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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 Director operating in the IT Management space. If you think a 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.
Marc Waters
Managing Director UK&I of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Marc is the UK & Ireland Managing Director for Hewlett Packard Enterprise. He joined HP Company in November 1999 and was appointed Managing Director in July 2016. As UK&I Managing Director, Marc is responsible for all people and business operations. He oversees a technology portfolio that includes Hybrid Cloud, Edge solutions and comprehensive set of services capabilities. Previously Marc has held key positions including Vice President Enterprise Group, Services Sales Director, Chief of Staff and a number of Sales Management roles. Marc is a passionate supporter of UK business and actively engaged with both Government and the CBI. A practitioner of values based leadership he believes business is a force for good and places personal energy into supporting opportunities for young people. Marc holds a Masters in Business Administration from Henley Business School. He has five children and is interested in football, politics and economics.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Dirk Anderson
Director of Hybrid Cloud of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Dirk Anderson runs the UK&I Cloud business at HPE. Prior to joining HPE, Dirk was the Managing Director at RedPixie, a leading Azure consultancy that was acquired by HPE in 2017. As leader of the UKI Cloud business, Dirk heads-up a team of high end consultants and engineers who design, build and manage Cloud platforms and solutions for a variety of enterprise customers across various sectors.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Peter Mansell
Intelligent Edge Services Director of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Mark Finn
Account Director – UK & Ireland of ScienceLogic
A technology professional with 27 years of experience, who’s career spans from customer to vendor and from technical to sales right across the technology sector. Before entering the world of sales Mark was busy shaping the Service Assurance strategies for companies such as MCI WorldCom, Level(3) & Telewest Communications. Now he is busy helping companies to develop more agile, automated, efficient Operations and going to market with new Business Services through their partnership with ScienceLogic and its Unified Service Assurance platform.
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About ScienceLogic: ScienceLogic is a provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management.
Peter Rutland
Board of Director of CSC
Mr. Rutland is a partner and global cohead of financial services at CVC Capital Partners Limited (CVC). Prior to joining CVC in 2007, he was a principal at Advent International and served in the investment banking division of Goldman Sachs. Currently, Rutland is a director of Avolon Holdings Limited (NYSE: AVOL). Mr. Rutland has a Master of Arts degree in economics and management from the University of Cambridge and an MBA from INSEAD. Age: 36
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About CVC Capital Partners: CSC is an IT services company providing technology-enabled business solutions and services.
Chris Dudgeon
Commercial Finance Director for Strategic Deals of Capgemini
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About Capgemini: Capgemini provides consulting, technology, and digital transformation services.
Andrew Smith
Business Development Director of 4me
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About 4me: 4me is an IT and Enterprise Service Management & Workflow application, providing complete visibility and control of service cost & quality.
Steve Robinson
Managing Director and CEO of Little Fish (UK)
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Richard Roome
Services Director of Little Fish (UK)
A father of two young and energetic boys aged 3 and 6 Richard has his hands full at home but in his down time he enjoys playing tennis and cricket, long days watching cricket and catching up with friends. At Littlefish Richard is Services Director and co-owner, responsible for existing clients, transitioning new clients, contract renewals and service improvements. Passionate about the Littlefish service, Richard has been responsible for shaping the Littlefish Service Delivery teams and with an attention for detail is driven to ensure the service is of the highest quality. After initially working in the Wind Energy industry undertaking Environmental Impact Assessments, he has 20 years of experience in the IT industry, initially from a technical perspective moving thereafter to operational and service management roles. Richard has been involved in a number of successful high growth start-up ventures as well as Operational Management and Service Account Management roles for major clients at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services.
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About Chimata Gold Corp, Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Joe McCarthy
Sales Director of Little Fish (UK)
Also a new father, Joe is getting to grips with a baby boy and enjoys reminiscing about uninterrupted night’s sleep, travel, wine, road biking, days at the cricket and old property restoration. Joe is Sales Director and co-owner at Littlefish and looks after new business growth, contract negotiations, commercial partnerships and marketing. He is a Law and Economics graduate from Liverpool University with over 15 years of B2B IT sales experience, commercial modelling and contract negotiation. He first cut his teeth at British Telecom before moving up the gears at small to mid-market IT & Telco firm PSU Technology Group. As Head of Sales for the IT Support division at PSU, Joe secured major national private and public sector contracts for mid-range IBM, Unix and Wintel support contracts and implemented the sales and marketing plan from the IT maintenance division. Business Development Manager roles at ComputerLand UK Plc and Capita IT Services have given him broad exposure to IT Outsourcing and constructing tailored, managed IT services contracts in the public and private sector. Joe was awarded Managed Services salesman of the year at Capita IT Services in 2008, before joining the executive management team that acquired Littlefish in 2010. Joe looks after all front-line new business and has grown Littlefish total managed service revenue by >25% YoY to date.
