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 Managing Director operating in the Apps space. If you think a Managing 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.
Vikas Tripathi
Managing Director of Heliocor
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About Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
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Katherine Ward
Chief Commercial Officer, Managing Director UK & Europe of Healthy.io
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About Healthy.io: Healthy.io converts smartphone cameras into a clinical grade medical device.
Robert Baker
Managing Director, EMEA of First Orion
Robert has been at the forefront of telecom technologies for over 30 years, creating a vision for open networks via APIs that is now widely adopted. He brings First Orion’s cool new applications and services to the European market.
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About First Orion: First Orion allows businesses to brand communications, revealing the who and why behind the call to deliver enhanced customer experiences.
Chris Davies
Managing Director of Global Payments
Chris Davies is Managing Director at Global Payments.
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About Global Payments: Global Payments offers transaction processing services through their high-speed, robust electronic information networks.
Lewis Mutton
Managing Director of SHUFA
Lewis Mutton, 24 is the Founder of SHUFA LTD, a UK based technology firm.
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About SHUFA: Revolutionary Automotive Retail Software
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.
Vernon Dias
Founder and Managing Director of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Chris Sisson
Managing Director of 121 Systems Ltd
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About 121 Systems Ltd: 121 Systems Ltd is a privately held UK-based company that specializes in transport management software.
Stephen Homer
Managing Director of PostSnap
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About PostSnap: We’re PostSnap an independent, privately owned online photo printing service going strong since 2015!
Andrey Dobrynin
Co-Founder and Managing Director of InvestEngine
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About InvestEngine, Larixon Classifieds: InvestEngine is an investment management company that builds smart applications to managed stocks, shares, and general portfolio accounts.
Oliver Waters
Co-founder & Managing Director of d3i
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About d3i, Momento, Protospace: d3i is a software development studio specialising in iPhone/iPad app design and development.
Antonio Giugno
Co-Founder/Managing Director of Portrayt
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About Portrayt: We create digital strategy, experience and engagement.
Diana Campbell
Managing Director of Zoek
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About Zoek: Zoek is the new job search site and app that uses state of the art technology to find you the perfect job match.
Alex Seewald
Founder, Managing Director of Openshadow Ltd
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About Openshadow Ltd: Mobile software development. Research and Development. Project Management.
Martin Hiles
Managing Director of Smartway2
Originally qualified as an Electronic Engineer working in the Nuclear Medicine sector before moving to more Software orientated roles. Martin has 20+ years’ experience of working with Project Management, Cost Control Software, Asset Management and Resource Scheduling software in Marketing, Sales and Support roles. Martin founded BusinessSolve in 2003 and played a key role in the development of the company’s core products and services. He continued to lead the company through many years of growth and profitability, expanding its operations to North America in 2007 and Australia in 2009. Martin has co-founded Smartway2 with his former colleague Nigel Reading and again will be instrumental in the company’s growth and product evolution.
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About Smartway2: Smartway2 is a simple and intuitive way to book workplace resources whilst you’re on the move.
Fintan Connolly
Managing Director of TakeTen
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About TakeTen: Take Ten is a stress control training app that’s designed to give you a head start.
Fintan Connolly
Managing Director of TakeTen
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About TakeTen: Take Ten is a stress control training app that’s designed to give you a head start.
Andy Greener
Founder & Managing Director of Komodo Design
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About Komodo Design: We help great teams build exceptional digital products that people prefer to use.
Costas Pantelides
Managing Director of Process System Enterprise
Costas Pantelides has been the Managing Director of PSE since 2005. He was one of the original founders of the company, and has also served as its Technology Director since the establishment of the company in 1997. Costas holds B.Sc.(Eng.) and PhD degrees from Imperial College London and an MS degree from MIT. He is the author of over 100 scientific papers on the design and implementation of general-purpose process modelling tools, numerical methods for large-scale simulation and optimisation, and molecular modelling. He is currently also a part-time professor of Chemical Engineering at Imperial. Costas has more than 25 years’ experience in process modelling technology, having played a leading role in the development of the gPROMS® and SPEEDUP technologies. His contributions to process systems engineering were honoured by the 1998 Beilby Medal and Prize, awarded jointly by the UK Society of Chemical Industry, the Royal Society of Chemistry and the Institute of Materials. In 2007, he led the winning team for the Royal Academy of Engineering MacRobert Award, the UK’s most prestigious prize for engineering innovation.
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About Process System Enterprise: Process System Enterprise offers process modeling software and model-based innovation services for the process industries.
