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 COO’ operating in the Video space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Steffen Tjerrild
COO, CFO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Vince Farquharson
COO of Bossa Studios
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About Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Amrit Dhangal
Co-Founder and COO of Tagove
Amrit Dhangal is COO & co-founder at Tagove.
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About Acquire, Clutch, RudderStack, Tagove, The Bricks: Tagove is a live chat software for website and mobile apps with Video chat, Remote co browsing, Chatbots, and Profile management tools.
Stacey Edwards
COO, CFO & Director of Ad-Lib.io
Stacey Edwards is the COO, CFO and Director at Ad-Lib.io.
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About Ad-Lib.io: Powering Creative Effectiveness
Steve Bainbridge
Chief Operating Officer of Dovetail Games
Steve is the Chief Operating Officer for Dovetail Games having joined the company in July 2010. Steve’s long career in the industry began in 1994, when he joined Electronic Arts as Finance Manager. Over the next 12 years at Electronic Arts he would take in a wide variety of roles which culminated in his appointment to COO for Northern Europe and Managing Director for EA’s Emerging Marketing, which included setting up new offices in Russia whilst managing Middle East, Greece, Turkey and other Export countries. In 2006, Steve moved Europe’s No.1 interactive entertainment retailer, GAME PLC, where he supported the Gamestation acquisition and integration, was responsible for the acquisition of the groups Czech Business and rolled out a number of other profitable Business Development initiatives.
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About Dovetail Games: Dovetail Games creates digital hobbies enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of passionate enthusiasts across the globe.
Gemma Brown
Chief Operating Officer of Dovetail Games
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About Dovetail Games: Dovetail Games creates digital hobbies enjoyed by hundreds of thousands of passionate enthusiasts across the globe.
Tim Sawyer
Chief Operating Officer of Green Man Gaming
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Michelle Chuang
Co-founder, Chief Operating Officer of Supersolid
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About Dazzle Rocks, Supersolid: Supersolid is a mobile games studio based in London, UK.
Brandon Mensinga
Chief Operating Officer of Trint
Brandon is a commercially oriented Chief Operations Officer that specialises in scaling VC-backed technology companies. He has successfully ramped three VC-backed startups, two of which successfully exited to Nuance Communications (2009) and Microsoft (2016) both with 200M+ annual device shipments. His latest efforts at Signal Media (2018) helped transform a young, inexperienced Series A organisation into a mature, professionalised Series B operation ramping from £600K to £6M in two years.
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About Trint: Trint reinvents transcription extending automated-speech-to text so that users can trust the output. Recorded content becomes searchable.
Simon Hade
Founder & COO of Space Ape
Simon is Co-founder & COO of mobile game developer Space Ape Games in London ($11m VC funding over 3 rounds, $55.8m investment by Supercell in 2017). Angel investments include game developers Gumbug Games, and music content creator platform Voisey. Past jobs include early product roles at Skype and Playfish (acquired by EA).
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About Space Ape: Space Ape is a mobile gaming company dedicated to creating the highest quality games for players.
Nabil Ismail
COO of Plumm
Nabil Ismail is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Healing Clouds LTD. In his career spanning over 12 years, he had held designations at companies ranging from mortgage banking to telecom. He holds Masters degree in Computer Science and Business Administration with specialisation in Finance and Operations. Healing Clouds was hi foray into holistic healthcare with an aim to bring holistic healthcare to the world after his personal experience in the field. He also has an avid interest in painting and sketching when he is not learning something new.
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About Plumm: Plumm offers 1:1 online therapy sessions and courses with certified and experienced mental health therapists globally.
Jeff Hughes
Chief Operating Officer of NEP Group
Jeff Hughes is Chief Operating Officer of NEP Group, responsible for helping all operating segments of the company share ideas across NEP’s businesses worldwide and for expanding NEP’s global capabilities as it embraces the future in a rapidly changing industry. A well-respected executive with significant media industry experience, Jeff brings to NEP a proven track record of transforming businesses and a deep understanding of our clients, how audiences consume media, and how media businesses operate. He joined NEP in September 2020 from FOX Networks’ Digital Consumer Group, where he was President & COO. During his time at FOX, he led the complete re-development and modernization of digital streaming capabilities across all networks within 21st Century FOX. Jeff also developed the company’s first end-to-end commercial platform for direct-to-consumer (D2C) services across several FOX networks. Prior to his role at FOX, Jeff was CEO of Omnifone, a B2B operator of music services in over 35 countries, where he helped transform the music industry from a transaction-based business to a subscription model. Under Hughes’ leadership, Omnifone became the industry leader and one of the fastest-growing companies in the UK. Earlier in his career, Jeff worked in consulting in Europe for some of the biggest media companies before moving to BSkyB (later renamed Sky UK) where he became Chief Technology Officer. At Sky, he led the company’s IT transformation, including the implementation of new CRM and customer care systems, and launched Sky’s Broadband service in the UK. While there, he took the company from a single-service broadcast business to a triple-play company with digital capabilities for the first time. An accomplished industry speaker, Jeff received his Bachelor of Arts from Texas Christian University and an MBA from Clemson University. After growing up just outside of Houston, Texas and spending nearly 20 years of his adult life in the UK and Europe he now calls Los Angeles, California home. He lives with his wife Maria and their two teenage daughters, along with a dog that likes to announce his presence in the background of Jeff’s video calls. In his spare time Jeff likes to read, swim, cycle and sail. He and his family enjoy spending time traveling and at the beach hanging out with friends.
