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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 CEO’ operating in the Email 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.
Peter Simmonds
CEO of dotmailer Group
Peter Simmonds commenced his career in 1976 as a trainee accountant with Unilever Plc and has over 20 years of experience at senior management and board level, principally in the areas of banking, insurance, finance, I.T. and outsourcing. He has considerable business entrepreneurial experience having been involved at start up or early stage of a number of companies in various industry sectors including consultancy services, vehicle leasing, computer software and internet solutions sectors. Peter also has experience of business acquisition and post acquisition integration and management of businesses.
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About : dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Peter Irikovsky
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
Peter Irikovsky is the CEO of Exponea, the leading customer data and experience platform (CDXP). Prior to heading up the Exponea team, Peter demonstrated his passion for entrepreneurialism as the CEO of Slevomat Group, where he helped grow revenue to €100m in fewer than four years. His past experience also includes LRJ Capital, McKinsey, and Groupon. Peter is a frequent speaker (Davos, Forbes, StartupGrind, US Embassy, EU commission), and serves as the head of the supervisory board at Duke of Edinburgh International Award in Slovakia, board member of National Monuments Foundation, and committee member at Millennium Calendar Prize. He is a Singularity University graduate and holds a degree in Computer Science.
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About Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach), Infinario: Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
Tim Sadler
Co-Founder & CEO of Tessian
Tim is the CEO and co-founder of CheckRecipient, a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to predict when emails are being sent to the wrong people. Some of the world’s largest organisations across the financial and legal sectors are using CheckRecipient and in the past 6 months the company has been crowned “Best Security Startup” by WIRED, “Best Machine Intelligence Startup” by Legal Geek and “Best Startup – Gold Category” by Info Security Products Guide. Tim was recently listed as one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in European Technology for 2017.
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Qamar Aziz
Founder & CEO of SalesSeek
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About CloudApps, Opsview, SalesSeek, Traackr: All-in-one business CRM platform and hub for your customer data.
Ivan Mazour
Co-Founder & CEO of Ometria
Ivan Mazour is a Russian-born, London-based serial entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the CEO and Founder of Ometria – a predictive analytics and marketing platform built specifically for retailers, letting them use data to increase revenues and provide an improved customer experience. Ometria is his seventh company, in a career spanning various industries from property to education – http://www.ometria.com Alongside this main role, he is also the Founding Partner of Innova Kapital – an early stage VC firm investing in UK-based technology startups, including companies like YPlan and organisations like Entrepreneur First – http://www.innovakapital.com As well as holding multiple degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and in Economics from the Open University, Ivan Mazour is the author of a number of books including “Russian Convoys – Memories of the Heart”. His translations of Russian literature have been staged professionally in various cities, and he has been presented with a UNESCO medal for his literary achievements. He regularly speaks at conferences around the world on topics of ecommerce, technology, and investment, and also writes a popular blog called “A Young Entrepreneur in London” – http://www.ivanmazour.com
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Antoine Amann
Founder & CEO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Henry Hyder-Smith
Founder and CEO of Adestra
Henry has been working within the email marketing industry since its inception. As co-founder, Henry leads the board of Adestra and has a unique understanding of different clients’ needs, industry issues and development. Henry has a hands-on approach, and is devoted to keeping Adestra’s products, services and staff at the cutting edge of email marketing.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Tony Pepper
Co-Founder & CEO of Egress Software
Tony Pepper co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company. Tony has overseen the company’s rapid expansion, driving innovation and worldwide sales. Tony currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all aspects of business growth and innovation, with particular focus on Sales and Marketing. Pepper has an in-depth understanding of the data security market and prior to Egress held executive management and integration roles at Reflex Magnetics Ltd, Pointsec Mobile Technologies, and Check Point Software Technologies. Over the years, he has presented on a variety of data security-related issues and strategies for mobile computing and best practices surrounding secure data exchange. Pepper holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Politics from Nottingham Trent University. He also holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Liverpool University.
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About Egress Software: Egress is a software company that specializes in human layer security designed to prevent accidental and intentional data breaches.
Lindsay Willott
CEO of Customer Thermometer
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About Customer Thermometer: Customer Thermometer is a survey platform focused on real-time, actionable feedback from customers and employees.
Randhir Shinde
CEO of Galaxkey
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About Galaxkey, Image Analyzer: Galaxkey is an encryption platform to easily protect confidential information.
Mark Hla
Founder and CEO of Pure360
Mark Hla is Founder and CEO at Pure360.
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About Pure360: Pure360 provides email marketing and SMS software for businesses to access customers via mobile and web devices.
Thomas Dahl Jensen
Founder & CEO of Mojn
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About Mojn: Mojn is now a part of the LiveIntent team.
Dan Field
CEO of Millenoki
Dan Field is the founder and CEO of ClearMyMail, launched in 2006 after a closed development and testing process of 3 years. ClearMyMail is the world’s only guaranteed spam blocker, protecting email accounts from spam, virus and Phishing emails. Prior to launching ClearMyMail, Dan had worked with other startups and launched several Internet and Intranet products to market including the UK’s largest interactive travel database system and a full-service CMS for the publishing industry. Dan began his career launching one of the UK’s first commercial Internet Service Providers back in 1994 and was responsible for development of the first consumer friendly Internet access software.
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About ClearMyMail, Millenoki, MouseTrace: Millenoki enables user to access, analyze and action real-time device usage and experience data on both cell and Wi-Fi, thanks to real-time.
Julio Taylor
CEO of Hallam
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About BigSpring, Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Mike Austin
CEO of Fresh Relevance
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About Fresh Relevance: The Personalization Platform to Boost ROI. Built to Help Marketers Get Their Jobs Done..
Peter Duffy
CEO of Mercanto
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About Mercanto: Mercanto helps retailers show each shopper exactly what they like.
Chris Ferguson
CEO of iPay Affiliates
Chris Ferguson is FX and CFD’s News Editor and owns iPay Affiliates, a London based web affiliation firm.
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About iPay Affiliates: iPay Affiliates is one of the fastest growing open market, fully transparent, self-service networks
Chris Ferguson
CEO of iPay Affiliates
Chris Ferguson is FX and CFD’s News Editor and owns iPay Affiliates, a London based web affiliation firm.
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About iPay Affiliates: iPay Affiliates is one of the fastest growing open market, fully transparent, self-service networks
Lee Chadwick
Chief Executive Officer of Spotler
Lee Chadwick is the Chief Executive Officer of Spotler Group.
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About Spotler: Spotler is a provider of online email marketing and marketing automation software and associated knowledge and services.
Vasileios Pasparas
Founder, CEO of GloboMailer
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About GloboMailer: Email Marketing
Vasileios Pasparas
Founder, CEO of GloboMailer
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About GloboMailer: Email Marketing
