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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 Director operating in the E-Learning space. If you think a 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.
Stefan Wisbauer
CEO, President, CFO, and Managing Director of Lecturio
Stefan Wisbauer is the Managing Director of U.K. Preventive Medicine and the Founder and Managing Director of iHealth, a leading UK executive prevention provider. With a decade of experience in healthcare, Stefan previously worked at the World Bank and McKinsey & Co, where he advised health insurance, medical devices and biotech companies. Stefan also worked as a consultant to the National Health Service and with private healthcare operators on Public Private Partnerships and on establishing innovative approaches to care delivery. Previous to founding iHealth, Stefan helped build CircleHealth, which build next generation private hospitals in the U.K. based on a Kaiser Permanente style model, in which clinicians are co-owners in the business. Prior to that, Stefan was Bid Manager for Nations Healthcare, which won the largest share – valued at more than £400 — of the first wave of private day surgery contracts to treat NHS patients issued by the British government under Tony Blair’s leadership. Stefan also serves on the board of the Center for NonViolent Communication, a global charity promoting innovative solutions to trauma, conflict, restorative justice and communication. Stefan holds a Master in Public Administration from the Harvard Kennedy School, Diploma in Mathematics from University of Bonn and a ‘Part III’ in Mathematics from Cambridge University.
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About iHealth, Lecturio: The Next Generation Learning Platform for Medicine
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Mike Greer
Director of Software Experience of Kano
Mike Greer is the VP of software product at Kano Computing with experience in conceptualizing, scoping, designing and managing web, desktop, and mobile apps. Mike also co-founded Guevera in 2013 and has served as a designer and creative technologist at Havas Worldwide London.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
Aaron Hinchion
Executive Creative Director of Kano
Aaron Hinchion is the executive creative director at Kano Computing. Prior to this, Aaron has worked as a creative director at Hinchion & Sons for over 15 years. Aaron holds a bachelor’s degree in visual communications from Birmingham City University.
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About Kano: Kano provides a system of kits and coding platform that enables users to develop apps, games, and music.
James Grant
Co-Founder & Managing Director of MyTutor
James is a driven, passionate and ambitious entrepreneur, with experience in sales, leadership, strategy, product, digital marketing and fundraising. He started a fledgling events business at 15, which grew to a team of 30, catering for over 1,200 weekly guests. After completing a Philosophy degree at University of Birmingham, James worked for Barclays Wealth, in the Chief of Staff Team, within the Office of the Chief Executive, helping to set the Division’s strategic agenda and taking responsibility for the implementation of sponsored projects. James is a co-founder of MyTutor, creating a new world of one-to-one tuition. The team are unwaveringly focused on their mission to give every student access to 1-1 support. The platform provides live, online one-to-one lessons, delivered by bright, inspiring undergraduates studying at the UK’s leading universities – their secondary aim is to become the leading provider of work to these students. MyTutor uses AI-driven matching algorithms to ensure perfect student-tutor matches and every lesson is taught in an interactive online learning space, which facilitates live video and audio chat, document editing, file sharing and lesson recording. The company’s proudest achievement has been helping 92% of their pupils in 2016 hit or exceed their grade targets. James enjoys public speaking and has presented at a number of education and business events. His other interests include sport (football, rugby, athletics), music (blues & hip hop), travelling, reading and all things startup. He has won a number of awards over the past few years, including Unltd’s ‘Do it’, Mercia’s ‘The Pitch’, O2 ‘Think Bigger’ and Santander’s ‘Spark’.
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Robert Grabiner
Founder and Executive Director of MyTutor
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About MyTutor: MyTutor offers affordable 1-to-1 tutorials online by connecting tutors from the UK’s best unis with pupils at home and in schools
Alex Cattani
Business Development Director of Zzish
Won big global deals for Discovery Education. Now partners with Ministries of Education & publishers. Ex-lecturer, owns five guitars.
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About Zzish: Zzish is a valuable classroom digital teaching tool for teachers that provides real-time feedback on the progress of their students.
