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 VP’ operating in the Big Data space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Dayne Turbitt
Senior Vice President of Dell EMC
Dayne holds a BSc in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Cape Town.
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About Dell EMC: Dell EMC enables digital transformation with trusted solutions for the modern data center.
Nikki Stones
VP Demand Generation of Privitar
As Head of Marketing, Nikki is responsible for Privitar’s brand development, marketing strategy and communications. She also supports the company’s go-to-market and sales plans. She is a highly accomplished B2B marketer, with over 15 years expertise spanning early stage tech start-ups through to some of the world’s largest enterprises including KPMG, Schlumberger and Accenture, where she held senior, strategic roles. She has broad sector experience across Financial Services, Energy and Pharmaceuticals. Nikki has a complementary blend of marketing and technology skills and is highly accomplished at building teams from the ground up. Nikki has a post-graduate diploma from the London School of Journalism and is Chartered Institute of Marketing qualified.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Stephen Spence
VP of Engineering of Privitar
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Sally Moore
Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances of IHS Markit
Sally Moore is senior vice president and global head of strategic alliances at IHS Markit. She is responsible for corporate development and the company’s strategy and relationships with partners. Sally provides companywide leadership of third party content licensing, content acquisition, and mergers and acquisitions. Sally leads the company’s fin-tech strategy, including its investment in Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital fund. She joined Markit in 2006, where she led the European credit business and global loan business. Previously, she spent six years at Thomson Reuters, as co-head of the Loan Pricing Corporation’s operations in Europe and later as a senior vice president and co-head of sales in North America.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Will Meldrum
Senior Vice President, Employee Experience of IHS Markit
Will Meldrum is senior vice president and head of employee experience at IHS Markit. He joined Markit in 2005 as director of acquisitions and strategic development, subsequently launching and managing Markit BOAT and Markit MSA. Prior to Markit, Will worked at Deutsche Bank where he managed the bank’s interests across a diverse portfolio of strategic investments with a focus on industry consortia, electronic trading systems and data. He holds an MA from Edinburgh University and an MBA from London Business School.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Alexandra Gee
VP Marketing & Communications of WANdisco
Alex worked as a broadcast journalist for over ten years at CNN International, ITV News, Channel 4 News and Al Arabiya. She was part of the team which set up Al Jazeera English in Doha and went on to manage the channel’s coverage in Central and South Asia. After leaving journalism Alex advised a number of foreign governments and ultra high net worth individuals on reputation and crisis management and went on to work with entrepreneurs and fast growth businesses on profile raising, branding and marketing.
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About WANdisco: WANdisco, the world leader in Active Data Replication™, enables the replication of continuously changing data to different environments.
Darren Crowder
Vice President and Head of Solution Engineering of TIBCO
Darren Crowder is the vice president and head of solution engineering at TIBCO.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Andy Mulholland
VP Constellation Research & Chairman Asset Mapping of Constellation Research
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About Constellation Research: Constellation Research is a research and advisory firm helping early adopters improve the transformative power of disruptive technology.
Gareth Jones
Vice President, Intellectual Property of BenevolentAI
Gareth Jones is vice president of intellectual property at BenevolentAI, a company developing and applying artificial intelligence (AI) technology to enhance and accelerate scientific discovery. In this role, Gareth Jones is responsible for all strategic and operational aspects of intellectual property across the BenevolentAI technology and pharmaceutical business units. Gareth Jones started his career in software engineering, holding technical leadership roles at IBM and Vodafone across a variety of cutting-edge technology areas. He initially became involved in intellectual property as an inventor and has more than 20 granted patents. At IBM, Gareth Jones became one of the youngest recipients of the Master Inventor title, in recognition of his sustained innovation leadership through management of invention harvesting and inventor education and mentoring. Following a role managing the global invention harvesting process at Vodafone, Gareth Jones was recruited as head of intellectual property at SwiftKey, an AI technology start-up that was sold to Microsoft in one of the largest UK tech exits of 2015/2016. He built and scaled IP operations, prepared the business for sale and played a key role in facilitating the acquisition. Gareth Jones joined the Microsoft IP team to oversee the SwiftKey integration and provided additional support evaluating patents for licensing, divestiture and prosecution.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Tim Norris
VP Sales EMEA of mParticle
Tim Norris is the VP of Sales EMEA at mParticle.
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About Habu, mParticle: MParticle is a customer data platform for multi channel consumer brands.
Dan Harrington
Executive Vice President, Consulting & Support Services of Teradata
Dan Harrington is executive vice president of consulting and support services for Teradata, reporting to Vic Lund. He is responsible for leading the global consulting organization focused on helping customers architect, implement and manage the analytic ecosystem, including Teradata products on premises, in the cloud, and open-source technologies. In addition, he guides the customer services organization as they deliver world-class support to customers around the globe, and the development of analytical business solutions. Dan has experience in all facets of the business, including sales, services, marketing and engineering and has held multiple leadership roles, including head of Teradata’s international sales and services organization, research and development and worldwide marketing. Dan started his career with NCR Corporation in 1985 in Dallas, Texas as a sales person, eventually becoming district sales manager for major commercial accounts. In 1991, he was appointed director of marketing for the U.S. communications industry. In 1993, he took on responsibility for NCR’s global expansion into the communications industry as assistant vice president for Worldwide Communications Industry Marketing. In 1994, he became vice president, Teradata Product Management, and in 1995 he was appointed vice president, Worldwide Teradata Marketing, where he helped successfully guide the company’s growth in data warehousing. Three years later he was named vice president, Worldwide Marketing for Teradata’s computer business. His European assignment began in 1999 when he was appointed area manager of Teradata Northern Europe and subsequently Dan became vice president of sales for Teradata Europe. During his assignment, the region achieved major growth in sales, profitability and new strategic customers. In 2005, he returned to the U.S. to head up Teradata’s Global Customer Services business and continued to hold positions of increasing responsibility. Based in Rancho Bernardo, CA, Dan earned a Master’s degree in business management and graduated with distinction from the J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management, Northwestern University. He earned a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from Angelo State University, graduating summa cum laude.
