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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 Director operating in the Cloud Management space. If you think a Director 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.
Simon Marsh
Marketing Procurement Director of Dell EMC
Simon has been at Dell EMC since 2010 as a procurement manager for indirect spend, and is now Marketing Procurement Director. Previously he was at BP.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Chris De Vere
MSP Director, EMEA of VMware
Chris Vere is a MSP Director, EMEA at VMware.
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Charles Barratt
Director Digital Workspace Pursuits, EMEA of VMware
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About VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Richard Munro
Director, Global Cloud Strategy of VMware
Richard is the Global Cloud Strategy Director for VMware. In this leadership role, Richard’s scope is to align VMware products and services to the objectives and challenges organisations are facing with cloud and digital transformation. This includes developing executive and c-level content to both educate and inform at a general level, and articulate the value proposition of VMware Cloud capability as part of the VMware Cross-Cloud architecture. With more than 25 years of experience in the industry, Richard has a strong technical background in cloud infrastructure, being an evangelist for next generation IT Services, cloud transformation, cloud native applications (e.g. CI/CD, Containers, Serverless, etc) and Wardley mapping. Throughout his career, he had been instrumental in both business and IT transformation programmes for a number of global organisations.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Victoria Reddington
Director of Partner Strategy, EMEA of VMware
Victoria Reddington is a Director of Partner Strategy, EMEA at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Simone Warren
Director of Alibaba Cloud
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About Alibaba Cloud: Alibaba Cloud develops highly scalable cloud computing and data management services.
Mark Finn
Account Director – UK & Ireland of ScienceLogic
A technology professional with 27 years of experience, who’s career spans from customer to vendor and from technical to sales right across the technology sector. Before entering the world of sales Mark was busy shaping the Service Assurance strategies for companies such as MCI WorldCom, Level(3) & Telewest Communications. Now he is busy helping companies to develop more agile, automated, efficient Operations and going to market with new Business Services through their partnership with ScienceLogic and its Unified Service Assurance platform.
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About ScienceLogic: ScienceLogic is a provider of AI-driven monitoring solutions for hybrid cloud management.
Michael Gollner
Independent Director of Axway
Michael S. Gollner is the Founder of Operating Capital Partners LLP. He has served at Court Square Capital Partners and Citigroup Venture Capital, after working for ten years in European Mergers and Acquisitions Investment Banking at Goldman Sachs International and Lehman Brothers International.
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About Axway, Madison Sports Group: Axway provides multi-enterprise cloud integration and API and identity management software.
Andrew Smith
Business Development Director of 4me
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About 4me: 4me is an IT and Enterprise Service Management & Workflow application, providing complete visibility and control of service cost & quality.
Charlie Hudson
Managing Director of Firemind
Entrepreneur – Creative, experienced innovator and leader of analytics with a plethora of skills to help C-level executives make informed decisions through the visualisation of insight nuggets buried in copious amounts of data.
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
Ahmed Nuaman
Managing Director of Firemind
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About Firemind, Firemind Ventures, Scout Solutions, Upcoming: AWS Advanced Partner specialising in professional cloud services, AWS strategy, data focused projects and AI/ML innovation.
James Ormondroyd
Group Finance Director of Netcall
James Ormondroyd was appointed to the Netcall Board on the acquisition of Telephonetics plc on 30 July 2010 where James Ormondroyd served as the Finance Director and Company Secretary for 5 years. Previously James Ormondroyd was the Finance Director and Company Secretary at World Television Group plc. James Ormondroyd is a member of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Jim Woodcock
Account Director of Netcall
Jim Woodcock is Account Director at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall, Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
David Parram
Account Director of Netcall
David Parram is Account Director at Netcall.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Ryan Gibbs
Programme Director of Netcall
Ryan Gibbs is Head of PMO at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Michael Neville
Member of the Board of Directors of Netcall
Michael Neville was appointed to the Netcall Board on 30 July 2010 following the acquisition of Telephonetics plc where Michael Neville served as a Non-Executive Chairman from July 2005. Michael Neville has extensive experience in capital markets and serves as a Non-Executive Director for a number of AIM quoted companies. His background is in the telecommunications, technology and media arena.