Wes Armour
Director of University of Oxford
Wes Armour is associate director at the Oxford e-Research Centre (OeRC). He leads the scientific computing group at OeRC, which has around 10 members. Wes’ grant portfolio spans a range of different funders, reflecting the interdisciplinary projects that the group is involved with. His research interests are strongly focused in scientific computing, specifically the use of HPC and many-core technologies to answer scientific problems or to impact people’s daily lives. Wes’ work focuses are modeling and simulation, digital signal processing, HPC/many-core and real-time computing for big data/data science. Wes has a Master’s of Physics in fundamental particle physics and cosmology and a Ph.D. in lattice gauge theory, the computational description of the strong nuclear force.
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About University of Oxford: Oxford is a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and research and the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Trudie Lang
Director, The Global Health Network of University of Oxford
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About University of Oxford: Oxford is a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and research and the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Nick Bostrom
Director of University of Oxford
Nick Bostrom is Professor in the Faculty of Philosophy at Oxford University. He is the founding Director of the Future of Humanity Institute, a multidisciplinary research center which enables a few exceptional mathematicians, philosophers, and scientists to think carefully about global priorities and big questions for humanity. Nick has a background in physics, computational neuroscience, and mathematical logic as well as philosophy. He is the author of some 200 publications, including Anthropic Bias (Routledge, 2002), Global Catastrophic Risks (ed., OUP, 2008), Human Enhancement (ed., OUP, 2009), and the academic book Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies (OUP, 2014), which became a New York Times bestseller. He is best known for his work in five areas: (i) existential risk; (ii) the simulation argument; (iii) anthropics (developing the first mathematically explicit theory of observation selection effects); (iv) impacts of future technology; and (v) implications of consequentialism for global strategy. He is recipient of a Eugene R. Gannon Award (one person selected annually worldwide from the fields of philosophy, mathematics, the arts and other humanities, and the natural sciences). He has been listed on Foreign Policy’s Top 100 Global Thinkers list; and he was included on Prospect magazine’s World Thinkers list, the youngest person in the top 15 from all fields and the highest-ranked analytic philosopher. His writings have been translated into 24 languages. There have been more than 100 translations and reprints of his works.
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About University of Oxford: Oxford is a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and research and the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Jonathan Lusthaus
Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project at the Extra-Legal Governance Institute of University of Oxford
Jonathan Lusthaus is Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project in the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. His research focusses on the “human” side of profit-driven cybercrime: who cybercriminals are and how they are organised. In particular, he is interested in issues of trust, cooperation and governance. Jonathan has recently completed a seven year global study on the organisation of cybercrime to be published by Harvard University Press. As part of this research, he has travelled to cybercrime hotspots around the globe and conducted almost 250 interviews with law enforcement, the private sector and former cybercriminals. Jonathan holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.
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About University of Oxford: Oxford is a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and research and the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Jonathan Lusthaus
Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project at the Extra-Legal Governance Institute of University of Oxford
Jonathan Lusthaus is Director of The Human Cybercriminal Project in the Department of Sociology, University of Oxford. His research focusses on the “human” side of profit-driven cybercrime: who cybercriminals are and how they are organised. In particular, he is interested in issues of trust, cooperation and governance. Jonathan has recently completed a seven year global study on the organisation of cybercrime to be published by Harvard University Press. As part of this research, he has travelled to cybercrime hotspots around the globe and conducted almost 250 interviews with law enforcement, the private sector and former cybercriminals. Jonathan holds a doctorate in sociology from the University of Oxford, where he was a Clarendon Scholar.
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About University of Oxford: Oxford is a world-leading centre of learning, teaching and research and the oldest university in the English-speaking world.
Paul Holden
Operations Director of BrightTALK
Paul joined BrightTALK in 2005, establishing their live broadcast team and production formats. Using this experience and a desire to automate where possible he has influenced the evolution of the BrightTALK SaaS platform. He now provides leadership of their Technical Operations and Information Security teams. Prior to BrightTALK, Paul project managed complex large display, camera and IT systems at global product launches, conferences and concerts.
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About BrightTALK: BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities.
