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 Wireless 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.
Paul Hunter
Chief of Staff to CEO 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.
Nigel Chadwick
Founder and CEO of Stream Technologies
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About Stream Technologies: Stream Technologies is a pioneer in machine-to-machine communications and the Internet of Things.
Jens Lauritzson
CEO of Flexion
JI founded Flexion in 2007 with a mission to help mobile game and app developers monetize their products more effectively. Having experienced how difficult it was to monetise and find distribution for apps with the traditional Pay-Per-Download model as a developer gave me the idea to help others in the same situation. The company has since become the leading enabling solution and covers a range of monetization and discovery features. Flexion works with most of the top tier game developers and some of the best service providers in areas such as carrier billing, advertising, app discovery and search. Prior to Flexion I worked with mobile game developers and aggregators and I have had the opportunity to grow a global network of contacts within the mobile content industry for 13 years.
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About Flexion, Mobile Sensations Limited: Flexion is a monetization and distribution platform for developers and publishers.
Mark Parry
Founder, CEO of Wifinity
Mark is a highly competent and motivated entrepreneurial technologist with a strong Business and IT eduction from Kingston University London. With over 10 years of successful industry experience. During this time mark gained valuable experience and outstanding leadership skills, with a proved track record of leading teams to sliver technology and commercial milestones. Mark has demonstrated the ability to combine commercial aptitude with a strong technology background to identify new opportunities, enhance commercial models and develop products that are commercially and technically suited to the business landscape.
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About Billforward, Wifinity: Wifinity is on a mission to make Wi-Fi great!
Oliver Tucker
Co-Founder & CEO of Wireless Logic
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About CVC Capital Partners, Wireless Logic: Wireless Logic is an M2M & IoT managed services provider delivering multiple bearer connectivity and value-added services.
Carl Barton
Group CEO of Mobius Networks
Carl Barton Founder of the Group of which Mobius is a part 30 years ago. The owner of the group vision and technology roadmap and the driver of the operational excellence programme using technological innovation to take cost, time and errors out of processes.
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About Mobius Networks: Mobius is the UKs first integrated data airtime provider.
Dan Parker
CEO of WiForia
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About WiForia: WiForia’s SaaS platform turns Public Wi-Fi into a marketing communications channel.
Alistair Banham
CEO of pureLiFi
Alistair Banham is a global semiconductor industry veteran, with more than 30 years’ experience leading international business units. Prior to taking up the role as CEO at pureLiFi Alistair was Senior Vice President & GM of Customer Solutions Business Unit at Wolfson Microelectronics. At Wolfson Alistair was responsible for chip development, mobile systems strategy and driving strong engagement with tier 1 global accounts Previously he held roles as SVP & General Manager EMEA (Europe Middle East & Africa) at Philips Semiconductors. Alistair was a founding member and President & GM EMEA of ON Semiconductor and played a leading role in the spin out from Motorola semiconductor and subsequent IPO. During his time in the semiconductor industries, Alistair has been based out of key technology hubs from silicon valley (California) through to ASIA. Alistair brings an element of skill to pureLiFi that will lead innovation and release new products to drive increased adoption with their global customers and key growth markets.
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About pureLiFi: pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
Simon Beresford-Wylie
Chief Executive Officer of Imagination Technologies
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About Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies develops and licenses semiconductor system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP).
Brendan Gill
CEO & Co-Founder of Opensignal
Prior to co-founding OpenSignal in 2010, Brendan spent over 10 years building solutions to help people understand and improve mobile service and experience. In 2007, he was part of the team that launched RepeaterStore, which provides signal boosting solutions to improve wireless cell and data reception in buildings, homes and vehicles. Brendan was named in the Telecoms Business Power100 in 2017. He holds a Physics degree from Oxford University.
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About Opensignal, PlentyWays, Waveform: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
Hellen Bowey
CEO & Co-founder of Alcove
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About Alcove: Alcove is an internet-of-things powered care technology ecosystem pioneering independent living for older and disabled adults.
Natalie Duffield
CEO – UK of WeLink
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About WeLink: WeLink is a fixed-wireless broadband provider.
Matt Butcher
CEO of Inductosense
Matt has extensive experience in developing early stage companies and has undertaken commercial roles and directorships in a variety of engineering companies.
