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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 Email 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.
Neil Murray
CTO and Co-Founder of Mimecast
Neil Murray is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services. Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service. Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s. Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Peter Irikovsky
Chief Executive Officer, Co-Founder of Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach)
Peter Irikovsky is the CEO of Exponea, the leading customer data and experience platform (CDXP). Prior to heading up the Exponea team, Peter demonstrated his passion for entrepreneurialism as the CEO of Slevomat Group, where he helped grow revenue to €100m in fewer than four years. His past experience also includes LRJ Capital, McKinsey, and Groupon. Peter is a frequent speaker (Davos, Forbes, StartupGrind, US Embassy, EU commission), and serves as the head of the supervisory board at Duke of Edinburgh International Award in Slovakia, board member of National Monuments Foundation, and committee member at Millennium Calendar Prize. He is a Singularity University graduate and holds a degree in Computer Science.
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About Exponea (acquired by Bloomreach), Infinario: Customer Data and Experience Platform (CDXP) with marketing automation capabilities
Tim Sadler
Co-Founder & CEO of Tessian
Tim is the CEO and co-founder of CheckRecipient, a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to predict when emails are being sent to the wrong people. Some of the world’s largest organisations across the financial and legal sectors are using CheckRecipient and in the past 6 months the company has been crowned “Best Security Startup” by WIRED, “Best Machine Intelligence Startup” by Legal Geek and “Best Startup – Gold Category” by Info Security Products Guide. Tim was recently listed as one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in European Technology for 2017.
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Edward Bishop
Co-Founder & CTO of Tessian
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Thomas Adams
Head of Client-Side Engineering and Co-Founder of Tessian
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Qamar Aziz
Founder & CEO of SalesSeek
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About CloudApps, Opsview, SalesSeek, Traackr: All-in-one business CRM platform and hub for your customer data.
Nick Timms
Co-Founder of Drag
Nick Timms is the Co-Founder @ DragApp. He is also the Founder of Whoisvisiting.com, BEAF.com, ReplyUp.com.
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About Drag, Whoisvisiting: The Everything Inbox for teams. One single place to support customers, manage tasks and close deals, from the place teams love – Email.
Ivan Mazour
Co-Founder & CEO of Ometria
Ivan Mazour is a Russian-born, London-based serial entrepreneur, investor and author. He is the CEO and Founder of Ometria – a predictive analytics and marketing platform built specifically for retailers, letting them use data to increase revenues and provide an improved customer experience. Ometria is his seventh company, in a career spanning various industries from property to education – http://www.ometria.com Alongside this main role, he is also the Founding Partner of Innova Kapital – an early stage VC firm investing in UK-based technology startups, including companies like YPlan and organisations like Entrepreneur First – http://www.innovakapital.com As well as holding multiple degrees in Mathematics from Cambridge University, and in Economics from the Open University, Ivan Mazour is the author of a number of books including “Russian Convoys – Memories of the Heart”. His translations of Russian literature have been staged professionally in various cities, and he has been presented with a UNESCO medal for his literary achievements. He regularly speaks at conferences around the world on topics of ecommerce, technology, and investment, and also writes a popular blog called “A Young Entrepreneur in London” – http://www.ivanmazour.com
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Djalal Lougouev
Co-Founder & CSO of Ometria
Djalal Lougouev is a technology entrepreneur with over a decade of experience in management, technology and user-centered design. He is the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Ometria, a predictive ecommerce marketing platform helping online retailers leverage data to drive profitability. Djalal is also the founding partner of Innova Kapital, an early stage VC firm specialising in UK based technology start-ups.
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Antoine Amann
Founder & CEO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
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.
Tony Pepper
Co-Founder & CEO of Egress Software
Tony Pepper co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company. Tony has overseen the company’s rapid expansion, driving innovation and worldwide sales. Tony currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all aspects of business growth and innovation, with particular focus on Sales and Marketing. Pepper has an in-depth understanding of the data security market and prior to Egress held executive management and integration roles at Reflex Magnetics Ltd, Pointsec Mobile Technologies, and Check Point Software Technologies. Over the years, he has presented on a variety of data security-related issues and strategies for mobile computing and best practices surrounding secure data exchange. Pepper holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Politics from Nottingham Trent University. He also holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Liverpool University.
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About Egress Software: Egress is a software company that specializes in human layer security designed to prevent accidental and intentional data breaches.
