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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 Manager operating in the Cloud Computing space. If you think a Manager 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.
Mike Nayler
District Manager, Government & Defence of Dell EMC
Mike Nayler is a District Manager, Government & Defence at EMC.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
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Chris Massey
Product Manager of The Access Group
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Neil MacDougall
Technical Software Development Manager of SUSE
Neil MacDougall. Senior Software Engineering Manager, SUSE.
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About SUSE: SUSE provides reliable and interoperable Linux and cloud infrastructure solutions that give enterprises greater control and flexibility.
Zoe Vance
Senior Product Manager, RabbitMQ for Cloud Foundry of Pivotal
Zoe Vance is a Product Manager of RabbitMQ and Redis for Pivotal Cloud Foundry. Previously she was Director of Product of a Y Combinator startup creating a tool for developers to create APIs from any website, and prior to that she worked for McKinsey & Co. Zoe holds a MSc from Imperial College in CS and a BS from Stanford University in Mechanical Engineering. In her spare time, Zoe likes to read fiction and nerd out on economics podcasts.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Chisara Nwabara
R&D Technical Program Manager of Pivotal
Chisa is a Service & Product Specialist experienced in helping enterprises across diverse industries and stages of development improve their operational performance and capabilities through the application of evidence-based programme management methodologies. As Pivotal’s Research & Development Technical Program Manager in London, she works across various product teams to make feedback loops and communication more effective through the use of experimentation, process engineering and service design. As Pivotal’s EMEA Diversity and Inclusion Co-Lead, Chisa supports the EMEA region in continuously improving Pivotal’s organisational culture to be more psychologically safe and equally opportunistic for Pivots. This work also entails building bridges between Pivotal and local communities, as well as being a representative face in public spaces where Chisa works to be visible to peers and those looking for role models that she found where lacking in the earlier stages of her tech career.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Wilcock
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Spring of Pivotal
Ben Wilcock is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal Labs and helps Pivotal’s Fortune 500 clients to go cloud-native using the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Ben has a passion for CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, cloud, and mobile applications. He’s also an established technology blogger whose articles have featured in DZone, Java Code Geeks, InfoQ, The Spring Blog and more.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Der Hans
Engineering Manager of Canonical
der.hans is the founder of the Free Software Stammtisch, chairman for the Phoenix Linux Users Group and a repeat speaker at SCaLE. He is an engineering manager at Canonical and former community college instructor. In his free time he likes to camp, learn about sustainable culture and annually not set himself on fire.
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About Canonical: Canonical is a computer software company that markets commercial support and related services for Ubuntu and related projects.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Dan Chester
Unstructured Data Solutions Manager – UK Enterprise & Public Sector of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Stuart Gilks
Systems Engineering Manager of Cohesity
Stuart is responsible for SimpliVity’s Technical Services in the UK & Ireland through both SimpliVity Field staff and a network of SimpliVity authorised partners. Designing & implementing HyperConverged solutions to meet & exceed customer requirements from distributed Remote Offices, to Data Centers, from Test & Dev to VDI to Tier 1 Apps is all in a day’s work for SimpliVity Solution Architects. Stuart is an industry veteran having spent over 20 years at Open Systems Vendors including most recently European Director for NetApp Systems Engineering.
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About Cohesity, Simplivity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Stuart Gilks
Systems Engineering Manager of Cohesity
Stuart is responsible for SimpliVity’s Technical Services in the UK & Ireland through both SimpliVity Field staff and a network of SimpliVity authorised partners. Designing & implementing HyperConverged solutions to meet & exceed customer requirements from distributed Remote Offices, to Data Centers, from Test & Dev to VDI to Tier 1 Apps is all in a day’s work for SimpliVity Solution Architects. Stuart is an industry veteran having spent over 20 years at Open Systems Vendors including most recently European Director for NetApp Systems Engineering.
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About Cohesity, Simplivity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Wayne Lloyd
Senior Manager – Digital Business Transformation / Blockchain / AI Company Name of Publicis Sapient
Having spent the vast majority of his career providing centralised technology solutions to investment banks and large corporate companies around the world, Wayne now advocates the adoption of decentralised ways of working since discovering blockchain in early 2016. As the official UK Ambassador for EOS Nation, Wayne represents the worlds most cutting edge blockchain technology project, specifically designed for enterprise adoption. A member of the Blockchain Council and a Founder Member of The Oxford University Blockchain Foundation, Wayne believes society is approaching the era of the democratization of value through tokenisation and as the Blockchain & Crypto asset advisor for the largest Digital Marketing Agency in the world Wayne presents’ thought leadership to how this event horizon is set to disrupt multiple industries in the not too distant future.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
Monica Vooght
Cloud Engagement Manager of Cloudreach
Monica has over 10 years’ experience leading and enabling organisations to deliver business value through complex technology change programmes in technology, banking, defence and public sectors. She is currently managing the delivery of an AWS Landing Zone and Hub & Spoke solution for one of the world’s largest oil & gas companies. Monica’s areas of interest include AWS, GCP and agile. In her spare time, Monica enjoys hanging out with her family and reading literary masterpieces like ‘A Squash and a Squeeze’ to her daughter, whilst also eagerly awaiting the arrival of her second child.
