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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 Partner operating in the Mobile space. If you think a Partner 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.
Mark Pettit
Executive Director, Innovation & Strategic Partnerships of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Rob Barr
Partnerships & Growth of Recharge
Rob Barr leads the agency partnership program at ReCharge, a recurring billing company for Shopify. In his role, he initiates and leads partnership deals with Shopify’s leading sites and Plus partners in the U.S., U.K., Australia and other regions. Prior to joining ReCharge, Rob was a sales engineer at Synthesio focused on driving sales to Fortune 500 companies in the EMEA. He holds a bachelors degree in Politics from Sheffield University.
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About Recharge: Recharge offers subscription management software for e-commerce businesses.
Chloe Bartle
People and Culture Partner of Trouva
Chloe Bartle is the People and Culture Partner at Trouva.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Caroline Drucker
Director of Strategic Partnerships EMEA of Instagram
Vice, SoundCloud, Etsy, and now Instagram – the NEXT regular knows her stuff.
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About Instagram: Instagram is a free photo-sharing application that enables its users to take photos, apply filters, and share them on social networks.
Nick Wilsdon
Consultant – Vodafone Partner Markets of Vodafone
Nick Wilsdon joined Vodafone as Consultant in 2020.
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About Torque Partnership, Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Ben Demiri
Chief Brand and Partnerships Officer of Twig
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About PlatformE, Twig: Twig is a fintech startup that provides a mobile banking app.
Jon Carter
UK Innovation Scouting Lead, , Group Partnering & Devices of Deutsche Telekom
Jon leads Business Development for Deutsche Telekom’s white label and open connected home platform, with a specific focus on the UK market. Successfully launched in Germany in late 2013, Deutsche Telekom’s open platform is now available internationally, with a principle focus on Europe. Deutsche Telekom’s platform has been designed to move the industry beyond simple control of connected devices, to create a foundation for new revenue generating services. In the UK, Jon’s focus is on establishing partnerships with telcos, utilities, insurers and retailers, as well as third party platform providers and OEMs to enable the realization of innovative new models and revenue generating services. Jon has worked in and around the connected home space since the early 2000s, and has a deep knowledge of the UK and European market, and in particular what will finally drive growth in this market. He has previously consulted for both E.ON Group and RWE UK on their connected home strategies, including the latter’s partnership with Google’s Nest. Prior to joining Deutsche Telekom, Jon worked several years for a boutique innovation consultancy, and before that was 12 years at Orange, where amongst other things he led Orange UK’s R&D initiative on the connected home, as well as being Head of Strategy and subsequently Head of Propositions.
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About Deutsche Telekom: Deutsche Telekom is a telecommunications company that offers a range of fixed-network services.
Alix Murphy
Director of Mobile Partnerships of Zepz
Alix Murphy A leading Mobile Money specialist, Alix helps build and support commercial relationships with telecoms operators all over the world. Before WorldRemit, Alix was at the GSMA, where she consulted mobile operators on revenue opportunities in Mobile Money and digital identity. She has on-the-ground expertise of the telecoms sector in regions as diverse as sub-Saharan Africa, Latin America, North America, East Asia and South East Asia. In her early career, Alix spent several years in international development, including at the Grameen Foundation and Aga Khan Foundation.
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About Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
Saumeel Pachigar
Head of Partnerships of acasa
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About acasa: acasa is a household management tool and bill splitting package that helps students, sharers and couples.
Kapil Pankhania
Finance Business Partner of Form3
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About DadShed, Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
Pippa Lamb
Partner of Sweet Capital
Pippa is a Partner at Sweet Capital and splits her time between the London and LA offices. Prior to Sweet Capital, Pippa worked in Consumer Private Equity at LVMH-backed L Catterton, where she was part of the investment team that worked on a $175m co-invest with JD.com into Secoo, China’s largest luxury e-commerce player. Prior to this, Pippa spent five years at J.P. Morgan in London and Hong Kong, where she was part of the global equity strategy team, analysing companies for investment primarily in the technology and consumer space. Prior to J.P. Morgan, Pippa worked for the British Foreign and Commonwealth Office in Shanghai and Beijing, developing UK/China investment and policy initiatives. Pippa holds an BA in Chinese from Oxford University and an MBA (Fulbright Scholar) from Harvard Business School.
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About Sweet Capital: Sweet Capital is the King.com (Candy Crush) founders fund, focused on deploying capital into consumer technology companies around the world.
Adrian Pearmund
Founding Partner & CEO of Cablato
Adrian has been working in programmatic marketing since 2010. Founded Intelligent Futures independent trading desk in 2013 and subsequently Cablato in 2015. Strong media and business background (LBi, KPMG, WPP) proven success at building innovative businesses.
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About Cablato, Conviva: Cablato develops and deploys broadcast quality video personalisation technology for OTT & addressable TV industries.
Craig Netterfield
Managing Partner of Columbia Lake Partners
CLP’s Founding Partner. Over 13 years’ venture lending experience in North America and Europe. Previously Partner at Wellington Financial. Bachelor of Mathematics from the University of Waterloo and MBA from the Ivey School of Business.
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About Columbia Lake Partners: Columbia Lake Partners is an experienced team of investors providing growth loans to European technology companies.
