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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 Public Relations 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.
Dhruv Ghulati
Co-Founder and CEO of Factmata
Dhruv holds a Distinction in Computer Science and Machine Learning from University College London, and a 1st Class BSc in Economics from the LSE. He was a product manager and co-founder of two London based machine intelligence startups, and is an Entrepreneur First alum and Forbes 30 Under 30 leader in Technology. He wrote his thesis in cost-sensitive classification and distant supervision for statistical claim detection.
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About Factmata: Factmata is an artificial intelligence company for automated content understanding..
Laura Kornelija Inamedinova
Founder and CEO of LKI Consulting
Laura K. Inamedinova is communications and branding expert that has her own PR agency. Laura helps companies understand what are their marketing goals and what kind of communication they seek and later on, if needed, implement it. Her primary focus is technology, fin tech and IT industries. Among her client list there are million dollar valuation companies. Miss Inamedinova also shares her expertise about startups in her columns at Forbes and Huffington Post. Besides that, she frequently appears in local and international conferences where she touches important issues like, advocating for bigger women involvement in the technology sector. She has been quoted in various publications, such as Huffington Post, Entrepreneur, Venture Beat, etc. Laura has also been actively involved in various NGOs – she is a member of World Economic Forum Global Shapers Vilnius hub and Lithuanian Marketing Association. Laura holds a Bachelor of Physics from Vilnius University. During her time in the university she was a member of Physics faculty student association.
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About LKI Consulting: International marketing, PR and communications agency focusing on fintech, crypto and ICOs.
Martin Arumemi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of EE
Arumemi-Ikhide is the MD and Founder of EE. He also serves as the MD of Hansworth Ltd and General Manager of Engineering for Rockson Engineering. In both Hansworth and Rockson Engineering he is responsible for the leadership, execution and construction of the 4 NIPP power plants in FGN. He has lead the firm to the successful commissioning of the first phase of the 1074MW Alaoji CCGT plant. He is also progressing the completion of the 225MW Omoku, 225MW Gbarain and 338MW Egbema OCGT also based in FGN. Prior to joining Hansworth, Dr Arumemi-Ikhide worked for GE Power and Water for more than seven years as a Senior Project Manager, overseeing the execution of several landmark projects. At GE he was the Project Manager for two combined cycle plants that were using GE 9FB based in Spain and Turkey notably. Whilst at GE, he was on the fast track of the firm’s world renowned leadership programme. Dr Arumemi-Ikhide holds a Doctorate of Philosophy in Electrical Engineering from Warwick University. He also holds a Bachelor of Engineering in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from University of Birmingham. He possesses and is attending a number of business management executive courses including leadership programme from Boston University and is currently completing a leadership programme at Oxford University Business School.
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About EE, Rockson Engineering: EE is a telecommunications company that provides 4G mobile and fixed fiber broadband services to personal and business customers.
David Kershaw
Co-Founder ,CEO & Exec Director of M&C Saatchi
David Kershaw is a founding director of M&C Saatchi. He joined Saatchi & Saatchi in 1982 after obtaining an MBA at London Business School. He became managing director in 1990 and was made chairman and chief executive of the UK agency in 1994.
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About M&C Saatchi: M&C Saatchi Group is a creative company that connects specialist expertise, fuelled by data and technology.
Jenny Scott
Founder Partner of Apella Advisors
She was appointed Executive Director, Communications in July 2014. Prior to that Jenny was the Adviser to the Governor for a year, following a two year absence from the Bank to look after her young family. Jenny was previously the Executive Director, Communications from July 2008 to April 2011.
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About Apella Advisors, Pro Bono Economics: Apella Advisors is a distinctive independent advisory firm created to meet the needs of today’s organisations.
