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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 Project Management 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.
Ajay Patel
Founder & CEO of HighQ
Ajay Patel As Founder of HighQ, Ajay continues to deliver on his vision of enabling a new, modern, highly efficient and ‘best in class’ secure platform of collaborative engagement and transaction for security, compliance and regulatory minded enterprises. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads the company growth strategy, product direction and senior management team. Ajay graduated with a first-class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University and later completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems at LSE. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London and later occupied roles in leading investment banks Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. After spending several years in the City, he realised the corporate environment didn’t fulfil his creative, professional or personal ambitions and subsequently started HighQ.The idea was simple: to create a dynamic, fun and successful company that puts its employees and clients at the centre of everything it does.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Mark Wrighton
Chief Executive Officer of Huddle
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About Huddle: Huddle is the enterprise document collaboration company that helps organizations across the globe to collaborate intelligently.
Greg Lawton
Co-Founder and CEO of Nodes & Links
Greg Lawton is an Astrophysicist who spent the last 7 years of his career in BAE Systems (UK). He managed large defence programmes (£100M+), advised the Board of DIrectors on International Strategy, and owned key relationships with the UK Government and MoD.
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About Nodes & Links: Nodes & Links empowers organizations across all domains to tame project complexity.
Steve Robinson
Managing Director and CEO of Little Fish (UK)
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Dev Amratia
Co-Founder and CEO of nPlan
CEO of nPlan. Worked as head of Emerging Sectors @UK Government. Project Manager on several megaprojects @Shell. Antarctic Explorer. Aerospace Engineer
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About nPlan: Artificial Intelligence to provide schedule certainty for projects, by highlighting risk and suggesting optimal execution paths.
Ab Banerjee
CEO and Founder of ViewsHub
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About ViewsHub: Realtime feedback for teams. Share feedback and ratings with every team in your organization and work better together!!
Sean Hoban
Co-Founder & CEO of Kimble Applications
Sean has over 20 years experience in IT Consultancy, working for Oracle and LogicaCMG as well as start-up consultancies. In 1997 Sean was a founding employee with Fulcrum Solutions where he was responsible for the successful development, marketing and roll out of a global Oracle Applications upgrade service with revenues growing to £4M during his tenure. After Fulcrum, Sean co-founded the software company HindSite, which developed complex business process automation software, now used in organisations such as Rolls-Royce. Following a successful sale of HindSite, Sean joined Edenbrook in 2003 and became responsible for the Enterprise Solutions practice where he grew revenues from £1.5m to £10m per annum in 5 years. He became a board Director during 2006, and during his tenure was responsible for the creation of the off-shore development centre in Pune, India, and the growth of the Managed Services practice from £2m per annum to £6m with gross margins exceeding 40%. After the sale of Edenbrook to Hitachi Consulting, Sean became a Managing Vice President responsible for expanding the Indian operation (to circa 150 heads) to cater for the US operations. He also retained ownership of the Managed Services practice as well as being the executive sponsor on some of the largest high profile accounts for Hitachi Consulting in the UK. Sean is responsible for finance, operations and working alongside Mark on business development.
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About Kimble Applications: Kimble is a Professional Services Automation (PSA) solution that helps professional service organizations to run their businesses better.
Michael Garrett
Chief Executive Officer of Omada
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About Omada: Identity Management & Access Governance Solutions and Services
Joseph McElmeel
CEO / Co-Founder of SymbaSync
Joseph McElmeel is co-founder, CEO, and Head of Product at SymbaSync. Joseph McElmeel believes in creating HR software that removes bias and provides employees equal opportunity. Working in newspapers, music, entertainment, education, and software, Joseph McElmeel and his teams have achieved the following recognition to date: ●“1998 Leo Kelly Spirit Award for Outstanding Achievement,” – USA Today/Gannett ● “2000 RIAA Platinum Record,” Poison’s Greatest Hits 1986-1996 – Capitol Records ● “2001 (8x) RIAA Platinum Record,” Steve Miller Band’s Greatest Hits 1974-1978 – Capitol Records ● “2002 RIAA Platinum Record,” The Beach Boys’ Pet Sounds – Capitol Records ● “2002 Team Leader Award: Top Corporate Fundraiser,” American Heart Association ● “2009 #1 Pop-Punk Artist-Japan,” Billboard-Japan Music Awards ● “2010-2014 (5x) Best Business Award: Advertising, Marketing and Event Practices,” Musical Artist Enterprises, Inc. – Santa Monica Chamber of Commerce ● “2014 U.K. Finalist,” – KPMG Case Study Competition ● “2015 Global Finalist,” – Argos Enterprise Software Competition ● “2016 Trelawney Burgoyne Prize for Academic Performance and School Impact,” – University of Edinburgh Business School ● “2017 #1 Recruitment Software Platform,” SymbaSync, Ltd – SME News ● “2018 #1 Scottish Enterprise Most Innovative Recruitment Platform,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – SME News ● “2019 Nominee for the Great British Entrepreneur Awards,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Nominated by RBS Bank ● “2020 HR Software Company of the Year,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Corporate Livewire Magazine ● “2021 Top U.K. Project Management Companies,” SymbaSync, Ltd. – Welp Magazine
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About SymbaSync: SymbaSync creates instant access to up-to-date employee skills and interests to source for temporary and permanent project teams.
