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 Education 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.
William Godfrey
Head of Product of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Ben Hall
VP of Product Interactivity of O’Reilly
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About O’Reilly: O’Reilly provides technology and business training, knowledge, and insight to help companies succeed.
Cristian Moisei
Senior Product Designer of Uptime App
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About Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Alison Bloom-Feshbach
Senior Product Manager of CommonBond
Alison Bloom-Feshbach is a Senior Product Manager at CommondBond.co. She is a former CEO and Co-Founder of Know Your Crew and Consulting Associate at Arc Aspicio. Ms. Bloom-Feshbach graduated from Yale University with a bachelor of arts in Cognitive Science (Decision-making concentration) and received an MBA in Organizational Strategy and Innovation at the University of Pennsylvania – The Wharton School.
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About CommonBond: CommonBond was founded in 2012 to help relieve the student loan burden, and since then we’ve funded over $4 billion in better loans.
Rayan Saleh
Chief Product Officer of Dorm
Rayan Saleh is the Chief Product Officer at Dorm.
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About Dorm, RLC Ventures: Dorm is an audio learning app that aggregates and curates the world’s podcasting content.
Kevin Schmidt
Chief Product Officer of Tutorful
Kevin Schmidt is the Chief Product Officer at Tutorful.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Céleste Owen-Jones
Global Head of Product Marketing, EF Corporate & Hult Ashridge of EF Education First
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About EF Education First: EF Education First is a global education company focusing on language, academic, cultural exchange, and educational travel programs
Steve Rouse
Head of Product Development of QA Ltd
Steve joined QA in 2014. With nearly 30 years’ experience across the L&D sphere, he is equally at home in design, delivery and consultancy. Steve has a proven track record in delivering successful leadership, management and employee learning solutions within major public sector and FTSE 100 organisations as a facilitator and designer across a wide range of subjects. Previous roles have included leading learning design functions for the corporate centre of a large government department and a similar role within the customer services division of a major UK health insurance brand, as well as running his own L&D consultancy working with a wide range of clients across many sectors. Steve is an EMCC EQA accredited Coach-Mentor, as well as being MBTI, SDI®, PRISM®, EQ-i 2.0 and Kirkpatrick Bronze accredited. As Head of LMBS Product Development, Steve is responsible for the development and maintenance of the LMBS public course portfolio.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Oliver Fisher
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Springpod
Oliver Fisher is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Luke Harper
Head of Product of Hotcourses Group
Luke joined the Hotcourses Group in May 2013, originally to help with our SEO, moving onto Product Management of our Higher Education portfolio. He now heads up the product team and is responsible for delivering excellent user experience.
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About Hotcourses Group: Hotcourses Group operates a program search Website.
Luke Harper
Head of Product of Hotcourses Group
Luke joined the Hotcourses Group in May 2013, originally to help with our SEO, moving onto Product Management of our Higher Education portfolio. He now heads up the product team and is responsible for delivering excellent user experience.
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About Hotcourses Group: Hotcourses Group operates a program search Website.
Jermaine Hagan
Founder & Product Visionary of Revision App
Jermaine Hagan is the Founder and Product Visionary at Revision App.
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About Revision App: Revision App offers revision content for GCSE, 11 PLUS, and KS2 students.
Jackie Basham
Chief Trading and Product Officer of Endsleigh Insurance
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About Endsleigh Insurance: A Cheltenham-based UK insurance intermediary specialising in the student, education and graduate markets.
Morten Bernhard Hagen
VP Product & Customer Success of SAM Labs
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About SAM Labs: SAM Labs is an edtech company that empowers teachers with the most engaging STEAM solution.
Russell Lanigan
Head of Marketing and Production of Construct
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About Construct: Construct helps organizations with learners, like schools and employers, create beautiful, cutting edge digital learning experiences.
Fraser Sutherland
VP of Product of Wooju
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About Wooju: Snap & solve indecisive moments with friends!
David Ivell
Chief Product & Technology Officer of Team Teach
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About Team Teach: Team Teach focuses on support teaching, learning and caring, and promoting and protecting relationships.
Lars Dyrelund
Head Of Product of Firefly Learning
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About Firefly Learning: Firefly Learning is an edtech company that develops a SaaS learning and teaching support platform for schools.
Simon Greany
Chief Product Officer of Elucidat
A creative learning design professional with 15 years experience in the industry. Passionate about working with organisations to open up the vast potential of online learning. Currently working with clients of Elucidat, sharing extensive experience in the industry to support learning strategies and to drive-up standards. I know from experience that when digital learning is designed properly, it has the ability to motivate, inspire and change behaviour. This means constantly re-evaluating what it is we do, to capitalise on the latest advances in technology and to find brand new communication methods. Previously I ran a successful and award winning creative agency called Make Sense Design for 9 years which created high quality bespoke learning experiences, whether it was through ‘modern’ e-learning, micro learning, online games, diagnostics or learning portals. Our speciality was in designing short, focussed experiences which either acted as standalone learning modules, or as part of a wider campaign. I am really interested in what happens before or after a piece of online learning, to create effective tools and launchpads into other forms of learning. My aim is always to create an engaging online experience that gets people talking, makes the learner feel valued and which makes an audience look at things in a new way. I do this by listening to our clients, understanding their target audience, and putting my knowledge and experience to work on strategies that improve learner engagement and change the way our clients and partners think about the potential of online learning.
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About Elucidat: Elucidat is better way to author online and mobile learning. Reduce your production costs and delight your learners
Daniel Collis
Product Director of UniQuest
Dan manages the continuing development of UniQuest’s custom platform to ensure we stay ahead of client needs. Previously, Dan spent some years as a Salesforce Consultant, helping organisations implement and make the most of Salesforce. Before he discovered his passion for CRM development and management, Dan enjoyed studying physics at University of Nottingham. When he’s not architecting the future of our platform, Dan loves tinkering with Lego and anything to do with hockey.
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About UniQuest: UniQuest helps streamline and improve student conversion and delivers great higher education student experiences.
Jamie A.
Senior Product Development Specialist of Cannes Lions
Jamie Anning is Awards Product Development Specialist at Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity. With 30,000+ entries every year across the 27 Lion Awards, Cannes Lions champions the value of creativity in branded communications: from product and service development to the creative strategy, execution and impact. Jamie is responsible for the research, design and future development of the Cannes Lion Awards, ensuring the Lions remain a compelling, diverse and relevant reflection of the rapidly changing landscape of branded communications.
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About Cannes Lions: Cannes Lions is an eight-day programme of creative inspiration, celebration, education and networking.
Jono Hey
Chief Product Officer of Zen Educate
Jono is an experienced product manager and customer experience designer. He ran UX and design at Nutmeg and has studied and taught design and strategy in the UK and San Francisco.
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About Zen Educate: Zen Educate is an online platform to connect supply teachers with openings in schools.
Tom Clark
CIO: Business & Product Innovation (Emerald Group Publishing) of Sourcely
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About : Sourcely is the “Spotify” for eTextbooks and Academic Journals. Allowing students to rent content for short periods of time.
Margo Leach
Chief Product Officer of AXELOS
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About AXELOS: AXELOS is providing IT solutions, service management and Risk and Value management.
John Roberts
Director of Product and Technology of Oak National Academy
John Roberts is Co-Founder & Director of Education at Sixth Domain.
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About Oak National Academy: Oak National Academy provides a sequenced plan of video lessons and curricular resources for teachers.
