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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 VP’ operating in the Computer space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Tim Griffin
CEO / VP & GM Dell UK of Dell
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About Dell: Dell transforms computing and provides high quality solutions that empower people to do more all over the world.
Mike Callow
VP Manufacturing of Kano
Mike Callow is the VP of manufacturing at Kano, a company that creates computer and coding kits for all ages.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Charles Lawson
GM & VP EMEA of Egnyte
Sales management professional with extensive experience in building and managing teams for lead generation and sales with early, mid and late stage start up technology companies. Have personally sold and managed teams in SaaS and enterprise software selling models. Specialties: team building, pipeline development, lead generation, sales opportunity qualification & closure, sales coaching, SaaS sales, and enterprise software sales.
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About Egnyte, PropelPLM: Egnyte is a cloud content security and governance platform that is trusted by 16,000+ businesses worldwide.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Robert Dobson
Vice President, Technology Partners, and Product Marketing 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.
Tom Eilon
VP Strategy of AccuRx
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About AccuRx, Founders Academy: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Dwight Smith
Sr VP Finance & Administration of NextGen Security
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About NextGen Security: NextGen Security provides integrated physical and electronic solutions for regulated entities and facilities in key vertical markets.
Dwight Smith
Sr VP Finance & Administration of NextGen Security
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About NextGen Security: NextGen Security provides integrated physical and electronic solutions for regulated entities and facilities in key vertical markets.
Andrew Humphrey
Senior Vice President of Sales EMEA and APAC of Teneo
Andrew is a passionate believer that all contact with our customers should be impeccable. Directing and implementing the sales strategy across EMEA and APAC, his specialist experience includes complex cloud and Data Centre service engagements.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Rachel Head
Vice President of Human Resources of Teneo
Rachel drives brand growth across the group and directs all Teneo HR initiatives, including employee satisfaction and training. She’s a keen supporter of our corporate values, strives to improve on our fantastic working environment and drives our focus on excellence amongst employees and customers.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Audelia Boker
Global VP Marketing of Glassbox
Audelia Boker joined Glassbox in January 2016 after spending over 17 years in Israel’s largest FMCG and flagship tech companies, including Strauss-Elite, Orange (now Partner), Comverse (now Xura) and NICE Systems. Equally at home with storytelling as with crunching analytical data, Audelia’s international background and leadership abilities have recently brought her back to Europe, where she grew up. Her most recent role was in London, where she headed Demand Generation for EMEA at NICE Systems, managing inside sales teams as well as the Enterprise integrated off-line and online marketing strategy and execution for the company across Europe. Before this, Audelia ran a team of marketing managers and had global responsibility over the Real-Time Solutions product marketing activities, significantly contributing to the success of the fastest growing business within NICE’s Enterprise portfolio. Audelia holds an MBA from ESCP Europe where she studied in Paris, France, majoring in Strategy and Marketing.
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About Glassbox: Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.
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.
Jacek Zienkiewicz
Co-Founder & VP of Engineering of SLAMcore
Jacek’s background is in robotics and sensing. He achieved a Master’s Degree in Control Engineering and Robotics, specialising in motion planning algorithms for autonomous vehicles. After five years developing novel laser-based distance measurement algorithms and software for SICK AG, he moved to London to pursue his research interests. He earned his PhD with the Robot Vision Group at the Department of Computing, Imperial College London. His research aims to develop a dense visual perception system suitable for mobile robot navigation and guidance.
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About SLAMcore: SLAMcore provides location, mapping and perception software for robots and other autonomous machines to become spatially intelligent
David Hargreaves
VP Software of DisplayLink
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About DisplayLink: DisplayLink is a hardware and software company specializing in multi-monitor and zero client computing.
Peter Hamilton
Co-Founder, Chief Scientist & Senior Vice President, Research & Development of PathXL
Professor Peter Hamilton is the Founder of PathXL Ltd and is the Head of the Bioimaging and Informatics Research Group at Queen’s University Belfast. For the past 25 years he has been leading research on computer vision and decision support in diagnostic cancer pathology and the identification of novel digital tissue and cell markers for diagnostics, prognostics and for predicting response to therapy in cancer. He sits on the committees of a number of major medical research organisations including the International Society for Cellular Oncology.
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About PathXL: PathXL is a global pioneer in the use of web-based solutions for digital pathology.
Paul Ramshaw
Vice President of Europe of XP Solutions
Paul oversees operations in the EMEA region. He has an engineering degree from Surrey University and also an MBA and brings a wealth of experience in developing international business in the engineering software domain. Paul has worked in the CAE software industry during the past 20 years beginning his career in business development then building and leading successful direct sales and engineering teams through Europe, China, Japan, India and Singapore as well as building reseller channels in Europe and Asia.
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About XP Solutions: XP Solutions is a designer of software for anti-flood, sewer, and drainage systems.
Richard Agnew
AVP EMEA North of ExaGrid Systems
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About ExaGrid Systems: ExaGrid Systems offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions and systems for information technology companies.
Richard Agnew
AVP EMEA North of ExaGrid Systems
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About ExaGrid Systems: ExaGrid Systems offers disk-based data de-duplication backup solutions and systems for information technology companies.
Damien Savage
Regional Vice President US of Kainos WorkSmart
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About Kainos WorkSmart: Kainos WorkSmart is a leading provider of digital services and platforms.
Mark Flynn
COO & VP Professional Services of Kainos WorkSmart
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About Kainos WorkSmart: Kainos WorkSmart is a leading provider of digital services and platforms.
Robert Reeves
Vice President of Logistics & Operations of AssureTec Technologies
Robert Reeves is the Vice President of Logistics and Operations. He has extensive experience in equity accounting, audit, and capital management, including several publicly traded companies. Prior to AssureTec, Mr. Reeves was the Director of Field Operations at NCPI, Inc. While in that capacity, he managed a twenty million dollar construction project, a hotel and numerous other properties. His experience in management, administration and business operations spans many decades. In addition to construction and hospitality management, his background includes; General Manager of Zorn Industries, a Business Liquidation Firm and President and Treasurer of his condominium association. Mr. Reeves graduated from Keene State University with a Bachelor of Arts and is an expert in business process improvement and business systems.
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About AssureTec Technologies: AssureTec is an industry leader in Identity Document Authentication and Data Capture solutions.
Ian Shaw
Executive Vice President of MWR InfoSecurity
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About MWR InfoSecurity: MWR InfoSecurity provide specialist cyber security advice and solutions.
Iain Fraser
Vice President Sales, Strategic Partnerships of Ransom Release
Iain Fraser is the vice president for sales and strategic partnerships at Ransom Release.
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About Ransom Release: Ransom Release is the simplest and quickest way to stay protected from today’s dangerous and unpredictable ransomware attacks.
