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 CMO’ operating in the Internet space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
John Veichmanis
Chief Marketing Officer of Farfetch
As Chief Marketing Officer, John is responsible for developing the Farfetch brand and generating consumer demand for our boutique and brand partners. John leads a truly global team of more than 100 people from the creative, marketing and technology industries who are developing innovative and data driven approaches to brand communications, customer acquisition and retention. John also sits on the Farfetch executive board. John joined Farfetch in 2015, brin
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Nir Debbi
Co-Founder and CMO of Global-e
Co-founder, CRO Nir has vast experience in strategic planning and business development, working for over 10 years in managerial positions in the high-tech and financial sectors. Before co-founding Global-e, Nir served as SVP and Head of Strategy and Business Development at Bank Hapoalim, Israel’s largest bank, following a term as Head of Retail Strategy. He holds an MBA and a B.Sc. in Economics, both from the Tel-Aviv University.
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About Global-e: Global-e is cross-border e-commerce enablement platform that enables brands and retailers to deliver purchase experiences to customers.
Andrew Davies
Chief Marketing Officer of Paddle
Andrew is currently the Head of Brand & Digital at Episerver, after it acquired Idio in November 2019, the business he co-founded. He also advises, supports & invests in early-stage startups, helping them problem-solve around proposition development, people & teams, and B2B/SaaS marketing. Previously, he co-founded Idio, serving as CMO and also leading people ops. He helped build the business to a market-leader in B2B personalization, with a very successful B2B SaaS account-based-marketing approach, a superb team in NYC, SF & London, and enterprise clients including IBM, BNY Mellon and Fitch Group. Idio raised $13m+ from angels & institutional investors. He also sits on the board of Ninety, an agile digital transformation consultancy with clients including Generali, Axa, Allianz & Zurich. Ninety is a social enterprise, with 90% of distributable profits given to alleviate global poverty.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Matthew James Low
Chief Marketing Officer at QPQ of QPQ
Matthew James Low is the CMO at QPQ.
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About QPQ: QPQ is a network infrastructure to enable a digital universe.
Nina Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of O2
Nina is the Chief Marketing Officer at O2, with commercial profit and loss accountability for the consumer and SMB mobile business. She is also responsible for marketing across O2, including brand, marketing communications, data analytics, customer experience, devices and sustainability. Nina joined O2 from Barclaycard, where she oversaw the launch of innovations such as Payband and Bespoke Offers. Prior to Barclaycard, Nina was SVP of Global Brand Management at IHG, where she led the successful re-launch of Holiday Inn, the largest of its kind in the hospitality industry. Before that, Nina held a variety of roles at Diageo over 9 years including Commercial Strategy Director, Brand Director for Baileys and Pimms and Global Brand Director of Reserve Brands. Nina’s early career after business school was in consulting. She is a non-executive Director of Barratt Developments plc and is a trustee of Great Ormond Street Hospital Children’s Charity.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Dominic Gallello
Chief Marketing Officer of Badoo
Dominic Gallello is the Chief Marketing Officer at Badoo.
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About Badoo: Badoo is a dating-focused social network, allowing users to chat, make friends and share interests.
Tim Knight
Chief Marketing Officer of IntelliSense.io
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Nick Baker
CMO of JUST DEVELOP iT
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About JUST DEVELOP iT: Just Develop It (JDi) is a Hampshire based investment company that specialises in early stage and growth capital across.
Andrew Webber
Chief Marketing & Client Relations of Whitespace
Andrew Webber – newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Whitespace Ventures. Prior to that Andrew worked for just over ten years at Microsoft in both European and UK roles. In that time Andrew had responsibility across a range of Go To Market teams including tech startups engagement, video game developers engagement and top UK Universities. He was also the EMEA Marketing Lead for Microsoft Financing and saw that business unit grow from $250m to over $2.1 Billion in 2 years. In his time at Microsoft Andrew has been reognised both Gold and Platinum Leadership awards but was also listed in the MCV Top 100 Most Influential People in the UK Games Industry. He also was proud to have conceived and launched the Greenshoots Video Games Investment programme which is still going strong now under ownership of Xbox in Europe. As the new CMO of Whitespace Ventures Andrew has responsibility for their Go To Market planning & execution including the Corporate Partnerships programme.