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About NEP Group: NEP Group is the provider of outsourced teleproduction services critical to the delivery of live sports and entertainment events.
Joanne Lacey
Chief Operating Officer of AdInMo
20 years’+ experience in marketing, commercial and operational roles in the mobile industry. COO at InGamePlay start-up AdInMo, Advisor at MEF and Chair of Trustees at the charity Make 2nds Count.
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About AdInMo: Immersive in-game brand experiences. Programmatic in-game advertising and monetization platform
Alex Zoro
Founder and COO of PixelToys
Alex loves games. He’s been playing games for as long as he can remember, even back before disk drives when you had to load from tape or type the entire game in yourself first by hand. Alex has been developing games for well over a decade, beginning his career at Rare before co-founding FreeStyleGames in 2002. Alex left FreeStyle in order to found Pixel Toys and use his console development experience to bring high quality entertainment experiences to a wider audience.
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About PixelToys: Pixel Toys is a developer and publisher of digital games and entertainment.
Bill Scott
COO of Easel TV
Bill Scott is one of the founders of Easel TV – the multi-screen video software company – with a vision to enable broadcasters, content owners and brands to build high quality televisual experiences using low-cost web components, fast; helping to shape the future of television. Easel TV’s clients include NBCUniversal, Virgin Media, All3Media, Curzon Cinemas and TiVo. Prior to starting Easel TV, Bill created and led the IBM Digital Media Consulting & Systems Integration practice, which delivered a variety of interactive TV, IPTV and Digital Media projects over 9 years. Bill has 25 years’ experience of managing IT projects to deliver business value, working at end-user organisations delivering internal applications, for software houses delivering commercial products and for professional services firms delivering client projects.
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About : The complete B2B SaaS streaming media (OTT) service for the Media, Entertainment and Brands.
Bill Scott
COO of Easel TV
Bill Scott is one of the founders of Easel TV – the multi-screen video software company – with a vision to enable broadcasters, content owners and brands to build high quality televisual experiences using low-cost web components, fast; helping to shape the future of television. Easel TV’s clients include NBCUniversal, Virgin Media, All3Media, Curzon Cinemas and TiVo. Prior to starting Easel TV, Bill created and led the IBM Digital Media Consulting & Systems Integration practice, which delivered a variety of interactive TV, IPTV and Digital Media projects over 9 years. Bill has 25 years’ experience of managing IT projects to deliver business value, working at end-user organisations delivering internal applications, for software houses delivering commercial products and for professional services firms delivering client projects.
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About : The complete B2B SaaS streaming media (OTT) service for the Media, Entertainment and Brands.
Charlie Gardiner-Hill
COO of Tab Media
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About Tab Media: Tab Media is a global youth media startup for people under 25. It publishes The Tab and babe.
Pierdavide Marcolongo
COO & Board Director of V-Nova
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About : Next-generation video and image compression that works today
Tom O’Connor
COO of Thrillz
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About Thrillz: Personalised celebrity video messages and live experiences
Pam Aujla
Chief Operating Officer of Six3
Chief Operating Officer at Cura TV
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About Six3: Transforming mobile communication and commerce through the power of video.
Estelle Lloyd
COO & Co-Founder of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Paul Porter
COO of Sumo Digital
Paul Porter is the Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer of Sumo Group plc.
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About Sumo Digital, Sumo Group plc: Sumo Digital Ltd is an independent game development studio.
William Addison
Founder , Director & COO of SeeQuestor Ltd
William Addison is the Founder & Director at Scientific Venture Partners.
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About DUGUUD, Qbiotix, Scientific Venture Partners, SeeQuestor Ltd: SeeQuestor is designed to increase the speed at which police and security teams analyse video as part of investigations.
Sakib Mirza
Chief Operating Officer of Vodworks
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About Vodworks: Vodworks is a specialist in providing web and app development for media companies.
Chris Lawrence
Co-Founder & COO of CGHero
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Chistina Mulhall-Brown
Co-founder & COO of Adavow
Co-founder & Finance Manager at Adavow
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About Adavow: Adavow is a cloud-based platform that enables advertisers to pre-validate ad choices against a real-time, user transaction database.
Chris Mehers
Founder and Chief Operating Officer of Edge Case Games
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About Edge Case Games: Edge Case Games Battles fractured Spaces team-based 5v5 battles hinge on teamwork strategise, work together to dominate the battlefield.
