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 President operating in the Enterprise Software space. If you think a President 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.
Neil Holloway
Corporate Vice President, Microsoft Business Solutions of Microsoft
Neil Holloway has been Corporate Vice President, Sales & Partners for Microsoft Business Solutions (MBS) since July 2012. In this role he reports to Rocky Blanton, CVP of the Enterprise and Partner Group, and is responsible for Sales operations worldwide for the Microsoft Dynamics CRM and ERP product suites; the development and health of the Microsoft Dynamics channel ecosystem and customer service programs; as well as ERP & CRM sales worldwide via Time Zone teams, field and integration with the broader Microsoft sales organizations. During the prior 5 years as VP Business Strategy for Microsoft International, Holloway was a key strategic partner for the corporate business groups and segments, and field leadership, being at the forefront of some of the largest change initiatives the company has implemented, and better positioning the company to capture the opportunities in the transition to a world of cloud, services and devices. Since joining Microsoft in 1990, Holloway has held a number of strategic roles in its UK subsidiary. He was appointed Managing Director of Microsoft Ltd. in July 1998 and subsequently was appointed Vice President of Microsoft EMEA in April 2000. Holloway has an MPhil in Operational Research and Control Engineering from Cambridge University and a BSc Hon. in Mathematics from the University of Bath. In 2008, in recognition of his contribution to international business, he was awarded an Honorary Doctor of Science Degree from the University of Bath.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ashling Kearns
Vice President of UK&I Marketing of Salesforce
Ashling Kearns is the Vice President of UK&I Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Andrew Sutherland
Senior Vice President, Technology & Systems, EMEA of Oracle
Dr. Andrew Sutherland is senior vice president of technology and systems for Oracle Europe, Middle East, and Africa (EMEA). He is responsible for growing Oracle’s EMEA market share in these key business areas. In this role he develops business strategies and manages competence in Oracle’s technology and systems offerings across the region. He is also responsible for the interaction with Oracle’s product development teams. Sutherland joined Oracle in 1995 and has more than 30 years’ experience in emerging technologies and their application to business challenges. His specific expertise is in the design of solutions incorporating mobile and internet technologies. Immediately prior to joining Oracle, Sutherland established a high tech company that developed technological solutions to the problems of the sensory-impaired. The company received prestigious innovation awards from the Department of Trade and Industry. Before this he was deputy director of the Centre for Speech Technology Research, a research and development consultancy attached to the University of Edinburgh. During his time there, Sutherland helped win and subsequently oversaw the development of projects in commerce, industry, and the public sector. In 1988, Sutherland designed the UK’s first parallel-processing speech- recognition system. Based on parallel processors, it operated in real time. Under his management, this technology was successfully applied to problems encountered in aviation, medical reporting, and police reporting. Sutherland has contributed to more than 15 technical publications on multimedia and business issues, including entries in a major encyclopedia. He holds a first- class BSc in electrical and electronic engineering from Edinburgh University, a PhD in digital-signal processing, and an MBA in workflow analysis. Sutherland is also a chartered engineer.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ian Davis
Vice President Of Product Management of Oracle
Ian is the Vice President Of Product Management for Oracle’s suite of Commerce solutions, both on-premise and Cloud. His team of Product Managers, Business Analysts and UX Designers are responsible for the next-generation of Oracle’s Commerce offering. Ian has been in the eCommerce business for over 15 years, through which time he has seen the evolution from simple web tools through to today’s sophisticated Commerce applications. He has lead the transition of licensed product business to SaaS business models, and knows what that can involve for a software company.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
James Stanbridge
Vice President of Oracle
James Stanbridge, a 13-year Microsoft veteran, is a leadership practitioner based in United Kingdom, having spent the past 10 years living in Asia, moving to Shanghai, China in 2005 and to Singapore in 2009. During his corporate career, James successfully attracted, hired and developed diverse teams of technologists in China, Singapore, India, Japan as well as Europe for Oracle, Microsoft, Alta Vista and Yamaha Motor in a multinational, corporate leadership career spanning more than 20 years. James is a member of the International Coach Federation (ICF), has been an Executive coach in the ‘Excelerrate’ program at Fudan University and is a formal mentor to young leaders inside and outside Microsoft and a former Board member of the not-for- profit organization Lifeline Shanghai. He is currently the CTO of a Singapore based NGO fighting human trafficking and travels to Cambodia to support Sala Bai, a school for young women who are at risk of trafficking.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Paul Donnelly
Vice President, Corporate Application Services of Oracle
Vice President, Corporate Application Services at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Jean-Philippe Barleaza
EMEA Vice-President Mid-Market, Channel & Cloud Providers of VMware
Jean-Philippe Barleaza is a EMEA Senior Director OEM, SI SO & Service Providers at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Joe Baguley
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA of VMware
Joe Baguley is VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA. He joined VMware in July 2011 and helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use today’s advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes. Joe is a recognised leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. He is a regular commentator on BBC World News, last appearing in January 2018 talking about edge computing with Aaron Heslehurst on Talking Business. In addition, Joe is also on several advisory boards at the European Commission and ETSI and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Sultan Murad Saidov
Co-Founder and President of Beamery
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About Beamery, Seed.jobs: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Brendan Walsh
Executive Vice-President of Sales for Europe Middle East, and Asia of Mirakl
Brendan Walsh has been serving as Executive Vice-President of Sales for Europe, Middle East, and Asia at Mirakl since September 2019.
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About Mirakl: Mirakl is an enterprise marketplace solution helping brands and retailers to launch and grow an enterprise marketplace at scale.