Leanne Tritton
Founder , Managing Director ,Principal & Owner of ING Media
Founder and managing director of ING. Leanne has worked in Australia, the USA and the UK. Over the last 15 years, she, along with her team has built ING into the recognised leader in PR and Communications for the architecture, design, regeneration and property sectors. ING’s clients are based all over the world and the team currently speaks 13 languages. She is a regular speaker and writer on communications and how it can impact business. Leanne is a trustee of Article 25 and also the Chair of Governors at Hoxton Garden Primary. She was previously Chair of Governors at Orchard Primary School and sat on the Interim Executive Board at Daubeney Primary School. All three schools are in Hackney where she lives.
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About ING Media: ING Media is an architecture, property and design-focused PR and communications agency.
Stefania Barbaglio
Director & Founder of Cassiopeia Services
Stefania Barbaglio is the Founder and Director of Cassiopeia Services. She is a London-based entrepreneur, business strategist, and well-recognized PR and Investor Relations expert.
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About Cassiopeia Services: Cassiopeia Services is a public and investor relation consultancy firm.
Cameron Gordon
CTO and Co-Founder of OnePulse
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About OnePulse: OnePulse is a mobile app that connects people and businesses with opinions and reward them through PayPal.
Max Tatton-Brown
Founder and MD of Augur Communications
Max founded Augur to re-engineer PR and help B2B tech companies earn the attention they were made for. He led comms at Tradeshift, Notion Capital and Forward Partners, ran a community of 3500+ tech journalists and PRs, and has written for Wired, tech.eu, the guardian, TechCrunch, Quartz and more.
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About Augur Communications, Creandum: Communications agency that helps “unsexy tech” scaleups earn the attention they were made for
Nick Braund
Founder of Words + Pixels
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About Words + Pixels: Words + Pixels provides consultation services and solutions on effective public relations for businesses.
Carolina Molossi
Co-Founder & CMO of Bookalook
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About Bookalook, MOLOTOF Studio: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Melissa Fernandez
Co-Founder & CEO of Bookalook
Co Founder and CEO of Bookalook.
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About Bookalook, Vibia: Bookalook is the platform for the new generation of fashion professionals.
Bill Rylance
Founder & Chairman of WATATAWA
Bill has lived in Asia for 30 years during which he has and worked on some of the region’s most historic events and issues advising several Asian heads of state, government officials, CEOs and other senior executives. He managed the global communications programme for the 1988 Seoul Olympics and was integral to Korea’s bid and co-hosting of the 2002 FIFA World Cup. He founded Korea’s largest independent strategic communications firm in 1989 and a decade later moved to Hong Kong to become Asia Pacific CEO and Worldwide Vice Chairman of a global PR firm, leading the regional network through a decade of profitable growth including a significant acquisition and entry into India. His experience includes working on major public affairs and international relations issues—among them the sovereign communications programme for South Korea as it sought to recover from the Asian financial crisis. He is a Member of the Hong Kong and Singapore Institutes of Directors and has served on several boards including the Marine Stewardship Council and the China High Growth Fund. Bill is a graduate of the University of London with an MSc in Management from the London Business School. He is based in London.
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About WATATAWA: WATATAWA is an Asia-based communications consulting firm.
Tamara Sword
Founder & MD of ThoughtLDR
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About infltr – for infinite filters, ThoughtLDR: ThoughtLDR helps clients transform their ideas into real influence through insightful content, authentic PR, and inbound marketing.
Jane Brearley
Founder and CEO of Intent Health
Jane has over 17 years’ experience in health communications and employee engagement. She has worked with senior leadership teams to help craft the company vision and translate it for audiences, delivered across multiple channels. Jane has developed creative campaigns which have engaged audiences, generated excitement and driven behaviour change for multiple clients across varied sectors and geographies. She believes in the business value of effective story-telling and recognises the role it has to play in corporate reputation, increased profitability, staff retention and recruitment. Jane has led award winning campaigns for global communications agencies and has a PhD in Biophysics from Imperial College, London.
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About Intent Health: Intent Health creates genuine initiatives that alter people’s minds and enhance their health.
Paul Williams
Founder of MSL UK
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About AppliedIRC, MSL UK, Occams Creative Technologies: MSL operates a network of serviced office buildings in the United Kingdom and internationally.
