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 CEO’ operating in the Printing space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Andrew Pearce
Co-Founder & CEO of thortful
Co-Founder and CEO at thortful.
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About thortful: thortful is an online greeting card marketplace.
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Sam Al-Mukhtar
Co-Founder & CEO of Geomiq
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About Geomiq: Geomiq is an intelligent platform that provides Instant quotes and Instant ordering of custom manufactured parts.
Dan Ziv
Chief Executive Officer of TouchNote
Dan Ziv has been Managing Director of TouchNote since May 2017. He joined TouchNote as Chief Product Officer in 2016. Prior to this, Dan co-founded Uncover, the award-winning premium restaurant reservation app, which was acquired in 2015. He was previously an M&A lawyer in the technology sector, in addition to roles at PayPal Europe in Paris and VC fund Index Ventures in London. Dan is an advisor and board member in several early and late stage startups, mentors at Techstars London and is a founding member of Founders of the Future. Dan completed his MBA at London Business School.
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About TouchNote: TouchNote helps you send thoughtful cards and prints to loved ones, right from your mobile, tablet or desktop.
Luke Smoothy
Chief Executive Officer, Get It Made
Luke Smoothy founded Get It Made with a mission to make manufacturing easy. Get It Made initially focused on CNC machining, but over the years, as 3D Printing has matured, they have increased there offering for 3D printing. They have particular experience in Nylon 3D printing using multi-jet-fusion and direct laser metal sintering for metals. They even have the unique capability to post machined critical surfaces after being 3D printed.
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About Get It Made: Get It Made – 3D Printing is manufacturing as a Service business, providing expertise and supply of manufactured parts. Such as CNC Machining, Moulding and Extruding.
David Mills
Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe of Ricoh Company
David Mills is Chief Executive Officer, Ricoh Europe. David is responsible for the strategic direction of the company as well as the operations of Ricoh’s 20 operating companies across EMEA, marketing operations and the supply chain. He joined the Ricoh Group in 2008, having already held several senior roles in our industry including President of European operations at IKON. He then became the Managing Director of Ricoh UK, before joining the Ricoh Europe Board as Executive Vice President, and then COO. He became CEO of Ricoh Europe in April 2014.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Charlie Redmayne
CEO, HarperCollins UK of HarperCollins
Charlie is CEO of HarperCollins UK. He reports to Brian Murray, President and CEO of HarperCollins Publishers Worldwide Charlie returned to HarperCollins UK after successfully launching J.K. Rowling’s revolutionary digital publishing business, Pottermore. As CEO, he oversaw its birth in 2011 when sales topped £3m in the first month, formed a social gaming partnership with Sony, and won Digital Strategy of the Year at the 2013 Bookseller Industry Awards. He joined HarperCollins in 2008 as Group Digital Director of HarperCollins UK, a role in which he pioneered HarperCollins’ industry-leading digital activity across a range of activities. During this time, the author community website authonomy.com won a Bookseller Industry Award for Digital Innovation in 2010. In 2009, he was promoted to run the global digital programme as Executive Vice President, Chief Digital Officer, based in HarperCollins’ head office in New York. Charlie joined HarperCollins from News Corp’s BSkyB, where he was Head of Commercial Partnerships for the Sky Online Business Unit. Prior to that, he worked in advertising and marketing, founding and running the media buying company RCL Communications and big screen entertainment business Blink TV, before launching leading UK teen Internet company Mykindaplace Ltd in 2000, which he sold to BSkyB in 2006.
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About HarperCollins: HarperCollins is an English language publisher that offers a range of Bibles, atlases, dictionaries, and reissued classics.
Mathijs Eefting
CEO & Co-founder of Moteefe
Print-on-demand and retail expert. Co-founder and CEO of Moteefe. INSEAD MBA 2014
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About Moteefe: Moteefe is an e-commerce platform that allows anyone to sell customized merchandise through social media.
Melissa Snover
Founder, Chief Executive Officer & Board Member of Nourished
Melissa Snover CEO and founder of Nourished.
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About Goody Good Stuff, Nourished: Nourished provides a customized nutrition product that uses patented 3D printing technology to create bespoke gummy vitamins on demand.
Jeremy Ben-David
Group CEO of Waterlogic
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About Angel Springs, Waterlogic: Waterlogic is a water utility company that manufactures, supplies, and distributes of water dispensers.
Oluwaseyi Sosanya
Co Founder and CEO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Liam Houghton
CEO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Liam Houghton joined Popsa as CEO & Founder in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Joel Gibbard
CEO of Open Bionics
Joel Gibbard is the founder of Open Bionics and the inventor of the world’s first and most advanced 3D printed robotic hand prosthetic. Joel has won multiple awards for engineering, innovation, and entrepreneurship. Joel was recently named ‘Britain’s Design Engineer of the Year,’ and awarded the Limbless Association’s ‘Prosthetic Innovation of the Year’ award. The roboticist is based inside of the Bristol Robotics Laboratory and is committed to keeping his robotic hands open source.
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About Open Bionics: Open Bionics is a robotics company creating affordable 3D-printed bionic hands for amputees, researchers and makers.
