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 President operating in the E-Commerce space. If you think a President 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.
John Sutton
President & Chief Digital Officer of Red Ventures
John Sutton currently serves as Chief Digital Officer and President of Red Ventures; responsible for leading Digital Media including paid search, SEO, Programmatic Display, Social, and other digital practices for Red Ventures and it’s many partners. In addition, John is responsible for new technology development, investments, and acquisitions; including recent innovations in online to offline and cross-device tracking technologies, development of omni-channel messaging solutions, and bespoke technology solutions for partner-driven and principal businesses at Red Ventures across the globe. Prior to joining Red Ventures, John owned and operated his own internet marketing consulting firm where he provided marketing strategy, agency contract negotiation and hands-on management of search marketing initiatives for several large organizations. He also served as Director of Internet Marketing for Career Education Corporation, a large for-profit education company based outside of Chicago, IL. John attended Indiana University’s Kelley School of Business.
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About Mansion Life, Red Ventures: A portfolio of influential brands, digital platforms, and strategic partnerships that help people make life’s most important decisions.
Brendan Walsh
Executive Vice-President of Sales for Europe Middle East, and Asia of Mirakl
Brendan Walsh has been serving as Executive Vice-President of Sales for Europe, Middle East, and Asia at Mirakl since September 2019.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Kelly Kowal
Executive Vice President, Farfetch Platform Solutions (FPS) of Farfetch
As Managing Director of Farfetch Black & White, Kelly’s role is focused on leading her team to build revolutionary multi-channel e-commerce solutions and operating e-commerce sites for luxury brands and retailers. Kelly sits on the Farfetch Executive Board. Kelly joined Farfetch in 2010 to build and lead all digital marketing initiatives including customer acquisition, retention and engagement. Within her time at Farfetch, she also led the international growth and development strategy, overseeing expansion and localisation for all markets. Kelly’s background is in internet marketing and e-commerce, with her experience spanning over 15 years.
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Sandrine Deveaux
Executive Vice President, Store of the Future of Farfetch
Sandrine is at the helm of Farfetch’s retail innovation vision ‘Store of the Future’ and is responsible for developing, executing and rolling out new, in-store technologies across Farfetch’s community of retail partners. Under Deveaux’s leadership, her team are focused on developing a pioneering mix of technology that will shape the retail experience of the future. Deveaux’s marketing, omni-channel and e-commerce expertise was honed in her previous roles at Harvey Nichols as multi-channel director and director of marketing and e-commerce at Matchesfashion.com. Sandrine also previously held roles at AOL and Bloomberg Media. Deveaux graduated from French business school ISC and holds a master’s degree in technology from ESSEC.
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Richard Moross
Founder, President & CEO of MOO.COM
Richard is the founder and CEO of moo.com, one of the world’s fastest-growing print businesses. Launched in late 2006, MOO is focussed on disrupting the trillion dollar print industry, with its unique approach to design, technology and operations. This has allowed it to sustain industry-leading NPS, gross margin and top-line growth for a business of its size. To date, MOO has served millions of customers in nearly 200 countries and employs over 400 people across 6 locations in the UK and USA. Before founding MOO, Richard worked for the design company Imagination, other past companies also include sorted.com and the BBC. Richard served on the board of Seedcamp and was a non-Executive Director of Ladbrokes PLC between 2012 and 2016. In October 2016 Richard joined N Brown PLC as a Non-Executive Director. Richard has been featured in the ‘Wired 100’ and ‘Media Guardian 100’ lists, was named amongst the Telegraph Newspaper’s ‘1,000 Most Powerful People in British Business’, and was ranked in the Guardian Newspaper’s top 10 most influential people in digital media. Richard is also an Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year, a member of the International Academy of Digital Arts and Sciences and the Young Presidents Organisation.
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About MOO.COM: MOO.COM is an online print and design company.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Kimberley Wood
Vice-President of Customer Affairs of Qubit
Proven international Professional Services leader in the SasS space with strong cross functional Customer Success experience, specialising in Social, Digital and CRM. Results focussed change agent that thrives in fast moving, innovative environments with track record in building and growing Global Professional Services Teams. A revenue generating leader with a true passion for creating and executing upon a Customer Success strategy
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
David Hawkings
Vice President EMEA & Global Planning & Optimisation Practice of OLR
David Hawkings is the SVP EMEA at Antuit.
