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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 Managing Director operating in the Information Services space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
David Lampitt
Managing Director Group Operations of Sportradar
David Lampitt is Managing Director Group Operations for Sportradar AG. Initially joining the Board of Sportradar AG in August 2012 in a non-executive capacity, David brought over a decade of in-depth experience of working in the sports industry at senior levels. In 2013, he took on an executive role as Sportradar’s Managing Director Group Operations, where he has responsibility for shaping Sportradar’s organisational structures. His remit also includes a number of group functions such as legal, compliance, marketing, communications, as well as strategically significant group projects such as e-sports. Prior to joining Sportradar, David worked at the English Football Association, he was a member of UEFA’s Club Licensing Committee and spent two years as CEO of Portsmouth Football Club.David also worked as CEO of Supporters Direct, a not-for-profit organisation promoting good governance in sport. He holds a degree in Modern Languages from Bristol University and is an ACA Chartered Accountant. David is based in London, United Kingdom.
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About Sportradar: Sportradar is a supplier of sports and betting-related live data, odds solutions and fraud detection services.
Megumi Ikeda
Managing Director, Europe of Hearst Ventures
Megumi Ikeda is the managing director of Hearst Ventures and the general manager of Hearst Ventures Europe, where she oversees investments and non-organic acquisitions across Europe. She is based in London. Ikeda previously ran the European arm of the Peacock Equity Fund, GE Capital and NBCUniversal’s $250MM venture fund. Previously, she worked in corporate M&A and distribution deals at NBCUniversal. Ikeda started her career in Tokyo as a reporter for Dow Jones and an international business manager at Wired in San Francisco. Ikeda received her undergraduate degree from Columbia College, Columbia University and earned her MBA at UCLA’s The Anderson School.
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About Hearst Ventures: Hearst Ventures, a corporate venture fund, invests in early-stage information, software and technologycompanies
Andy Slater
VP & Managing Director EMEA of Actifio
Having joined Actifio in 2011, Andy leads the EMEA sales execution. Prior to this role, Andy was pivotal in heading up the services and installation customers in the region. Prior to Actifio, Andy lead sales and operations at TecTrade, a data protection and storage partner based in the UK. His 15+ years in roles as Chief Operating Officer and Sales Director allowed him to build strategic customer and regional relationships.
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About Actifio: Actifio delivers enterprise data-as-a-service to global enterprise customers and service provider partners.
Simon Presswell
Managing Director, Broadcast & Education of Ascential Plc
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Phil Arnold
Managing Director, Censhare UK of censhare GmbH
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About censhare GmbH: A proven omnichannel content platform letting you master your content in any language, locally or globally.
Oliver Brough
Managing Director, EMEA of Trusona
Olly Brough serves as the Managing Director of EMEA at Trusona.
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About Trusona: Trusona secures identity authentication, removes passwords from the user experience, and elevate login experience.
Kresimir Budinski
Managing Director & Founder of AirTicketArena Ltd.
Kresimir Budinski is the Managing Director & Founder at AirTicketArena.
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About AirTicketArena Ltd.: Air Ticket Arena is the first fully automated platform which matches unsold seats on scheduled flights with air traveller’s bids.
Louise Ah-Wong
Managing Director – Transformation of Agilisys
Louise is a Senior Partner in the Transformation Division within Agilisys, she is responsible for developing new business, managing external Partners, overseeing work and developing Transformation “wrappers” and Programmes for clients.
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About Agilisys, Agilisys: Agilisys is an innovative IT and business software and services providers.
Chris Fraser
Managing Director of Aspire Technology Solutions
Chris is the Managing Director and joint founder of Aspire. Perhaps unusually for a managing director, Chris has over 20 years’ experience in the IT and Technology industry. He also has over 12 years of intensive, hands-on technical experience managing enterprise class IT environments and global network infrastructure deployments. Chris has responsibility for oversight and management of all of the company’s technical operations and managed service platforms.
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About Aspire Technology Solutions: Aspire is an award-winning managed services company specialising in hosted services, data centre solutions, communications and IT support.
Jasper van der Luijtgaarden
Managing Director of Building Blocks
Jasper van der Luijtgaarden is the managing director at Dept.
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About Building Blocks: Building Blocks helps global companies solve complex problems using digital technologies.
Ian Benn
Managing Director, Northern Europe of Ingenico Group
Ian Benn is Managing Director at Ingenico Northern Europe where he is responsible for operations in the Nordics, UK and Ireland. Formerly COO of FIS in Europe, Middle East and Africa and previously CMO at Misys, Ian has spent his career in the join between financial services and technology. Author or “Strategic Outsourcing: exploiting the Skills of Third Parties” and, most recently, “Write to Win”, Ian is also an advisor to the Pennies Foundation and tech start-up, Obsidian Solutions.
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About Ingenico Group: Ingenico provides smart payment solutions to empower commerce across all channels, in-store, online, and mobile.