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About Teradata, Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Lance Miller
Assistant Vice President of R&D Marketing of Teradata
Lance Miller is Assistant Vice President, R&D Marketing, for Teradata where he is responsible for marketing all services. Mr. Miller’s is a subject-matter expert in several areas of the software industry including: databases, data warehouses, decision support (DSS/EIS), data visualization, CRM, and very large database technologies. Before joining Teradata, Lance was Chief Technology Officer (CTO), CIO, and VP, Software Development for Customer Insight Company, CIO for Woodward-Clyde, VP Software Development for Cray, and VP Software for Solbourne. Lance holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MBA (Strategic Marketing) from Chadwick University.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Niki Stoker
VP EMEA, Sales of FLXone
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About FLXone: FLXone is a data management platform for customer-centric marketing
Riki Dolby
SVP Engineering of InfoSum
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About InfoSum: InfoSum provides a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy.
Paul Grabscheid
Vice President of Strategic Planning of Intersystems
Since 1986, Paul Grabscheid has used his expertise in database and application development tools and technologies in a variety of product planning and marketing roles at InterSystems. Prior to that, he served as director of marketing for Mathematica, a database and 4GL software company, helping to expand the company’s worldwide presence. When the company was acquired by Martin Marietta he served as director of marketing for that firm’s Information Technology Division, overseeing marketing efforts for a number of system software, application software, and computer services product lines. Grabscheid’s background also includes consulting work involving the development of decision support systems for state governments. He holds a master’s degree from the Sloan School of Management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology.
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About Intersystems: InterSystems is a vendor of software and technology for high-performance database management, integration, and health information systems.
Audelia Boker
Global VP Marketing of Glassbox
Audelia Boker joined Glassbox in January 2016 after spending over 17 years in Israel’s largest FMCG and flagship tech companies, including Strauss-Elite, Orange (now Partner), Comverse (now Xura) and NICE Systems. Equally at home with storytelling as with crunching analytical data, Audelia’s international background and leadership abilities have recently brought her back to Europe, where she grew up. Her most recent role was in London, where she headed Demand Generation for EMEA at NICE Systems, managing inside sales teams as well as the Enterprise integrated off-line and online marketing strategy and execution for the company across Europe. Before this, Audelia ran a team of marketing managers and had global responsibility over the Real-Time Solutions product marketing activities, significantly contributing to the success of the fastest growing business within NICE’s Enterprise portfolio. Audelia holds an MBA from ESCP Europe where she studied in Paris, France, majoring in Strategy and Marketing.
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About Glassbox: Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.
Shashi Nirale
SVP and GM, EMEA of Servion Global Solutions
Shashi serves as the Senior Vice President and GM for the Europe and Middle East business at Servion. Shashi has a deep understanding of the customer experience domain and a strong track record of growing businesses across the region. At Servion, he drives Servion’s business operations and is responsible for strategic market expansion across the EMEA region. In his previous organization, Shashi was the Vice President and Head – UK Operations at Synechron, where he was responsible for setting the direction for organic and inorganic growth of the European business. Prior to Synechron, Shashi served as a Vertical Head at Capgemini where he managed and grew the capital markets, asset and wealth management, and security services businesses globally. Before Capgemini, Shashi held leadership roles in Headstrong’s UK and European business. Post-acquisition by Genpact, Shashi led the European Sales and Business operations for the capital markets business. Shashi has also been associated with brands like Red and Lowe Lintas. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies from the Mumbai University, India and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde (UK).
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About Servion Global Solutions: Servion Global Solutions specializes in Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions that help companies.
Olly Paulovich
Co-Founder & VP Marketing & Sales of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Barry Lyne
VP Sales of Panaseer
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Neil OKeefe
VP Sales UK, Ireland Nordics of Think Big Analytics
Sales professional with huge experience in moving startups to revenue. Acquired 5 times to date. In each job working with cutting edge software teams to make their proposition accessible to the market. Built teams from scratch and understands what it takes to win the early deals that set the organisation on the path to growth.
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About Think Big Analytics: Think Big Analytics provides data science and engineering services for big data applications.
Kate Barry
VP Advertising Solutions EMEA of Amobee
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About Amobee: Amobee is a global digital marketing technology company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel.
Paul McCafferty
Co-Founder and SVP R&D of Edge Intelligence Software
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About Edge Intelligence Software: Edge Intelligence has developed a distributed analytics platform built for edge computing and hybrid cloud environments.
Richard Newton
co-founder + VP marketing of Clarify
Co-founder of OP3Nvoice. VP Marketing.
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About Clarify, Screendragon: The world has moved beyond text. Our platform makes searching AV files simple for developers to integrate into their applications.
Adrian James
VP Sales and UK MD of Walkbase
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About Walkbase: Walkbase, the in-store analytics and marketing platform for retailers and airports to personalize the omnichannel customer experience.
Adrian James
VP Sales and UK MD of Walkbase
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About Walkbase: Walkbase, the in-store analytics and marketing platform for retailers and airports to personalize the omnichannel customer experience.
Benjamin Hansz
Vice President of Simplaex
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About Simplaex: Simplaex is the company behind the world’s most advanced artificial intelligence-powered user targeting technology.
Kieran Williams
Vice President – Business Development of Captini
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
VP R&D STN – PhD Student at Queen Mary University of London of Startup Network
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About InReach Ventures, Startup Network: Measuring the value of professional networks and help entrepreneurs evaluate their corporate value
