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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 Founder operating in the Data Integration space. If you think a Founder 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.
Joanna Hubbard
Co-Founder and CEO of Electron
Jo-Jo Hubbard is the co-founder and COO of Electron, one of the original energy tech firms to harness blockchain technology for transactive grid systems. She is a thought leader on the topic of digital energy and a frequent keynote speaker at energy and technology events. Her previous experience includes renewable energy investment banking, cleantech VC, and strategy consulting at McKinsey & Co. Jo-Jo sits on advisory boards for several UK utilities on digital transformation and community trading models and writes for international publications on these topics.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Paul Ellis
Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Electron
Paul Ellis is co-founder and CEO at Electron, a new platform focusing on reinventing the retail energy market in the UK using the Ethereum blockchain. Prior to Electron, Paul spent 13 years in Investment Banking. He founded a development business and fin tech incubator. He then created and ran an electronic trading platform for credit derivatives for a number of years.
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About Electron: Electron is accelerating the energy industry’s transition to Net Zero by making granular, market-based interactions possible.
Alistair Russell
Co-Founder/CTO of tray.io
Alistair Russell is the co-founder and CTO of Tray.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Matthew Scullion
Co-Founder and CEO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Ed Thompson
Co-Founder & CTO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Antonios Chalkiopoulos
Founder & CEO of Lenses.io
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About Lenses.io: DataOps – A real-time applications and data operation portal
Chris McCullough
Co-Founder & CEO of Rotageek
Chris used to be an A&E doctor for 16 years, and that’s what inspired him to improve scheduling. He’s a relentless problem solver, who believes passionately in the power of great teams and experimenting. Chris has previously co-founded two other ventures, one of which is now Europe’s largest social network for health. He loves Formula 1 (and has kissed a few racetracks).
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About Rotageek: Using data-driven technology to meet demand, engage teams, and drive efficiency.
Armen Poghosyan
Founder, CEO of Actable AI
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About Actable AI: Actable AI helps you to analyze your data with powerful Causal AI and ML – without coding.
Ky Nichol
Founder & CEO of Cutover
Formerly the Global Head of Government and Major Sporting Events practice at a niche global consulting firm, Ky has 15 years of experience in major launch events and transitions. These experiences span EE, NASA, European Space Agency, Barclays and the London 2012 Olympics.
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About Cutover: Cutover is an orchestration and observability platform that optimizes the planning of complex workflows.
Marcus Wildsmith
Founder & CPO – Product Management of Cutover
Formerly the Global Head of Telco and High Tech practice at a niche global consulting firm, Marcus has 15 years of experience with major launch transition projects including EE (the UK’s largest Telco) and the first UK 4G Services.
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About Cutover: Cutover is an orchestration and observability platform that optimizes the planning of complex workflows.
Craig Gregory
Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer of Cutover
With over 15 years of enterprise software implementation and operations support experience, Craig has worked with many major clients, from Jaguar Land Rover to Gazprom.
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About Cutover: Cutover is an orchestration and observability platform that optimizes the planning of complex workflows.
Henry Hyder-Smith
Founder and CEO of Adestra
Henry has been working within the email marketing industry since its inception. As co-founder, Henry leads the board of Adestra and has a unique understanding of different clients’ needs, industry issues and development. Henry has a hands-on approach, and is devoted to keeping Adestra’s products, services and staff at the cutting edge of email marketing.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Steve Denner
Founder and COO of Adestra
Steve is highly experienced in developing and delivering email solutions, having led teams responsible for bringing five email applications to market. Since co-founding Adestra, Steve is focused on ensuring Adestra’s platform continues to be today’s best email marketing system and that Adestra’s clients receive the best support.
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About Adestra: Adestra is a trusted provider of First-Person Marketing solutions for global and growing brands.
Georg Ludviksson
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Meniga
Georg is a co-founder and oversees Product Management activities at [UpDown](http://www.crunchbase.com/organization/updown-com). Georg Ludviksson is an MBA candidate at the Harvard Business School and holds a BS degree in software engineering from the University of Iceland. Georg Ludviksson has over seven years of experience as an IT entrepreneur. In 1998 he co-founded Dimon Software, an Icelandic enterprise mobility company, which he helped guide to profitability as a major software provider to Nokia. From 2004 to 2006, he was the VP of Sales for Men & Mice, a provider of specialized network management software to many of the world’s largest organizations.
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About Meniga: Meniga is a digital banking platform that helps banks, businesses, and individuals manage their financial data.
Constantine Yurevich
Founder / CEO of SegmentStream
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About SegmentStream: SegmentStream is a predictive marketing attribution and optimisation platform for a cookie-less world.
Hem Patel
Co-Founder of Signal Noise
Hem uses his expertise to focus on new business development and building relationships. He oversees our Client Services team working closely with our clients to define the creative brief and ensure the smooth delivery of high quality projects.