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About Whitespace: We help businesses innovate, from the small things that can make a big difference to more-involved ‘Eureka!’ projects.
Andrew Brown Allan
Chief Marketing Officer of Trak Global Group
Previously founded an award-winning creative agency and strategy consultancy, working with some of the world’s biggest brands. Andrew is keen on technology and innovation, with a real focus on delivering remarkable customer experiences.
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About Trak Global Group: Trak Global Group provides its partners with the very latest in technology to enable and support telematics insurance propositions.
Richard Clark
Chief Marketing Officer of Feelunique.com
Richard Clark is the Chief Marketing Officer at Feelunique.com.
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About Feelunique.com: Feelunique.com is an online e-commerce platform that offers beauty products and related advice.
John Humpish
CMO of tibit
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About : pocket change for the internet — tips and tiny payments spent without a second thought.
Gokhan Celebi
Co-Founder and CMO of Delphisonic
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About Delphisonic: Delphisonic is active in the development, production, and sales of hardware and software for industrial measurement technology.
Anita Allott
CMO of NquiringMinds
Anita specialises in the Marketing of advanced technologies, previously she was Corporate Marketing Manager for Roke Manor Research (Siemens) where she implemented the marketing and communications strategy and Corporate Social Responsibility programme. Before Roke Anita was a Director at Corporata Communications where she ran Marketing projects for a number of high profile clients, including the Chartered Institute of Management Accountants. Anita has long standing experience of the financial services sector through her work with PWC (Price Waterhouse Coopers) and CIMA (Chartered Institute of Management Accountants). Anita has a large body of published work including business plan, speeches, government consultation responses, executive reports, magazine and newspaper articles, academic papers. Anita was the winner of a national competition on management writing which granted a full scholarship to attain her Executive MBA from Henley Management College (2005-2008), awarded by the Financial Mail on Sunday. Anita has a BA in economics from Nottingham University.
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About NquiringMinds: NquiringMinds data sharing and data analytics company
Matthew Pate
Co-Founder & CMO of Sandbox
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About Sandbox: Revolutionising retail through flexible, shared spaces. Helping brands engage, test and sell emerging technology products.
Marion Lean
Chief Marketing Officer of Little Riot
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About Little Riot: Little Riot mission is to alleviate loneliness and empower people to use technology to communicate without staring at a screen.
Bjorn Laku
Director & CMO of Cashbook Finance
Mr. Laku is an experienced Business Development Manager skilled in Project and Brand Management, Strategic Planning, Data Analysis and Digital Marketing. Past industry experiences include “Big 4” Management Consulting, Telecommunications, Specialty Foods, and the Digital Industry.
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About Cashbook Finance: FCA registered company offering Invoice Finance & Factoring services in the UK.
Karina Karaulova
CMO of OOSTOR.com
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About OOSTOR.com: An online marketplace showcasing products from independent and unique brands from across the world!
Huw Thomas
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of SG Digital
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About SG Digital: SG Digital offers customers the widest portfolio of content available across our OpenSports and OpenGaming platforms.
Clare Laurie
CMO of blueSense
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About blueSense: Blue Sense Networks (trading as blueSense) are leaders in the proximity solutions industry. Custom hardware, contextual applications.
Clare Laurie
CMO of blueSense
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About blueSense: Blue Sense Networks (trading as blueSense) are leaders in the proximity solutions industry. Custom hardware, contextual applications.
Benjamin Hacking
CMO – Founding member of Fluttr
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About Fluttr, ShowMango: Fluttr is a social networking service that enables users to receive updates and personalized recommendations about events.