Stuart Hehir
Co-Founder of Stirred
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About Stirred: Stirred offers communications, marketing, and creative consultancy to businesses and organizations.
Colette Carey
Principal and Founder of EJ Reilly & Associates
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About EJ Reilly & Associates: EJ Reilly and Associates specialize in public relations, brand consultation, video production, social & digital marketing support services.
Rose Ross
Chief Storytelling Officer and Founder of Omarketing
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About Omarketing, South West London Tech Cluster, Tech Britannia, Tech Britannia, Tech London Advocates, Tech Trailblazers: Omarketing is a marketing and firm that provides consulting, PR services to B2B industries.
Alyssa Crankshaw
Co-Founder at Ascendant of Ascendant
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About Ascendant, OMN London, The Tetrad Consultancy: Ascendant is a specialist consultancy that helps businesses optimize for scale from venture development to turning ideas into successes.
Craig Dillon
Founder & CEO of Westminster Digital
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About Westminster Digital: Westminster Digital is a public relations agency working with politicians, organisations, and corporations across the UK.
Ella Gascoigne
Founder, Consultant of Startup PR
Ella is the founder of Startup PR and an award winning PR consultant covering B2B and B2C media. With excellent relationships with editors in the national, online, broadcast and trade media, Ella has a proven record of securing outstanding media coverage for her clients (business owners, publishers and authors). Before launching Startup PR, Ella worked in-house for ITV; Friends Reunited, & Crimson Business Ltd (working across several brands including Startups.co.uk; Growing Business Magazine and Crimson Publishing). Ella was awarded Young Business Woman 2010 at the Women in Business Awards and was a finalist in the York Press Young Business Woman of the Year 2011 and the Ackrill Media Awards 2012. She also collected two other awards for Startup PR in 2011 – Home Business of the Year at the Startups Awards and Smarta100 Winner.
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About Startup PR: Startup PR is an award winning PR agency.
Lisa Devaney
Founder, Director of Hai Media Group
Lisa Devaney is is the founder and Director of Hai Media Group. She is known for applying creative, strategic, out-of-the-box approaches to communications programmes that get fantastic results. She is also an Indie Author, having debuted her first book In Ark: A Promise of Survival in April 2014. With her Hai Media Group she has won hundreds of headlines for various clients, mostly tech startups. Three startups she has worked with have gone on to sell for millions. With a combination of strategic planning, results earning outreach and what many clients call her “magic dust” of creativity, Devaney is valued for achieving media coverage and delivering on targets. A former award-winning print journalist, she has worked at the Dow Jones News Service (publishers of The Wall Street Journal), been published in Newsday and served as a reporter for The Times-Herald Record, The Pittsburgh-Post Gazette, Gateway Publications, The PittsburghTribune-Review , The Washington PA Observer-Reporter, Times Community Newspapers and other American publications. She transitioned to public relations in the mid-1990s. Her experience includes working with Showtime and with CondéNet, the online division of CondéNast publishing, serving as publicist for CondéNet’s Swoon.com (the former online home of Glamour, GQ, Details and Mademoiselle) Epicurious.com (Bon Appétite, Gourmet), Phys.com (Self) and Concierge.com (CondéNast Traveler), while employed with boutique lifestyle agency Kratz & Jensen, now part of Magnet Communications. While employed with Hill & Knowlton Public Relations, at the global agency’s New York City headquarters, she was involved with the launch of Microsoft’s Windows XP in 2001 and also worked with MTV, Motorola and Olympus. During her diverse PR career she has also worked with Clear Channel Communications, Tutor Time Child Care Centers, AlliedSignal, Champion International Paper Company, Vicious Cycles, Manastash, Santa Cruz Snowboards & Skateboards, New Sun Backpacks, the Hopi Tribe of Arizona, the All Girl Skate Jam and she once orchestrated a press conference for a bullet proof vest company run by the infamous Oliver North. Her most proud moment during her public relations career is when she earned international news headlines in the autumn of 2002 for WeWantWork.com, a post-9/11 New York City campaign for employment. As a co-founder, and the group media spokesperson, she appeared on CNN, The Today Show and was featured in The New York Times, The Financial Times, The Wall Street Journal, Newsday and interviewed by NPR, CBS Radio, Talk America Radio, 1010 Wins, WNYC, and more. Her effort attracted international attention for New Yorkers who found themselves unemployed and unable to find new jobs in the post-9/11 economic climate. Nearly all of the participants in the WeWantWork campaign won back their spirits and found jobs.
