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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 Managing Director operating in the SaaS space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Jon Buss
Managing Director of Yext
He is a Managing Director, EMEA at Yext.
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About Yext: Yext is a knowledge engine platform that helps brands deliver official answers.
Paul Thomas
Founder and Managing Director of Lead Forensics
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About Lead Forensics: Lead Forensics is the B2B software that identifies anonymous website visitors, providing full contact details and customer journey insight.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Alex Fourlis
Managing Director UK of CareerBuilder
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About Broadbean, CareerBuilder: CareerBuilder is an online platform specialized in HR Software-as-a-Service to help companies with the recruitment process.
Fabio Torlini
SVP & Managing Director International of WP Engine
Over 15 years experience in the hosting & cloud industry. I have a thorough understanding of all aspects of IT B2B marketing, Branding, PR, Channel and Management. One of the original employees at Rackspace I helped build the company to what it has become today. A leader in the cloud industry and revenues of $1.5B. I am now MD for WP Engine, based in Tech City helping WP Engine launch their services into Europe. Specialties: Professional B2B Marketer. Branding, lead generation, direct sales, channel sales, alliances, online marketing.
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About WP Engine: WP Engine is a managed WordPress hosting platform.
Olivier Choron
Managing Director, EMEA of Impartner
Olivier Choron joined Impartner in June 2018, when Impartner acquired Tremolo Software. Olivier was the CEO and Founder at Tremolo, the provider of News on Demand and Social on Demand, products which have now been added to the unique Impartner PRM portfolio. With 25 plus years of channel marketing expertise, gained in Europe and in the US, at companies such as 3Com and Nortel Networks, Olivier is a well-recognized figure in the channel. Having run global channel marketing programs for these companies and having run UK-based purechannels, a channel marketing services firm he founded 12 years ago, Olivier has advised many organizations on how to best structure their channel programs and how to best enable their partners, including Adobe, Vodafone, Trend Micro, Zyxel, and Samsung, among others.
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About Impartner: Impartner delivers robust SaaS-based partner relationship management and marketing automation platform solutions.
Julian Miall
Managing Director of Gravity4
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About Gravity4: Gravity4 is the world’s first high-frequency machine-learning marketing OS, built to enhance the advertising and SaaS industries.
Henry Smith
Managing Director of Adestra
With over 20 years of experience within the Martech industry, working alongside many of the world’s leading brands, agencies, and technology companies, Henry has developed his passion for helping organizations leverage their data alongside the latest technology innovations and services to improve their marketing results. Henry’s experience and knowledge make him a key asset in driving the business forward in EMEA and globally.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Goolshun S Belut
Managing Director of Smplicity
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About Smplicity: Smplicity is a London based salesforce partner that focuses on improving business performance with Salesforce
Alex Lester
Managing Director of Elevate2
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About Elevate2: Helping companies to implement NetSuite’s ERP and CRM cloud business management solution.
Jonathan Cutler
Managing Director, UK of 3si
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About 3si: Ecosystem Optimization for the Operating Room
Michael Day
Managing Director of ServiceTracker
Having spent most of his career at the IT end of UK compliance, Mike is a highly experienced Service Management Software developer, business analyst, integrator and consultant. Mike is a certified, Sage and Salesforce.com (SFDC) Consultant, developer and Administrator with over 18 years of experience in the field of IT and Service Management systems. Mike specialises in high skilled blue collar service management applications and field service technologies.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Nigel Sargent
Managing Director of ServiceTracker
With over 20 years experience as an IT Director and business leader, Nigel’s passion is to help high-skilled blue collar service organisations transform their business. He specialises in IT & Business Transformation initiatives, Strategic Planning, Programme & Project Management assignments, Business Process Optimisation and maximising Business & Customer Engagement.
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About ServiceTracker: ServiceTracker provides users with a comprehensive software solution on which the platform integrates every function of their businesses.
Daniel Richard
Managing Director – EMEA of Sonru.com
Sonru.com, an automated online video interview solution, replaces first round phone and on-site interviews. Interviewers create and send interviews to candidates. The candidate completes the interview in their own time, do not see the questions in advance and recorded answers are saved for review when suits the interviewer. HR departments and Recruiters globally use the product to radically save time and money in their recruitment process.
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About Sonru.com: Automated Video Interviewing Solution for Screening Candidates
Ken Platt
Managing Director of Elevaate
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About Elevaate: Elevaate is the most efficient way for retailers and their suppliers to execute trade funded activity online.
Mark Morrall
Owner & Managing Director of Indigo Cloud
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About Indigo Cloud: Indigo Cloud specialises in software solutions & services for the international debt recovery industry.
