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 Manager operating in the Infrastructure space. If you think a Manager 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.
Mike Nayler
District Manager, Government & Defence of Dell EMC
Mike Nayler is a District Manager, Government & Defence at EMC.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
Jerome Bugnet
Senior Manager of MuleSoft
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About MuleSoft: MuleSoft provides an integration and API platform that makes it easy to connect data from any system to create connected experiences.
Andy Steven
HCX Product Manager of VMware
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Douglas Davis
Senior Technical Account Manager of VMware
After working in the IT industry for 12 years, working with VMware products whilst designing and building shared private cloud platforms, Doug Davis joined VMware as a Technical Account Manager in the UK in 2012. Over the past 7 years, he has worked with a number of large Enterprise customers across multiple industries including public transport, government, financial services and media and is passionate about customer success in the world of digital transformation.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Nigel Venables
Technical Account Manager of VMware
Nigel Venables works in our PSO EMEA Team as a Senior Consultant covering a wide range of technologies including vRealize Operations Manager, vSphere and Site Recovery Manager .
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About VMware, VMware, VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
James Hallam
Senior Project Manager of VMware
James Hallam serves as senior project manager at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Chris Roberts
Partner & Alliances Manager, Europe of Megaport
With more than 20 years of experience, Chris fosters an extensive range of expertise in selling directly to the corporate marketplace and through the partner channel.Chris has held senior positions at a number of global solutions and service providers in the past, including Pulsant where he was responsible for building a channel proposition, recruiting partners, and launching the new programme to the market. He also worked at MTI, an international provider of managed services and storage solutions, where he headed up the New Business and Channel sales teams for the Managed Services division.Prior to that, Roberts worked for iomart and Datapipe where he was tasked with building, promoting and delivering indirect programmes and revenues for the channel community, accomplishing several key wins across multiple verticals. At iomart, Chris added significant value in delivering millions of pounds in new annualised revenue for the company and assisted the team in gaining accreditation as an approved Dell managed services provider.
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About Megaport: Megaport is a software defined networking company that directly connects enterprises, networks, and services.
Martin Lee
Manager, Talos Outreach EMEA of Cisco
Martin is technical lead of security research, and manager of the Outreach EMEA group within Talos, Cisco’s threat intelligence and research organization. As a researcher he seeks to improve the resilience of the Internet and awareness of current threats through researching system vulnerabilities and changes in the threat landscape. Martin started his career researching the genetics of human viruses, but soon switched paths to follow a career in IT. With 15 years of experience within the security industry, he is CISSP certified, a Chartered Engineer, and holds degrees from the universities of Bristol, Cambridge, Paris and Oxford.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Steve McKee
Account Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Rishi Tank
Regional Sales Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Matt Cooling
UKI Business Development Manager of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Jonathan Stevenson
Manager, EMEAR Customer Success, Cisco Security of Cisco
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Tom Davies
Senior Manager of Cisco
Tom Davies has over 17 years experience as a Senior Manager & Enterprise Architect, Solution Architect, Developer & Technology Evangelist, working across the Enterprise and Service Provider sectors. He has been part of start-ups, scale-outs, and worked for a number of world leading technology companies. At Cisco, he is part of DevNet, leading DevNet Sandbox and it’s mission to provide free, fast, frictionless access to Cisco, third party, and open source technologies for everyone.
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About Cisco: Cisco develops, manufactures, and sells networking hardware, telecommunications equipment, and other technology services and products.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Sergio Freitas
Engineering Manager & Lead Software Engineer of ThousandEyes
Sergio Freitas serves as the Lead Software Engineer and Engineering Manager at ThousandEyes.
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About ThousandEyes: ThousandEyes empowers businesses to see, understand, and improve the experience for every user and every application over any network.
Dale Archer
Senior Business Development Manager of EPAM Systems
With an addiction to all things tech and social media, not to mention a background in Biz Dev within Social Media Tech at the likes of SocialBro and SocialBakers, the opportunity to take the lead on a Social iPhone app was too hard to turn down! Loves Pugs, Gadgets, Football and snapchat and hates bad shoes, bad manners and wires!
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About EPAM Systems: EPAM leverages its core engineering expertise as a leading global product development and digital platform engineering services company.
Richard Aston
Digital Operations Engineering Manager of Ricoh Company
Richard Aston is an advocate of digital technologies with 20 years of experience in machine automation and control. He is now challenged to drive the next phase of innovation in manufacturing, developing a new team leveraging the power of data analytics and AI in areas such as predictive maintenance and digital feedback loops.
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About Ricoh Company: Ricoh is a global technology company provide office imaging equipment, document management systems and IT services.
Mike Hodgson
Strategy Development Manager – Renewables of James Fisher and Sons plc
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About Excelsa Ventures, James Fisher and Sons plc: James Fisher and Sons plc provider of specialist services to the marine, oil & gas, and other high assurance industries worldwide.
Mandi Walls
Technical Community Manager, EMEA of Chef Software
Mandi Walls is Director of Consulting, EMEA at Chef. For Chef, she travels the world helping organizations increase their effectiveness using configuration management and modernizing IT practices. Prior to joining Chef, she ran large web properties for AOL, including AOL.com, Games.com and Moviefone. Mandi has a Master’s degree in Computer Science from GWU and an MBA from UNC Kenan-Flagler. She is a regular speaker at technical conferences and is the author of “Building a DevOps Culture”, published by O’Reilly.
