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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 Founder operating in the Employee Benefits space. If you think a Founder 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.
Yusuf Sherwani
Co-Founder & CEO of Quit Genius
Yusuf is the Co-Founder and CEO of Quit Genius. He is a Y Combinator alumni and was featured by Fast Company’s as one of their Most Creative People of 2019 as well as Forbes’ 30 Under 30 List of 2018.
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About Quit Genius: Quit Genius is pioneering digital therapeutics for multiple addictions.
Chris Bruce
Co-Founder of Thomsons Online Benefits
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About Thomsons Online Benefits: Thomsons Online Benefits is a global benefits management and employee engagement software company.
Daniel Shakhani
Co-Founder of Salary Finance
Daniel is an entrepreneur, financier and philanthropist.He previously held director positions at Goldman Sachs and RBS and is now an active builder of social impact ventures.
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About Pirkx, Salary Finance: Salary Finance partners with employers to improve employee wellbeing by helping get people out of debt and into saving.
Matt McCambridge
Co-Founder and CEO of Eden Health
Matt McCambridge is the Co-Founder and CEO at Eden Health.
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About Eden Health: Eden Health is a primary care and insurance navigation company for employers seeking to elevate the health and wellbeing of their employees.
Daniel Shellard
CEO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Ian McCaig
CMO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Sammi Adhami
CCO, Co-Founder of Fiit
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About Fiit: The UK’s highest-rated fitness platform, Fiit has thousands of global members and partnerships with brands including Sky and The Gym Group.
Ry Morgan
Co-Founder, COO & Product Strategy of Unmind
• Entrepreneurial rapscallion with a background highly attuned to tech, product and enterprise. Founded, built and grown several successful (and less successful!) ventures to-date. x
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About Unmind, Yomp: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Nick Taylor
Co-Founder and CEO of Unmind
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Steve Peralta
Co-Founder & Chief Content Officer of Unmind
As a wellbeing consultant and facilitator, Steve has spent the past ten years helping people and organisations take proactive, effective steps to improve their wellbeing and performance. He has supported brands such as BBraun, Barclays, Absa, First National Bank and Discovery Health, focusing on evidence-based, positive behaviour change solutions. Steve designed and led the wellbeing programme for BSG, a South African business and tech consultancy which won the ‘Healthiest Company’ and ‘Healthiest Employees’ titles for small companies in the Discovery Healthy Company Index. Steve co-founded Unmind in 2016 and now works with leading academics and clinicians in creating engaging, evidence-based tools and training to help people understand and proactively support their mental health.
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About Unmind: Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training.
Wouter Wytenburg
CEO & Co-Founder of Sharefinance
London based Dutch serial-entrepreneur with a successful track record of spotting opportunities, assembling high-performance teams, building solutions and launching them into the marketplace.
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About Sharefinance: Sharefinance democratises employee share ownership through innovative financing solutions
Alex Hind
CEO & Co-Founder of Heka
Alex Hind, CEO & Co-Founder of GoSweat.
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About Heka: The personalised health platform to make your employees feel valued.
Saurav Chopra
Co-Founder of Perkbox
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About Perkbox: Perkbox is a global benefits and rewards platform that helps companies care for, connect with and celebrate their employees.
James Herbert
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) of Hastee
Founder & Chief Strategy Officer (CSO) at Hastee.
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About Brightsparks, Hastee: Hastee is a mobile application that allows workers to receive a portion of their earned pay immediately.
Tim Perkins
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Jeremy Beament
Co-Founder & Director of Nudge Global
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About Nudge Global: Brighter financial futures for everyone, everywhere
Paul Roberts
Founder & CEO of Nomify
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About Nomify: Nomify is an app that provides the entire company’s employee engagement with news, events, nominations, and staff holiday planning.
Stefan Wissenbach
Founder and Chief Engagement Officer of Engagement Multiplier
A serial entrepreneur, Stefan is passionate about the transformational impact engagement has on organisations and the people that own them and work within them. His vision and focus is on helping 100 million people to become more engaged. His books, businesses and speaking engagements provide education and inspiration to enable businesses and individuals to fulfill their potential and bridge the gap between aspiration and achievement. His unique approach is to simplify the complex and provide a framework for people to take action, distilling a lifetime of learning into simple success strategies that anyone can master. For over 20 years he has been a leading adviser to successful entrepreneurs on engagement through his private consulting firm Wissenbach Private Clients. He is the founder of EngagementMultiplier.com, a digital platform that enables businesses and individuals all over the world to simply and efficiently measure and improve engagement levels every 90 days. He is a best selling author. His latest book, The Engaged Organisation, explains how business owners can build the business they dream about. His first book, Slaying Dragons & Moving Mountains focuses on simple ways for individuals to become more engaged and achieve personal success. He is also the co-author of Change Agents with Brian Tracy and Think & Grow Rich Today. He is the creator of The Magic Number® and the Founder of MagicFuture.com and the co-founder of The Magic Future Foundation, which has built four schools in Africa. His ‘uncommon’ common sense approach has enabled hundreds of companies to raise engagement levels, improve profits and reduce waste – whilst becoming happier places to work. Stefan is married with three children, and lives in Warwickshire, England.
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About Engagement Multiplier, Strategic Coach: Engagement Multiplier is an online program that gives companies the power to measure and improve employee engagement.
Lisa Hamill
Co-Founder & Executive Director of BraveGoose
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About BraveGoose: BraveGoose develops a human resources technology solution called CleverGoose.
CJ Green
Co-Founder & Executive Director of BraveGoose
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About BraveGoose: BraveGoose develops a human resources technology solution called CleverGoose.
Nikolaos Lygkonis
CEO & Founder of PeopleGoal
Co founder of PeopleGoal.
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About PeopleGoal: PeopleGoal is a configurable employee performance and engagement platform.
Jennifer Cramb
Founder and Director, Coach and Consultant of Viveka Coaching & Consulting
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About Viveka Coaching & Consulting: Viveka Coaching & Consulting renders business coaching, team facilitation, development, leadership and management development services.