Keith Brown
Managing Director of Paythru
Keith is one of the founders of Paythru. Prior to his current role, Keith ran a successful business in Financial Services marketing for 15 years called KBA Marketing. Formed at the end of 1990; the original concept was to develop financial services propositions to non-financial services organisations primarily predicated on the skills of database and direct marketing. Keith has also worked for Lloyds of London, BUPA, Target Life, Grattan and Next in a number of management roles covering disciplines such as legal, business systems, marketing and more. He is a law graduate and qualified Company Secretary.
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About Paythru: Paythru is a financial services and technology business which provides an award winning.
Kevin Geraghty
Head of CPQ practice & Managing Director of Xait
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About Xait: Innovative software development company
Matthew Funge
Managing Director & Founder of Your Stand Builder
Matthew is the Managing Director & Founder of event technology company Your Stand Builder, and currently lives in London. He is a graduate from the University of Manchester who already has valuable experience of living and working in both the USA and France, in addition to various parts of the UK, which has provided him with valuable international exposure already. He is responsible for building and launching the Your Stand Builder platform in March 2019, following more than 5 years’ in an exhibition project manager role preparing 25+ worldwide events annually for his previous employer – an experience which directly led to the YSB idea being born. Matthew is passionate about making a difference in the global events industry, and is committed to continually exploring technological innovation. He has taken YSB from concept all the way through to execution and plans to build upon this in the future through gradually developing the service further.
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About Your Stand Builder: SaaS, online marketplace, web platform
Laurie Reynolds
Managing Director of AquamatiX
Laurie Reynolds is a Chartered Systems Engineer; he spent 35 years with Thames Water, the largest water utility in UK, as an automation and asset management specialist. Projects included the London Water Control Centre and Ring Main which transformed the supply of water to London from a manual intensive process with high losses and inefficiency, to a demand-driven, automated process coordinated from a state-of-the art control centre. Over 3000 flow and pressure sensors were installed throughout London and the Thames Valley monitoring the distribution network, the project won a water industry innovation award for pressure and leakage management. Laurie also managed the delivery of a programme to automate 350 wastewater treatment plants and 750 wastewater pumping stations, and automation of one of the largest wastewater treatment plants in Europe.Subsequent to Thames Water he worked as a consultant in pumping, pipelines and process optimisation, and Technical Director of a new start-up company developing a unique model-based condition monitoring system for critical motor-driven applications such as pumps. He was also responsible for evelopment of asset management and standards for critical power systems in a major UK telecommunications company.He set up Aquamatix in 2011 to complete the work he began in Thames to try to introduce reusable, modular, reusable standard software for water management.
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About AquamatiX: Aquamatix is a software company specialising in the real-time control and development of smart water and wastewater infrastructure.
Laurie Reynolds
Managing Director of AquamatiX
Laurie Reynolds is a Chartered Systems Engineer; he spent 35 years with Thames Water, the largest water utility in UK, as an automation and asset management specialist. Projects included the London Water Control Centre and Ring Main which transformed the supply of water to London from a manual intensive process with high losses and inefficiency, to a demand-driven, automated process coordinated from a state-of-the art control centre. Over 3000 flow and pressure sensors were installed throughout London and the Thames Valley monitoring the distribution network, the project won a water industry innovation award for pressure and leakage management. Laurie also managed the delivery of a programme to automate 350 wastewater treatment plants and 750 wastewater pumping stations, and automation of one of the largest wastewater treatment plants in Europe.Subsequent to Thames Water he worked as a consultant in pumping, pipelines and process optimisation, and Technical Director of a new start-up company developing a unique model-based condition monitoring system for critical motor-driven applications such as pumps. He was also responsible for evelopment of asset management and standards for critical power systems in a major UK telecommunications company.He set up Aquamatix in 2011 to complete the work he began in Thames to try to introduce reusable, modular, reusable standard software for water management.
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About AquamatiX: Aquamatix is a software company specialising in the real-time control and development of smart water and wastewater infrastructure.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Christopher Dean
Managing Director of Digital Tactics
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About Digital Tactics: Digital Tactics is a technology consultation company that works with businesses in a variety of capacities.
Christopher Dean
Managing Director of Digital Tactics
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About Digital Tactics: Digital Tactics is a technology consultation company that works with businesses in a variety of capacities.
Bash Din
Managing Director of Zumzum
Bash Din has been serving as Managing Director at Zumzum since January 2007.
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About Zumzum: Zumzum helps business transform how their people work to become a real time business.
Bash Din
Managing Director of Zumzum
Bash Din has been serving as Managing Director at Zumzum since January 2007.
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About Zumzum: Zumzum helps business transform how their people work to become a real time business.
