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 Product operating in the Big Data space. If you think a Product 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.
Harry Edmonds
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Chris Stutz
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Laura Hutton
Fraud and Financial Markets Products of Quantexa
For over a decade Laura has helped the world’s largest retail and investment banks fight fraud through data analytics. Starting by analysing customer and transaction data within retail banks to tackle an array of fraud typologies, Laura pioneered the early unauthorised trading detection solutions and has since participated in multiple holistic surveillance global initiatives and markets AML programs. Prior to Quantexa, she was one of the founding experts within the Detica NetReveal team and then went on to lead banking fraud for SAS across EMEA/AP.
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About Quantexa, Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Alexon Bell
Compliance Products of Quantexa
Alexon is a hands-on AML practitioner with over 16 years experience helping financial institutions with AML strategies, architectures and implementations. He has a wealth of experience in helping customers deploy and crucially optimise AML, KYC and sanctions screening solutions, having held leadership roles at Actimize (Fortent), SAS as EMEA/AP head of compliance solutions and Oracle. As a thought leader, he works with banks to help them tackle the latest emerging threats, ensure coverage and prepare for new regulation in the fight against organised crime and terrorism.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Zoe Vance
Senior Product Manager, RabbitMQ for Cloud Foundry of Pivotal
Zoe Vance is a Product Manager of RabbitMQ and Redis for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously she was Director of Product of a Y Combinator startup creating a tool for developers to create APIs from any website, and prior to that she worked for McKinsey & Co. Zoe holds a MSc from Imperial College in CS and a BS from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time, Zoe likes to read fiction and nerd out on economics podcasts.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Wilcock
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Spring of Pivotal
Ben Wilcock is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal Labs and helps Pivotal’s Fortune 500 clients to go cloud-native using the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Ben has a passion for CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, cloud, and mobile applications. He’s also an established technology blogger whose articles have featured in DZone, Java Code Geeks, InfoQ, The Spring Blog and more.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Pieris Christofi
Product & Operations Lead of Palantir Technologies
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About Palantir Technologies: Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud.
Samuel Coe
Product Manager of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Ryszard Jedrzejewski
Product Director – Affordability of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Sophie Harpur
Product Manager of Split Software
Sophie is passionate about making the complex world of experimentation accessible to everyone with core engineering, growth, design and product principles in mind. As Product Manager at Split, her goal is to help companies across a wide range of industries experiment and rollout software in the safest and most effective way. Before Split, she held several positions at Skyscanner, spending her last year as the Growth Experimentation Manager.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Sarah Leviseur
Product Manager of Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Kenny Leitch
Product & Pricing Director of RSA Insurance Group
Kenny Leitch is a Product & Pricing Director at RSA.
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About RSA Insurance Group: RSA is a multinational insurance group.
Kenny Leitch
Product & Pricing Director of RSA Insurance Group
Kenny Leitch is a Product & Pricing Director at RSA.
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About RSA Insurance Group: RSA is a multinational insurance group.
Nick Omeyer
Co-founder, Product & Data of Stepsize
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Anthony Buckley-Thorp
Chief Product Officer of Building Radar
Anthony Buckley-Thorp is the Chief Product Officer at Building Radar.
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About Building Radar: Building Radar provides detailed information on construction projects and the companies involved.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Mike Jongbloet
Head of Product Design & Research of Snowplow Analytics
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About Snowplow Analytics: Snowplow Analytics provides enterprise-strength digital analytics across multiple platforms
Daniel Slowe
Founder & Chief Product Officer of Quorso
Before Quorso, Dan was at McKinsey, delivering transformation for global food services, travel, retail, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as the NHS. He’s a graduate of Oxford University, where he received a Masters of Engineering, Economics & Management. When Dan isn’t solving the world’s most complex problems, he’s doing things like cycling across South America – including the length of the Atacama (the driest place on earth!).
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About Quorso: A new era for store management: Agile. Simple. Human.
Luke Dominique Warner
Chief Product Officer of Simply Mystro
Luke Dominique Warner is the Chief Product Officer at Simply Mystro.
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About Simply Mystro: Saas, fintech , banking , blockchain , validations
Fabio Murra
Product & Marketing of V-Nova
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About V-Nova: Next-generation video and image compression that works today
John Oliver
Chief Product Officer of Purple
Director of Product Development of Purple WiFi.
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About Purple: Purple is a WiFi analytics and marketing platform.
Dan Williams
Head of Product Management of Cambridge Intelligence
Dan works closely with our customers who are building advanced graph applications, helping them to make the best possible visualization tools. He has a Master’s in Physics from Oxford University and a wealth of experience with a variety of software products across many different industry verticals.
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About Cambridge Intelligence: Cambridge Intelligence builds graph visualization tools that ‘join the dots’ in data and make the world a safer place.
Alex Bordei
Head of Product Management of Bigstep
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About Bigstep: Bigstep.com is a cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes.
