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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 Manager operating in the Sports 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.
Jian Li
Principal Data Scientist and Data Science Team Manager of Sky UK
Jian Li is Principal Data Scientist in Sky. He leads a data science team with a main focus on machine learning research for Sky’s content discovery products and services including search and recommendation. His research covers various topics including deep learning, natural language processing, ranking, metadata enrichment and semantic knowledge inference. Before joining Sky, Jian was with Microsoft Research in Cambridge where he developed the personalised email classification product for Microsoft Exchange and Office 365 services. This product has been used by 50 million customers globally by the end of 2015. Jian holds a Ph.D in computer vision and experimental psychology from University of Bristol.
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About Sky UK: Sky is an entertainment company, serving 22 million customers across satellite, OTT, and broadband in five countries.
Carl Southwell
Enterprise & Employability Manager of Chelsea Football Club
Carl loves sport and business. Over the last 10 years, he has built ground-breaking programmes in world football that focus on employability, start-up business and corporate engagement. In the last two years, his start-up programmes have supported over 2000 local start-ups. He also loves burgers and trying to be a cool dad.
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About Chelsea Football Club: The world famous Chelsea Football Club is located at Stamford Bridge on the Fulham Road in west London.
Edgar Dalusong
Senior Digital Project Manager of Formula 1
Edgar Dalusong is Senior Digital Project Manager at Formula One Management.
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About Formula 1: Formula 1 is a auto racing league.
Sam Colley
Partnerships Manager of Tottenham Hotspur
Sam Colley is a partnerships manager at Tottenham Hotspur Club.
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About Tottenham Hotspur: Tottenham Hotspur is a professional football club in London, competing in the Premier League.
Niall Flanagan
Executive Manager of Tottenham Hotspur
Niall Flanagan is an executive manager at Tottenham Hotspur Club.
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About Tottenham Hotspur: Tottenham Hotspur is a professional football club in London, competing in the Premier League.
John Dollin
Senior Product and Engineering Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Kaj Phoenix
Mobile Product Manager of Arsenal Football Club
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About Arsenal Football Club: Arsenal Football Club is a multi media production company representing a diverse & exciting international talent roster including Director.
Kyle Douglas McCormick
Growth Marketing Manager of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Manon van Thorenburg
Product Manager of Let’s Do This
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About Let’s Do This: Let’s Do This is an online marketplace that features almost every endurance event on the planet.
Tom Casson
Interim Network Development Manager of Special Olympics Great Britain
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About Special Olympics Great Britain: Special Olympics GB offers a year-round, both sports program and provides ongoing assistance to athletes with intellectual impairments.
Kunal Shah
Marketing Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Kunal Shah
Marketing Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Steve Feeney
Project Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Samy Kamkar
Security Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Andrew Bunn
General Manager of Jumptastic
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About Jumptastic: Jumptaastic Trampoline Park in South West England. Based in Gloucester, just off eastern Avenue.
Abdul Miah
Technical Support Manager of StreamAMG
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About StreamAMG: OTT Solutions Provider
Matthew Hickman
Global Marketing Manager of Montane
Matthew Hickman is the Global Marketing Manager at Montane.
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About Montane: Montane provides breathable clothing and equipment designed for sports and activities in different environments.
Natalie Young
Technical Manager of Montane
Natalie Young is the Technical Manager at Montane.
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About Montane: Montane provides breathable clothing and equipment designed for sports and activities in different environments.
Louise Wyer
Operations Manager of SoccerHubb
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About SoccerHubb: SoccerHubb is a social network platform for football that includes social media suite, interactive multimedia, and live news feed.
Sam Nixon
General Manager of Jonas Sports
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About Jonas Sports: Jonas Sports provides enterprise solutions, as well as software and services for sports clubs and organizations.
Lili Strokosz
Social Media Manager of Chipper
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About Chipper: A company based on happiness and brightening everyone’s day with multitudes of content.
John Bruce
Ecommerce Manager of Celtic PLC.
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About Celtic PLC.: Celtic PLC is a UK-based football club that sells ticket for football games played at Celtic Park.
John Bruce
Ecommerce Manager of Celtic PLC.
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About Celtic PLC.: Celtic PLC is a UK-based football club that sells ticket for football games played at Celtic Park.
Arron Bailey
CEO & Manager of Raging Turtles
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About Raging Turtles: Raging Turtles is a Esports Organization thats primarily exceeds with its league of legends team, we will be participating in many events