Neil Larkins
Co-Founder & COO of Egress Software
Neil Larkins co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Operations Officer, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategic direction of the business, with particular emphasis on product and service development. Neil possesses a thorough understanding of the information security market and has helped Egress build a reputation on technological excellence. Working with both corporate and public organisations, he has helped deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet specific requirements for secure data exchange and collaboration, as well as compliance. Prior to Egress, he held executive management positions at Reflex Magnetics, Pointsec Mobile Technologies and Check Point Software Technologies. Neil serves as Chief Technology Officer, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategic technical direction of the business, through product and service development. A regular speaker at information security and technology events, Neil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Manchester.
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About Egress Software: Egress is a software company that specializes in human layer security designed to prevent accidental and intentional data breaches.
Mark Copeman
co-Founder of Customer Thermometer
Having sold his half share of the marketing agency, Twist Media in 2006 and sold his video production agency, 8:45TV in 2014, Mark has moved away from the agency world and gone on to focus on growing his online business. Customer Thermometer was born in December 2010 and now has 1000’s of users all around the world, ranging from the likes of BT, Sonos and Reed Exhibitions, through to dozens of MSPs in the US. Mark founded the service with his business partner, Lindsay Willott and has grown the business organically, without investment. Mark is responsible for Customer Thermometer’s enterprise sales, whilst keeping an interest in developing content and writing around the subject of customer service – something he’s passionate about. With a good grounding in Internet marketing, he has been selling online for the last 10 years. Mark has now consolidated everything he’s learnt into building Customer Thermometer, but thrives on continuing to learn something new every day. Outside of work, Mark enjoys life in Bray, Berkshire (the home of the Fat Duck restaurant) with his wife, son and daughter. He loves to travel and run (when his knees allow) and likes to pretend he’s cooking for Gregg and John in a Masterchef competition, whenever he can.
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About Customer Thermometer: Customer Thermometer is a survey platform focused on real-time, actionable feedback from customers and employees.
Mark Hla
Founder and CEO of Pure360
Mark Hla is Founder and CEO at Pure360.
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About Pure360: Pure360 provides email marketing and SMS software for businesses to access customers via mobile and web devices.
Thomas Dahl Jensen
Founder & CEO of Mojn
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About Mojn: Mojn is now a part of the LiveIntent team.
Eddy Swindell
Co-Founder, CRO of Fresh Relevance
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About Fresh Relevance: The Personalization Platform to Boost ROI. Built to Help Marketers Get Their Jobs Done..
Chris Michael
Co-Founder of Swytch
Chris has been a mobile entrepreneur for over 15 years. His latest venture, Swytch, is getting rid of the work phone by providing employees with their work and personal mobile numbers on one device. Swytch is a disruptive and innovative solution, working with operators across the world to open up their solution to all territories. Chris’s previous companies include one of the main mobile content distributors to the UK market, working directly with operators and other content providers.
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About Swytch: Swytch offers businesses the ability to provide work mobile numbers on their team’s personal phone. Multiple numbers managed on one device.
Ludre Stevens
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of iNBOTiQA
Ludre Stevens is the co-founder and chief product officer at iNBOTiQA.
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About iNBOTiQA: Intelligent Business Email solution
Laura Sullivan
Founder of Larosco
Laura Sullivan is a Founder at Larosco.
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About Information Apps Ltd, Larosco: Larosco is a provider of innovative recommendation and referral digital marketing solutions for the retail and recruitment industry sectors.
David Telford
Founder of Seg
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About Seg: Connecting your ecommerce platform and your website to email.
Andrew Mitchell
Co-Founder of Gisker
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About Brandmovers, Gisker: Gisker is a fun way to receive exclusive brand offers in the form of daily gifts.
Andrew Mitchell
Co-Founder of Gisker
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About Brandmovers, Gisker: Gisker is a fun way to receive exclusive brand offers in the form of daily gifts.
Adrian Apan
Co-Founder of Gisker
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About Gisker: Gisker is a fun way to receive exclusive brand offers in the form of daily gifts.
David Edwards
Co-Founder of Gisker
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About Gisker: Gisker is a fun way to receive exclusive brand offers in the form of daily gifts.
Rob Jenkins
Co-Founder of Gisker
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About Gisker: Gisker is a fun way to receive exclusive brand offers in the form of daily gifts.
Vasileios Pasparas
Founder, CEO of GloboMailer
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About GloboMailer: Email Marketing
Vasileios Pasparas
Founder, CEO of GloboMailer
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About GloboMailer: Email Marketing
Chris Jarvis
Founder of GOtags
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About GOtags: Gotags is a free webapp that allows you to make your posts linkable and send your content.
