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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Autonomous Vehicles space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Alex Kendall
Co-Founder & CEO of Wayve
Alex Kendall is the co-founder & CEO at Wayve.
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About Wayve: Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
Dan Hubert
CEO & Founder of AppyWay
Dan initially founded AppyParking after experiencing first-hand the pain of parking caused by a fragmented and broken market when trying to park near the Royal Albert Hall for a concert. From this was born the AppyParking mobile app, but more questions quickly arose… What if we could digitise parking spaces? And not just spaces – but all of the UK’s kerbs? What opportunities would that unlock? How could a digitised, dynamic kerb not only meet the ever-growing demands of urban transport today – but shape that of tomorrow? From that lightbulb moment onwards, Dan was hooked and with AppyWay, he’s leading the charge to help cities thrive, from the kerb up.
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Rodney O’Neal
CEO & President of Aptiv
Rodney O’Neal is the chief executive officer and president of Delphi. O’Neal began his automotive career at General Motors (GM) in 1971 as a student at General Motors Institute (currently Kettering University). In 1975, he joined the Inland Division where he held a number of engineering and manufacturing positions in Ohio, Portugal, and Canada. He was named director of industrial engineering for the former Chevrolet-Pontiac-GM of Canada Group in 1991 and the following year became a director of manufacturing for Delphi. O’Neal was named general director of Warehousing & Distribution for GM Service Parts Operations in 1994. In 1997, he was elected a GM vice president and named general manager of Delphi Interior Systems. When Delphi became an independent company following its spinoff from GM, O’Neal was elected a Delphi vice president and president of Delphi Interior Systems in November 1998. In 2000, O’Neal was named executive vice president of the former Safety, Thermal & Electrical Architecture Sector. O’Neal was named president of the Dynamics, Propulsion and Thermal Sector in 2003 and was named president and chief operating officer in 2005. He was named to his current position of chief executive officer in January, 2007. O’Neal earned a bachelor’s degree from General Motors Institute and a master’s degree from Stanford University. O’Neal serves on the board of directors for Delphi and the board of directors of Sprint/Nextel. O’Neal is a member of the Executive Leadership Council and former member of the board of directors for the Goodyear Tire & Rubber Company, the board of directors for Inroads, Inc., the Michigan Manufacturers Association, the Woodward Governor Company and the advisory board for Focus: HOPE.
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About Aptiv: Aptiv is a global technology company that develops safer, greener, and more connected solutions, which enable the future of mobility.
Pasi William Sachiti
Founder & CEO of Academy of Robotics
William Sachiti is a UK based serial entrepreneur best known for creating a UK driverless car manufacture company competing with multinational incumbents such as Google, Uber and Tesla. The company designs and builds the autonomous vehicles in their UK warehouse. William has started and exited three previous tech start-ups in row, the latest MyCityVenue, an A.I. driven experiences platform serving 1.6 million users was acquired in 2015 by Secret Escapes. Before MyCityVenue, William was the the BBC Investment program Dragons Den, where he pitched a start-up, digital outdoor advertising on bins. The Dragons famously said he needs to be wheeled out of the bin. The company he pitched subsequently was licensed in several countries before being acquired. One of William’s first start-ups he started at 19, was called 123-registration. This company was also acquired for an undisclosed amount.
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About Academy of Robotics: The Academy of Robotics is a technology institute with an extraordinary technical team of engineers, scientists, and researchers.
Tom Elvidge
CEO Arrival Mobility UK & Chief of Product of Arrival
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About Arrival: Arrival is a developer and manufacturer of zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.
Denis Sverdlov
Founder & CEO of Arrival
Denis Sverdlov is the Founder at Kinetik and Arrival.
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About Arrival, Arrival Communications, Kinetik, Roborace: Arrival is a developer and manufacturer of zero-emission, public transportation vehicles.
David Keene
CEO of Aurrigo
BSc. (Electronics Electrical Engineering) MIET. CEng. FRSA. 39 years in the Automotive industry, including 29 years ownership of RDM Group. Full member of the UK Automotive Council and Niche Vehicle…
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About Aurrigo, RDM Group: Aurrigo’s self-driving pods offers mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, and other areas.
Ed Leon Klinger
CEO of Flock Ltd.
Flock is a fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous vehicles. We provide personalised, seamless insurance products for commercial motor fleets, enabling and incentivising proactive risk management. We achieve this by leveraging connected vehicle & contextual data to quantify road risk on a per-second, per-meter basis, providing our customers with risk insights and highly personalised pricing that reflect their real risk profile. With Flock, safer fleets pay less. We’re on a mission to make the world a safer, smarter place. — I graduated from Oxford University (M.Eng – Engineering, Economics and Management) where I specialised in High-Intensity Focused Ultrasound (HIFU) for brain cancer ablation. I graduated from Cambridge University (M.Phil – Technology Policy, Judge Business School), where I published papers for various academic think-tanks on the opportunities and risks of autonomous vehicles. I have past experience in Private Equity (The Blackstone Group), Technology Policy (Facebook Inc.), and have lived and worked in Asia, lecturing at Zhejiang University in China and at Hong Kong University.
