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 Internet 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.
Tamara Slanova
Co-Founder, CFO of DMarket
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About DMarket: DMarket is a marketplace for NFTs trading and technology for building metaverses.
Elliot Jordan
Chief Financial Officer of Farfetch
As Chief Financial Officer, Elliot is responsible for the company’s financial operations including accounting; treasury and tax; and financial reporting and control, across all of Farfetch’s international offices. Elliot is part of the Executive Board. Elliot joined Farfetch with a wealth of financial experience at consumer online retailers including ASOS and Sainsbury’s. Prior to joining the retail industry, Elliot worked at Credit Suisse in London and KPMG in Auckland.
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Remon Fahim
CFO of BongoBD
Remon Fahim is the Chief Financial Officer of BongoBD. He is a former Head Of Finance at O2 (Telefónica UK).
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About BongoBD: BongoBD is a Bangladeshi entertainment company that offers on-demand video on the mobile and web as well as live tv.
John Otty
CFO Africa Middle East Asia Pacific of Vodafone
John is the Vodafone CFO for Africa, Middle East and Asia Pacific region. He joined Vodafone in December 1992 and has held a number of senior executive positions in Vodafone including that of Group Technology Financial Director, interim CFO of Vodafone India and Vodafone PLC Group Internal Audit Director. He was appointed to the Safaricom Limited Board in August 2013.
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About Vodafone: Vodafone is a mobile telecommunications company that offers voice, messaging, and data services.
Ngoc Chu
Chief Financial Officer of Zapp
Ngoc Chu is the Chief Financial Officer at Zapp.
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About Zapp: Zapp is a grocery-delivery startup that provides on-demand delivery services 24/7.
Hugo Grimston
CFO of Paddle
Hugo Grimston is CFO at Paddle, a platform that takes makes it incredibly simple to sell apps,games and other digital products.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Will Richards
Chief Financial Officer of Adthena
Will graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Physiological Sciences before joining KPMG’s Middle-Markets team as an Audit Associate. Here he worked with dozens of clients across all verticals and business models. After qualifying as an ACA chartered accountant with ICAEW, Will entered the start-up world to gain first-hand experience of running a small business. Most recently working as the Commercial Finance lead at a Facebook PMD that was struggling. Joining the management team, he worked with venture capitalists to create a rescue package before steering the company to a successful sale to a competitor. Will joined Adthena as our interim Financial Controller and soon realised he had a strong, mutual affinity with our business. He became our permanent VP of Finance and has driven us through successful Series A and follow-on fundraising, attracting multiple venture capital offers before settling on a outstanding deal with Mel Morris, the renowned Candy Crush entrepreneur and owner of Derby County FC. Since Will joined the business Adthena has achieved a 5x increase in valuation, while tripling the size of the business.”
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About Adthena: Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
Dean Hartley
Chief Financial Officer of Webhelp
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About Webhelp: Webhelp is a business process outsourcer (BPO), specialising in customer experience and payment management.
Paul Herdemian
CFO/CCO of JustPark
Paul Herdemian is an entrepreneurial leader, coach, and change agent with 16+ years’ experience in all aspects of business leadership, P&L management, operations, sales, strategy, and finance.He has in-depth experience in partnering with senior management at dynamically changing organizations in an effort to drive growth and flexibility through big ideas and thoughtful execution with a focus on strategically growing a business. Also, a team builder with a strong work ethic, excellent leadership, and consensus-building skills. Total emphasis on planning, execution, and customer satisfaction. He has a results-driven, interactive “Team Management” philosophy and leadership style, which has yielded enhanced profitability, shareholder value, and organizational development.
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About JustPark: JustPark is a parking app reinventing parking for the digital era.
Alizay Saeed
Co-Founder and CFO of VavaCars
Alizay Saeed is the Co-Founder and CFO at VavaCars.
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About VavaCars: VavaCars is an online used car transaction platform
Ben Bresler
Chief Financial Officer of Hyperoptic
An experienced, dedicated Chartered Accountant fresh from a role as Finance Director at retail company Rigby & Peller. Ben ensured a fast, smooth sale of the company, completing all finance, tax and legal due diligence as a key part of the deal team and negotiation process. During his time at Rigby and Peller, Ben led a business expansion program in order to drive top line growth and profitability. He shook up the incumbent systems and processes to deliver relevant management information and enable real decision-making. Previously he mastered the murky waters of Indonesia to become a diving instructor, which naturally led to a tax advisory role at General Electric in Australia. He’s a thorough finance professional, with a passion for cutting edge technology and the role it plays in the modern world.
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About Hyperoptic: Hyperoptic is a fiber-based internet service provider.
Andrew Coleman
Chief Financial Officer of HomeBase
Andy Coleman is Chief Financial Officer at Homebase .
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About HomeBase: HomeBase is a home improvement and garden retailer.
