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 Product operating in the Marketing space. If you think a Product 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.
Cinz Ricciardone
VP of Product of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Mike Hutchinson
Chief Product Officer of SuperAwesome
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About SuperAwesome: SuperAwesome offers kid-safe tools and technology for the children’s digital media ecosystem.
Xabier Ormazabal
VP of Product Marketing of Drift
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About Drift: Drift is a Revenue Acceleration platform that uses Conversational Marketing and Conversational Sales to help companies grow revenue.
Matt Simmonds
Head of Creative & Production of Publicis Groupe
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About Publicis Groupe: Publicis Groupe is a digital and interactive communication services provider.
Projjol Banerjea
Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member of Zeotap
Projjol has 10+ years of experience in product management, marketing and business development. He’s the founder and Chief Product Officer of zeotap, a premium data collective that aims to democratise enterprise data for better decision-making across industries. Projjol’s prior roles include those as Chief Product Officer at premium network Moboqo, acquired by mobile advertising company Applovin, as well as VP Marketing & Business Development at mobile supply side platform Fyber (formerly SponsorPay), acquired by RNTS Media for $190 million. Projjol was awarded an MBA by Oxford’s Saïd Business School in 2009. At Oxford, he was a member of the university’s lightweight rowing team. He also holds an MS in HCI from Indiana University’s School of Informatics and a BA in Computer Science (highest honours, Phi Beta Kappa) from DePauw University. He is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). Projjol was selected as a Fellow by StartingBloc, an international fellowship of young leaders who share a keen interest in corporate responsibility, cross-sector partnerships and sustainability. In addition to physical activity, he enjoys reading (mostly non-fiction), music and travel; weaknesses include wine and dark chocolate. Projjol has extensive experience speaking at events, including CES, ad:tech, TM Forum, Game Connection and Mediabistro conferences, and has also been published in and/or interviewed by Wired, TechCrunch, Economic Times, Business Standard, Tech in Asia, MediaPost, AdExchanger, PocketGamer and KillerStartups, among others.
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About Nua, Zeotap: Zeotap is a Customer Intelligence platform that helps brands better understand their customers and predict behaviors.
Steve Forde
Director of Digital Products of ITV
Steve Forde has nearly 20 years of digital marketing and product experience. He has spent the majority of that working for the UK’s leading broadcasters. Steve joined ITV in 2015 having spent a decade at Channel 4 where he headed up the marketing for 4oD and the award winning viewer data strategy. Steve joined ITV to launch of the ITV Hub, which has had a 43% increase in viewing in it’s first year. As the Director of Product and Online Marketing, Steve is responsible for the ITV Hub’s product and viewer strategy. Him and his team of product, engagement and experience professionals are placing the viewer at the heart of the end-to-end viewer experience vision.
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About ITV, ITV, ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Natalie Bolton
Production Manager of ITV
Natalie has been working in Production Management now for over 18 years, working at Broadcasters and Independents in London and Manchester including Discovery, Endemol, Zig Zag Productions, ITV and BBC. Natalie joined BBC Children’s in 2012 and whilst looking after the CBeebies development team one of the first projects to develop was the Sesame Workshop Co-Production The Furchester Hotel which Natalie took through the development and production as Line Producer. Natalie was instrumental in shaping the series and achieving the high ambition of the show, she has also Line Produced a new CBBC Comedy Drama – Class Dismissed and The Cbeebies Ugly Duckling annual ballet in conjunction with the Northern Ballet.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Marius Lobontiu
Head of Product of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Nick Loader
Head of Production, Brands of CSM Sport and Entertainment
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About CSM Sport and Entertainment: CSM Sport and Entertainment provides sports and entertainment marketing services.
Franz Etten
Head of Product of The Ozone Project
Franz Etten is the Head of Product at The Ozone Project.
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About The Ozone Project: The Ozone Project is a transparent and brand-safe platform offering advertisers direct access to an audience for programmatic advertising.
Sarah Leviseur
Product Manager of Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Ingmar Zach
SVP, Product of Criteo
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About Criteo: Criteo is a global technology company that serves personalized online display advertisements to consumers on behalf of e-commerce companies.
