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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 Vice President operating in the SaaS space. If you think a Vice President 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.
Ashling Kearns
Vice President of UK&I Marketing of Salesforce
Ashling Kearns is the Vice President of UK&I Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Andrew Sutherland
Senior Vice President, Technology & Systems, EMEA of Oracle
Dr. Andrew Sutherland is senior vice president of technology and systems for Oracle Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for growing Oracle’s EMEA market share in these key business areas. In this role he develops business strategies and manages competence in Oracle’s technology and systems offerings across the region. He is also responsible for the interaction with Oracle’s product development teams. Sutherland joined Oracle in 1995 and has more than 30 years’ experience in emerging technologies and their application to business challenges. His specific expertise is in the design of solutions incorporating mobile and internet technologies. Immediately prior to joining Oracle, Sutherland established a high tech company that developed technological solutions to the problems of the sensory-impaired. The company received prestigious innovation awards from the Department of Trade and Industry. Before this he was deputy director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research, a research and development consultancy attached to the University of Edinburgh. During his time there, Sutherland helped win and subsequently oversaw the development of projects in commerce, industry, and the public sector. In 1988, Sutherland designed the UK’s first parallel-processing speech- recognition system. Based on parallel processors, it operated in real time. Under his management, this technology was successfully applied to problems encountered in aviation, medical reporting, and police reporting. Sutherland has contributed to more than 15 technical publications on multimedia and business issues, including entries in a major encyclopedia. He holds a first- class BSc in electrical and electronic engineering from Edinburgh University, a PhD in digital-signal processing, and an MBA in workflow analysis. Sutherland is also a chartered engineer.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ian Davis
Vice President Of Product Management of Oracle
Ian is the Vice President Of Product Management for Oracle’s suite of Commerce solutions, both on-premise and Cloud. His team of Product Managers, Business Analysts and UX Designers are responsible for the next-generation of Oracle’s Commerce offering. Ian has been in the eCommerce business for over 15 years, through which time he has seen the evolution from simple web tools through to today’s sophisticated Commerce applications. He has lead the transition of licensed product business to SaaS business models, and knows what that can involve for a software company.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
James Stanbridge
Vice President of Oracle
James Stanbridge, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, is a leadership practitioner based in United Kingdom, having spent the past 10 years living in Asia, moving to Shanghai, China in 2005 and to Singapore in 2009. During his corporate career, James successfully attracted, hired and developed diverse teams of technologists in China, Singapore, India, Japan as well as Europe for Oracle, Microsoft, Alta Vista and Yamaha Motor in a multinational, corporate leadership career spanning more than 20 years. James is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), has been an Executive coach in the ‘Excelerrate’ program at Fudan University and is a formal mentor to young leaders inside and outside Microsoft and a former Board member of the not-for- profit organization Lifeline Shanghai. He is currently the CTO of a Singapore based NGO fighting human trafficking and travels to Cambodia to support Sala Bai, a school for young women who are at risk of trafficking.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Paul Donnelly
Vice President, Corporate Application Services of Oracle
Vice President, Corporate Application Services at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Sahil Rekhi
Vice President Global Strategic Partnerships 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.
Lisa Clark
Vice President – Contact Centre PM of 8×8
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About 8×8: 8×8 offers secure and reliable cloud-based, enterprise-class business phone systems, unified communications, and contact center solutions.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Lindsay Jack
Vice President, Security Services of Mimecast
Lindsay is the VP, Security Services at Mimecast, with responsibilities for the engineering, threat research and operational delivery of the Mimecast email security product. Lindsay has 14 years experience in the security industry, having worked for for Surfcontrol, Websense and Forcepoint building a variety of Web filtering, Sandboxing and Mobile management products before joining Mimecast in 2017. Lindsay gained a BEng as an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, before completing a PhD in machine learning.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Martin Henley
Senior Vice President, Technology Services of Globality
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About Globality: Globality revolutionizes how businesses buy and sell services by matching the best provider at the right price for every project.
Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services of Citrix Systems
Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Jada Balster
Vice President, Marketing of Workfront
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About Workfront: Workfront providers cloud-based enterprise work management solutions for enterprise teams.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Ben Powell
Vice President Business Development of Learnosity
A firm believer in the power of technology to transform education and energize the learning experience, Ben specializes in international business development. Prior to Learnosity he held a number of senior executive positions at Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, including SVP of Corporate Development. Ben started at HMH during its inception as Riverdeep and was heavily involved in the multi billion USD acquisitions of Houghton Mifflin and Harcourt between 2006 and 2007. Ben is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants and while he lives in London with his wife and two young children, he racks up the air miles traveling to the USA – one of Learnosity’s key markets.
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About Education Business Development Group, KPMG International Limited, Learnosity: Learnosity provides the technology framework for authoring, assessment delivery, and reporting for the world’s best assessment solutions.
Kristian Keep
Vice President Of Engineering of Decibel
Kristian Keep is the vice president of engineering at Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Gareth Edwards
Executive Vice President, Europe of Radancy
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About Radancy: Radancy is the global talent technology leader intelligently solving critical challenges for employers, delivering unmatched results.
Gareth Edwards
Executive Vice President, Europe of Radancy
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About Radancy: Radancy is the global talent technology leader intelligently solving critical challenges for employers, delivering unmatched results.
Mark Hallam
Vice President of EMEA & APAC of Winshuttle
Mark joined Winshuttle in 2006, and as one of the earliest employees, he has been part of the company’s evolution, and is responsible for the successful growth and expansion of operations in EMEA. As the Vice President of EMEA, Mark leads a team across Europe and Asia Pac, which supports over 1,000 customers. Prior to joining Winshuttle, Mark managed the Automation suite of software at Complementary Solutions which included AutoTester and Winshuttle products. Over the years he has specialized in ERP, specifically SAP, and has extensive experience in software sales, testing, automation and implementation.
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About Winshuttle: Winshuttle offers software products enabling businesses to work with SAP directly from interfaces that do not require any programming.
Ulyana Shtybel, Ph.D.
Chief Capital Officer and Vice President of the Board of HighCastle
PhD in Economics, Former Executive Director of the Warsaw Stock Exchange in Ukraine, Head of Banking and Financial Services Committee at the American Chamber of Commerce, commercial bank trainee with 180 loan specialists under supervision. Named the Digital Leader of the Year Finalist, London Regional Finalist for the Forward Ladies National Awards 2019 and Blockchain Leader Finalist for the Women in Tech Awards.
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About HighCastle: One powerful platform for private companies to manage investment workflow, equity and debt securities
Hugh McEvoy
Senior Vice President Product of Sefaira
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About Sefaira: Sefaira is a provider of software for high-performance building design.
Chris Wakely
Executive Vice President, Global Enterprise of Benify
Chris Wakely has been working in global benefits technology for the last 15 years. He has seen the changes taking place both in insurance provision and the increasing importance of the employee experience. He is based out of the Benify London office.
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About Benify: Benefits Management and Total Rewards platform – SaaS
Chris Beaumont
Vice President Marketing of SHE Software
Chris is Vice President Marketing and masterminds all marketing, public relations, events and business development activities across the globe. His main focus is to build SHE Software’s reputation globally as the leading health and safety software provider, and develop new creative routes to market to meet acquisition and retention targets. Chris joined SHE Software in 2013, bringing over 15 years marketing leadership experience. In his previous role at BP, he worked on product development, creating a number of successful go-to-market strategies. He holds a Professional Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing and BSc Hons Management & Information Technology, UMIST. When not putting his creative brain to the test, outside work, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife, young daughter and eating!
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About SHE Software: Health and Safety software. Transforming how companies engage with their employees, delivering safe, nurturing and compliant workplaces.