Tim Pullen
Chief Financial Officer of Arm Holdings
Tim is Chief Financial Officer at Arm. He joined the business in July 2017. He was previously at O2 | Telefonica UK, where he held a variety of positions including Finance Director for Technology Operations and Transformation, Finance Director for O2’s B2B and Digital Products segments, Head of Finance Operations and was a non-Executive Director at Tesco Mobile. Prior to O2, Tim has worked in a number of technology and services businesses, including Serco, Fujitsu and Dell. He is a Chartered Accountant by background having qualified with Ernst & Young.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Patrick Mulcahy
CFO of TrueSpeed Communications
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About TrueSpeed Communications: Innovative fibre optic infrastructure and telecoms company.
Adam Hall
Chief Financial Officer of Truphone
Adam Hall is Chief Financial Officer at Truphone.
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About Truphone: A global leader in digital connectivity software
Fiona Talbot
Chief Financial Officer of Limitless
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About Limitless: The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Andrius Kazlauskas
Founder & CFO of Heficed
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About Heficed, IPXO: Heficed provides full-range services for IP lease, monetization, and management services.
Mark Mitchell
CFO of Firestartr
Mark qualified with PwC before moving on to hold Group Financial Controller positions in Merck, Getty Images and Ready 2, an internet start-up with Trinny and Susannah. After that, he joined Alain Falys at OB10 and built a global finance function from scratch, leading up to the £160m IPO and sale to Tungsten Network in 2013. As well as CFO of Firestartr, Mark is currently Financial Controller of Yoyo, a Firestartr portfolio company. Mark is a Chartered Accountant and has a BSc in Banking & International Finance from City University Business School, London.
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About Crypta Labs, Firestartr, Mitch Consulting Ltd: Firestartr helps the most promising digital entrepreneurs take their companies from seed stage to Series A and beyond.
Richard Miller
CFO of Wireless Logic
Richard joined Wireless Logic as CFO in April 2012. A chartered accountant, he spent much of his career in corporate finance at PwC. Richard has supported management teams, companies and private equity houses on many acquisitions, disposal and re-financing across Europe. Richard advised ECI Partners during the management buy-out of Wireless Logic in August 2011 and in the subsequent process as CVC Capital Partners joined the Board in February 2015. Richard brings a wealth of commercial and transactional knowledge to the management team.
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About Wireless Logic: Wireless Logic is an M2M & IoT managed services provider delivering multiple bearer connectivity and value-added services.
Dirk Bernhardt
CFO of spaceOS
Dirk Bernhardt is the Chief Financial Officer at spaceOS.
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About spaceOS: SpaceOS is the most beautiful and easy to use tenant experience and management software on the market.
Graham Crowe
CFO of TotallyMoney
Graham is a qualified chartered accountant with over a decade of experience in e-commerce, technology and financial services. Before joining Media Ingenuity, Graham led the finance function at Pension Protection Fund and Iglu.com where his experience included sale to private equity. Graham also held a number of senior commercial finance roles at BT and BSkyB.
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About TotallyMoney: TotallyMoney puts customers right at the center of their credit data, helping them make smarter financial decisions.
Louise Easterbrook
CFO of GSMA
Louise Easterbrook is the CFO at GSMA.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Stacey Edwards
COO, CFO & Director of Ad-Lib.io
Stacey Edwards is the COO, CFO and Director at Ad-Lib.io.
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About Ad-Lib.io: Powering Creative Effectiveness
Giancarlo Bruni
Co-founder & CFO of Heroes
Giancarlo Bruni is a Chief Financial Officer of Heroes.
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About Heroes: Heroes is a technology-driven e-commerce company that acquires, operates, and scales small and medium-sized brands.
Kuvera Sivalingam
CFO and Co-Founder of HowNow
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About HowNow: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Wissam Jabre
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of Dialog Semiconductor
Wissam joins Dialog after serving as Corporate Vice President of Finance at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) since 2014. Between 2003 and 2014, Wissam Jabre held various executive positions at Freescale Semiconductor, including Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Vice President Global Pricing, Chief Financial Officer of the Networking & Multimedia Solutions Group as well as senior roles within Corporate Treasury. During this period he gained extensive experience in accounting, financial planning, treasury, procurement, and merger and acquisition integration. He began his career at Schlumberger, gaining international experience in the Middle East, Europe and North America, before joining Motorola in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and received an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York in 1998.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
David Sadler
Chief Financial Officer of Twig World
David has worked extensively in finance, starting in the travel sector at Hamilton Travel and Lonely Planet. He then moved to News UK, where he worked as a Finance Manager, Head of Finance for Sales and Marketing and the Finance Director for Strategy and Development. David then went on to work at Beano Studios as their Interim Finance Director.
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About Twig Education, Twig World: Twig World is award-winning tools and educational resources for the classroom.
Tom Barrett
CFO of JUST DEVELOP iT
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About JUST DEVELOP iT: Just Develop It (JDi) is a Hampshire based investment company that specialises in early stage and growth capital across.
