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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 Advisor operating in the Advertising space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Simon Edelstyn
Sr. Advisor Publisher Development & Strategy of Outbrain
Simon is Managing Director of ROKT’s European, Middle East and African markets and is focused on growing and expanding all elements of the ROKT business within the region. Previously, Edelstyn served as Managing Director (MD) of Outbrain’s European operation where he was responsible for domestic and international business development, sales strategy, market intelligence and product development. Before that he was Google’s Director of Syndication, a post that saw Edelstyn establish and manage partnerships with top-tier ISP, content sites and portals across Europe for the syndication of search and monetisation services. Simon is based in London.
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About Outbrain, Serious Games Interactive: Outbrain provides a recommendation platform to connect advertisers to open web consumers.
Geoff Sutton
Advisor of FLXone
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About : FLXone is a data management platform for customer-centric marketing
Robin Lawson
Board Advisor of MVF
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About : MVF provides Customer Generation for some of the world’s largest companies.
Dougal Brech
Advisor of Cablato
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About : Cablato develops and deploys broadcast quality video personalisation technology for OTT & addressable TV industries.
Julian Lennon
Advisor of Pixhug
John Charles Julian Lennon , known simply as Julian Lennon ( Liverpool , 8 April 1963 ), is a singer-songwriter and guitarist British . Julian is the eldest son of the former lead singer and guitarist of the Beatles John Lennon , and the only son of his first wife, Cynthia Powell.
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About : Pixhug is a social change platform that connects social media with social responsibility.
James Dahl
Advisor of CoPromote
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About : CoPromote operates as a free content sharing community.
Anthony Baker
AdTech Advisor and Technology Director at R/GA of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Karen Alcock
Advisor – Public Affairs of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Anthony Baker
AdTech Advisor and Technology Director at R/GA of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Karen Alcock
Advisor – Public Affairs of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Dotti Irving
Advisor – Public Relations of Lightvert Ltd.
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About : Digital Outdoor Media Technology
Simon Jones
Member of the Advisory Board of Chime Communications PLC
Simon specialises in strategic communications and reputation management for governments, corporations, organisations and individuals around the world. Over the course of the last 20 years he has advised chief executives and chairs of global organisations, in addition to managing complex and global communications campaigns for some of the world’s leading brands (including Barclays, BBC, BSkyB, Coca Cola, Facebook, Vodafone). Simon is a lead consultant advising clients across Chime with expertise spanning international relations, communications strategy, crisis communications and reputation management.
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About : Chime is an international communications and sports marketing group.
Anu Shah
Board Advisor of Ladder
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About Ladder: Full-funnel growth marketing powered by a custom growth technology.
Patrick Jeffrey
Head of Advisory, UK of Contagious Communications
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About Contagious Communications: Contagious helps brands and advertising agencies understand and adapt to shifts in marketing, consumer culture and technology.
Simon Talling-Smith
Advisor of xCheck
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About : xCheck supplies ad-tech solutions designed specifically for airlines.
Matt Rogan
Senior Advisor of Two Circles
Matt’s career to date has been spent in the arena of commercial strategy and business management – both in corporate life as well as professional sport and entertainment. A graduate of Cambridge University, he has worked for the likes of NBA and MTV as well as in management consultancy. Matt co-founded Two Circles with Gareth Balch in 2011 and led the business as Chief Executive until early 2016. During this period the business was able to balance rapid growth with exceptional client and team retention. Matt’s current focus in his role as Chairman is to support and challenge the Two Circles management team to deliver results. Within this role Matt remains actively engaged in both Two Circles and ESP Properties thought leadership and international growth strategy. Matt has been published by the likes of Harvard Business Review and the Journal of Sports Management as well as co-authoring a well-received book on London 2012. He is a regular contributor to the media around the evolution of the business of sports, and was a Board Director of the European Sponsorship Association for five years.
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About Two Circles: Two Circles is a sports marketing agency based in London.
Skip Fidura
Chief Marketing Officer and Board Advisor of OVERMORE GROUP
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About OVERMORE GROUP: OVERMORE GROUP is a brand and advertising agency that help to capture, cleanse and manage business-critical personal data.
Guy Whittle
Chairman, Advisory Board of Diginius
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About : Diginius is an advertising technology company that turns complex reporting data into improved sales conversions.
David Turner
Board Advisor of Diginius
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About : Diginius is an advertising technology company that turns complex reporting data into improved sales conversions.
Michael Renner
Board Advisor of Diginius
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About : Diginius is an advertising technology company that turns complex reporting data into improved sales conversions.
Sanjiv Talwar
Financial Advisor and Successful Technology Entrepreneur of Arlians
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About : Arlians is a Free B2B marketplace for small and medium businesses of any industries across the world. Find suppliers, customers and partners
Tom Pakenham
Advisor of Represent
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About : Building the tools for a better democracy.
S Khan
Advisor of Imperium Media
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About : Helping companies to maximize their potential on new and existing technologies.
Morten Tonnesen
Advisor of Ve Global
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About : Ve Global a marketing technology business.
Jim Cook
Advisor of Zeitera Corporation
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About : Zeitera Corporation is a Content company.
