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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 Analytics 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.
Zack Feather
Non Executive Advisor of RwHealth
Zack has worked in the healthcare sector for over 15 years. He was the founder of Asclepius Global.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Doug Oppenheim
Non Executive Director – Advisor of RwHealth
Doug is a Managing Partner of Fram Investment Partners. He moved into private equity in 2002 having previously worked at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson and Merrill Lynch. A significant proportion of Doug’s career has been focused on investing in and building businesses in healthcare. With interests spanning both the clinical and digital domains, Doug is passionate about the power of technology to transform both health outcomes and the affordability of care. He currently serves on the board of Healthcare at Home, which with 200,000 patients is the UK’s largest provider of complex clinical care in the home; he previously served on the board of Dedalus, one of Europe’s largest health software groups. Doug graduated from Cambridge University with first class honours. He has travelled extensively in the polar regions and has skied to the South Pole. He serves as Chairman of the British Exploring Society, a youth development charity established in 1932.
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Lindsey Armstrong
Advisor of XANT.ai
Lindsey Armstrong joined InsideSales.com in March 2015, bringing nearly 30 years of experience in global technology sales leadership and management. Lindsey is guiding the company into its next phase of growth and global expansion, starting with Europe. She is responsible for establishing operations abroad and hiring an executive team. Before joining InsideSales.com, Lindsey spent more than four years with Salesforce, where she built growth engines in Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA), as well as Latin America and Asia-Pacific. She previously held numerous executive positions with Oracle, Veritas and Symantec, driving substantial growth in international revenues and scaling capabilities across multiple countries. Lindsey is a proven, world-class executive with a track record of excellence. During her time with Veritas, which was acquired by Symantec in 2005, EMEA revenues skyrocketed from $20 million to more than $2 billion. Lindsey serves on the board of directors for SalesHood and Bluewolf.
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About : XANT.ai provides solutions that accelerate revenue by enabling sales teams to build a better pipeline and close more deals.
Janet Williams
Director & Principal Advisor of CybSafe
Janet helps us keep the bigger picture on Cyber Security. in perspective. Janet, a former Chief Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, held the National Law Enforcement Portfolio for Cyber-Crime 2008 – 2012. She developed the first police E-Crime Unit and was the Law Enforcement Lead engaged in writing the first UK Cyber Security Strategy in the Cabinet Office. She was the government Law-Enforcement Lead for Cyber-Crime for the 2012 Olympic Games taking her place at COBR. And in 2013, as a Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, she helped develop the organisation’s cyber security strategy. She is currently the National Security Adviser to the Security Committee of Qatar, where she advises on the development of Qatar’s cyber security capability and response. Janet works to enhance SME cyber security across the UK through her work as President of the Cross-sector Safety & Security (CSSC) charity. She is also a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).
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About CybSafe: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Stephanie Allen
Member of the Board of Advisors of CityFalcon
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About CityFalcon, Millennium Management: A Big Data and AI approach to financial content with news, analytics, and insights on 250k+ topics from 3000+ sources
Tirdad Sorooshian
Advisor of Claned Group
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About : The unparalleled digital learning solution – Modern LXP enabling superior engagement and measurement of impact
Miguel Suarez
Strategic Advisor of BigML
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About : BigML is Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone
Miguel Suarez
Strategic Advisor of BigML
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About : BigML is Machine Learning made beautifully simple for everyone
Warren Langley
Advisor of iovox
Warren Langley has been a Consultant and the Managing Principal of the Guruwizard Fund, LLC. since January 2000. Langley serves as an Advisor of IOVOX Limited. He served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Brush Dance from January 2000 to May 2000, President and Chief Operating Officer of The Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco from September 1996 to March 1999, Principal and Chief Operating Officer of Hull Trading in Chicago from August 1987 to January 1998. He served as a Director of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at United Airlines and worked in several capacities in the software, energy, and defense consulting industries after serving in the United States Air Force for fifteen years. He serves as a Director of Trampoline Systems. He is a Private Investor in San Francisco. He served as Director at Sonic Solutions LLC. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineer Science from the United States Air Force Academy, an S.M. degree in Astronautical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology.Warren Langley has been a Consultant and the Managing Principal of the Guruwizard Fund, LLC. since January 2000. Langley serves as an Advisor of IOVOX Limited. He served as Interim Chief Executive Officer of Brush Dance from January 2000 to May 2000, President and Chief Operating Officer of The Pacific Stock Exchange in San Francisco from September 1996 to March 1999, Principal and Chief Operating Officer of Hull Trading in Chicago from August 1987 to January 1998. He served as a Director of Operations Research and Industrial Engineering at United Airlines and worked in several capacities in the software, energy, and defense consulting industries after serving in the United States Air Force for fifteen years. He serves as a Director of Trampoline Systems. He is a Private Investor in San Francisco. He served as Director at Sonic Solutions LLC. He holds a B.S. degree in Engineer Science from the United States Air Force Academy, an S.M. degree in Astronautical Engineering from Massachusetts Institute of Technology, and a PhD in Operations Research from Georgia Institute of Technology.