Ed Broussard
Co-founder, Chief Executive Officer of Mudano
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About Mudano: Mudano, part of Accenture Applied Intelligence, is a data and machine learning company focused on financial services.
Daniel Azougy
CEO & Founder of Tropic By the Sea
Daniel Azougy has the experience and strategies to turn businesses around, even those that have underperformed or are insolvent. He has developed his approach to giving companies a second chance through a proven three-part strategy. First, Azougy helps clients cut their budgets and drive down expenses that can eat up the company’s resources. Second, he urges a restructuring of the workforce and suggests ways to improve efficiency. Third, Azougy works together with clients to find ways to improves services and products and to drive demand. Daniel Azougy’s Tropic by the Sea business development consulting service was created through Daniel Azougy’s experience as a civil litigation attorney. Through his work in law, he was able to see how and why businesses end up in difficulty and to find solutions to mend the situation. Before attending law school at Tel Aviv University, he served in the Golani Brigade in the Israel Defense forces. His family emigrated from Morocco to Israel when he was seven years old and settled in Ashdod. Daniel Azougy travels often from Israel to the United Kingdom to meet with managers and to create solutions to improve business strategies. He is well-versed in issues faced by companies and clients in the U.K and in Israel. He was instrumental in overseeing the purchase of nursing homes in the U.K, and has worked on behalf of clients who want to see financial improvement for themselves and their firms. With his many years of experience, his solid grasp of intricacies of the global economy and success in turning around businesses, Daniel Azougy is able to give advice that can transform a company. Individuals and businesses can face financial headwinds at any time, but often the solution is not difficult to implement if one has the expertise to turn a company around. Daniel Azougy has that expertise.
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About Tropic By the Sea: Business man, Daniel Azougy’s leading construction project on Ashdud, Israel coastline.
Mike Morgan
CEO and Founder, Start-up and Scale-up Advisor, NED, Mentor and Angel Investor of Channelsphere
Mike Morgan is the CEO and Founder, Start-up and Scale-up Advisor, NED, Mentor and Angel Investor at Channelsphere.
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About ChannelGrabber, Channelsphere: Channelsphere is a management consulting company that helps startup entrepreneurs develop and execute strategies for businesses growth.
David Lawrence
CEO of Builderstorm
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About Builderstorm: Builderstorm is a Online Construction Software
Tony Russo
CEO of Polydone
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About Polydone: Polydone is a project management platform for Agile teams.
Pavel Tashev
CEO and Founder of DeepSource
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About DeepSource: We, at DeepSource, develop web, mobile and cloud based solutions for your product to reach your customers
Hamish Watson
CEO of Polysolar
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About Polysolar: Polysolar is a developer and installer of photovoltaic glazing solutions.
Ashley Marron
CEO of MindGenius
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About MindGenius: A software development firm specializing in business productivity software to help capture ideas and simplify project delivery
Jan Quant
Co-Founder & CEO of Screendragon
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About Screendragon: A cloud-based project, resource and workflow management solution designed for high-performing teams.
Pieter Vos
CEO and Founder of Rodeo
Pieter Vos is the CEO and Founder at Rodeo.
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About Rodeo: Rodeo is a software company that develops an easy-to-use, clean, and agile project admin tool.
Fergus Bell
Founder & CEO of Fathm
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About Dig Deeper, EBU, Fathm: Fathm is a management consulting agency that offers content strategy, project management services, training and creative solutions.
Fergus Bell
Founder & CEO of Fathm
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About Dig Deeper, EBU, Fathm: Fathm is a management consulting agency that offers content strategy, project management services, training and creative solutions.