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About Cloudreach: Cloudreach is a Global cloud enabler with extensive experience across all industries, workloads and use cases.
Mandi Walls
Technical Community Manager, EMEA of Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Director of Consulting, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. Prior to joining Chef, she ran large web properties for AOL, including AOL.com, Games.com and Moviefone. Mandi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from GWU and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences and is the author of “Building a DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Craig Beddis
CEO of Hadean
An entrepreneurial senior executive with 25 successful years and experience grounded in building and transforming business and accelerating growth.
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About Hadean: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
Adam Shillcock
Manager, Sales Engineering UK&I of Datto
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About Datto: Datto provides backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions to managed service providers worldwide.
Adam Shillcock
Manager, Sales Engineering UK&I of Datto
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About Datto: Datto provides backup, recovery, and business continuity solutions to managed service providers worldwide.
Imran Idrees
Sr. Product Marketing Manager of Meraki
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About Meraki: Meraki provides Cisco-based, cloud-controlled Wi-Fi and routing and security products for distributed wired and wireless networks.
James Harris
Product Manager of ZyXEL
James Harris is a product director at Zyxel Communications responsible for the service provider division of the business. He has worked in the industry for the past 16 years specialising in internet access and wireless technologies and their respective markets. In his personal time James enjoys mountain biking and spending time with his wife and three children.
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About ZyXEL: ZyXEL Communications Corp., founded in 1989, is the world-class networking company providing innovative and reliable Internet solutions.
Louise Chawich
Operations Manager of BookingLive
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About BookingLive: BookingLive provides powerful scheduling, reservation and purchasing experiences that create profitable customer relationships.
Suzanne Clitheroe
Project Management Office Manager of Cloud Direct
Suzanne understands what it means to provide great customer service. With experience in managing corporate and SME clients, her ability to see what it’s like to be the customer is appreciated by all.
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About Cloud Direct: Cloud Direct is a Cloud-based IT services company.
Martin Hodgson
Country Manager, UK and Ireland of Paessler
Martin Hodgson has worked in the IT industry for over 25 years in a variety of technical and commercial roles. Along with his extensive experience in many areas of technology, he has an ability to break down and communicate sometimes complex technologies in simple terms. His engaging and humorous public speaking style, delivering a presentation that is light on vendor speak, and peppered with real life examples and anecdotes, make this a must-see session for all IT administrators, managers and directors interested in regaining control of their IT infrastructure and significantly reducing costs.
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About Paessler: Paessler’s network monitoring solutions provide peace of mind, confidence and convenience at a price you can afford.
Peter Hoffman
Manager Sales Engineering of Demandware
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About Demandware, Salesforce: Demandware provides enterprise cloud commerce solutions that empower world’s leading retailers to continuously innovate.
Lee Brant
Senior Account Manager & New Business Development of Serchen
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About Serchen: The recognised leader in matching buyers and sellers of Online Services.
Steven Booth
Product Manager, Services of Flow XO
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About Flow XO: Everything you need to build bots – Build, host & manage bots in one platform
Neal Michie
Product Manager of Inside Secure
Neal Michie is Product Manager at Inside Secure for Code Protection; where he oversees Inside Secure’s foundational security products for protecting and hardening software applications. These are used by the largest players across industries that put security front-and-center, including IoT, content streaming, finance and health care. With a background in software engineering, Neal has spent the last decade building secure software solutions. These include the first to be fully certified by both Mastercard and Visa. This experience has led to Neal being an active participant in influential industry forums.
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About Inside Secure: Meontrust provides banking grade security for online identities and payments.
Jon Hall
Principal Product Manager of BMC Software
Based in the UK, Jon has worked in Service Management for over 20 years, focusing primarily on the development and alignment of tools and practices. He joined BMC in 2008, where he is currently Principal Product Manager for BMC Helix ITSM. A moderniser, user experience devotee, and DevOps advocate, his work on the alignment of DevOps and Service Management has been cited by leading DevOps figures such as Gene Kim. Jon is a contributing author for the new ITIL 4 framework and a regular presenter at conferences spanning ITSM, DevOps and IT Asset Management.
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About BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Chris Wilkinson
Global Training & Quality Manager of Epos Now
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About Epos Now: Epos Now is a privately held company that provides cloud software for any business.
Kristy Roff
Customer & Partner Relationship Manager of add3
Every successful business needs someone like Kristy, an essential cog and link between both Danny and Andy who run the business, the teams that are delivering the projects and services and the clients who’s needs are being met. Kristy is a driven individual who is always looking to make a positive difference, bringing a calm and cool yet organised approach to ensuring momentum is maintained on all partner and client engagements. At the heart of the business Kristy has shaped the core business processes to ensure the clients expectations are always fully met – high customer retension is a testament to this approach.
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About add3: add3 is a U.K.-based company that offers its users with application transformation and cloud migration services.