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About : Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Mark Ive
Operations Director of Netcall
Mark Ive is Operations Director at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Neil Kennedy
Service Delivery Director of Netcall
Neil Kennedy is Service Delivery Director at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Andrew Walker
Account Director of Netcall
Andrew Walker is Account Director at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Samuel Roddis
Development Director of Netcall
Samuel Roddis is Development Director at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Samuel Roddis
Development Director of Netcall
Samuel Roddis is Development Director at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
David Amps
Director of Customer Solutions of Netcall
David Amps is Director of Customer Solutions at Netcall Plc.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Sam Fuller
Customer Success Director of Content Guru
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About Content Guru: Content Guru is a multi-award-winning provider of cloud-based communication solutions, delivering services through storm.
Gareth Williams
Founder & Non-Executive Director of YellowDog
Gareth hounds the YellowDog kennel, spearheading the vision to build a world where people do more, create more, discover more; unleashed from limited computing power. Following an MEng in Information Systems Engineering from the University of Durham, Gareth cut his canines working in software and telecoms at companies including Orange, Experian QAS, FREEDOM4 and Arieso, where he was part of the Management Team that completed the successful sale of the company to JDSU in March 2013 for $85m. One day he had a brilliant idea for using spare mobile capacity which, following a chat with someone in the animation department at the University of the West of England, gave birth to what is now YellowDog. When not coming up with brilliant ideas, he is a dad, a keen cyclist, an ardent reader, a Samaritans Listening Volunteer. He also likes ale and talking to anyone (usually together). You can email Gareth on gareth@yellowdog.co or phone +44 (0) 330 223 2499.
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About YellowDog: Helping businesses power their innovations with the most scalable cloud native scheduling and provisioning technology.
Kev Emery
Director of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
Kev Emery is the Head of Optimization and Certification within the Chip Centre of Excellence at Discover. In this role, Kev is responsible for certification, outsourcing and managing various products within the Chip Centre of Excellence. Kev has spent nearly 15 years working in the payments Industry and has had various roles for payment schemes and technology vendors supporting Acquirers, Issuers and Merchants.
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About Underwriters Laboratories (UL): UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment,
Kev Emery
Director of Underwriters Laboratories (UL)
Kev Emery is the Head of Optimization and Certification within the Chip Centre of Excellence at Discover. In this role, Kev is responsible for certification, outsourcing and managing various products within the Chip Centre of Excellence. Kev has spent nearly 15 years working in the payments Industry and has had various roles for payment schemes and technology vendors supporting Acquirers, Issuers and Merchants.
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About Underwriters Laboratories (UL): UL is a global independent safety science company offering expertise across five key strategic businesses: Product Safety, Environment,
Torquato Bertani
Member Board of Directors of Tanaza
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About : The cloud platform for IT professionals to operate Wi-Fi networks
Alexis Williams
Director of Project Management Operations of Welligent
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About Welligent: Welligent is a cloud-based electronic health records (EHR) provider.
Allan Jackson
Non Executive Director of AppScore Technology
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About AppScore Technology: AppScore Technology delivers an application-centric perspective of the portfolio and automates portfolio evaluation against the 7Rs.
Johnathan Wates
Director of Managed Services of Acora Ltd
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About Acora Ltd: Delivering outsourced IT services and IT managed services to mid-market businesses requiring agility, performance and profitability.
Paul Kiveal
Sales & Marketing Director of String Computer Systems
Technology is transforming organisations. With the pace of change happening at near exponential rates; organisations need to let go of the old models and embrace change. Paul’s Job at Cetus Solutions is to help business leaders to recognise and to embrace this, to see that technology is not a threat but is, instead, a means to achieve an advantage.
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About String Computer Systems: String Computer Systems is a business-technologists design, build and support solutions that deliver Microsoft modern workplaces.