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About Signal Noise: Signal Noise is a data design agency.
Justin Fitzpatrick
Co-Founder & CEO of DueDil
Justin is co-founder and CEO of DueDil. Prior to DueDil he established the Asian and European operations for two other venture-backed tech companies. Justin is also a founding Non-Executive Director of Innovate Finance, a financial technology industry body.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
Ian Cray
CTO and Founder of Clekt
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About Clekt: Clekt gets corporate data to improve performance, generate innovation, and expand the organization.
John Letey
Founder and CTO of KYVE
John Letey is the founder and CTO of KYVE.
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About KYVE: KYVE can store any data stream, with built-in validation by leveraging Arweave, we can permanently and immutably store this data.
Jacob Laurvigen
Group CEO & Co-Founder of Dexi
Jacob Laurvigen has been helping businesses achieving above expectations and personally invested in multiple successful start-up’s!
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About Blockware, Dexi, Mozenda: Dexi provides the leading Data Extraction and Data Automation Software.
Paul Green
Co-Founder, Director and Chief Science Officer of IOTICS
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About IOTICS: Enabling ecosystems of secure data interactions with digital twins
Paul Joyce
CEO & Founder of Geckoboard
Paul is the founder and CEO of Geckoboard. Geckoboard create live TV metrics dashboards to make data useful to everyone in an organisation. Before that he designed and builtdata warehouses for technology companies and investment banks.
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About Geckoboard: Professional KPI dashboards. No hassle. Build a real-time dashboard in minutes. With Geckoboard, it’s that simple.
Mark Richards
CEO & Founder of makepositive
As Chief Evangelist, Mark cares passionately about creating enterprises that redefine what “work” means. With the goal of releasing everyone from tedious admin and letting all loose to create their own art in the workplace. Inspirational Leader: Seth Godin translates our toughest challenges and fears into meaningful insight, advice and actions. Mark Richards is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Makepositive.
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About makepositive: Makepositive is a business and technology consultancy that delivers innovation cloud engagement and platform.
Patrick Charlton
Co-Founder & CEO of Buzz Radar
Patrick is a social marketing and digital specialist, with a track record of creating a wide range of award-winning campaigns and projects for some of the world’s most exciting brands. He is co-founder of Buzz Radar, an industry leader in capturing and visualising real-time data. Buzz Radar makes live data of all types collaborative, easy to understand and shareable for everyone. He works with some of the world’s largest events, brands and retail spaces, including Twitter, Samsung, Nike, Google, adidas, Intel, Skype, Marks And Spencer, IBM, Red Bull and Adobe, helping them create a culture of listening and marketing in the moment. Over his career, Patrick has been lucky enough to lead major-ground breaking projects on multiple global social engagement campaigns, providing leadership, strategy, production savvy, creative direction and client management in a fast-paced, demanding environment with an online audience in the tens of millions.
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About Buzz Radar: Buzz Radar is an industry leader in making data, insightful, accessible and actionable
Agata Boczkowska
COO and Co-Founder of RAIS
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About RAIS: The Customer Intelligence Business – helping D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster.
Edward Upton
Founder and CEO of Littledata
Edward Upton is the Founder and CEO at Littledata.
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About Littledata, Teachable: Littledata is an ecommerce analytics connector for Shopify stores.
Mark Gorski
Co-Founder & CEO of Sports Data Labs, Inc.
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About Sports Data Labs, Inc.: Unlock the Value of Human Data®
David Prior
Founder of Resilio
International technologist with 30 years practical and pragmatic experience. Founded six companies (so far!) and sold three. Now focused on the delivery phase of the Resilio growth story. Technology background spanning recruitment, insurance, consultancy, telecoms, and defence and security markets in places ranging from Omaha to Basra and most points in between. Powered by caffeine and curiosity and always bemused to see the way I think reflected in the comics of XKCD.
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About Resilio: Data Integration and Real-time Analytics to Amplify Humans and Make Time!
Ashley Murdoch
Founder & CEO of Corethree
Ashley has extensive experience in technology sales & marketing and drives the business opportunity created from the integration of mobile and data. Before founding Corethree, he spent four years as European Marketing Manager at Sony Professional Europe and was later head-hunted to become Fortune Brands’ European General Manager for Digital, developing and launching digital technology solutions into Europe.
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About Corethree: Corethree is a fast-growing specialist data technology company, enabling businesses take advantage of the mobile-data intersection
Massimo Triggiani
Founder & CEO of BeCloud Solutions
Massimo Triggiani is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at BeCloud Solutions.
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About BeCloud Solutions: BeCloud Solutions is a cloud contact center applications consultancy focusing on customer experience solutions.
