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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Manager operating in the Internet of Things space. If you think a Manager 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.
Der Hans
Engineering Manager of Canonical
der.hans is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, chairman for the Phoenix Linux Users Group and a repeat speaker at SCaLE. He is an engineering manager at Canonical and former community college instructor. In his free time he likes to camp, learn about sustainable culture and annually not set himself on fire.
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
Michele Riga
Senior Product Manager, High Performance IoT 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.
Matt Spencer
Senior Technology Manager 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.
Radhika Jagtap
Senior Product Manager 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.
Antonio Russo
Senior Product Manager – Automotive & IoT of Arm Holdings
Antonio Russo is a Senior Product Manager for Systems and Software Group at Arm. Based in Cambridge, he is responsible for defining debug and trace IP solutions. Over the last 15 years, Antonio has held a variety of roles in the semiconductor industry, spanning from engineering, support, sales and marketing.
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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.
Matt Rushton
Product Manager – Training Services of Arm Holdings
Matt Rushton is Product Manager for Training Services at Arm Having graduated in Electronic Design and Technology in the early 90’s Matt has held various technical training roles with a number of leading technology and big data companies. It was whilst at these companies, he developed a passion for embracing new technologies to help improve technical training. Matt as been with Arm for 12 months, where his focus has been helping the engineering community at Arm to improve their already successful face to face training offering whilst adding in other more accessible technology based training options.
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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.
James Scobie
Senior Product Manager of Arm Holdings
James Scobie is a Senior Product Manager within the Arm CPU group responsible for Cortex-R processors. James has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor development for the automotive industry over a range of applications including powertrain, body control, gateways and safety systems. James is based in Cambridge UK. Prior to joining Arm James held positions at Motorola and Freescale.
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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.
Alessandro Grande
Ecosystem Manager 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.
Daniele Di Donato
Product Manager 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.
Will Lord
Technology Manager, Embedded Tools 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.
Rosa Lenders
Marketing Manager 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.
Karen Blackett
Country Manager of WPP
Karen is a proven business leader with a track record in creating vibrant cultures, energising teams and consistently delivering business growth and success. She is currently UK country manager for WPP, the world’s largest marketing services group, and Chairwoman of MediaCom, the largest media agency in the UK. Karen champions diversity and equality of opportunity throughout the advertising industry. In 2012 Karen launched the first ever Government backed Apprentice Scheme for the sector. In June 2014, Karen received an OBE in the Queen’s Birthday honours and in 2015 Karen was the first business woman to be named Britain’s Most Influential Black person in the Power List. In November 2018 Karen won the Inspirational Leader category at the Ethnicity Awards. Karen is an external advisor to the UK Government Civil Service. Karen was recently appointed Race Equality Business Champion by the UK Prime Minister.
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About WPP: WPP creates transformative ideas and outcomes for its clients through an integrated offer of communications, commerce, and technology.
Carrie Babcock
Investment Manager of Breed Reply
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About Breed Reply: Breed Reply is Europe’s active operational investors for early-stage companies delivering ‘internet of things’ solutions.
Iain Davidson
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Wireless Logic
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About Wireless Logic: Wireless Logic is an M2M & IoT managed services provider delivering multiple bearer connectivity and value-added services.
Greg Taylor
General Manager, Tigerspike Next of Tigerspike
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About Tigerspike: Tigerspike is a global digital products company specializing in strategy, design, development and systems integration.
Alex Donnelly
General Manager of CloverDX
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About CloverDX: CloverDX is a rapid, end-to-end data integration solution.
Denis Chabot
Certification Senior Manager of Sierra Wireless
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About Global Certification Forum, Sierra Wireless: Sierra Wireless provides wireless wide area modem solutions for the mobile computing, rugged mobile, and machine-to-machine markets.
Alexandra Nguyen
Business Operations Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Camilla van Rosendal
Communications & PR Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Elinor Steers
Manager of people and development of Friska
Elinor Steers has been serving as manager of people and development at Friska since January 2016.
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About Friska: Friska is predominantly focused on breakfast, lunch and coffee.
Tom Ballhatchet
Product Design Manager of Eskesso
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About Eskesso, Yoto: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Jo Crawley
People Manager of Dootrix
Jo Crawley is Head of People & Culture at Dootrix, where she is responsible for our entire tech talent lifecycle from talent attraction and onboarding through to engagement and retention. Jo leads a number of workstreams to help us nurture a high-performance culture within the business, working closely with the management team to activate new initiatives to drive Dootrix forward. Outside of her work at Dootrix, Jo is an active runner and wellbeing enthusiast.
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About Dootrix: Dootrix designers, developers, creatives, technologists and strategists dedicated building best in class cloud, mobile & IoT applications.
Jorge Llambrich
Concept Creator and Project Manager of Soulhunter Ltd.
Entrepreneurial attitude with a view on identifying society needs and new ways to satisfy them. A highly motivated, proactive and enthusiastic professional with more than 10 year experience in the engineering industry. In-depth knowledge of computer aided engineering and physical modelling, excellent communication and presentation skills. Have initiative and can work independently or as part of a multidisciplinary team. Adaptable and quick to learn new skills. Driven to pursue a successful career in the engineering sector.
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About East Kilbride Engineering Services, Soulhunter Ltd.: Catching up with people around has never been funnier!