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About Antuit, OLR: OLR is retail industry experience to safely take our clients into an empowered commerce world.
Amir Ofer
Founder & President of mySupermarket
Amir Ofer is Founder & President at mySupermarket.
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About mySupermarket: mySupermarket designs a supermarket shopping and comparison website that helps users to compare prices across different stores.
Ignacio González-Páramo
Vice President, Global Compliance & Regulatory Affairs of Payvision
Ignacio González-Páramo is Vice President for Global Compliance and Regulatory Affairs at Payvision and Acapture. In this role, Ignacio is in charge of corporate compliance with applicable legislation and acts as point of interaction with authorities and regulators. He also takes care of external engagement and public affairs on behalf of Payvision and Acapture as Payment Institutions. Currently, Ignacio represents both companies before the European Payment Institutions Federation (EPIF), where he sits on the Board and the Technical Committee. Ignacio is a long-standing professional with a legal background and extensive experience in the payments industry. Prior to joining Payvision, he worked at ServiRed, S.A., the major domestic payments scheme in Spain, in various capacities, most recently as Head of Rules and Compliance. Ignacio holds a Bachelor of Laws (LLB) from Universidad Pontificia Comillas (ICAI-ICADE), Madrid, and a Master’s degree in e-commerce and IT from Universidad Carlos III, Madrid. Ignacio is often a speaker and panellist in industry events and is also a contributor on the blogs of Payvision and the Cross-Border Ecommerce Community, providing readers with insights on how to face regulatory challenges and compliance-related issues.
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About Payvision: Payvision, an independent payment solutions provider specializing in global card processing for the ecommerce market,
Yoyo Chang
Co-Founder, CEO and President of KodyPay
Yoyo is a Taiwanese born British entrepreneur who is a co-founder and the current CEO of KodyPay. Yoyo co-founded KodyPay in the final year of High School and successfully raised US$6 million over 2020/21. Hoping to build a career in investment banking, Yoyo had started to invest in the stock market at the age of 13. With returns of over 80% in Q4 2016, he led his school team to first place in a national investment competition. During Yoyo’s first year at the University of York, Yoyo self-invested £120,000 of trading profits to build a pilot product for KodyPay. Yoyo has studied at King’s College, University of Cambridge and Langwith College, University of York.
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About IIC Holdings, KodyPay, Nerd Ventures: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Anthony Catterson
President and CEO of Decluttr
Anthony Catterson is a CEO at Expansys.
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About Decluttr, Expansys, Sprint: Decluttr buys and sells consumer technology, CDs, DVDs, books and games.
Jean-Christophe Gombeaud
Senior Vice President Marketing of Connexity
Jean-Christophe Gombeaud is Senior Director, EMEA B2B Marketing Director for Yahoo. He has 20 years of experience in Marketing for the Media and Tech Industries both on the Sales and Publishing sides. Before joining Yahoo in 2009 he worked for magazine publishers in France: Marketing Director for Groupe Express Roularta (leading publishers for news, business and lifestyles magazines in France), Marketing Director for the women magazines division of Emap France (Women magazines), Marketing and Research for Groupe Expansion (Business magazines).
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About Connexity, Skimlinks: Connexity is a digital advertising company that works with merchants to determine which product offerings to put on publishers’ websites.
Simon Haslam
President and Chief Executive Officer of Elavon
As President and Chief Executive Officer at Elavon, Simon Haslam is responsible for the overall vision, strategy, and execution of Elavon’s worldwide mission of enabling global commerce. Before taking on his current position, Simon was President of International Markets at Elavon where he worked to expand Elavon’s presence to new markets in Europe, Mexico and Brazil. Simon joined Elavon with the addition of the Citigroup portfolio in 2005. At Citigroup, Simon served as Head of Credit and Risk with responsibility for all credit and fraud related activities impacting Citigroup’s Pan-European Merchant Acquiring Business. In 1995, Simon was elected as a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Bankers. He serves as chairman of the board for Santander Elavon Merchant Services – Elavon’s newly created joint venture in Spain. He is also chairman of the board of Elavon do Brasil – Elavon’s joint venture in Brazil and Elavon Mexico. Additionally, Simon is a board member of Visa UK and UK Cards.
