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 CEO’ operating in the E-Commerce Platforms 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.
Kirill Chliaifchtein
Founder & CEO of SwiftGift
Founder & CEO at SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
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Sophie Hill
Founder & CEO of Threads Styling
Sophie started her career in buying & merchandising roles at HQs of some of the leading fashion retail brands. This exposure to retail inspired her to found Threads in 2010. Threads uses unique technology to create a new world of retail. With social media & content, instant messaging & strong brand partnerships Threads is the leader in what they define as luxury chat commerce. Sophie is now dedicated with her team to continue to lead in this space and pioneer the next generation of retail. Education from Leeds & Harvard university.
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About Threads Styling: Threads Styling is a fashion technology company.
Matt Barker
Founder & CEO of MPB
Matt’s focus and passion is on verticalized online marketplaces within the secondary goods sector, with particular emphasis on managed marketplaces that take ownership of the product through the customer transaction process Matt founded mpb.com having developed his interest in markeplaces whilst studying Economics at The University of Warwick. Matt has since grown MPB into the largest marketplace in Europe for photographers and videographers to trade equipment. Matt believes that key to a successful product marketplace are strong network effects and an end to end focus on customer experience, delivered by the best AI and CX led technology at every stage of the transaction cycle. MPB is now internationalising, with a full US launch completed in November 2016. Matt continues to lead MPB as CEO and plans to grow MPB into the largest marketplace in the world for photographers and videographers.
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About MPB: MPB is an online platform specializing in used photography and videography kit.
Nick Robertson
Founder & CEO of ASOS
Nick Robertson is a Founder & CEO At ASOS.
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About ASOS, ASOS Ventures: Asos is an online platform engaged in the retail of fashion and beauty products for men and women.
Chris Gibbons
CEO & Founder of Laced
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About Laced: Laced is a marketplace for the buying and selling of authentic sneakers, connecting thousands of buyers and sellers worldwide.
Aneeqa Khan
Founder & CEO of eporta
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About eporta: Europe’s leading B2B commerce platform for the furnishings industry.
Gerald Ratner
Founder & CEO of Signet Jewelers
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About Gerald Online, Signet Jewelers: Signet Jewelers engages in the retail sale of jewelry and watches in the United States, the United Kingdom.
Andrew Mukerjee
Co-founder, CEO of Brisqq
Andrew has a keen interest in solving big global problems using software. Andrew and team built Brisqq into the leading digital last mile distribution business in the London market and launched eLogii to enable commercial fleet operators around the world to increase efficiency in their planning, routing and dispatch operations. Formerly an investment banker focusing on software and internet transactions. Andrew graduated from King’s College London and speaks fluent Dutch.
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About Brisqq, eLogii: Brisqq provides local logistics-as-a-service, enabling retailers to offer same day (or future date) deliveries in 1-hour timeslots.
Vinita Rathi
CEO & Co-Founder of Systango
Vinita, Ex Vice President Goldman Sachs, London and now founder of IT agency Systango.com which helps and hand holds founders, especially, with no technology background to build their product and get it out of the door just like an in-house team would do. She has successfully put together a team, handpicked her members that work in sprints, agile and work shoulder to shoulder. When the time is right Systango then helps start up build local team and transition seamlessly. Vinita recently helped a founder who was struggling in building his product despite of having a fantastic idea. The company now has a working product, team of two in-house developers and Vinita jumps in as and when deadlines are more aggressive than what their in-house team can handle. In her community time, Vinita is Director of WomenWhoCode.com London Chapter. She is also founder of WomenHackForNonProfits.com – an initiative to increase women developer’s footprint in open source & non profit projects. It has more than 200 women developer volunteers and about 5 non profits registered to work with. In her spare time she also runs CodePunt.Today – a daily challenge website in alpha to keep developer’s developer by heart. When she is not doing one of the projects above, she is probably playing with her 4 year old son!
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About Systango: Systango is a software company provides custom web, mobile application, game, ecommerce development services.
Craig Unsworth
Chief Executive Officer of Upgrade Pack
Craig is CEO and Founder of Upgrade Pack, the closed marketplace for airline and hotel upgrades. He has 16 years’ experience adding value to companies through the creation of proprietary technology and innovation. His core strength is building product teams, and new products, that add to the company’s valuation. He has consistently delivered this within corporate, agency, startup and consultancy environments – resulting in MBO, private equity, trade sale, and capital market (AIM IPO) exits. Craig was Chair of ad:tech London from 2012 to 2016, and a Member of its Advisory Board. He is an Advocate for Tech London Advocates (TLA); and served on the Executive Committee of BIMA (British Interactive Media Association), leading the Technology and Inclusion committee groups. He is London-based but has worked globally for the past decade.