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About Flock Ltd.: London-based insurtech building the world’s first fully digital insurance company for connected and autonomous commercial vehicles
Stan Boland
CEO of FiveAI
Stan Boland is the Chief Executive Officer and the Founder of FiveAI.
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About FiveAI: FiveAI provides a software platform designed for providing a solution in urban mobility in public transport to complex urban environments.
Maya Pindeus
Co-Founder, CEO of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Matt Celuszak
Co-Founder & CEO of CrowdEmotion
Matt leads award winning company CrowdEmotion that is collecting and curating the world’s emotions to further human understanding. He works closely with academia and industry to bring the latest in data engineering and psychology to non-verbal expressions captured by our smart devices to better understand what it means to be human.
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About CrowdEmotion: Artificial Intelligence with HEART.
Thomas Delgado
CEO & Founder of Pollution Solution
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About Pollution Solution: Pollution Solution provides patented ground-breaking technology to eliminate road-based pollution in towns and cities.
Guillem Singla Buxarrais
Co-Founder and CEO of Neurofenix
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About MedTech Innovator, Neurofenix: Neurofenix is aiming to make rehabilitation more autonomous, enjoyable and accessible to stroke victims.
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Andrew Hart
CEO of SBD Automotive
Andrew is a strong believer in the role that great market research can (and should) play in helping companies innovate. He is responsible for setting the direction of research within SBD, and ensuring that the key messages are clearly communicated to customers and the wider industry. Whilst originally from a mechanical engineering background, he now works tirelessly with customers and speaks passionately at conferences to encourage a change of mind-set within the automotive industry away from engineering-based solutions and towards consumer-centric innovations.
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About SBD Automotive: SBD provides independent research and consultancy, informing business decisions on the latest automotive technologies.
Nicholas Zylberglajt
Chief Executive Officer of Unmanned Life
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About Unmanned Life: Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics
Gabriel Jacobson
Co-founder & CEO of Valerann
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About Valerann: Valerann empowers road network operators and creates certainty through data – to save lives, reduce congestion and decrease emissions
Mark Truman
Founder and CEO of ArcVehicle
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About ArcVehicle: ArcVehicle an electric motorcycle startup.
Andreas Zachariah
Co-Founder & CEO of TravelAi
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About TravelAi: We offer B2C & B2B SaaS to capture public & private mobility habits of people using our automatic multimodal detection software
John Bowers
Founder & CEO of JCC Bowers
Changing the future of transportation as CEO of JCC Bowers. Soon all cars will be connected. Our innovative device, Cobalt Auta, makes your vehicle smarter than a Tesla. Launching 2017, Cobalt Auta turns any vehicle into an artificially intelligent, WiFi-enabled, theft-resistant vehicle capable of driving itself. Entrepreneur. Emerging technology specialist. Corporate economist. Expert strategist. Unapologetic about breaking the status quo. Tattooed dad who skipped uni to go straight into business. Let’s envision a better world together. Better yet, let’s build it.
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About JCC Bowers: Cobalt Auta delivers the future of transportation.
Julian Turner
CEO of Westfield Technology Group
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About Westfield Technology Group: Westfield is an autonomous vehicle provider that is known for selling niche sports cars globally.
Revannth N Murugesan
CEO of Antonym
A visionary mobility entrepreneur, investor, speaker, engineer, former motorsport racer, and an ardent environmentalist. Currently heading an award-winning automotive tech company that is developing electric self-driving vehicles.
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About Antonym: Award-winning electric autonomous transportation addressing the £1.8 trillion road freight market.
Gabriel Giani
CEO of BARO Vehicles
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About BARO Vehicles, idomotics: Tech company that develops products for self driving cars and mobile robots with AI. Building the bridge to autonomous vehicles!
Robin North
Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, and Lead Technologist of Immense
Building tools to support fleets and mobility. Development, implementation, field test and evaluation of complex transport systems across multiple modes. Environmental monitoring and modelling methodologies for the appraisal of transport systems and projects. Identification and development of innovation opportunities for multiple stakeholders.
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About Immense: A global decision-support platform for new mobility
Alex Lawrence-Berkeley
CEO of Level Five Supplies
CEO of Level Five Supplies, board member of Go-Op Trains Cooperative, Masterfilter Ltd, former co-founder of Self Driving Track Days.
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About Level Five Supplies: Marketplace and integrator of autonomous vehicle technologies
Markus Kantonen
CEO, founder of Stormcharge Limited
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About Stormcharge Limited: Stormcharge provides the autonomous vehicles market with the safest, most scalable and most cost effective command and control environments.
