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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 COO’ operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Kit Tse
COO of Lemonaid Health
Kit Tse currently works as Chief Operating Officer at Lemonaid Health UK.
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About Lemonaid Health: Lemonaid Health is a telemedicine platform that uses technology to change the way people interact with health care.
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Omid Ashtari
Chief Operating Officer of Streetbees
Omid is General Manager at Citymapper and deals with everything business related that needs to be taken care of! He recently joined Citymapper after spending 2.5 years as a MD of Foursquare where he grew the international user base and revenue through strategic partnerships and ad sales. Before that he spent 7 years with Google in Dublin, London and San Francisco. During his Google tenure he held multiple positions in sales and business development, working with a broad range of clients and partners across the globe. This meant closing strategic deals for products like Google Search, Maps, Product Search, Google+ and selling the full suite of Google ad products. Omid holds a bachelor’s degree in European Business Administration from Cologne Business School Germany and graduated with Honors. He is currently based in London, UK.
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About Citymapper, Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Alexander Jevons
COO of Hummingbird Technologies
Alexander Jevons is the COO at Hummingbird Technologies.
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About Hummingbird Technologies: Hummingbird is a drone and satellite enabled imagery analytics business for precision agriculture.
Ivan Griffin
COO & Co-Founder of BenevolentAI
Ivan joined NESTA in March 2009. He makes and manages investments in the Healthcare sector. Prior to joining NESTA Ivan spent four years at IP Group where he was predominantly focused on healthcare and life science businesses. At IP Group his role encompassed all aspects of technology commercialisation, including identification of investment opportunities, spin-out company formation, business and corporate development as well as private and public equity financings and trade sales. Before joining IP Group Ivan spent two years at Oxford Technology Venture Capital Trust, and a year in post-doctoral research where he published several scientific papers.
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About BenevolentAI: BenevolentAI is a developer of artificial intelligence and computational medicine technologies.
Constanza Di Gennaro
Chief Operating Officer of BioBeats
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About BioBeats: BioBeats is a human company that creates digital artificial intelligence products to tackle mental health globally.
Christopher Varin
COO of Cazana
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About Car and Classic: Cazana data helps motor retailers, insurers and lenders digitally transform with big data and machine learning technology
Lennert Acke
COO of Datatonic
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About Datatonic: Datatonic is a team of data and statistics experts that helps corporations drive their business through the power of analytics.
Ian Welch
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Callsign
Ian Welch is the COO of Callsign. Previously he held positions at Ladbrokers and Ascot Racecourse. Ian has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Coverntry University
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Rony Seamons
Chief Operating Officer & Director Of Operations of AMPLYFI
Rony Seamons is the Chief Operating Officer and Director Of Operations of AMPLYFI.
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About AMPLYFI: AMPLYFI is a privately held company that provides software platform capable of intelligently harvesting open source data from the internet.
Jennifer Coyle Byrne
COO of G-Research
Jennifer Coyle Byrne is the Chief Operating Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
Jason Pinto
Co-founder & COO of Pace Revenue
Jason is a co-founder at Pace. Pace has built the first solution that gives hotels real-time forecasting, price sensitivity analysis and automation. We use machine learning and statistics to turn pricing into a real-time exploration how to optimally match supply and demand. Our algorithms are proprietary and actively worked on by our science team. Prior to co-founding Pace Jason was a Partner at Amadeus Capital where he focused on opportunities in online services and fintech. Since joining the firm as an associate in 2007, he has worked closely with several Amadeus companies including Edgeware and Liquavista, helping Edgeware to a public listing on the NASDAQ Stockholm market and Liquavista to a sale to Samsung. He was also an active observer on the board of Unruly helping it exit to News Corp. Jason started his tech career as a lead member of a technology and product development team at E Ink Corporation in Cambridge, Massachusetts where he worked on commercialisation of the world’s first electronic ink display. The technology has been widely deployed in a range of consumer products most notably Amazon’s Kindle electronic book. Jason holds Engineering and Science degrees from MIT, Stanford University and Cambridge University. Jason is mostly Trinidadian with a bit of Jamaican and American added in for good measure.
