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 CFO’ operating in the SaaS space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Hugo Grimston
CFO of Paddle
Hugo Grimston is CFO at Paddle, a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps,games and other digital products.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Milan Patel
Chief Financial Officer & Company Secretary of dotmailer Group
Milan joined dotmailer in 2007 and was appointed Group Company Secretary in 2009. Milan is a member of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants, an associate member of the Chartered Institute of Securities and Investments and holds a B.A (Hons) degree in Accounting and Finance. Milan was responsible for the financial and legal aspects of the reverse acquisition of West End Ventures PLC, acquisition of Netcallidus, admission to Plus and the recent introduction to AIM. He is also responsible for the Group’s functions in financial management & reporting, regulatory compliance and corporate governance.
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About : dotmailer Group provides digital marketing professionals with SaaS technology solutions and tools, and offers an email marketing platform.
Edvar Heylen
CFO of HeyJobs
After spending almost a decade in investment banking covering the media and technology space both at Citigroup and Allen & Company, Edvar now leads ROLI’s finance and business analytics team. While he is not studying business models, new innovative technologies or history, he can be found on his bicycle exploring new roads.
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About HeyJobs: HeyJobs is a talent platform matching the world’s talent to opportunities.
Iain MacLaren
Chief Financial Officer of ZigZag Global
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About ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Ian Konrath
Interim CFO of Instanda
Ian Konrath is an Experienced CFO with significant operations, systems and Business Information experience gained with high-tech, software, silicon, health information and consulting companies. Track record of achievement supporting project/product/programme/business unit operations and reporting for both traditional and matrixed organisations.
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About Instanda: Instanda is a SaaS insurance software platform that allows insurance companies to build, configure, and launch products online.
Rochelle Trup
Founder, CFO of Arthur Online
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About Arthur Online: Arthur simplifies property management, anywhere , anytime.
Greg Toner
CFO and Co-Founder of SalesRight
A CPA based out of London, Ontario, Greg has been working as a startup CFO for the past several years. He specializes in working with early to growth stage startups and has been critical to the success of many SaaS companies throughout Canada. Greg straps on his skis and hits the slopes often, but always saves time to spend with his two children.
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About SalesRight: SalesRight helps SaaS sales teams close deals faster through Interactive Live Quotes.
Tim Perks
CFO of cloud.IQ
Tim joined NewVoiceMedia as CFO in Dec 2010. He has a wealth of experience in CFO roles in the technology sector, taking Baltimore Technologies from a fledgling AIM Company to a FTSE 100 company in 3 years, delivering a $200M trade sale at Staffware Plc (a BPM software company) and as CFO of Redstone Telecom plc, a network-based provider of ICT solutions and end-to-end managed services.
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About cloud.IQ: cloud.IQ is an AI and machine learning based automated conversion rate optimisation platform for e-commerce businesses.
Nick Rose
CFO of Enable
Nick Rose serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Enable.
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About Enable: Enable is a startup developing a cloud-based software tool for business-to-business rebate management.
Jean-Philippe Lecourt
CFO & Co-founder of Datamaran
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About Datamaran: Datamaran is one of the world’s most sophisticated and powerful semantic business intelligence tools.
Vivek Syal
CFO of FundApps
Viv has over 20 years’ experience in financial services and digital consulting. He was the head of Financial Planning & Analysis at Barclays Capital for six years and subsequently the global COO for Product Control as well as Head of Controls and Regulatory Liaison. He also held a number of leadership roles in market and operational risk management functions at Credit Suisse. Viv is a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales.
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About CupClub, FundApps, VS Analytics: We help investment managers harness the power of community and technology to automate regulatory compliance.
Charlie Rowan
CFO of Realeyes
Charlie is Realeyes’ CFO based in London. He joins from Runpath, a Fintech company, which he saw through to successful sale to Experian. Charlie has experience in fundraising, debt restructuring and M&A. Prior to Runpath, he worked in early stage Venture Capital house Spark Ventures, gaining experience on the other side of the fundraising fence.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
David Whitefield
Chief Financial Officer of Graduway
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About Graduway: Graduway provides alumni networking platforms for colleges and universities to stay connected with their former students and alumni.
Peter Wallace
Chief Financial Officer of Kadence
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About Kadence: The operating system for hybrid working. Everything you need to connect your people, projects, and space, enabling your team’s greatest work
Adrian Smith
Group Chief Financial Officer of Ecometrica
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About Ecometrica: Ecometrica is an end-to-end environmental software-as-a-service that helps businesses and governments identify risks and opportunities.
Daniel Hogan
CFO & Co-Founder of Ember
A Deloitte-trained, fully qualified Chartered Accountant, Daniel has been working in the finance systems space for the last 3 years where he has become increasingly frustrated with the industry’s lack of synergy, automation and ease of use.
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About Ember: Ember is a software platform to automate the accounting process for SMEs.
Andrew Taylor
CFO of Musoni System
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About Musoni System: The award winning banking software for microfinance organisations
Greg Carter
CFO of Capdesk
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About Capdesk: Capdesk is an equity management platform helping companies manage cap tables, shareholder registers, and employee shares.
Ben Walmsley
CFO of Skurio
Ben Walmsley serves as the Chief Financial Officer at Skurio.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
James Serjeant
COO & CFO of ContactEngine
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About ContactEngine: ContactEngine is a proactive Conversational AI technology that automates conversations between corporates and their customers
Tom Hadfield
Chief Financial Officer of Oxehealth
Tom Hadfield is the Chief Financial Officer at Oxehealth.
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About Oxehealth: SaaS workflow solution gives carers and custodians more time for hands on care where and when it’s needed most.
Dan Gray
Founder and CFO of Elephants don’t forget
Dan Gray is the founder and CFO of Elephants don’t forget. He previously worked as managing director – property Services at E.ON UK.
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About Elephants don’t forget: A low cost, cloud-based online application that continually measures individual employee knowledge gaps and automatic retrains as needed.
Adam Prickett
CFO of AppLearn
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About AppLearn: AppLearn is a pioneering digital adoption company and creator of the Adopt digital adoption solution.
James Bailey
CFO of emoquo
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About emoquo: Emoquo is an award winning digital coaching app and real-time people analytics platform for everyone at work.
John Martyn
Chief Financial Officer of HTK
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About HTK: HTK Horizon is a SaaS platform for loyalty program management and CRM