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About : Our mission at iovox is to make data from all phone calls useful, valuable, and actionable.
Colin Long
Advisor of iovox
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About : Our mission at iovox is to make data from all phone calls useful, valuable, and actionable.
Giles Mackay
Advisor of Hometrack
Mr. Giles Mackay is the Principal of the Assettrust Companies. Mr. Mackay founded Hometrack in 1999. Mr. Mackay served as Chief Executive Officer of Hometrack Data Systems Limited. He started the first of the Assettrust companies in 1987 and involved in the corporate property sale and leaseback market. In 2002, he founded Assettrust Housing and delivered 624 shared ownership homes across the country without the aid of government grant. Most recently, Mr. Mackay in partnership with Stephen West and Paul Daniel completed a the sale of a residential property in Chelsea, which is among the largest residential real-estate deals in the UK. Mr. Mackay stil erves as Chairman of Hometrack Data Systems Limited. He was a Barrister.
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About : Hometrack publishes market insight and analysis of residential property trends in the UK
Mark Call
Advisor of Pointr
Following an MBA at INSEAD, Mark joined McKinsey to work on strategy and business development issues globally. He worked in over 40 countries in aviation and infrastructure, including over 20 years experience advising airports on privatisation, commercialisation, and business development. Mark is an experienced NED and senior adviser and loves sailing in his spare time.
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About : Pointr is an indoor positioning and navigation company with analytics and messaging features.
Henry Grant
Advisor of We Love Work
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About : We Love Work™ People analytics platform that provides the fastest and simplest way to audit and improve your company culture.
Kasper Kruse Petersen
Advisor of Airfinity
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About : Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Alex Barros
Advisor of RateMate
At Duetto, Alex was the first executive in EMEA to launch the product and build the European organisation from scratch with focus on revenue generation. His contribution to Duetto amount to kick starting the organisation in Europe, Revenue Growth and Business Enablement: – Delivered several multi-million dollars in EBITDA by signing more than 600 properties, more than half of the global portfolio, building the brand into a major player – Delivered substantial portion of the company new business revenue globally in 2015/2016 – Signed the cornerstone account that propelled further capital investment to accelerate global expansion – Sold successfully into the C-Suite and the power base across EMEA, signing first major enterprise deal within six months – Hired and developed senior sales directors and mentored them on all deals enabling 15 operational hires – Leveraged customer and industry insights to adapt the product to EMEA markets – Game Changer Award – Signing the biggest contract in company history (nH Hotels) At SiteMinder, Alex has successfully eliminated entry hurdles, built alliances and negotiated integrations, catapulting the breakthrough of SiteMinder’s game-changing technology to empower hotels to boost profitability making it the industry standard channel manager in Spain. His leadership at SiteMinder took the taking the company from 14 to 3,500+ customers in two years, delivering over several million dollars in recurring revenue, a significant of the company’s revenue. Among his achievements: – Enterprise Sales individual contributor delivering 40+ new hotel chains – Led business development in Southern Europe and Latin America achieving the most successful model in the company worldwide, later replicated globally – Forged partnerships to deliver integrations with 50+ major technology providers: distribution channels, Property Management Systems, Central Reservation Systems, Internet Booking Engines & Revenue Management Systems – Cultivated and managed a strong white-labeled distribution network with Tech Providers across the region – Enabled head count growth of 40+ operational staff to service new customers Prior to this Alex worked for Hospitality Marketing Concepts and VOILA Hotel Rewards.
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About : Providing forward looking event data to maximize revenue through identification of compression dates and unique data for sales prospecting.
Alpesh Patel
Strategic Advisor, UK Government of Hafta
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About : Hafta is creating the world’s largest repository of psychometric data.
Costis Kompis
Advisory Board Member of DMR
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About : DMR owns proprietary AI technology that adds intelligence to unstructured data from any source and language, to produce invaluable insights.
Noah Liot
Advisor of Arena
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About Glia Ecosystems: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Sir Peter Thompson
Investor and Advisor of RAIS
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About : The Customer Intelligence Business – helping D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster.
David Bamford
Advisor of OAG Analytics
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About : OAG Analytics is a developer of a predictive analytics platform focusing on providing advanced analytics to upstream energy operators.
Hans Beck
Advisor of ERN
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About : ERN offers a real-time big data analytics platform called “LOOOP”.
Tom Pakenham
Advisor of Represent
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About : Building the tools for a better democracy.
Vilosh Brito
Advisor of Impact Zone Digital Agency, LLC
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About : Our specialties are web design and development, search engine optimization (SEO), and informatics, including digital stewardship.
Caroline Fiennes
Advisor of Makerble
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About : Makerble enables charities to track, review and share their impact
Simon Spalding
Broadcast Media Advisor of Blurrt
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About : Blurrt is a social analytics & content software platform allows users to collect, listen, showcase, anaylse and engage with social audience.
Masa Watanabe
Strategic Advisor of Streamhub
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About : Video analytics to build your best audiences
Masa Watanabe
Strategic Advisor of Streamhub
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About : Video analytics to build your best audiences