Hal Watts
CEO & Co-founder of UNMADE
Hal Watts currently works as a freelance designer and engineer for several companies. He also works as a speaker talking about his work, environmental issues and innovation more generally. Hal spends the rest of his the time working on commissions and his own projects such as Esource. In 2013 he founded a design and engineering studio with Ben Alun-Jones called Searu which led to a second company, Knyttan. Founded with Ben and Kirsty Emery Knyttan is a technology startup pioneering the use of digital manufacturing technics to revolutionise knitwear production. This is now his main focus.
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Ingvar Helgason
Co-founder and CEO of VitroLabs
Ingvar Helgason is Co-founder and CEO at VitroLabs Inc.
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About VitroLabs: We work with nature to create real leather from cells, that’s slaughter-free and better for the environment.
Gerard Rubio
CEO & Founder of Kniterate
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About Kniterate: Kniterate is an affordable and compact digital knitting machine for your workshop.
Daghan Cam
Co-founder and CEO of Ai Build
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About Ai Build: Developing Artificial Intelligence to make Manufacturing easy, smart, sustainable and affordable.
Karl McGee
CEO of WCM
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About WCM: WCM combines engineering and manufacturing to produce automotive solutions for leading global brands.
Chris Emslie
Chief Executive Officer of Fibercore
A mechanical engineer by training, Chris joined the University of Southampton Optical Fiber Group in 1983, following an engineering internship at the Corning Glassworks optical fiber fabrication pilot facility. At Southampton, he studied under professors Alec Gambling and Sir David Payne. His Ph.D. subject was the fabrication of low-loss polymer optical fibers and he successfully developed an integrated purification, polymerisation and extrusion apparatus. His invited review paper of this technology published in the Journal of Material Science in 1988, is still considered to be a seminal work in the area. In 1987 he joined early spin-out company York VSOP in a commercial capacity, developing markets primarily for the ‘Bow-Tie’ geometry polarisation maintaining fibers and erbium doped fibers. From this time onwards he has been the hands-on driving force, translating customer needs into fiber specifications that remain manufacturable, whilst delivering at least the desired levels of performance. He is also credited as co-inventor of the manufacturing technique used to produce the all-silica, dual-clad, rare-earth doped fiber that has probably been used in more of the world’s high power fiber amplifiers than any other design.
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About Fibercore: Fibercore designs and manufactures fiber.
Revannth N Murugesan
CEO of Antonym
A visionary mobility entrepreneur, investor, speaker, engineer, former motorsport racer, and an ardent environmentalist. Currently heading an award-winning automotive tech company that is developing electric self-driving vehicles.
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About Antonym: Award-winning electric autonomous transportation addressing the £1.8 trillion road freight market.
Parth Desai
Founder & CEO of Pelican
Parth Desai graduated from Georgia Tech with a Master’s degree in Artificial Intelligence and was quickly hired to work with one of the most celebrated global pioneers of Artificial Intelligence , Roger Schank. Parth rapidly built a deep expertise in AI and Natural Language Processing (NLP) that has driven his own ability to innovate over the past two decades. During that time, Parth built a global team and nurtured their collective AI expertise. Working collaboratively within the Banking, Financial Services and Insurance domain for Banks and Corporates, Parth has built a thorough understanding of the Payments, Securities, Anti Money Laundering and Risk Management from both the business and technology viewpoints. As Founder &CEO, Parth works closely with his global team to deliver consistent innovation and client value that continues to underpin their long-term client relationships.
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About Pelican: Pelican provides banks and corporates with solutions that enhance, streamline and secure the payments life-cycle.
Christina Zheng
Chief Executive Officer of Choc Edge
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About Choc Edge: Chocedge is the world leader in 3d chcolate printing design and manufacture.
Jonathan Lloyd
Co-founder & CEO of CGHero
My mission and passion for the past decade has been to help talented CG artists market and sell their amazing work to companies around the world.
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About CGHero: Outsource 3D Modelling, Concept Art, Textures, VFX & More
Tamar Giloh
CEO and Founder of TamiCare
Tamar Giloh is the CEO and Founder of Tamicare.
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About TamiCare: Tamicare is an R&D, innovation and engineering company specializing in the field of textile and nonwoven materials.
Mark Raban
Chief Executive Officer of Lookers
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About Lookers: The Lookers Group offer new and used cars from leading manufacturers, as well as extensive aftersales services.
Joseph Crabtree
Founder and CEO of Additive Manufacturing Technologies
Joseph Crabtree is the Founder and CEO of Additive Manufacturing Technologies.
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About Additive Manufacturing Technologies: 3D Printing technology company dedicated to unlocking 3D printing as a viable alternative to traditional manufacturing.
Ian Falconer
CEO and Founder of Fishy Filaments
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About Fishy Filaments: Takes used fishing nets and transforms them into 3D printer filament.
Graeme Bond
CEO (Technical Director) of FDM Digital Solutions
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About FDM Digital Solutions: FDM Digital Solutions manufactures thermoplastic functional parts for modeling, prototyping, manufacturing tools, and end-use parts.
Anne Ward
CEO of Newspaper Club
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About Newspaper Club: Make and print your own newspaper, starting from 1 copy. Fast worldwide shipping!
Christopher Thorpe
Founder and CEO of I Can Make
Christopher Thorpe is the founder and CEO of I Can Make and is responsible for the technology in the company. He is also the founder of jaggeree, a small full-service digital consultancy company.
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About I Can Make: I Can Make Ltd. designs and provides online entertaining and educational three dimensional printable kits.