B. Nick Popovici
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Vita Mojo
B. Nick Popovici is the Co Founder and Managing Director of Vita Mojo.
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About Founders Pledge, Vita Mojo: Vita Mojo’s menu allows anyone to eat for anyones’ individualized needs.
Andrew Tobin
Managing Director, EMEA of Evernym
Andrew Tobin is the Managing Director, EMEA at Evernym Inc.
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About Evernym, Focus Images: Evernym is a software company that develops decentralized, self-sovereign identity applications in order to form more trusting interactions
Matthew Pullen
Managing Director, Europe of CyrusOne
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About CyrusOne: CyrusOne is a data center operator that offers colocation and peering services.
Anthony Vollmer
Managing Director of Moorepay
Anthony Vollmer is a CEO at Tesco Mobile.
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About Moorepay, Virgin Media: Moorepay is a clear market leader in payroll & HR solutions for UK businesses.
Paul Bednarczyk
Managing Director of Roubini Global Economics, LLC
Paul Bednarczyk is 4CAST-RGE’s MD of Research. Prior to moving into that role, he had been with 4CAST from just a year after it was founded. His speciality is G20 FX, using skills developed over nearly 20 years trading for Hill Samuel, Credit Lyonnais and NationsBank.
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About Roubini Global Economics, LLC: Roubini Global Economics is the leading independent, global macroeconomic research firm.
Alex Wrottesley
Managing Director, Landmark Geodata of Landmark Information Group
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About Landmark Information Group: Landmark Information Group is a company that assists clients with a variety of real estate development and management projects.
Peter Lukes
Managing Director & Founder of Wanstor
Peter established Wanstor in 2002 to provide a more proactive approach to IT support services than the then established ‘maintenance’ companies. Following an early career as a research chemist working at the universities of St Andrews, Durham and Rome, Peter changed track in the mid-90s and began the second phase of his career, in IT. Spells in Italy with a small system builder then back in the UK as technical director of an IT service and integration business followed, before the ambitious launch of Wanstor. Over ten years later, Peter has led the company through continuing success and growth by focusing on their dedication to “service and technical excellence”. Peter has kept Wanstor at the forefront of developments in cloud and hosting services, while adding a focus on core IT infrastructure, networking and front office support.
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About Wanstor: Wanstor are a trusted IT Services company that supports organisations of all sizes in all industries.
Mark Webster
Managing Director UK and Europe of Give To Get
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About Give To Get: Social Impact
Mark O’Herlihy
Managing Director EMEA of IBM Watson Health
Head of IBM Watson Health for Europe, Middle East & Africa. As the Managing Director, Mark holds full responsibility for the Sales & Go to Market strategy & team, for Watson Health software products and solutions to their customers. This includes the full portfolio of Life Sciences, Oncology, Genomics, Imaging, Government, Value-Based Care & Population Health Management solutions. Mark has a clinical background and has worked in the NHS as well as many senior leadership positions in global, European and start-up healthcare companies throughout his career, with over 25 years of experience in the healthcare segment, Mark brings a wealth of experience and perspective and he is passionate about health and social care for everyone.
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About IBM Watson Health: IBM Watson Health works across the health landscape, from payers and providers to government and life sciences.
Mitun Patel
Managing Director & Founder of Netstar
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About Netstar: Netstar is an IT Support company in central London providing fully managed IT Support, Cyber Security and Technology Consulting services.
Paul Bryan
UK Managing Director IT of Exertis UK
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About Exertis, Exertis UK: Exertis UK is a technology distribution and specialist service providers.
Philip Orr
Managing Director of Synaptec
Philip Orr is the Managing Director at Synaptec
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About Synaptec: Synaptec develops and deploys photonic sensing systems.
Gary Luke
Managing Director of Connexica
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About Connexica: Connexica develops software solutions for information retrieval and management reporting applications in various markets.
Andrew Barnes
Managing Director and Co Founder of 6prog
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About 6prog: The fastest and most cost effective contract engagement process
Rob Withagen
Managing Director of Asoko Insight
Rob Withagen is the Co-Founder and CEO of Asoko Insight.
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About Asoko Insight: Africa’s leading corporate information platform, providing market mapping solutions to investment firms, banks, corporates and governments.
Ken Roulston
Founder & Managing Director of CMI
Ken Roulston has worked in IT for over thirty years and has extensive experience in the IT Services arena. Ken started out as an engineer before realising that the selling of IT services and hardware was what interested him most. He joined the original CMI and through organic and acquisitive growth he was instrumental in the formation of Aurora UniComp, which was subsequently purchased by the Viridian Group and becoming Sx3, now Capita Plc. He then went on to spend time in Telecoms and the Internet industry and his most recent role before CMI was as Country Manager in Ireland for Parity PLC. Ken’s goal is for the CMI team to offer an unrivalled level of customer service. He says he doesn’t have a lot of spare time so what little he does have is taken up with a course at Queens University on Genealogy, walking the dog and cooking.
