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 Product operating in the Infrastructure space. If you think a Product 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.
Andy Steven
HCX Product Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Richard King
Head of Product Marketing of Permutive
Richard King is business development director at Permutive.
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About Permutive: Permutive is an audience platform for advertisers and publishers to plan, build, and activate cohorts while keeping everyone’s data safe.
Mike Greening
Product Director of CityFibre
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About CityFibre: CityFibre Infrastructure Holdings plc is the UK’s largest independent provider of fibre infrastructure in secondary cities
Stephen Crompton
Senior Director of Product Management of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Michael Cade
Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy of Veeam Software
Michael Cade is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the UK, an IT Professional with over 14 years of industry experience with a key focus on Data Center technologies including Virtualisation, Storage and Data Center. Michael is very active around the social media sphere blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. Michael is a member of several community programs including VMware vExpert, NetApp A-Team and Cisco Champions.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Michael Cade
Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy of Veeam Software
Michael Cade is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the UK, an IT Professional with over 14 years of industry experience with a key focus on Data Center technologies including Virtualisation, Storage and Data Center. Michael is very active around the social media sphere blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. Michael is a member of several community programs including VMware vExpert, NetApp A-Team and Cisco Champions.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Jamie Palmer
Director Product Management of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Daniel Bryant
Product Architect of Ambassador Labs
Daniel Bryant works as a Product Architect at Ambassador Labs (formerly Datawire), and is the News Manager at InfoQ and Chair for QCon London. His current technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms and microservice implementations. Daniel is a leader within the London Java Community (LJC), contributes to several open source projects, writes for well-known technical websites such as InfoQ, O’Reilly, and DZone, and regularly presents at international conferences such as QCon, JavaOne, and Devoxx.
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About Ambassador Labs, InfoQ: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Tom Stenhouse
Head of Product, Equities of London Stock Exchange Group
Tom Stenhouse is the Head of Product, Equities at London Stock Exchange Group.
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About London Stock Exchange Group: London Stock Exchange Group is an international market infrastructure that delivers a range of insights to its financial community.
Richard Kelly
Director & Head of New Product Development of Foresight Group
Richard Kelly joined Foresight Group in 2014 and currently works as a Director in the London office. He has over 11 years of experience. Richard is responsible for the development and launch of innovative investment products and new business divisions. Prior to joining Foresight Richard worked at Accenture as a Strategy Manager where he focused on merger and acquisition strategy across a variety of industries. He has also worked as an Intern at Oxford Capital Partners, focusing on investment business plan screening and portfolio company performance improvement. Richard holds a BA in Business & Management from Exeter University.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Chris O’Brien
Products and Services Director of Content+Cloud
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About Content+Cloud: Content+Cloud provides secure technology solutions, services, and support with a focus on Microsoft 365, Azure, and Dynamics 365.
Sam Machin
Senior Product Manager of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Amy Bensted
Head of Hedge Fund Products of Preqin
Amy is responsible for all of Preqin’s hedge fund products and solutions. This involves defining Preqin’s strategic direction in the hedge fund industry, both through innovations to our award winning products as well as through our research and communications strategy in this space.
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About Preqin: Preqin provides financial data and information on the alternative assets market.
Chei Amlani
Director, Digital Product and Audience Development of Sky Italia
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About Sky Italia: Sky Italia is an Italian digital satellite television platform owned by News Corporation launched on 31 July 2003.
Robert Neave
Co-Founder, CTO & Vice President of Product Management of Nlyte Software
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About Nlyte Software: Nlyte automates the management of DCIM so organizations can become more agile, reduce costs and operate more efficiently.
Barry Maidment
IT Product Manager and Director of Business Intelligence UK and Ireland of Rittal
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About Rittal: Rittal is a leading global provider of solutions for industrial enclosures, power distribution, climate control and IT infrastructure.
Sandy Forster
Head of Product and Ventures of Laing O’Rourke
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About Laing O’Rourke: Laing O’Rourke is a multinational construction company headquartered in Dartford, United Kingdom.
Alex Bordei
Head of Product Management of Bigstep
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About Bigstep: Bigstep.com is a cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes.
Victor Szilagyi
Head of Product of SEDNA
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About SEDNA: SEDNA is an Intelligent Communications System that serves as the primary digital workspace for teams working on complex projects.