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About Upgrade Pack: Upgrade Pack is your key to a better hotel room or airplane seat.
Chris Tudor
Founder & CEO of MASSOLIT
Chris Tudor is a Founder & CEO at MASSOLIT.
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About MASSOLIT: MASSOLIT is an online educational platform that hosts short video lectures aimed at secondary/high school students.
Emilie Vanpoperinghe
Co-founder and CEO of Oddbox
Emilie Vanpoperinghe is the Co-Founder & CEO at Oddbox.
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About Oddbox: Oddbox is a provider of fruit and veg box delivery service intended to reduce food waste.
Jean Z. Poh
Founder & CEO of Swoonery
Founder, CEO at Swoonery.
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About Rapaport Group, Swoonery: Recommendation-driven e-commerce marketplace for fine jewelry.
Mathew Prior
CEO of TrustedHousesitters
Mathew is a successful and highly respected global travel and leisure leader with significant experience across multiple industry sectors, business models and geographies. He has led and grown some of the most iconic experiential leisure brands across the globe, ranging from Crystal Ski, the UK’s largest ski tour operator, to Le Boat, the European leader in self-drive boating vacations based in France, to Sunsail & The Moorings, the worldwide leader in yacht charter vacations based in the USA. He is currently CEO of TrustedHousesitters, the leading online marketplace for in-home vacation pet care. He has a reputation as a capable and popular leader, balancing clear strategic thinking and decision-making with a robust approach to strategy execution in international organisations, harnessing the power of digital technology to deliver new and innovative customer experiences along the way. He has led both high growth businesses and those requiring the strong leadership of a performance turnaround, and his experience has led him to gain a strong understanding of doing business in the UK, continental Europe and the USA. Mathew lives in Brighton with his family and enjoys skiing, sailing, and all sports that are based upon a moving ball.
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About Travelopia, TrustedHousesitters: The world’s largest sharing economy marketplace for vacation pet care
Nick Brackenbury
Co-Founder & CEO of NearSt
Nick Brackenbury is a technology entrepreneur and the co-founder and CEO of NearSt; a retail technology start-up getting people back into high street shops. His tech company is revolutionizing the idea of shopping locally rather than ordering it online. Nick was formerly one of Ogilvy’s youngest ever Account Directors, working on pioneering teams in the agency’s analytics and digital platforms teams across brands spanning Land Rover, Nestle, BP, Ford, Diageo and IBM. He is fascinated by behavioural economics and the incredible potential currently hidden away in high street shops.
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About NearSt: NearSt is a retail technology company building the world’s source of real-time local inventory.
Sharon Manikon
CEO of Bizzon
payments professional
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About Bizzon: Bizzon allows you to charge cash, debit and credit cards, and billing with the help of a simple application.
Yousef Abdulhassan
Founder & CEO of SellApp
Founder at Toffee, Building the eBay for digital products
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About SellApp, Xough Technologies Limited: The easiest way to sell digital goods online is with SellApp
Bilal Itani
CEO of Modular Customer Engagement Technologies
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About Modular Customer Engagement Technologies: Modular Customer Engagement Technologies is a 3D Customer Experience Platform, Create your 3D Online Shop & 3D Product Configurator
Lanre Akinlagun
Founder and CEO of Drinks.ng
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About Drinks.ng: Drinks.ng is a technology based company transforming the way beverages are shopped, sold and shipped online in Nigeria
Edward Davies
CEO & Co-Founder of Wearth London
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About Wearth London: Wearth is an e-commerce startup which partners with independent UK brands who make high quality products in an ethical and sustainable way.
Richard Sinclair
CEO of Sno
Founder and entrepreneur building SNO to win the World Snow Awards in its third winter. Passion for Customer experience born of producing flagship consumer journalism programme “Watchdog”, and love of Travel fed while running BBC “Holiday”. Love of technology indulged while making “Tomorrows World” and building SNO. Talent for Editorial judgement and devotion to excellence ingrained over a decade making factual programmes for the world’s leading broadcaster.
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About Sno: SNO is the UK’s fastest growing travel company.
Alexander Reed
Co-Founder and CEO of Moonsift
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About Moonsift: Moonsift is a universal wishlist designed to power the next generation of personalization for online shoppers.
Andy Muldoon
CEO of PowaWeb
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About PowaWeb: PowaWeb is an enterprise class, feature rich, Software as a Service ecommerce platform built with international scale in mind.