Paul Smith
New Business Director Partnerships of JustPremium
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About JustPremium: The World’s most innovative Rich Media Marketplace – We bring creativity to digital advertising
Adam Grunwerg
Partner of PSY Ventures
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About PSY Ventures: PSY Ventures is a media network in the spirituality niche.
Sulabh Sharma
Managing Partner of Sush Labs
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About Sush Labs: Sush Labs is in designing, developing mobile and webs cloud-backed digital solutions.
Dave Nicholson
VP Strategy & Partnerships & Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Dave is a co-founder and VP Strategy & Partnerships at Yoyo Wallet, responsible for ensuring that Yoyo continues to innovate and scale in the digital loyalty space through building relationships with partners. Before starting Yoyo, he was co-founder and Head of Product at Zopa – the world’s first peer to peer lender.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Howard Simms
Director Of Strategic Partnerships of Apadmi Ltd.
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About Apadmi Ltd.: Apadmi Ltd is a mobile technology company who improves operations and implements solutions using mobile.
Rachel Priest
Client Partner of The App Business
Rachel is a Connective Growth Partner at TAB (apart of the Kin + Carta group). She began her career in marketing, but shifted to Technology when the mobile opportunity started to gain momentum – In the early days, she helped clients to see the potential of mobile through smaller tactical projects and now collaborates with the world’s biggest organisations on digital programmes driven by a careful balance of technology, UX and business strategy. Rachel is passionate about the topic of diversity and co-founded the Gender Diversity taskforce at TAB, spearheading a strategy that has helped elevate the diversity agenda across the business.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Rachel Priest
Client Partner of The App Business
Rachel is a Connective Growth Partner at TAB (apart of the Kin + Carta group). She began her career in marketing, but shifted to Technology when the mobile opportunity started to gain momentum – In the early days, she helped clients to see the potential of mobile through smaller tactical projects and now collaborates with the world’s biggest organisations on digital programmes driven by a careful balance of technology, UX and business strategy. Rachel is passionate about the topic of diversity and co-founded the Gender Diversity taskforce at TAB, spearheading a strategy that has helped elevate the diversity agenda across the business.
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About The App Business: The App Business operates as a mobile consultancy.
Jermaine Trotman
Managing Partner of Nimble AppGenie
Jermaine Trotman is a Founder of Nimble Appgenie, a company that provides mobile app development services in iOS and Android platforms for global clients. He loves to write on mobile technologies, app development, startups, entrepreneurship, and mobile app marketing.
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About Nimble AppGenie: Nimble AppGenie is leading Mobile App development company in the USA. Also, we provides you highly customized, cost-efficient apps.
Ranzie Anthony
Partner – Executive Creative Director of Athlon
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About Athlon: Athlon helps global brands create products and services that build meaningful human connections and drive business success.
Kerry Wright
Director Of Partnerships of Purple
Kerry Wright is one of the driving forces behind the world-wide success of Purple WiFi – one of the hottest Wi-Fi startups around. Kerry’s vision on how Wi-Fi is driving consumer engagement and how analytics can monetize free, social-media-based Wi-Fi services is unique and compelling. Don’t miss Kerry at Wi-Fi NOW.
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About Purple: Purple is a WiFi analytics and marketing platform.
George Underwood
Partnerships & Strategic Manager of Gradfuel
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About Gradfuel: Gradfuel is an online platform that personalizes job assistants for graduates to find jobs.
Abi Hemingway
Partner, Producer, and Director of jackshoot
Having produced live online content since 2001, Abi Hemingway has become a leading online live broadcast producer. Working with industry leaders Jackshoot TV, she has produced complex online broadcasts for leading brands including BAFTA, the Royal Opera House, British Fashion Council, the BRIT Awards, the FA, Harrods and MTV – covering fashion, gaming, sports, corporate and cultural events. With the team at Jackshoot, they are the go-to team for awards ceremonies. Abi has also worked extensively in live music broadcasts with well over a hundred live recordings with artists including Kings of Leon, Muse and Madonna. Abi has exec-produced a multi-platform live music TV series (Live at indigo2), a global live-stream for Michael Jackson and large online multi-site events including World Ballet Day for four years. Her expertise and experience runs the gamut from technical to creative and editorial through to commercial – and she prides herself on creating strong teams who can always deliver high quality work with a smile, even when under pressure.
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About jackshoot: jackshoot is a highly skilled & experienced team that capture & deliver their clients content to any digital platform,offers reliable price
Sophie Cohen
Executive Search Partner of Mitchellake Executive Search
Senior Executive Search / Head Hunter / recruitment professional with focus on high standard delivery. Passionate about digital and technology start-up and helping them acquiring the best talent for a healthy international growth or digital transformation. Experience in managing executive search, market intelligence, succession planning, salary surveys, talent mapping and pipeline projects across EMEA, North America, Russia, Asia Pacific (Australia, China, India, Philippines,..), UAE and LATAM. Broad sectorial experience in digital, advertising, marketing, media, pharmaceutical, industrial.
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About Mitchellake Executive Search: MitchelLake provides executive search, specialist recruitment and embedded talent solutions.
Sarah Bardsley
Partnerships Manager of SNAPCAM
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About SNAPCAM: Our mission is to make it easy and affordable to have beautiful photobooks delivered direct to your door.