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About Elavon, Network International: Elavon helps businesses, small and large, accept all payment types.
Lars Munch Johansen
President of BrandHouse Holding
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About BrandHouse Holding: We connect large online and offline retailers as well as small specialist online shops and brand owners
Rebecca Goudman-Peachey
Vice President and Head of Risk of OSMM
Rebecca has special expertise in the online payment market having had many years of experience, working with leading Merchant Acquiring Banks and IPSPs. Rebecca is also responsible for spearheading OSMM’s branding and go-to-market strategy with a large knowledge of the card payments, business operations, systems management, issuing/acquiring operational set-ups and migrations, and project and supplier management. Rebecca serves as the Company’s Compliance (MLRO) Officer and is registered with the UK Financial Conduct Authority as an individual responsible for the management of Onestopmoneymanager Ltd. Rebecca holds a Master of Laws in International Finance and Banking Law, Bachelor of Laws and is currently undergoing a PhD regarding the regulatory environment of merchant acquiring.
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About OSMM: OSMM is an innovative e-commerce acquirer whom understand the needs and desires of merchants.
Matthew Mueller
Founder & President of Knot Standard
Matthew Mueller, Co-Founder & CEO of Knot Standard, added, “The clothing industry is entering a new period of rapid change as new products and technology take hold. Knot Standard’s customers have made it one of the 10 fastest-growing retails brands in the country, and proven that custom, personalized apparel is the future of fashion. The talented group at TRAUB will help us reach new clients worldwide, expand to new products, and launch the new standard for custom retail in the months to come.
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About Knot Standard: A custom menswear brand, revolutionizing the way customers shop for clothing both online and across 10 national showroom locations.
Roger Vidal
Vice President Of Engineering, Inventory Software Solutions of Cox Automotive
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About Cox Automotive: Cox Automotive is a digital marketing, software, e-commerce for consumers, manufacturers and the overall automotive ecosystem worldwide.
James Bullock
Senior Vice President & General Manager of Tacit Knowledge
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About Tacit Knowledge, Tacit Knowledge: Tacit Knowledge is a Silicon Valley-based digital commerce consultancy that develops enterprise software to address extensive data problems.
David Kyte
President of Hamilton Court FX
David started his career in the City on the London Stock Exchange. He was a founder trader on the London International Financial Futures and Exchange (LIFFE) and in 1985 was one of the first locals to set up as an independent trader. He founded the Kyte Group Limited which was sold in 2010 and between 1990 and 1997; he served as a LIFFE board member elected on 3 separate occasions. David continues to play an active part in all aspects of daily life at Hamilton Court Group’s headquarters in London.
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About Hamilton Court FX: Hamilton Court FX is a foreign exchange broker for buying and selling currencies.
David Brindley
President of Bidpath Incorporated
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About Bidpath Incorporated: Custom Solutions for Global Online Auctions
David Brindley
President of Bidpath Incorporated
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About Bidpath Incorporated: Custom Solutions for Global Online Auctions
Mao Yingying
Vice President of Aixuedai
Partner, graduated from Zhejiang University MBA, Germany Technische Hochschule Nürnberg MBA. Former president of Shenzhen Qifei Technology Co., Ltd. and vice president of Hangzhou subsidiary, representative of ISO9000 management. Depth participation in organizational optimization and process reengineering, the creation of subsidiaries and national business management, 5 years to complete full-time rapid promotion.
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About Aixuedai: Aixuedai is an online payment platform that allows students to buy items using monthly installment plans.
Wei Jie
Financial Technology President of Aixuedai
Partner, graduated from Peking University (undergraduate), University of California, Los Angeles (MSc). He has successively held the positions of R & D Director, China General Manager and Group Vice President of Yahoo! USA and SEVEN Networks Inc. Shopping guide shopping site co-founder. He served as general manager of potatoes, soil groups, general manager of Shanghai Product Center and other positions.
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About Aixuedai: Aixuedai is an online payment platform that allows students to buy items using monthly installment plans.
Richard Sheppard
Vice President of Sales of Oblix
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About Oblix: Oblix develops identity-based security and provides web access management solutions for e-commerce networks.
Elisabete Orfao
Senior Vice President of Ardent Advisors
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About Ardent Advisors: Strategic corporate finance advice in the e-commerce and digital technology market.
