: Cheevers Howard offer first class building services to the prime central London property market.
Ken Ritson
Group Managing Director and Co-Founder of EDS HV Group
Ken Ritson is Group Managing Director. Ken is responsible for installation contracts and services/project management within EDS. Ken started his career with a UK Electricity Company and progressed to a Training & Development Engineer. In 1993 he joined a UK contracting firm as Contracts Manager, and formed EDS in 1994. As a founder member of EDS Ken has a vast experience from installation, training and development through management of multi-million pound companies. Ken’s practical, commercial, business and industry knowledge has left him well placed to deliver solutions to clients in the most challenging situations.
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About EDS HV Group: EDS HV Group engages in the design and installation of wind farm construction projects.
Malcolm Paice
Managing Director of Keystone Group
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About Keystone Group: Keystone Group manufactures and supplies steel lintel, offsite components, roof windows, offsite construction, GRP components and chimneys.
David Fletcher
Group Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of GEV Global
David Fletcher is the Chief Executive Officer & Group Managing Director at GEV Wind Powe
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About GEV Global, GEV Wind Power: GEV GROUP is one of the UKs leading specialist engineering and access companies
Ben Treleaven
Co-Founder & Managing Director of ISO Spaces
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About ISO Spaces: ISO Spaces are modular space specialists with a full in house design and engineering team.
William Doyle MRICS
Managing Director of Raildiary
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About Raildiary: Raildiary is a Manchester-based tech start-up
James Munro
Managing Director of J. Munro Property Maintenance
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About Care Opinion, J. Munro Property Maintenance: JMPM specializes in commercial building projects, refurbishments, fit-outs, and property maintenance.
Mark Randall
Founder and Managing Director of IOR Group
Mark is the founder and Managing Director of IOR. His prime focus is on IOR’s strategic vision while nurturing client relationships. A graduate from Loughborough University, Mark has 30 years’ experience in the office services market, with in-depth knowledge of workplace and its impact on staff health, wellbeing and productivity. Mark is a member of the British Council for Offices (BCO),the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management (IWFM) and the Association of Interior Specialists (AIS). Loves: Radical cheese
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About IOR Group: IOR Group provider of interior designing services intended for offices.
Phil Blewitt
Managing Director of NETA Training Centre
Phil Blewitt is the managing director at NETA Training Group. Prior to joining NETA Training, Phil served as the senior vice president of business development at Site Group International Limited. Before that, he has held various executive positions at Petrofac Training Services.
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About NETA Training Centre: NETA Training is a vocational training provider that delivers a wide range of commercially and Government funded engineering training.
Phil Blewitt
Managing Director of NETA Training Centre
Phil Blewitt is the managing director at NETA Training Group. Prior to joining NETA Training, Phil served as the senior vice president of business development at Site Group International Limited. Before that, he has held various executive positions at Petrofac Training Services.
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About NETA Training Centre: NETA Training is a vocational training provider that delivers a wide range of commercially and Government funded engineering training.
