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 Board Member operating in the Software space. If you think a Board Member 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.
Terry Taylor
Board Member & CCO of The Access Group
Terry joined Access from Salesforce, where he spent four and a half years leading Customer Success. He has been a member of Salesforce EMEA and the Worldwide CSG leadership team. Formerly with Microsoft, AT&T and Citibank, Terry brings a wealth of leadership experience in fast growing and well established global technology brands.
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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.
David Carratt
Board Member of Falcon.io
David is one of Europe’s experts on e-commerce and online marketing analytics. He was on the worldwide and European board of Sybase’s professional services business, while the company’s headcount grew from 100 to 1500 in just four years. He was also the first institutional investor in Cramer systems, sold in 2006 for one of the highest cash prices ever paid for a European software business. When David is not creating or building businesses, he enjoys long distance walking, skiing and sailing
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About : Falcon.io provides an SaaS platform that allows marketing departments to create, launch and measure social media campaigns in real time.
Jeff Burde
Board Member of EVRYTHNG
Jeff has over 20 years of experience as an international finance leader across diverse investments and geographies. He is an active investor in marketing technology companies that connect brands and advertisers directly with consumers. Jeff also serves as Vice Chairman – Head of the Americas of personalized video start-up Idomoo Inc. and Board Director of media and measurement platform TruEffect. Previously in his role as the Managing Director Asia Pacific for Merrill Lynch, he oversaw key businesses spanning Japan, Hong Kong and Singapore.
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About : EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Doug Swanson
Strategic Advisor and Board Member of Malwarebytes
Doug Swanson is the Vice President of Development at Malwarebytes. Along with CEO and founder Marcin Kleczynski, Doug got his start in online anti-malware communities, helping to keep the malware forces of darkness at bay. He joined Malwarebytes in 2008 and built most of the original technology in Malwarebytes Anti-Malware, including the core scanning engine, kernel-level detection and removal technology, and the realtime protection module. Doug currently manages all client development at Malwarebytes and supervises the ever-growing development team. Doug holds a B.S. in Physics from Yale University, and an M.S. in Physics from Princeton University.
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About : Cybersecurity solution that protects people and businesses against dangerous threats such as malware, ransomware, and exploits
Sudhir Chaturvedi
President & Executive Board Member of L&T Infotech
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About L&T Infotech: LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 250 clients succeed in a converging world.
David Axmark
Board Member of import.io
David Axmark is one of the founders of [MySQL AB](/organization/mysql) and a developer of the free database server, MySQL. He has been involved with MySQL development from its beginning along with the fellow co-founder [Michael Widenius](/person/michael-widenius/).
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About : import.io offers a Web Data Integration solution that provides global businesses with high-quality, scalable data from the web.
Paul Field
Board Member, Advisor and Investor of Inn Style Ltd
CEO EMEA, TouchCast. Partner, bMuse. Director, Higgaboom. Advisor, Dugout. Advisor to Amaliah and Lead Investor. Board Member and Investor, Inn Style Ltd. Investor, The Memo. Ignite Accelerator Investor and Mentor. Free Word Board Member. Consultant. Ex Daily Mail executive
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About : Inn Style is an intelligent, easy-to-use property management system for hotels, inns, B&Bs and self-catering properties.
Xavier Bellouard
Co-Founder, Managing Director & Board Member of ActiveViam
Xavier Bellouard is Managing Director of ActiveViam and one of its founders. Based in London, Xavier manages the UK operations and oversees the commercial efforts of the company across EMEA and Asia/Pacific. Before founding ActiveViam, Xavier was a key contributor to the development of Summit Systems, a software vendor of applications for front-office operations and trading desks. Xavier is passionate about the contribution that ActiveViam’s technology can make to the bottom-line of companies operating in highly demanding and complex markets. “Their bottom-up, experience-driven approach to innovation is a fundamental component of the company’s DNA. Since ActiveViam was created in 2005, they have valued it as a prerequisite to delivering cutting-edge technology to their clients”.
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
John Powell
Board Member of Alfresco
John Powell is the former CEO and current board member of Alfresco Software. He is also a board member of Dataloop.io. Previously, John was COO of Business Objects and a sales executive at Oracle Software.
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About : Alfresco is an enterprise open-source software company that automates content centric processes for digital business.
Andrea Mainardi
Board Member and EMEA Strategic Partnership Manager of Sensoria
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About : Sensoria designs, develops, and produces body-sensing wearable devices.
Andrea Mainardi
Board Member and EMEA Strategic Partnership Manager of Sensoria
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About : Sensoria designs, develops, and produces body-sensing wearable devices.
Michael Langguth
Board Member of Poq
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About Carbon13, Foundervine, ICE List: Poq offers a SAAS platform to help large retailers join app commerce.
Paul Farnell
Co-Founder & Board Member of Litmus
Paul Farnell is the CEO & Co-Founder of Litmus. After moving the company across the pond, Paul has come to love Boston and driving on the right side of the road. He can often be found anyplace with a good charcuterie plate.
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About Any One Thing, Litmus: Litmus is a testing and QA service for email marketers.