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About Amadeus Capital Partners, Pace Revenue: Pace is revolutionising revenue management with a suite of tools to deliver science, real-time and automation.
Angie Ma
Chief Operating Officer, Co-Founder of Faculty Science
Angie is cofounder and COO of ASI Data Science, a London-based AI tech startup that offers data science as a service. ASI, since founding in 2014, has completed more than 200 commercial data science projects in multiple industries and sectors and regarded as EMEA-based leader in data science. She is passionate about applying machine learning to solving real world applications that generate business value for companies and organisations. She has experience delivery complex projects from prototyping to implementation. Prior to founding ASI, Angie, a physicist by training, was a researcher in nanotechnology working on developing optical detection for medical diagnostics.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Richard Sargeant
Chief Operating Officer of Faculty Science
In 2016, Richard joined ASI Data Science as a Director to grow the consulting team of expert data scientists. ASI are bringing the power of artificial intelligence to everyone. We solve practical business problems using statistical and symbolic AI; provide modern software tools for analysts and data scientists; and deliver to equip and empower data scientists, executives, and analysts to take advantage of AI. Previously, he worked in the Government as Director of Transformation in the Home Office. Before this he was one of the founding directors of the Government Digital Service. He was Head of Energy Market Design at the Department of Energy & Climate Change, leading the Electricity Market Reform programme to secure an additional £200bn of capital investment into the UK Power Generation market. Before that he was at Google as their UK Head of Public Policy. Richard was a senior policy advisor in HM Treasury. His first role in Government was in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, writing papers on innovation in the public sector and happiness, as well as unpublished work on education and healthcare. He co-founded Engineers Without Borders UK in 2001 while studying Social and Political Sciences at Cambridge University.
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About Faculty Science: Faculty provides data science and engineering training services.
Aditya Joshi
COO, Co-Founder of Greendeck
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About Greendeck: Greendeck uses AI to help brands and retailers with pricing optimisation and competitor intelligence.
Michael Michelis
Co-Founder & COO of Intelistyle
Michael Michelis joined Intelistyle as Co-Founder and COO in 2017.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Tom Blah
COO of Codec
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About Codec: We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
Peter Mildon
COO & Co Founder of Vivacity Labs
Peter is responsible for the commercial delivery of Vivacity. After graduating from Cambridge University, Peter joined a leading systems engineering consultancy, leading projects across the oil, civil nuclear, and renewables industries. With substantial process-driven experience under his belt, Peter leads operations at Vivacity, ensuring we deliver on time and to specification, every time.
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About Vivacity Labs: Vivacity Labs makes intelligent cameras to gather transport data, using the latest machine learning & computer vision techniques.
Victoria Peppiatt
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Phrasee
Victoria is a person who gets things done. Vibrant, enthusiastic and often loud, Victoria plans and executes all of the things, be they small or large, that make an exciting, growing business run. Previously, she founded and ran an innovative creative & branding agency, and is an expert in design, usability and Prosecco. As COO, she is responsible for customer success – and also for making sure the entire team is on task. She’s an eternal optimist, and the possessor of the biggest smile in SW London. She holds a BMus in Music & Technology and is the proud mum to Max and Marni.
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About Phrasee: Phrasee is AI that specializes in language generation for email marketing, push, and Facebook copy.
Dr Ingvar Kraatz
COO / Co-Founder of Bidnamic
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About Bidnamic, Dizinga: Bidnamic is a machine learning platform that helps retailers unlock the full potential of Google Shopping.
Khai Vualnam
Chief Operating Officer of Satoshi Systems Limited
Khai, our Chief Operating Officer, brings nearly 2 decades of leadership experience in commodity supply chain to Satoshi. After his MBA from IIM Ahmedabad, Khai has worked in several locations across Africa, Asia and Europe. He is enthusiastic about applying the latest technologies to the commodity supply chain which he believes will bring a transformational change. Whenever possible Khai is delving into the world of cryptocurrency and its unique opportunities.
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About Satoshi Systems Limited: Satoshi Systems provides state of the art software solutions for the trading space, currently focusing on the commodity.