Hannah Stacey
Brand and Product Marketing Director of Ometria
I’m a marketing professional with seven years’ experience in comms, content and demand generation for fast growth tech companies, agency-side and in-house. I’m currently responsible for overseeing inbound and product marketing at Ometria – a customer insight and cross-channel marketing platform for retailers. Interests: lead nurturing, content strategy, sales and marketing alignment and demand generation.
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
Charlotte Fernando
Squad Pro AND Product Analyst of AND Digital
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About AND Digital: AND Digital is a new way for digital delivery. We work with top clients to build remarkable digital products and teams.
David Barker
Principal Product Manager of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Emma Moorman
Senior Product Manager of Connexity
Emma Moorman is Senior Product Manager at Connexity.
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About Connexity: Connexity is a digital advertising company that works with merchants to determine which product offerings to put on publishers’ websites.
Rebecca Carson
Chief Product Officer of Brandwatch
After 10 years conducing consumer research using a variety of offline methodologies and SaaS insight platforms, I now have the pleasure of building the software and intelligence that powers them.
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About Brandwatch: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Philip Agnew
Director of Product Marketing of Brandwatch
Phillip Agnew is the Director of Product Marketing at Brandwatch.
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About Brandwatch: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Grace Hartnett
Head of Production of Kaizen
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About Kaizen: Kaizen is a content marketing agency in London, based in Moorgate.
Stephanie Fujarczuk
Chief Product Officer of Made by Fire
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About Fiternity, Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Birju Ravaliya
Head of Product Design & User Experience of Camera IQ
Birju Ravaliya currently works as Head of Product Design & User Experience at Camera IQ.
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About Camera IQ: Camera IQ is a camera experience manager platform that helps marketers create new worlds that customers love to explore.
Paul Glyn Hughes
Head of Product of Dianomi
Head of Product, Paul is responsible for all client related products planning, development and deployment for dianomi. Paul joined dianomi directly from his Business Management degree at Pablo de Olavide University in Seville, Spain.
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About Dianomi: Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.
Paige Harris
Product Manager of Be For Innovation
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About Be for Beauty, Be For Innovation: Be For Innovation is a beauty brand and product development agency.
Tanya Field
Chief Product Officer and Co-founder of Novatiq
Tanya Field is the Co-founder and CPO of Novatiq.
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About Mobile Value Partners, Novatiq: Provider of privacy-first identity solutions that enable telcos, brands and publishers to verify and reach their audiences.
Clement Boutignon
Head of Product of Appsumer
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Haydon Godbeer
Chief Product Officer of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
Barry McPhillips
Head of Creative Production EMEA of Indicia Worldwide
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About Indicia Worldwide: Indicia Worldwide generates new value throughout the marketing spectrum.
Jordan Clarke
DOP, Company Director and Head of Production of Orillo Films
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About Orillo Films: Orillo Films is a fully-inclusive production company based in both York and London.
Craig Curchin
Production Director of Swift Social
Founder of Swift Social Ltd
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About Swift Social, Swift Social: Smart and Easy Twitter Management. The ultimate tool for natural growth, content curation and driving traffic
Thomas Gooday
Product Director of Maverick
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About Maverick: Maverick creates campaigns that offer brand experiences based on true cultural insight and the latest in media and technology.
Qasim Saiyan Baig
Head Of Video Production of Imperium Media
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About Imperium Media: Helping companies to maximize their potential on new and existing technologies.
Jide Sobo
Director – Digital Products & Services of Ebiquity
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About Ebiquity: Ebiquity operates as an independent marketing analytics specialists.
Penny Andrews
Founder, Director, and Product Strategy & Delivery of People Make
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About People Make: People Make focuses on helping companies to make digital products and services.
Stephanie Bradley
Product Manager of Caterforce
Stephanie Bradley is the product manager of Caterforce.
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About Caterforce: Caterforce is a foodservice buying and marketing consortium in the UK.
Marc Irvin
Head of Product of Secco
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About Secco: UK based startup creating a mobile social economic network
Brandon Saltalamacchia
Head of Video Production of Interscroller
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About Interscroller: A video advertising network designed specifically for mobile, with 100% fill, delivering improved performance for publishers & advertisers.
