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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 Manager operating in the Artificial Intelligence 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.
Clemens Meyer
Senior Program Manager of DeepMind
Clemens Meyer is a Senior Program Manager at DeepMind.
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About DeepMind: DeepMind aims to research and build safe artificial intelligence system to solve intelligence, to advance science and humanity.
Duncan Gillingwater
Strategic Solutions Manager UK&I (SC Cleared) of Dynatrace
Email: duncan.gillingwater@worksiq.com LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/duncangillingwater/
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About Dynatrace: Software intelligence to help DevSecOps teams across every industry tame cloud complexity and accelerate digital transformation
Nick Roberts
Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Jonathon Illet
Senior Business Development Manager of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Hugo Grimmett
Staff Product Manager, Level 5, Autonomous Vehicles division of Woven Planet Holdings
Hugo has a Ph.D. in robotics from the Oxford Robotics Institute where he worked on self-driving cars and computer vision.He built maps for self-driving cars and devised machine learning methods for how they should behave in uncertain environments.
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About Woven Planet Holdings: Woven Planet Holdings develops technologies designed to achieve zero casualties and provide mobility for all.
Rachael Young
Office Manager of Wayve
Rachael Young is an office manager at Wayve at Wayve.
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About Wayve: Wayve uses end-to-end deep learning to develop artificial intelligence capable of complex driving.
Adam Rajpal
Senior Project/ Programme Manager, Transformation of OakNorth
Adam Rajpal is a Senior Project/ Programme Manager, Transformation at OakNorth.
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
James McClung
Account Manager – Higher Education of DataDirect Networks
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About DataDirect Networks: DDN is the leading provider of data management and storage solutions for AI and analytics.
Steve Knight
Country Manager UK of Builder
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About Builder: Builder helps people build their technology without having to become an engineer or hire a team.
Nicole Pretorius
Senior Product Manager of Emitwise
Nicole was born and raised in South Africa, educated at St. Andrews University in Scotland, and is currently immersed in the tech industry having cofounded SheCanCode – a career consulting and coaching platform that aspires to bridge the digital skills gap by empowering diverse technologists to enter and remain in the tech industry.
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About Emitwise: Emitwise empowers businesses to automatically measure, report, and reduce their carbon footprint in real-time.
Darryl Hubble
Senior Insights Manager of Healthily by Your.MD
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About explorza, Healthily by Your.MD: Healthily is the world’s first medically approved self-care app designed around you.
Andy Black
Senior Product Manager of Signal AI
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Chloe Nicholls
Product Marketing Manager of SimilarWeb
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About SimilarWeb: SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic.
Peter O’Mara-Kane
General Manager of LoopMe
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
David Byron
SVP Global Alliances and New Markets and General Manager of Global Sales and Marketing of CUBE
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Milly Trotter
Product Manager of Resolver
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About Resolver: Resolver provides an end-to-end complaint-resolution service.
João Machete
Growth Marketing Manager of Defined.ai
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About Defined.ai: Defined.ai (former DefinedCrowd) enabling AI creators of the future.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Sigal Mamistvalov
Manager, Customer Success of Optimove
Sigal Mamistvalov is the Customer Success Manager at Optimove.
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About Optimove: With an actionable CDP at its core, Optimove’s CRM Marketing Hub autonomously transforms customer data into actionable insights.
Simon Wheeldon
Customer Success Manager of Pynk
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About BitPoster, Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Emma Smith
EMEA Strategy Manager of IV.AI
Emma Smith currently works as EMEA Strategy Manager at IV.AI.
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About IV.AI: IV.AI is a technology company that uses a no-code AI platform to assist businesses to solve difficult problems.
Raveem Ismail
Chief Underwriting Officer & General Manager of QOMPLX
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About QOMPLX: QOMPLX applies artificial intelligence to solve complex and real-world problems at scale.
Raveem Ismail
Chief Underwriting Officer & General Manager of QOMPLX
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About QOMPLX: QOMPLX applies artificial intelligence to solve complex and real-world problems at scale.
Emmi Laine
Marketing Manager of Third Space Auto
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About Drone Space AI., Third Space Auto: Head-quartered in London, UK with development teams in Finland and India.
Iola Hopkinson
Operations Manager of FeedStock Ltd
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About FeedStock Ltd: FeedStock leverages AI and NLP technologies to enable financial services companies to satisfy both their compliance and commercial goals.
Steve Johnson
Security, Privacy & Compliance Manager of Kheiron
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About Kheiron: We’re going where no-one has ever gone before. — We’re fighting cancer. — Lives are at stake.
Viktoria Seibold
HR Manager of juli
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About juli: juli helps you manage your chronic condition using artificial intelligence.
Kunal Shah
Marketing Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Kunal Shah
Marketing Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Steve Feeney
Project Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Samy Kamkar
Security Manager of Arena
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About Arena: Sports Analytics through Global Industry-Leading A.I. for Sports Right’s Holders
Simon Westwood
Sales & Marketing Manager of Westfield Technology Group
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About Westfield Technology Group: Westfield is an autonomous vehicle provider that is known for selling niche sports cars globally.
Mark Walker
Technical / Engineering Manager of Westfield Technology Group
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About Westfield Technology Group: Westfield is an autonomous vehicle provider that is known for selling niche sports cars globally.
Clare Cornes
Intelligent Mobility Manager of Westfield Technology Group
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About Westfield Technology Group: Westfield is an autonomous vehicle provider that is known for selling niche sports cars globally.
Wendy Rayner-Hall
Programme Manager of Westfield Technology Group
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About Westfield Technology Group: Westfield is an autonomous vehicle provider that is known for selling niche sports cars globally.
Charles Naud
Operations and Commercial Manager of Synoptica
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About Synoptica: Synoptica uses AI technology to automate the way sales teams research prospects
Daniela González
Project Manager of BARO Vehicles
Daniela González is the COO at BARO VEHICLES LTD.
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About BARO Vehicles: Tech company that develops products for self driving cars and mobile robots with AI. Building the bridge to autonomous vehicles!
Benjamin Milsom
Sales Manager of Upp Technologies
Ben, an experienced open source intelligence professional, leads the UK Office for software security start-up Echosec. He is an ex board member of the Newport Regeneration Taskforce (ReNewport) and is active in the Welsh tech and cyber community.
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About Upp Technologies: Upp is an AI platform that delivers a complete solution for Google Shopping from product content to profit.
Naeem Sarfraz
Engineering Manager of Disputed
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About Disputed, National Health Service: disputed.io develops legal automation and client service tools for litigation lawyers in the AI and security sectors.
David Jackson
Operations Manager of iMagicLab
With a unique background consisting of sales management, customer service and technical recruiting, David Jackson possesses over 6 years of operations and IT management experience. His broad experience is a benefit to him everyday as he runs iMagicLab operations behind the scenes. David plans to help iMagicLab grow by focusing on the development of iMagicLab’s technical support, implementation, customer service and business development platforms.
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About iMagicLab: iMagicLab is a CRM software that provides lead time solutions for the automobile retail industry.