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
Graeme Mckinstry
Investment Manager of Foresight Group
Graeme Mckinstry is an Investment Manager at Foresight.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Stephan Gueorguiev
Senior Investment Manager of Foresight Group
Stephan Gueorguiev joined Foresight Group in 2018 and currently works as a Senior Investment Manager in the London office. He has over 17 years of experience. Stephan is responsible for sourcing and executing investments in high-potential UK businesses across the UK . Prior to joining Foresight Stephan worked at August Equity where he focussed on buyouts of UK technology businesses. Stephan holds a degree in Electrical Engineering from Cambridge University as well as an MBA from INSEAD.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Chris Wardle
Senior Investment Manager of Foresight Group
Chris joined Foresight in 2014 from Accenture’s M&A practice, where he managed pre-deal due diligence and post-deal corporate strategy projects for private equity, consumer goods, and technology clients. He has also worked closely with a number of start-ups and charities. Chris holds an MA in Natural Sciences from the University of Cambridge.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Amy Crofton
Senior Investment Manager of Foresight Group
Amy joined Foresight in January 2017 from Lesmoir-Gordon, Boyle & Co, a boutique investment advisory and corporate finance firm in Mayfair. At LGB Amy focused on structuring equity and debt investments in UK SMEs. Prior to this, she spent seven years as a research analyst in the food retail sector, at both Barclays Capital and Citi. Amy graduated from Oxford, where she was an open scholar and has a first class degree in Materials, Economics and Management.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Elena Palasmith
Senior Manager, Institutional Capital of Foresight Group
Elena joined Foresight Group from Morgan Stanley where she worked within the Global Wealth Management Division. Elena holds a first class degree in Management from the University of Warwick.
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About Foresight Group: Foresight is an infrastructure and private equity investment manager that manages funds on behalf of institutions and retail clients.
Gregoire Frileux
Software Engineering Manager of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Sam Machin
Senior Product Manager of Vonage
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About Vonage: Vonage is a provider of cloud-based communications to businesses and consumers.
Mohaned Juwad
Senior Manager of Intelsat
Mohaned Juwad is a Senior Manager – Spectrum Policy at Intelsat.
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About Intelsat: Intelsat operates a globalized network that delivers high-quality, cost-effective video and broadband services anywhere in the world.
Mohaned Juwad
Senior Manager of Intelsat
Mohaned Juwad is a Senior Manager – Spectrum Policy at Intelsat.
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About Intelsat: Intelsat operates a globalized network that delivers high-quality, cost-effective video and broadband services anywhere in the world.
Bryce Johnstone
Automotive Segment Marketing Manager of Imagination Technologies
Bryce Johnstone is responsible for relationships and marketing throughout the automotive value chain in support of defining IP requirements for the rapidly changing car market. Previously at Imagination, he was in charge of Developer Ecosystem largely working with mobile games companies throughout the world. Prior to joining Imagination in 2011, Johnstone spent 19 years with Texas Instruments, where he worked in several technical, managerial and business development roles before moving into the Wireless Terminal Business Unit to head up the OMAP Developer Network activity. He started his career as a Senior Design Engineer at STC Semiconductors. Johnstone holds a BSC. In Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from the Open University.
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About Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies develops and licenses semiconductor system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP).
Russell Bulley
Technical Support Manager of Vertiv
Russell started as an apprentice electrician, rising through industrial electrical systems and engineering management. With a short spell in research and chip manufacturing, was followed with an extensive period within the UPS and M&E world of critical services. Well versed in the electrical and mechanical demands of clients around the world, both from a service and supply aspect within legacy and new data centres, Russell comes with a wealth of knowledge and experience.
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About Vertiv: Vertiv designs, builds and services critical infrastructure that enables vital applications for data centers, communication networks.
Elliot Burke
Business Development Manager of infini Group
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About infini Group, Trade Park Corporation: Infini delivers infrastructure services to governments, businesses, and intermediaries via its cloud-based grid architecture.
Stephanie Pelter
Order Processing Manager of Esteem
Stephanie Pelter is a Order Processing Manager at Esteem Systems.
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About Esteem: Esteem is an aggregator of cloud services and on-premise solutions for customers in the UK, enabling them to achieve their business goals.
Barry Maidment
IT Product Manager and Director of Business Intelligence UK and Ireland of Rittal
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About Rittal: Rittal is a leading global provider of solutions for industrial enclosures, power distribution, climate control and IT infrastructure.
Nick Baker
IVDR Certification Manager of DNV GL
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About DNV GL: DNV GL is an international certification body and classification society.
Lee Brant
Senior Account Manager & New Business Development of Serchen
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About Serchen: The recognised leader in matching buyers and sellers of Online Services.
Ana Diamond
Content Manager of Nested
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About Nested: Nested puts communication in its place; integrating your existing team-2-team messaging in a platform accessible to you – anytime, anywhere.
Juan Antonio Breña Moral
Cloud Architect Manager of VASS
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About VASS: VASS implements and services customer relationship management and provides technology infrastructure services.
Siim-Juhan Vakker
Sales Manager of Forklift OÜ
Siim has fifteen years worth of experience as a professional musician and in music management. He orchestrated the idea and vision to change the way how big music organisations, B2B and B2C music industry specialists should manage line notes.
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About Forklift OÜ: Forklift OÜ offers a variety of new and secondhand lifting equipment, including lifts, telescopic handlers, forklifts, and stackers.
Val Wilson
Senior Account Manager of Vuzion
Val Wilson is a senior account manager at Vuzion.
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About Vuzion: Vuzion is a value-add cloud distributor and Microsoft CSP Indirect partner.