Rory Curnock Cook
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Leo Evans
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Richard Evans
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Richard Evans
Director of The Profs
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About The Profs: The Profs facilitate school, university and professional level private tuition, educational consultancy and academic mentorship.
Sana Farooq
Director of ELN The e-Learning Network
Sana Farooq is the founder and CEO of ELN The e-Learning Network and we absolutely love her dedication and energy towards the education of children in Pakistan – a very dynamic project! She supports elevate and wants girls to have the same opportunities as men.
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About ELN The e-Learning Network: ELN is a digital learning platform that offers accredited, affordable, and interactive online learning services.
Damien Ducourty
Founder & Managing Director of B9lab
#B9lab is the independent provider of quality education, advice and research about blockchain technology and decentralised applications. Our clients are leading global institutions as well as talented individual developers around the world. I’m an experienced entrepreneur and executive with a track record of bringing disruptive software solutions to market in technology and finance. I like working with groups of talented people to provide tangible and valuable solutions. I always engage ethically and believe that sustainability and accountability can fuel growth. I want to be proud of what I do everyday! Attributes: Hands on, conscientious, strategic, persistent but not stubborn, creative, curious and highly personable, love Win Win, try hard everyday to change the world and resist my biases.
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About B9lab: Upskilling gifted developers for high paying, bleeding-edge jobs whatever their background
Harry Williams
Co-Founder and Non Exec Director of Idyia Learning
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About Idyia Learning: Idyia Shakespeare is pioneering a brand new way to engage with Shakespeare.
Dan Fairs
Non-Executive Director of AutonoMe
Dan Fairs is a highly experienced engineering manager, software architect and consultant specialising in backend architecture and development, and technical team building and mentoring. Dan was Founder and Technical Director at SecondSync, and created the SecondSync data platform. SecondSync was acquired by Twitter in April 2014. Dan then went on to manage a team of engineers at Twitter UK until his departure in 2016.
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About AutonoMe: AutonoMe is a support provider delivering independent living skills to people with learning disabilities.
Vishaal Shah
Group Finance Director of Learning Possibilities
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About Learning Possibilities: Learning Possibilities develops and provides a cloud based school learning platform for education and government customers.
Paul McKay
Joint Owner and Managing Director of Logicearth Learning Services
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About Logicearth Learning Services: Logicearth Learning Services provides support services for learning and development (L&D) professionals.
Peter Carlin
Joint Managing Director of Logicearth Learning Services
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About Logicearth Learning Services: Logicearth Learning Services provides support services for learning and development (L&D) professionals.
Alex Melia
Director of Swoosh English
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About Swoosh English: Swoosh English is a premier English eLearning service with a team of fully qualified and experienced UK native English teachers.
Nick Ellenden
Director & Founder of secur-view AB
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About secur-view AB: Secur-view provides companies with sales, marketing, and channel development services, as well as the tools and programs they need.
Ben Barnes
Board of Directors of Roosevelt Institute
Ben Barnes is Board of Directors at Roosevelt Institution.
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About : Roosevelt Institute is a non-profit organization that engages new generations in activism.
Ben Barnes
Board of Directors of Roosevelt Institute
Ben Barnes is Board of Directors at Roosevelt Institution.
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About : Roosevelt Institute is a non-profit organization that engages new generations in activism.
Simon Blower
Co-Founder & Operations Director of Pobble
Simon Blower is a Co-Founder & Operations Director at LendMeYourLiteracy.
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About Pobble: Pobble is the platform to find the best teaching resources, give pupils a global audience for their work, and to assess writing.
Dr Liz Durden-Myers
CEO / Managing Director of PE Scholar
Education Consultant, Physical Educator and International Speaker. Co-Founder & Managing Director at Scholary Ltd and PE Scholar Ltd. Senior Lecturer in Physical Education at Bath Spa University, UK and University of Gloucestershire, UK. Chair of the International Physical Literacy Association (IPLA).
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About PE Scholar: PE Scholar is an international publisher of high quality physical education resources, curated research, and sector-wide insight.
