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 CFO’ operating in the Business Development space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Thomas Nicholls
CFO of Renaissance Capital Partners
Thomas Nicholls is the CFO at Renaissance Capital Partners.
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About Renaissance Capital Partners: Renaissance Capital Partners invests funds in high-growth, innovative, and entrepreneurial businesses and also built environment projects.
Nick Taylor
Chief Financial Officer of Bizagi
An experienced finance professional with a wide range of experience in leadership roles across many industries including software, technology, banking, professional services and more. Nick has a proven track record of partnering with the leadership teams of high growth businesses to build finance functions that have the capabilities to enable the organization to achieve its goals. Most recently Nick was the CFO for the International Business Unit at Blackbaud, a large publicly listed software company, partnering with the business to deliver the strongest period of revenue growth and margin improvement in the business unit to date. Previously Nick has also worked at Eversheds, BT, Lloyds TSB, American Express, Travelport and Accenture.
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About Bizagi: Bizagi is a global leader in digital process automation software.
Adrian Palmer
Chief Financial Officer of Plianz
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About Plianz: Plianz utilizes compliance intelligence to assist clients in eliminating inefficiencies from the need to adhere to key industry rules.
Simon Cole
Consultant, CFO, COO & Co-Founder of Molewood Consulting
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About Apparier, Molewood Consulting: Molewood Consulting is a private equity firm that provides management consulting and staffing services.
