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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based VP’ operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Thibaut Rouffineau
VP Marketing of Canonical
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
Jem Davies
VP and Fellow and GM & Machine Learning Group of Arm Holdings
Jem is an Arm fellow and general manager of Arm’s Machine Learning business, focusing on machine learning and artificial intelligence solutions. He was previously GM and vice president of technology for the Media Processing, and Imaging and Vision, Groups, where he set the future technology roadmaps and undertook technological investigations for several acquisitions. Based in Cambridge, Jem was previously a member of Arm’s Architecture Review Board and holds four patents in the fields of CPU and GPU design.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Paul Williamson
SVP, GM Client Line of Business of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Chet Babla
VP Emerging Businesses of Arm Holdings
Chet Babla is VP in the Emerging Businesses Group at Arm, where he leads a team focused on enabling device security and also exploring future growth opportunities. Prior to Arm, he was at MediaTek, where he led the EMEA business development, sales and customer support teams. Chet has worked in the semiconductor industry for over 25 years, covering a variety of wireless and wireline technologies in technical and commercial roles. Chet has worked at multinationals and several UK fabless start-ups. Chet was also an ICT sector specialist advisor to the UK government’s trade and industry department.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Noel Hurley
VP of Incubation of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Tim Whitfield
VP Strategy, Embedded & Automotive of Arm Holdings
Tim Whitfield is vice president strategy for the Business Transformation Group at Arm, where he leads a team looking at business and technology strategy for the Arm IP group. He has worked at Arm for more than 15 years, initially leading hardware engineering teams building IP and silicon implementations. More recently he spent 5 years in Taiwan establishing an engineering design centre and working with local ecosystem partners on advanced process technology. Before working at Arm, Tim worked at Fujitsu Telecommunications and GEC in the UK.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Stephen Pattison
VP Public Affairs of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Robert Dobson
Vice President, Technology Partners, and Product Marketing of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Clive Thomas
Senior VP of Global Sales of Autogrid
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About Autogrid: AutoGrid Systems organizes energy data and employs big data analytics to generate real-time predictions that create actionable data.
Yvan De Boeck
VP of Engineering of Bevi
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About Bevi: Bevi is a smart water dispenser that customizes flavored and sparkling beverages on demand.
Wissam Jabre
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of Dialog Semiconductor
Wissam joins Dialog after serving as Corporate Vice President of Finance at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) since 2014. Between 2003 and 2014, Wissam Jabre held various executive positions at Freescale Semiconductor, including Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Vice President Global Pricing, Chief Financial Officer of the Networking & Multimedia Solutions Group as well as senior roles within Corporate Treasury. During this period he gained extensive experience in accounting, financial planning, treasury, procurement, and merger and acquisition integration. He began his career at Schlumberger, gaining international experience in the Middle East, Europe and North America, before joining Motorola in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and received an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York in 1998.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
David Bailey
Vice President, Global Merchandising of SmartThings
David Bailey, Vice President, Marketing Communications at SmartThings
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About SmartThings: SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
Quentin Roquefort
SVP Engineering of Chirp
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About Chirp: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Olly Paulovich
Co-Founder & VP Marketing & Sales of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Mohsen Mohseninia
VP of Market Development, Europe of Aeris
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About Aeris, Aeris: Aeris is the only cellular network designed and built exclusively for machines.
Aviel Sela
Co-Founder & VP, Products of ESquare
Aviel Sela is a co-founder and the vice president of products at ESquare.
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About ESquare: ESquare is a Cyber protected platform for the industrial segment.
Jean-Jacques Sahel
Vice President, Europe of ICANN
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About ICANN: ICANN (pronounced eye-can) is the Internet Corporation for Assigned Names and Numbers. It’s a non-profit corporation that was created in
Warren Butland
Co- founder and EVP, Global Sales of Evolved Vehicle Environments
With over twenty years experience in software/hardware and solutions industry sales and business development, Warren has deep expertise in working closely and strategically with a range of companies, while continuously focusing on his passion for customer service excellence. As a part of the EVE team, Warren looks for opportunities to propel EVE on to the world stage, focusing on company growth initiatives, strategies and global alliances. In his previous roles, Warren has spent many years working with top Fortune 100 companies like Microsoft, GM, MTV, Nickelodeon, BBC, ABC Disney, Hit Entertainment and more. He has also worked extensively with local and federal governments across North America within the software and hardware industries. More recently, Warren entered in a Mobile Application Design & Development course and opened his own mobile development company, offering a series of apps, for iOS and Android, and custom web solutions across industries.
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About Evolved Vehicle Environments: Evolved Vehicle Environments is a software company that transforms he connected car experience and evolves Digital LifeStyle into the car.
David Langton
Senior VP, Marketing & Executive Producer, IOT Leaders Podcast of Eseye
David has over 15 years senior B2B technology marketing experience, varying from start-ups to SMEs and multinational organisations. Before joining Eseye, David successfully built and led a high performing global marketing function at cybersecurity software leader Boldon James (part of QinetiQ Plc), significantly growing its brand profile internationally, increasing marketing ROI and transforming marketing into a profit centre.
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About Eseye, Eseye: Eseye provides global M2M managed connectivity across all devices.
Aleix Megias Homar
Director, VP Programmes of Open Cosmos
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About Open Cosmos: Open Cosmos provides simple and affordable space missions.
Paul McCafferty
Co-Founder and SVP R&D of Edge Intelligence Software
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About Edge Intelligence Software: Edge Intelligence has developed a distributed analytics platform built for edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.
Pasquale Giampa
VP Product Strategy of CloudPlugs
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About : CloudPlugs engineers and markets the most advanced, end-to-end connectivity and lifecycle automation platform for the Internet of Things.