Michael Hitchcock
Board Member of Mettrr
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About : Mettrr designs, builds and manages professional websites tailored to your small business.
Amy Weatherup
Board Member of Audio Analytic
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About : Audio Analytic creates exceptional human experiences through giving consumer technology a greater sense of hearing.
Dan Hennessy
Board Member of Benu Networks
Director Technical Strategy & Architecture at Virgin Media.
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About Liberty Global, Virgin Media: Benu Networks is a leading software and solutions provider, simplifying the industry’s most complex edge networks.
Juha Uotila
Board Member of Hookle
Juha is Associate Professor of Strategic Management at Warwick Business School, one of the leading business schools in the UK. An internationally recognized scholar with expertise in innovation and platform strategies, Juha serves on Hookle’s board as a non-executive director and strategy advisor.
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About Warwick Business School: Hookle is super easy social media marketing app for small businesses (SaaS, B2B).
David Gales
Board Member of Voxpopme
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About : Voxpopme is the world’s #1 video insight solution. We build great brands, products, and experiences with agile video feedback.
David Guyatt
Board Member, Co-Founder & CEO of Osirium
Co-founder of Osirium, the management team is led by David Guyatt, who has over 25 years’ experience in turning next generation IT products into successful technology businesses. He is a recognized pioneer in establishing the content security software market, being a co-founder and CEO of MIMEsweeper, which became the recognized world leader in content security solutions, with a 40% global market share. Previously, he was Sales & Marketing Director at Integralis from 1990-1996, as it established itself as the Europe’s leading IT Security integrator.
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About Osirium: Osirium prevents attacks on Privileged Accounts by separating people from passwords.
Simon Beeching
Board Member of Syntec
After studying modern languages at Oxford and business administration at INSEAD in France, Simon joined the executive board of the Thomson Holidays Group. As managing director of three well-known travel businesses he gained client-side experience of contact centre management in this fast-moving consumer industry. After setting up a marketing and sustainability consultancy, he became chairman of an international e-learning company and also Visiting Industry Professor at Regent”s Business School London, Simon was appointed as an executive director of Syntec in 2011, to support growth and strategic development in leading-edge contact centre management solutions. Beyond work Simon enjoys family travels; ski-ing; tennis; and playing the flute and saxophone.
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About : Syntec provides a fully integrated suite of telephony and software solutions, enabling efficient.
Daniel McRitchie
Board Member of PlaceSpeak
Daniel McRitchie is the CEO at SciLeads.
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About SciLeads: Location-based smart city citizen engagement
Anthony Day
Co-Founder & Board Member of CloudApps
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Scott Sullivan
Board Member of CyberCity 3D, Inc.
Scott Sullivan is President and on the CyberCity 3D Board of Directors. As such, he lends his proficiencies in business and accounting to assist in the Company’s operations. Mr. Sullivan, an Australian Chartered Accountant, has worked in London as an Investment banker and subsequently sold a successful consultancy firm. He now invests in disruptive innovative companies, at the same time providing financial and management advice to them. An accomplished entrepreneur, he’s behind the advancement of numerous companies, utilizing his knowledge of running and structuring them. Mr. Sullivan also acts as a Director for City Athletic Limited and the Dorking Lawn Tennis and Squash Club Limited.
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About CyberCity 3D, Inc.: CyberCity 3D, Inc. is a state-of-the-art, 3D geospatial modeling company specializing in emerging GIS and SaaS solutions.
Paul Pascoe
Board Member of Idea Drop
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About : Idea Drop helps organisations capture, curate and action the best ideas from their people.
Derrick Dale QC
Board Member of Idea Drop
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About : Idea Drop helps organisations capture, curate and action the best ideas from their people.
Steve Pashley
Co-Founder, Board Member & Managing Director – Business of Health2Works
Co-founder of Health2Works 25 years experience in consulting to the NHS Curious, resilient and committed to making a difference to people’s lives, health and wellbeing
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About Health2Works: Health2Works, an innovative software company.
Phillip Barnes
Board Member of Hudman Solutions
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About : Hudman Solutions is an award winning SaaS ERP software solution, cost-effective for small businesses.
Phillip Barnes
Board Member of Hudman Solutions
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About : Hudman Solutions is an award winning SaaS ERP software solution, cost-effective for small businesses.
Prof Andrew Zisserman FRS
Scientific Advisory Board Member of Optellum
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About : Optellum develops an imaging biomarker for smart lung cancer detection.
Antonio Latorre
Management Board Member / Cofounder of Big Data Scoring
Founder at Big Data Scoring.
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About Big Data Scoring: The leading big data credit scoring solutions provider globally for banks, telecoms and other lenders
Jim Comerford
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Technology Officer of Traceall Global
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About Traceall Global: Traceall Global Limited operate and trade on an international scale, delivering state of the art web data management solutions for tracking.
Mac Smith
Board Member of hetras
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About : hetras develops hotel management software and internet-based applications for the global hotel industry.
Mac Smith
Board Member of hetras
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About : hetras develops hotel management software and internet-based applications for the global hotel industry.
David Murray
Co-Founder, Board Member & CEO of Kirona
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About Kirona: Kirona is a provider of field force automation solutions.