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About BTA, CMI: CMI is a company offering manufacturer business streamlining and growth services.
Jeremy Coupland
Managing Director & Founder of Rebirth Analytics
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About Rebirth Analytics: Rebirth Analytics develops a proprietary algorithm that provides transformative and equitable data solutions.
Finian Parrick
Managing Director of Minibems
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About Minibems: Minibems is a demand management system for complex heating systems that enables improved efficiency and fuel cost savings .
Danny Quinn
Managing Director of DataVita
Danny is the Managing Director and founder of DataVita who have recently launched Fortis, Scotland’s first large scale next generation, energy efficient, co-location datacentre. Danny was responsible for the project from conception to delivery and has created one of the most innovative, secure and reliable facilities in the UK. He has also worked closely with the Uptime Institute to make DataVita the first UK Co-location datacentre to achieve Tier III Construction certification and to do this with 100% free air cooling. Previous to starting DataVita, Danny was the Head of Operations for a European-wide integrator and cloud service provider, responsible for an operations team of over 100 staff delivering managed cloud services to customers in 14 countries.
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About DataVita, DataVita: DataVita Scotland’s largest, energy efficient datacentre, delivering high quality co-locaton and innovative, agile cloud services.
Nick Russell
Managing Director of Xonetic
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About Xonetic: Xonetic is a cloud-based platform that specializes in digital energy and business technology.
Mike Everest
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Meniscus
Mike Everest is Co-Founder & Managing Director at Meniscus.
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About Meniscus: Meniscus – Delivering data analytics to the connected world.
Chris Roche
Co-Founder , Chief Executive Officer & Managing Director of Celerity
Chris Roche is the chief executive officer at Celerity.
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About Celerity: Celerity designs and builds systems to support servers and data storage.
Serena Manzoli
Managing Director of Wildcat Legal
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About Wildcat Legal: Wildcat is a London-based Digital Marketing Agency.
Carolyn Dawson
Managing Director of KNect365
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About KNect365: KNect365 Delivering knowledge and commercial relationships for business communities.
Adrian Coupland
Customer and Marketing Managing Director of SSP
Adrian joined SSP in 2005 and has over 20 years’ experience in the market across broking, distribution, business development and technology. This includes 15 years in the broking industry, ten of which were with A-Plan. As Customer and Marketing Managing Director, he is part of the executive team, and his expertise in data and innovation ensure SSP‘s customers are at the leading edge of advancements in the insurance industry. Adrian has been instrumental in developing SSP’s real-time pricing and telematics strategies and shaping its data strategy across all territories.
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About SSP: SSP is a provider of technology systems and solutions for the insurance industry.
David Rosenthal
Managing Director, Europe of Cass Information Systems
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About Cass Information Systems: Cass Information Systems, Inc. is the leading provider of freight payment, telecom expense management.
Simon Oxley
Founder & Managing Director of Citicus
Simon Oxley moved into the IT industry after obtaining a science Doctorate at Oxford University. He gained a background in systems development and has now been working in the information security and risk fields for over 30 years. Having helped Logica establish one of the first two computer security evaluation facilities for the UK government, he had a career in commercial security management through heading up the information security departments at National Power and Reuters. He took both organizations into the Information Security Forum (ISF) and was a member of the ISF’s Council during 1992-94. As an independent consultant in information security from 1996 to 2000, Simon advised a range of blue chip clients and contributed to many projects for the highly-respected ISF. He was the author of the ISF’s research reports on secure e-commerce, cryptography, web security, security architecture and active content, and contributed to many others, including the project that led to the FIRM methodology supported by Citicus ONE. Simon is a regular speaker at international conferences on information security and risk. He has a strong interested in education, helping the British Computer Society to develop their information security qualifications and being a regular lecturer at the UK’s Royal Holloway Information Security MSc course. Simon is a founder and Managing Director of Citicus.
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About Citicus: Citicus develop and sell world-class security, risk and compliance management software, plus supporting services.
Rob Borley
Managing Director of Dootrix
Rob Borley is the founder and managing director of Dootrix, a software engineering that helps clients accelerate their businesses through mobile, cloud and IoT software solutions. Working with clients such as Confused.com, Heathrow Airport, P&O Ferries, Clancy Docwra and Surfers Against Sewage, Rob leads a dynamic team of designers and developers, creating the next generation of mobile apps, PaaS first cloud software and best in class IoT solutions for enterprise.
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About Dootrix: Dootrix designers, developers, creatives, technologists and strategists dedicated building best in class cloud, mobile & IoT applications.
Sean McClellan
Managing Director of Click Together
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About Click Together: Click Together develops apps to help people personalize their experiences online and enhance how they interact with friends and colleagues.