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About Inductosense: Inductosense is developing wireless, battery-free, sensors that can be permanently fixed.
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Paul Brown
Co-Founder & CEO of DisplayNote Technologies
Paul Brown is the Co-Founder & CEO at DisplayNote Technologies.
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About DisplayNote Technologies: DisplayNote transforms presentations for presenters and participants. Use it to present wirelessly with an iPad or Android.
Gavin Wheeldon
Chief Executive Officer of Purple
With over 15 years experience working in technology led or enabled businesses, Gavin has a deep understanding of the impact of technology on the bottom line of an organisation. Having sold his last business, Applied Language Solutions, a global language technology and services business, he set up So Purple Group with the prime focus on building an enterprise guest WiFi system that was end user friendly.
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About Purple, Syrenis: Purple is a WiFi analytics and marketing platform.
Azhar Hussain
CEO & Founder of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Zsolt Pardi
Co-Founder & CEO of ZoVolt Ltd
Zsolt Pardi is Co-Founder & CEO at ZoVolt Ltd.
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About ZoVolt Ltd: ZoVolt is a wireless sensor manufacturer specializes in zigBee based wireless sensors that communicate with users.
James Lewis
Chief Executive Officer of Helix Technologies
James Lewis is the Chief Executive Officer at Helix Geospace.
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About Helix Technologies: Helix Technologies is developing a range of compact, high-performance, dielectric-loaded ceramic antennas.
David Greenberg
CEO & Founder of Eave
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About Eave: Eave (formerly EarTex) is a startup developing the next generation of hearing protection and communication technology.
Ian Calvert
CEO of Wildanet
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About Wildanet: Wildanet is a wireless internet service provider of fast, reliable broadband for homes and businesses.
William Jones
Founder & CEO of IPWireless
William Jones is Founder & CEO at IPWireless.
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About IPWireless: IPWireless develops wireless solutions including silicon, software and network infrastructure.
Steve Wright
Founder & CEO of Captini
Steve Wright is the Founder & CEO at Captini.
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About Captini: Captini transforms Guest WiFi networks into an automated marketing service that increases customer return rates.
Albert Gardiner
CEO of Fairwaves
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About Fairwaves: Fairwaves manufactures and sells equipment for open-source telecommunication to serve mobile operators.
Joe Ryan
CEO and Founder of VRGO
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About VRGO: VRGO is a connected chair that provides hands free movement within VR.
David Rey
CEO of The Cloud
David Rey is CEO at The Cloud Networks.
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About The Cloud: The Cloud is a provider of public access Wi-Fi hotspots.
Jeremy Long
Chief Executive Officer, European Business of MTR
Jeremy is Chief Executive Officer, European Business of MTR Corporation, the Hong-Kong headquartered international railway and property company, which is regarded as one of the foremost international railway developers and operators. In recent years, MTR has expanded internationally, with operations in Europe, mainland China, and Australia. In Europe, MTR are co-owners of the successful London Overground concession operated for TfL, and are the operator of the large Stockholm Metro system in Sweden. Jeremy was formerly Managing Director of FirstGroup Rail Division, and was founder and Chief Executive of GB Railways Group plc, an award-winning passenger franchise, open access, and rail-freight operator.
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About MTR: MTR is a manufacturer in the Smart Grid metering industry.
Peter Cox
Founder and CEO of UM Labs
Peter Cox is the CEO and Founder of UM Labs, a UK company specialising in security for Internet based VoIP and UC services. Peter Cox has 30 years of experience in networking and cyber security. Prior to founding UM Labs, Peter was the co-founder of a successful IP security developer who achieved the first event Common Criteria EAL4 certifications for a general purpose firewall and an email security system.
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About UM Labs: UM-Labs R&D provides Real-Time Communications Cyber Security UOS (Unicus) – protects all Data in Transit and Motion, running on any cloud.
Dominic Thorpe
Founder and Managing Director- Acting CEO and in charge of fundraising, strategy, and development of Wireless Fitness
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About Wireless Fitness: The Wireless Fitness is an app that portable exercise studio in your phone
Dan Pitulia
CEO of Coala Life
Dan Pitulia is the CEO at Coala Life.
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About Coala Life: Developed a digital service where a small wireless heart monitor reading of the heart’s ECG and heart sounds
