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 Director operating in the Collaboration space. If you think a 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.
Charlotte Holloway
Government Relations Director, UK and Ireland of Zoom
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About Zoom: Zoom is a software company that offers a communications platform that connects people through video, voice, chat, and content sharing.
Daniel Liu Yin
Senior Director of Product Management of RingCentral
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About RingCentral: RingCentral, a global distributor of cloud-unified communications and collaboration solutions, offers its users with technology services.
Simon Marsh
Marketing Procurement Director of Dell EMC
Simon has been at Dell EMC since 2010 as a procurement manager for indirect spend, and is now Marketing Procurement Director. Previously he was at BP.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Ajay Chowdhury
Managing Director and Senior Partner. Regional Chair: Western Europe, South America, Africa of BCG Digital Ventures
Ajay Chowdhury is a Managing Director and Partner at BCG Digital Ventures.
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About Acacia Capital Partners, BCG Digital Ventures, Cambridge Enterprise, EnActe Arts, Inc., MachineMax, Royal Academy of Dramatic Art: BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm.
Andy Lees
Partner & Director of Product Management of BCG Digital Ventures
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About BCG Digital Ventures: BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm.
Patrick Rouvillois
Partner & Managing Director of BCG Digital Ventures
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About BCG Digital Ventures: BCG Digital Ventures is a corporate investment and incubation firm.
Richard Leonard
Senior Sales Director of Parsable
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About Parsable: Parsable offers a connected worker platform for industrial workers with modern digital tools to improve productivity, quality and safety.
Stan Stalnaker
Founding Director of Hub Culture
Stan Stalnaker is the Founder and Chief Strategy Officer of Hub Culture, an ecosystem that includes the Ven the digital currency, Ultra Exchange, AQUA quarantine system and HubID digital identity. Previously, Stan was the international director of marketing for the Time Inc. Business and Finance group, based first in Hong Kong, then London.
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About Hub Culture: Hub Culture is a global collaboration platform focused on digital currency and identity, knowledge brokerage and community services.
Heleen Snelting
Director Data Science EMEA of TIBCO
Heleen Snelting is Director Data Science EMEA at TIBCO, where she and her team help TIBCO customers optimise business and operational processes through the use of advanced analytics. She previously held international roles at market- and shopper research company IRI. Heleen is passionate about knowledge sharing and is an active TIBCO Community contributor.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Saviz Izadpanah
CTO / Director of HighQ
Saviz joined HighQ in 2005 as CTO, responsible for leading HighQ technology strategy, product management and product development. Prior to HighQ, Saviz was the global head of Debt Capital Markets IT at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for the program management of multiple applications including Deutsche Bank’s online debt order capture system “dbbonds” for the global DCM sales teams. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Saviz was part of the lead web development team at Barclays Capital. Saviz holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Imperial College of London.
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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.
Tony Haifeng Guo
Innovation Director of Valuechain.com
Haifeng Guo obtained a degree in Finance in South China University of Technology in 2003, after which he studied Master of Science in e-Business in the University of Liverpool and graduated with distinction and Student of the Year in 2004. He then started his PhD research in the application of Cloud Computing to optimise Supply Chain Management with full scholarship supported by EPSRC. At the same time, he started working at a high technology spinout from University of Liverpool with his first project developing ERP systems and supply chain management portals for companies such as Perkins, Novartis and container shipping companies. Haifeng co-founded Valuechain.com and leads the offshore development team in Wuhan China. He is passionate about developing innovative technologies using latest cloud and mobile technologies.
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About Valuechain.com: Valuechain.com enables global manufacturing customers, suppliers and partners to connect, collaborate and increase competitiveness.
Edward Tucker
Snr Director Cyber Security of Somewhere
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About Somewhere: A visual platform for sharing your work
Paul Arigho Crockett
Head of Enterprise Sales, Account Director of 4Sight Communications
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About 4Sight Communications: 4Sight Communications is one of the leading providers of business telecommunications and managed services for public sector organisations.
Phil Bradley
Director, Business Development of 4Sight Communications
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About 4Sight Communications: 4Sight Communications is one of the leading providers of business telecommunications and managed services for public sector organisations.
Simon Turner
Managing Director & Founding Partner of 4Sight Communications
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About 4Sight Communications: 4Sight Communications is one of the leading providers of business telecommunications and managed services for public sector organisations.
Alex Hook
Senior Investment Director of Nesta
Alex joined NESTA in June 2008. He makes and manages investments in the Cleantech, Engineering and Healthcare sectors. Alex started his career in the creative industries before joining Foursome Investments in 1999. During his time at Foursome, Alex was involved in multiple transactions, across a number of sectors and geographies, with a predominant focus on early-stage environmental technology businesses. Alex also managed Foursome’s early-stage fund, the FourVision Fund LP.
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About Nesta: Nesta is an innovation foundation headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
David Terrar
Executive Director of ITBrix
David is the Founder and CXO of Agile Elephant, a digitial transformation consultancy and solutions provider. He also heads up D2C, a consulting firm which provides business and social media consulting and Cloud based solutions for content, collaboration, web publishing, online accounting and ERP. He is a director of EuroCloud UK, on the governance board of the Cloud Industry Forum, and Chaired techUK’s Software as a Service Group. This year he is one of the judges of the UK Cloud Awards. He is a regular speaker at digital, social business, social media and Cloud Computing events including keynoting at the CeBIT Social Business Arena in 2015, chairing London’s Cloud Computing World Forum in 2009, 2010, 2011 and 2012 and lecturing on digital at Henley Business School and INSEEC. Agile Elephant co-produces the London edition of the Enterprise Digital Summit London, and David organizes the Combined Social Business Sessions London (incorporating London Wiki Wednesdays), was one of the founders of CreativeCoffee Club and Amplified (the Network of Networks).
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About Agile Elephant, Bloor Research, Cloud Industry Forum, Cloud Industry Forum, EuroCloud, ITBrix: ITBrix’s WordFrame Community Platform covers blogging, wikis, RSS feed aggregation, document management and social networking, using
Matthew Edge-Wilkins
Founder and Director of Intalent Solutions
After an early career in financial services, working with large blue-chip organisations – Barclays, Zurich Insurance and PricewaterhouseCoopers; Matthew’s recruitment career started in 2003 as the result of a chance meeting in a bar in Sydney, Australia whilst in the middle of a 12 month round-the-world adventure. That meeting led to Matthew joining Freespirit Consulting who provide support and talent management services to contractors, obtaining a four-year sponsorship in the process. 12 months later, Matthew joined the International Student Placement Centre (ISPC), which has since been bought out by Sydney University.
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About Intalent Solutions: Intalent is a leading provider of recruitment process outsourcing solutions to companies in the property sector.
Craig Hyslop
Sales Director of Glasscubes
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About Glasscubes: Work Better Together – Connect your employees, customers and partners in a private online community.
Kevin Senior
Managing Director of Glasscubes
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About Glasscubes: Work Better Together – Connect your employees, customers and partners in a private online community.
Tom Steck
Director of Co-Founders Club
IT Professional, Visionary, Life-Long Learner
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About Co-Founders Club: Matching co-founders during collaborative learning process
Kevin Geraghty
Head of CPQ practice & Managing Director of Xait
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About Xait: Innovative software development company