Matt Roskill
Managing Director of Albion
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About Albion, Utility Warehouse: We are a creative business partner. We work with companies to invent and reinvent their businesses to unlock growth.
Ray Bryant
Chairman and Managing Director, CEO of Idappcom
Ray started working life in a firm of London chartered accountants, qualified as Chartered Company Secretary in 1979. His career in I.T. started at the Control Data Corporation, in finance, production and logistics. Ray spent fifteen years with Ciba Geigy Switzerland, working on Finance and ERP software implementations in the UK, USA, Saudi Arabia, Greece, Turkey and the Philippines. Ray also worked at SSA Global Technologies as a financial systems consultant culminating in the creation of an independent compliance company, SLA Management Services (Barham Group) which Ray headed as chairman and managing director. The Barham Group, during the next six years, grew to service many I.T. companies including one of the largest IBM mid range, UNIX, ERP and CRM software providers in the world. Ray took the company from start up to successful sale in 2008.
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About Idappcom: Idappcom supplied software and hardware that enhances network security, reducing risk and lowering cost of ownership of devices.
Andy Walters
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Quartix
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About Quartix: Quartix provides vehicle tracking systems and devices for site and field services, transportation, security, and other industries.
Rupert Graves
Managing Director of AdUnity
20 years commercial and product experience in digital media, mobile and advertising, with deep domain experience in programmatic advertising and media trading. Sector Experience in: Advertising, Digital Media, Mobile/Fixed Line Telecoms, Broadcast TV, Consumer Electronics, SaaS. This includes B2C and B2B marketing and product development. Worked extensively with media brands: Disney, Discovery, National Geographic. Product development for BT and Vodafone
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About AdUnity: Pure-play publisher focused ad technology company. Our technology platform includes an SSP and ad exchange.
Gary Frost
Managing Director of 51zero
Gary Frost, owner and Managing Director of 51zero has over 20 years in IT and technical development experience. With an exceptional knowledge of financial services and investment banking internationally Gary focuses on within budget delivery of critical projects as well as influencing and creating agile teams that productively work together. Getting to the heart of problems quickly and communicating effectively are mainstays of Gary’s approach.
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About 51zero: Software Development Consultancy
Robert Stoubos
Owner & Managing Director of Odyssey New Media Ltd
With over 16+ years of experience in Digital Marketing I have become a results-driven marketer with the skills required to successfully implement cross-channel digital marketing campaigns that generate increased brand awareness, sales and ROI. In 2010 I founded Odyssey New Media – a leading full service Digital Marketing in Birmingham, UK. Specialising in SEO, PPC, Social Media, Inbound Marketing, Conversion Enhancement and more. If you want to improve your sales, increase sales leads and grow your customer base then contact us today and see what we can do to help your company acheive your goals. Call us now on 0844 500 6911.
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About Odyssey New Media Ltd: Leading full service Digital Marketing Agency, based in Birmingham, UK.
Iain McLean
Managing Director, Founder of Musations
Iain has over 150 apps submitted to the apps stores and over 100 Million downloads to his name, Iain is a serious developer with an eye for new technology and the Internet of things!
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About CarryCado, Musations: Mutations is a social media messaging platform that enables its users to share their inner most feelings through music.
Sean McClellan
Managing Director of Click Together
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About Click Together: Click Together develops apps to help people personalize their experiences online and enhance how they interact with friends and colleagues.
Thelma Kalentzoti
Founder, Managing Director of Shoutcube
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About Shoutcube: Shoutcube is a chat app that will change the way the user communicates.
Chris May
Founder & Managing Director of Mayden
The founder and managing director of Mayden. Formerly from a manufacturing background he has dedicated his career to the healthcare sector for the last 21 years, initially as a hospital manager and then as a management consultant specialising in information analysis and modelling to support strategic reviews and business cases. Chris is passionate about maximising the opportunities presented by the internet both to provide joined up healthcare and to increase the cost-effectiveness of healthcare IT. This is now his primary area of interest.
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About Mayden: Mayden provides end-to-end managed web applications and bespoke system development to the healthcare sector.
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
Neil Lewin
Owner, Managing Director and Web Developer of Semantic
Neil Lewin is the owner, managing director and a web developer at Semantic.
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About Semantic: Semantic is a web agency that uses design, technology and psychology to help clients sell products, services and ideas.
Adam Urwin
Managing Director & CEO of Instronaut
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About Instronaut: Instronaut is a service (Instagram bot) that helps in sky rocketing your Instagram activities like Instagram likes, followers & comments.