Robert Symons
Regional Vice President, UK and Northern Europe of SmartRecruiters
Robert Symons is an HCM cloud software evangelist and passionate about helping companies transform the way they engage, hire and retain top talent. Robert has 22 years’ experience within the recruiting marketplace. He previously spent 9 years scaling an HCM software business from 11 employees to over 700 employees as part of their senior leadership team. Robert joined SmartRecruiters in 2016 as the first sales and marketing hire in Europe with responsibility for UK/Northern Europe.
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About SmartRecruiters: SmartRecruiters is an end-to-end recruiting platform that helps companies with talent acquisition.
Richard Young
Vice President, Vault CDMS of Veeva
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Wendy Mars
President of EMEAR of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Darren Crowder
Vice President and Head of Solution Engineering of TIBCO
Darren Crowder is the vice president and head of solution engineering at TIBCO.
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About TIBCO: TIBCO unlocks the potential of real-time data for business to make faster, smarter decisions.
Colin Cooper
Sage People Vice President & Founder of Sage Group
Colin Cooper serves as sage people vice president and founder at The Sage Group.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services of Citrix Systems
Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Matthew Locsin
Vice President of Publicis Sapient
Matt Locsin is a Vice President at Publicis Sapient, where he leads the firm’s practice for innovation and drives Digital business transformation. He works with leaders and their teams to conceive, develop, and launch ‘what’s next’ and helps organisations to build their innovation competencies.
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About Publicis Sapient: Publicis Sapient is a digital transformation platform.
James Prudhomme
Executive Vice President, International of Index Exchange
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About Index Exchange: Index Exchange is an exchange technology, enabling digital publishers and suppliers to sell ad impressions programmatically and in realtime.
Jada Balster
Vice President, Marketing of Workfront
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About Workfront: Workfront providers cloud-based enterprise work management solutions for enterprise teams.
Louis Cointepas
Vice President, Americas Customer Success & Market Development of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
David Farmery
Vice President, Message Automation of Broadridge
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About Broadridge: Broadridge is a provider of investor communications and technology solutions for broker dealers, banks, mutual funds and corporate issuers.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Andy Hardy
Vice President EMEA & APJ of Nasuni
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About Nasuni: Nasuni enables organizations to store, protect, synchronize, and collaborate on files across all locations at scale.
Justin Barrett
Vice President EMEA of Brightcove
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About Brightcove, Brightcove: Brightcove is video that means business, helping customers experience the incredible potential of video.
Patrick Legro
Senior Vice President, Chief Commercial Officer Staples Europe of Staples Europe
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About Staples Europe, Staples Europe: Staples Europe is an online platform that enables Staples customers to submit, track, and find rebates.
Yigal Elstein
Vice President UK&I of Tricentis
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About Tricentis: Tricentis offers enterprise software testing solutions that enable enterprises to achieve high automation rates while minimizing risks.
Kristian Keep
Vice President Of Engineering of Decibel
Kristian Keep is the vice president of engineering at Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Charlie Doubek
Vice President, Advanced Services EMEA of Arkadin
Charlie Doubek has been in the Telecommunications industry for 15 years working for providers such as MCI-Verizon, Genesys, West Corporation, and now NTT with experience in the NA, EMEA, and APAC markets. His primary focus has been professional services related to the adoption of collaborative services and technical integrations for the last 10 years. Now he is focusing on end to end digital transformation services around cloud datacentre and intelligent communications.
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About Arkadin: Arkadin provides businesses with online collaboration solutions using audio, web and unified communications tools.
David Bailey
Vice President, Global Merchandising of SmartThings
David Bailey, Vice President, Marketing Communications at SmartThings
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About SmartThings: SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
Patrick Hannon
Vice President – Corporate Development of Frontier Silicon
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About Frontier Silicon: Frontier Silicon is a supplier of semiconductors, modules, and software solutions for digital radio and connected devices.
Nick Patience
Co-Founder and Research Vice President of 451 Research
Nick Patience has over 20 years experience in the technology industry in the US and Europe, and manages 451 Research’s software analyst team. Probably best known as being a co-founder of The 451 Group, Nick helped grow that company into a significant force in the technology industry analyst market in the US and Europe, as well as developing into a thought leader in the information management sector of the software industry. A highly experienced and adaptable marketing professional, Nick moved to the vendor side with Recommind, running product marketing and strategy, and then influencer relations and competitive intelligence, all the while remaining one of the company’s principal global evangelists. Nick now manages 451 Research’s software analyst team, spanning software development, DevOps & IT Ops, through data platforms and analytics to business applications. Nick will join a multi-angle panel discussion in which the conversation will focus on how digital transformation has impacted the world of IT research and Analyst Relations, and perhaps more importantly, how this will continue to do so in the future.
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About 451 Research: 451 Research is an information technology research and advisory company providing essential insight for the pioneers of the digital economy.
Ken Rowe
President Emeritus of YSC Consulting
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About YSC Consulting: YSC provides leadership strategy consulting services.
Laine Napier
Vice President Xpect Divison of Intelligent Software Solutions
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About Intelligent Software Solutions: Intelligent Software Solutions, a software development and services company, provides development and consultancy services.
Arun Gupta
Vice President, ServiceNow Global Delivery of Crossfuze
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About Crossfuze: Crossfuze is a provider of consulting, design, implementation services, and resale of the ServiceNow® technology platform.
Richard Sheppard
Vice President of Sales of Oblix
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About Oblix: Oblix develops identity-based security and provides web access management solutions for e-commerce networks.
Bartek Wlodarczyk
Chief Executive Officer & President of SKY ENGINE
Bartek Włodarczyk is the Chief Executive Officer & President at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