Leon Walker
Director of FLASH
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About FLASH: Flash is a platform that provides curriculum design, develops metacognition, and creates self-regulated learners.
Amy Frith
Marketing Director of LTS Education Systems
As Director of Marketing, Amy oversees LTS marketing communications, including ongoing customer education on new products and feature releases, as well as strategic marketing campaigns to grow the LTS customer base. Amy is editor of the monthly Stride Academy customer e-newsletter and is the touch-point for customer success stories and research-based studies from Stride Academy, STAR Sportsmanship, STAR Character and “UP” users across the nation. She oversees conference and trade show presence for LTS, as well as social media presence. Amy also supports the Technology, Curriculum and Support Departments through documentation and creation of user guides and support materials for teachers, parents and administrators. Before joining LTS, Amy served as a marketing and communications specialist in the information services industry. She graduated from Auburn University with a Bachelor of Arts in English. She and her husband have two beautiful daughters.
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About LTS Education Systems: LTS Education Systems is a online education provider.
Alastair Buick
Director of New Media Education
Dr Alastair Buick is UK-based medical doctor, educator and the co-founder of New Media Education Ltd. Alastair studied medicine at Bristol University, where he intercalated to take a PGCE in medical education. After graduating, he completed his foundation years in the Health Education East of England deanery. While studying medicine, Alastair felt there should be a more supportive collaborative approach to learning and so co-founded New Media Education where, along with Jeremy Walker, he created Meducation – a social network initially designed to improve the learning experience of UK medical students. In 2011, he moved away from clinical medicine to work full time as the CEO of Meducation. Alastair is a keen sailor and has taught disadvantaged children at the Fellowship Afloat Charitable Trust since 2002.
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About Meducation: New Media Education is a schooling organization that specializes in networking, technology, fitness care.
Darren Hockley
Managing Director of DeltaNet International Limited
Darren founded DeltaNet in September 1999 and has been Managing Director ever since. He has 20 years’ experience of helping major organisations implement elearning. He is an active member of BILD (The British Institute of Learning and Development) of which he served three years as a volunteer Trustee, ending his tenure in the role of Vice–Chair. He has spoken at many exhibitions and conferences including HR-D, BILDing U and WOLCE.
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About DeltaNet International Limited: DeltaNet International have been building ethical, safe, high performing team.
James Cadle
Director of AssistKD
James Cadle has been involved in the management services field for more than thirty-five years, in roles ranging from organisation and methods, through IT development and most recently in business analysis. He currently presents a range of courses in business analysis, project management and consultancy skills and consults with clients in these fields. He is the co-author of several best-selling books on business analysis and project management and is a chartered member of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About AssistKD: AssistKD and they have helped to develop the company and its portfolio of services.
James Cadle
Director of AssistKD
James Cadle has been involved in the management services field for more than thirty-five years, in roles ranging from organisation and methods, through IT development and most recently in business analysis. He currently presents a range of courses in business analysis, project management and consultancy skills and consults with clients in these fields. He is the co-author of several best-selling books on business analysis and project management and is a chartered member of BCS, The Chartered Institute for IT.
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About AssistKD: AssistKD and they have helped to develop the company and its portfolio of services.
Sue West
Client Service Director of Eukleia Training
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About Eukleia Training: Eukleia provides a comprehensive and integrated range of e-learning services and learning technologies to corporate and government clients.
John Roberts
Director of Product and Technology of Oak National Academy
John Roberts is Co-Founder & Director of Education at Sixth Domain.
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About Oak National Academy: Oak National Academy provides a sequenced plan of video lessons and curricular resources for teachers.
Tom Steck
Director of Co-Founders Club
IT Professional, Visionary, Life-Long Learner
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About Co-Founders Club: Matching co-founders during collaborative learning process
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Nathan Pitman
Managing Director of iHASCO
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About iHASCO: iHASCO provides and integrated Health & Safety, HR and Business compliance training platform for SMBs.
Victor Beamish
Nonexecutive Director of TOPYX
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Thomas Rennie
Nonexecutive Director of TOPYX
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