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
Raymond O’Hare
Member of the Board of Directors of Exception
Raymond has held a number of high profile board positions in Scotland including, Chairman of the IOD, board member of Young Scot, and member of the Government’s Skills Utilisation Leadership Group. He is currently on the boards of a number of ambitious and growing SMEs, as well as being a member of the Scottish Qualifications Authority (SQA) board of management and member of the government’s National Economic Forum. Raymond worked for Microsoft for over 12 years and was the corporation’s director for Scotland for five and a half years.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Martin Burke
Founding Member of the Board of Directors & Chairman of the Board of Directors of Exception
Martin is a founding director of Exception and also serves as chairman. His responsibilities include strategic development of the business, consulting services, digital, and technology delivery. Martin is also responsible for Waracle, an Exception Group company, who provide mobile app solutions and services. Having worked on both the client and service side of the industry throughout his career, Martin has extensive experience of technology transformation across a number of sectors.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
David McLellan
Director of Finance of Exception
David joined Exception in 2006 becoming a board member in 2012. He is responsible for the management of the Company’s financial and commercial functions and plays a key role in the strategic development of the business. David has over 30 years-experience working in the sector, and prior to joining Exception he held senior finance positions with IBM and ICL.
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About Exception: Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Alan Anderson
Founding Member of the Board of Directors of Exception
A founding director of Exception, Alan has been instrumental in the growth and development of the company since it was formed in 2002. Alan has director responsibility for our programme delivery services and provision of overall Customer Service. With over 20 years-experience on both the client and supply side of the industry, coupled with the ability to draw on his Financial Services, Government and Utilities expertise, Alan is ideally placed to ensure that the services delivered meet or exceed customer expectations.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Alan Anderson
Founding Member of the Board of Directors of Exception
A founding director of Exception, Alan has been instrumental in the growth and development of the company since it was formed in 2002. Alan has director responsibility for our programme delivery services and provision of overall Customer Service. With over 20 years-experience on both the client and supply side of the industry, coupled with the ability to draw on his Financial Services, Government and Utilities expertise, Alan is ideally placed to ensure that the services delivered meet or exceed customer expectations.
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About : Exception is an IT Consultancy and Services company that collaborates with many of the UK’s largest companies and Government organisations.
Nick Isherwood
Director of Infrastructure Services of IT Lab Limited
With over 25 years’ experience in IT service delivery, Nick brings quality and effectiveness to every engagement. He is fanatical about service excellence and ensuring that technology and relationships deliver business benefits that can be measured.
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About IT Lab Limited: IT Lab Limited provides IT support and consultancy business.
Rachel Kerr
Director of Client Services of IT Lab Limited
Rachel manages the business processes at IT Lab and oversees the customer experience, ensuring that Service Obsession is consistently delivered by our operations and engineering team.
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About IT Lab Limited: IT Lab Limited provides IT support and consultancy business.
Lauren Steele
Director of Business Services of IT Lab Limited
Capitalising on 25 years’ experience within JMC IT, Lauren’s role encompasses business property, central services, fleet management and health and safety keeping the business on track and compliant. And as a senior touch point for HR and staff engagement, Lauren ensures that IT Lab continues to be an award-winning, great place to work.
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About IT Lab Limited: IT Lab Limited provides IT support and consultancy business.
Nigel Oakley
Product Marketing and Business Development Director of Ampliphae
As a senior executive at Ampliphae, Nigel is helping IT Directors at medium and large enterprises, to reduce the risks they face as their organisations embrace cloud computing. With the insight and wisdom gained over 40 years in the IT, Networking, Infrastructure and Cloud industry, Nigel is ideally placed to make a difference to client businesses.
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About Ampliphae: SaaS Risk Management – discover and manage the SaaS in your organisation
Yogesh Joshee
Director – Sales of Synechron
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About Synechron: Synechron, a technology consulting & outsourcing company helps clients in Capital Markets, Insurance, Banking and Digital.
Tony Clark
Managing Director of Synechron
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About Synechron: Synechron, a technology consulting & outsourcing company helps clients in Capital Markets, Insurance, Banking and Digital.
Mitun Patel
Managing Director & Founder of Netstar
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About Netstar: Netstar is an IT Support company in central London providing fully managed IT Support, Cyber Security and Technology Consulting services.
Johnathan Wates
Director of Managed Services of Acora Ltd
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About Acora Ltd: Delivering outsourced IT services and IT managed services to mid-market businesses requiring agility, performance and profitability.
Ed Wright
Co-Owner and Technical Director of Fabric
Ed Wright is the co-owner and technical director at Fabric. Prior to joining Fabric, Ed served as an infrastructure manager at Ukash (Smart Voucher Limited).
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About Fabric: Fabric is an information technology company that provides Microsoft Dynamics and business IT support.
Geoff Barratt
Finance Director of Fabric
Geoff Barratt is the finance director at Fabric. Prior to joining Fabric, Geoff served as a quality assurance manager at Delta International.
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About Fabric: Fabric is an information technology company that provides Microsoft Dynamics and business IT support.
Geoff Barratt
Finance Director of Fabric
Geoff Barratt is the finance director at Fabric. Prior to joining Fabric, Geoff served as a quality assurance manager at Delta International.
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About Fabric: Fabric is an information technology company that provides Microsoft Dynamics and business IT support.
Justine Cross
Managing Director of EMEA Channels
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About EMEA Channels: EMEA Channels develops appropriate channel programs for the targeted region of businesses.
Richard Mill
Non-Executive Director of Corporate Modelling
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About Corporate Modelling: Corporate Modelling develops transformative software to address critical business operations efficiency issues.