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About Hai Media Group: Hai Media Group is a public relations and social media consultancy based in London, England.
Jane Henry
Co-Founder of Marylebone Marketing
Jane Henry is Co-Founder of Marylebone – Difference Marketing. With a love of marketing, tech and entrepreneurship at the heart of everything we do – Marylebone makes the difference to you and your business. From revamping your established digital marketing or social media presence to supercharging the marketing for your startup, we offer bespoke marketing, communications, sponsorship and technology services that deliver results. The Marylebone difference is our passion and years of experience working on FTSE and NYSE companies, as well as consumer brands, startups and international sponsorship projects. From TV and movies launches (CNBC, NBC, Turner Broadcasting, ITV, Channel 4, London Film Festival) and tech innovations (telecoms, cable & satellite TV, Voice-to-Text, Saas, Shazam, Global Xpress satellites) to multi-million dollar sponsorship activation for the Volvo Ocean Race. Jane has held a wide range of roles in international corporate, B2B and consumer marketing and communications for leading organisations such as NBC Television, Nuance Communications, CNBC, Turner Broadcasting and Inmarsat.
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About Marylebone Marketing: Strategic, hands-on and agile approach to international marketing & PR, with a strong dose of passion and creativity, to get results.
Alexander Gash
Co-Founder of Marylebone Marketing
Alex is a creative and entrepreneurial individual with a passion for rooting out the wants and needs of clients.
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About Marylebone Marketing: Strategic, hands-on and agile approach to international marketing & PR, with a strong dose of passion and creativity, to get results.
Harry Cymbler
Founder and owner of Hot Cherry | Digital PR & Social Media Agency London, UK
Harry Cymbler is the Founder and owner of Hot Cherry, the London PR agency trusted by the world’s most innovative startups, SMEs and global brands, including Disney, Tate Modern and Spotify. For all enquiries, please contact hello@hotcherry.co.uk
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About Hot Cherry | Digital PR & Social Media Agency London, UK: London PR agency trusted by the world’s most innovative startups, SMEs and global brands, including Disney, Tate Modern and Spotify.
Clare George-Hilley
Co-Founder of Centropy PR
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About Centropy PR: Centropy PR is an independent PR firm that provides collaboration from the engineering, fintech & public sectors and digital marketing.
Sarah Owen
Founder and CEO of Pumpkin PR
Sarah Owen is the Founder and CEO at Pumpkin PR.
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About Pumpkin PR: Pumpkin PR is an independent PR agency specializing in public relations management for creative, tech, and media industries.
Sarah Owen
Founder and CEO of Pumpkin PR
Sarah Owen is the Founder and CEO at Pumpkin PR.
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About Pumpkin PR: Pumpkin PR is an independent PR agency specializing in public relations management for creative, tech, and media industries.
Ramesh Sharma
CEO and Founder of City Road Communications
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About City Road Communications: City Road is a PR firm that specializes in the use of analysis, data and expertly designed content to ensure a better media coverage.
Josiah Holloway
Founder of Marketing Musicians Ltd.
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About Marketing Musicians Ltd.: Marketing Musicians are a Music Marketing and PR agency in the UK, dedicated to helping launch music careers through affordable services.
Jacki Vause
Founder and CEO of dimoso
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About dimoso: It’s all changing. In the new world of apps, tablets and social media, the old media world has been turned on its head.
Jon Covey
Founder of bufferr.com
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About bufferr.com: We train Social Media, which is amazing..
Jon Covey
Founder of bufferr.com
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About bufferr.com: We train Social Media, which is amazing..