Sybil Wong
COO of Sparrho
Sybil completed her PhD in Biochemistry at the University of Nottingham and Barts Cancer Institute, QMUL. Prior to joining Sparrho, Sybil was SVP Business Development & Director of OneStart, the world’s largest biotech and healthcare startup accelerator, at the Oxbridge Biotech Roundtable. Through OneStart, Sybil supported 70 budding biotech and healthcare startups from across Europe, North America and Asia, and managed partnerships with top pharma and venture firms, including SR One/GSK, Roche, Johnson & Johnson, and AstraZeneca/MedImmune.
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About Sparrho, Synthace: Sparrho lead the world in democratising science using augmented intelligence.
Duncan Mann
COO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
Wasif Mehdi
Chief Operating Officer of Unmanned Life
Wasif Mehdi is the Chief Operating Officer at Unmanned Life.
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About Unmanned Life: Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics
Jamie Euesden
COO of askporter
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About askporter: AskPorter is an AI machine learning messaging platform that optimises property and facilities.
James Serjeant
COO & CFO of ContactEngine
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About ContactEngine: ContactEngine is a proactive Conversational AI technology that automates conversations between corporates and their customers
Jason Muller
Co-founder and COO of Pivigo
Jason has an extensive and successful background in UK business having co-founded a group of healthcare recruitment firms in 2006, grown it to 30+staff and over £28m turnover in four years, studied an MBA at Cranfield University in 2011/12 and co-founded Pivigo in 2013.
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About Pivigo: Data is and will continue to change our lives. It is generated by us, for us and around us.
Richard Mcconnell
Co-Founder & COO of Liopa
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About Anaeko, Liopa: Liopa’s LipRead deciphers speech from lip movements. It uses AI and deep learning for automated lip reading.
Adrien Hitz
Co-Founder and COO of Materialize.X
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About Materialize.X: Data-Driven Directors for Manufacturing
Elizabeth Fairley
Founder, COO of Talking Medicines
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About EFB Services, Mironid, Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
Marcus Dixon
COO of ChAI
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About ChAI: Predicting commodity prices with AI on Alternative Data to mitigate price volatility for manufacturers.
Nadeem Shakoor
Co-Founder and Group COO of AI-XPRT
Nadeem is a highly focused and experienced commercial and risk specialist with extensive global networks and experience in the HSSE, Energy, Technology, Finance, IT and Telecoms industries. Nadeem has been a cofounder of two businesses Senoi Ltd and Eduworks UK Limited. He has over 20 years commercial experience in the software sector. Seven of those years have been spent in developing solutions using AI and Machine Learning. Nadeem has led successful global direct and indirect teams to deliver complex solutions and revenue.
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About AI-XPRT: AI-XPRT is provides artificial intelligence solution to automate regulatory compliance assurance and financial audit.
Henrike Grund
COO of AtHashtags
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About AtHashtags: Combined Online and real world Marketplace that allows vendors to sell and connect with consumers online and in multiple physical locations
Mark Braddock
COO of RecordSure
In his long and varied financial services career, Mark has worked at a senior level in organisations including Zurich FS, Lloyds Banking Group, CSC, Sopra Steria and WNS. Landmark roles include Head of Customer Services, CIO, Managing Director of a software company, Global Client Director and European Sales Director. This gives Mark the breadth of experience needed to manage all commercial aspects of Recordsure. Key to the Commercial Director’s role is the challenge of taking to market an entirely new way for regulated organisations to address their customer interactions – a challenge Mark is uniquely qualified to deliver.
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About RecordSure: RecordSure is a provider of monitoring solutions that allow the user to monitor compliance in the financial sector.
Adam Bacon
Co-Founder and COO of Feebris
Adam Bacon is the Co-Founder and COO at Feebris.
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About Feebris: AI-enabled platform bridging the gap between community and health system.
Jim Scott
COO of The Hackerati
Jim Scott is the President ResponseDM.
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About ResponseDM, The Hackerati: The Hackerati is a technology company of developers, designers, and scientists.
Jim Scott
COO of The Hackerati
Jim Scott is the President ResponseDM.
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About ResponseDM, The Hackerati: The Hackerati is a technology company of developers, designers, and scientists.