John Dougal
Chief Financial Officer of Bede Gaming
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About Bede Gaming: Bede Gaming is the first choice supplier of software to the online gambling and social gaming industries.
William Billingsley
CFO, Cofounder & Chief Commercial Officer of ApTap
As the co-founder of ApTap, he is fully involved in the operations, planning and strategy of the company. Upon graduating from Imperial College he delved into the world of business, inspired by experiences in tech and science, in order to learn and make an impact. With work experience in research labs, in the field and abroad, as well as in business development, alongside his BSc in Biology with Management (hons), He is excited to have started a company, to drive his aspirations to change the world.
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About ApTap: ApTap offer a simple bill management API for banks to cancel, compare and switch their service providers with just a tap.
Steve Smith
Chief Financial Officer of Daisy Corporate Services
Steve is a chartered accountant and joined the board as Chief Financial Officer in June 2011. He was formerly Corporate Development Director and assisted in preparing the Group for its reverse takeover on the Alternative Investment Market, as well as leading the subsequent acquisition and disposal programme for the Group. Prior to joining Daisy, Steve spent 11 years at Ernst & Young, as an Audit Partner and then a Corporate Finance Partner. Whilst there, he was instrumental in numerous main market and AIM transactions in the technology and telecoms industries.
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About Daisy Corporate Services: Daisy Corporate Services | #1 independent provider of IT, communications and cloud
Forhad Ahmed
Chief Financial Officer of Favorey
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About Favorey: We are building a community of trust, where we can all ask for help from trusted contacts, and use our skills to help others.
Steven Bastian
CFO of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Michael Zeitler
CFO of Orderella
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About Orderella: Orderella is the leading mobile ordering and payment platform for the hospitality industry available in the UK.
Gary Greasby
CFO of Civo
Gary Greasby is the Chief Financial Officer at Civo and ServerChoice.
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About Civo, ServerChoice: Cloud hosting specialists running the the world’s first Kubernetes service powered by Rancher Lab’s K3s.
Sebastian Shaw
Co-founder & CFO of Brainbroker
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About Brainbroker, Brainbroker: Brainbroker is a digital agency that uses data-driven marketing techniques to generate customers for its client.
Rebecca Scott
Chief Financial Officer of Feelunique.com
Rebecca Scott is the Chief Financial Officer at Feelunique.com.
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About Feelunique.com: Feelunique.com is an online e-commerce platform that offers beauty products and related advice.
Phil Wright
CFO, Treasurer and Company Secretary of PrismTech
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About PrismTech: PrismTech provides software platforms and tools for the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet and advanced wireless communications.
David Wadsworth
Chief Financial Officer & Managing Director, UK of WMC Global
David Wadsworth oversees the WMC Global Group’s strategic financial direction as he plans, manages, and reports on group finances. His more than 40 years in financial management ensure the success of the group’s entrepreneurial endeavors. David brings extensive management and business development experience as a chartered accountant, having specialized in mobile technology, marketing and media, and property companies. His expertise in managing and resourcing business development for venture capital and investment finance groups enables him to evaluate markets and identify financial and business opportunities for the WMC Global Group—supporting its continued growth. In his role as managing director, David leads his team in opening new opportunities in the United Kingdom, as well as pursuing new opportunities and markets in Europe, and manages the effective delivery of products and solutions to clients. David earned his MA in History at the University of Oxford.
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About WMC Global: Worldwide Brand and Customer Protection At Scale
Catherine Greening
Chief Financial Officer of UKFast
Catherine Greening is the CFO at UKFast. Catherine works across the management layer at UKFast to drive value in the business above and beyond its extraordinary existing organic growth. A chartered accountant, Catherine brings extensive experience of corporate finance to UKFast. Before joining UKFast, Catherine drove the £45m kidsunlimited exit to US public company Bright Horizons, as Commercial Director and shareholder. Catherine also spent time at PwC as a director in their M&A team advising management teams and private equity houses on management buyouts before moving into an investment director role with LDC – the UK’s leading private equity house and part of Lloyd’s bank. As part of her remit driving growth, Catherine recently led the £40m fund raising from RBS to create a war chest for future acquisitions. In 2017, Catherine led the acquisition of Public Sector hosting business Secure Information Assurance. Catherine also sits on the board of related companies, Secarma and Farinet.
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About UKFast: UKFast is a dedicated host and server company.
Roy Hastings
Group Chief Financial Officer of FluidOne
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About FluidOne: FluidOne is offer high quality, secure data, voice and cloud solutions.
Mark Johnson
CFO & Advisor of SBOODLE
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About SBOODLE: Merchandising for Content Creators
Ian Wade
CFO of Gigaclear
Ian Wade is the CFO at Gigaclear.
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About Gigaclear: Gigaclear is a private company dedicated to building and operating Ultrafast broadband networks based on pure fibre technology.
Richard Williams
CFO of Future Cities
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About Future Cities: Platform for real-time urban mobility; powered by Ethos
