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 Manager operating in the Social 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.
Ollie Parsley
Senior Engineering Manager of Meltwater
Ollie started off as a web developer and has founded numerous websites on very low or non-existent budget and next to no marketing. This has not stopped his websites from picking up large numbers of users and press. He then went on to found Hootware Limited and is currently the CEO. Hootware Limited has since moved from Twitter and Social Media focused apps (such FootyTweets and H1Debate) to the Android mobile security market.
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About FeedMorf, FootyTweets, Hootware Ltd, Meltwater: Meltwater is a media Intelligence & social listening tools for measuring, managing and magnifying corporate reputation.
Anamarija Ferrari
Digital Marketing Manager of SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Anamarija Ferrari
Digital Marketing Manager of SwiftGift
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About SwiftGift: SwiftGift is the world’s first Instant Gift Messenger App which allows you to send real gifts to anyone in your phone’s contact book.
Katie Roberts
Software Engineering Manager of BBC
Katie is the Software Engineering Manager for Content Discovery at the BBC. In this role she manages the development teams who are responsible for the BBC Homepage and Search and Navigation across the whole of the BBC’s digital online presence. She has over 15 years of Software Development experience, working in diverse sectors from games development to advertising. During her last 7 years at the BBC she has worked on projects including the Connected TV Sport App for the 2012 Olympics, BBC Food, the Bitesize App and BBC Bitesize. She loves solving problems and is passionate about working collaboratively, which has led to her becoming interested in InnerSource and how it can help with software development.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
David Buckhurst
Software Engineering Manager of BBC
David Buckhurst is the Software Engineering Manager at BBC.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Stephanie May
Executive Product Manager of BBC
Stephanie is a product management expert who was included in Product Management Festival’s 50 Women in Product in Europe List in 2018. Having gained an MEng from the University of Cambridge, she spent the next two years volunteering as a Biomedical Engineer on the MV Africa Mercy, the world’s largest charity hospital ship, before moving into software development. She’s passionate about collaboration and design thinking and has a range of product management experience across FinTech, B2B and consumer products. Stephanie now leads the Content Discovery product team at the BBC, looking at the strategy and delivery of products such as the BBC Homepage, Discovery Engine and Search.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Jess Southall
Global Pavilions Manager of Hub Culture
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About Hub Culture: Hub Culture is a global collaboration platform focused on digital currency and identity, knowledge brokerage and community services.
Amy Nicholson
Product Manager of Financial Times
In 2016 Amy graduated from Makers Academy, a coding bootcamp in London, and joined the Financial Times as a junior developer. After 18 blissful months of coding she decided to dive into the curious world of Product and has since been a product manager working on FT.com.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Hannah Williams
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
Steph Bradley
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
James Curran
Senior Manager of Deloitte Digital
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About Deloitte Digital: Deloitte Digital offers strategic, mobile, digital content, digital ERP, web, and digital design, and communication solutions.
Natalie Bolton
Production Manager of ITV
Natalie has been working in Production Management now for over 18 years, working at Broadcasters and Independents in London and Manchester including Discovery, Endemol, Zig Zag Productions, ITV and BBC. Natalie joined BBC Children’s in 2012 and whilst looking after the CBeebies development team one of the first projects to develop was the Sesame Workshop Co-Production The Furchester Hotel which Natalie took through the development and production as Line Producer. Natalie was instrumental in shaping the series and achieving the high ambition of the show, she has also Line Produced a new CBBC Comedy Drama – Class Dismissed and The Cbeebies Ugly Duckling annual ballet in conjunction with the Northern Ballet.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Harini Marivannan
Operations Manager of Provenance
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About Provenance: Provenance is the leading software solution for sustainability communications
Tarun Samtani
Data Protection Officer & Privacy Program Manager of International SOS
Tarun Samtani,CISSP is the Information Security Architect for Ebuyer UK (online retailer) and WREN Living (high street retailer). Tarun holds 15 years of experience across various sectors like Telecommunications, ISP’s, Financial Services, Gambling & Retail. Tarun has worked across UK, Europe, Asia & Middle East on different assignments. He has a wealth of experience in Information Security and is passionate about securing enterprise IT landscapes. During the course of his career Tarun has been involved in the strategy & planning, design, architecture and implementation of a significant number of enterprise security solutions. He has a passion for Cyber Security and enjoys sharing his experience. He also has a keen interest in helping out charities and non-profit board organisations fight cybercrime. His specialisations include strategy and planning of security programmes for Cloud Security, DDoS mitigation, Cyber Defence including Threat Intelligence-led Cyber Incident Response.
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About Bookboon, International SOS: International SOS is the world’s leading medical and travel security services company.
Duncan Dallas
Key Account Manager of International SOS
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About International SOS: International SOS is the world’s leading medical and travel security services company.
Amaia White
Programme Manager for Mobile IoT Initiative of GSMA
Amaia is the Programme Manager for the GSMA’s Mobile IoT Initiative. The GSMA’s Mobile IoT Initiative is helping to support the industry deliver commercial LPWA solutions for IoT using licensed spectrum (Mobile IoT). Leading a team of project managers and industry experts she manages the delivery of the various projects and industry engagement activities within the initiative, including, tracking commercial launches, producing industry papers and case studies that highlight examples of mobile IoT use within a range of verticals and growing the wider ecosystem through the GSMA Innovator Community. Prior to this Amaia has managed a number of projects both within Mobile IoT, and the Technology and Programme Services teams at the GSMA. She holds a BA in Linguistics from Leeds University and is a Prince2 qualified Project Manager.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Gareth Owens
UK Country Manager of Linkfluence
Gareth Owens is the UK managing director of Linkfluence. Previously he served on the same company as the UK commercial director.
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About CARMA, Linkfluence: Linkfluence is a media intelligence company that analyzes conversations on social networks to create business opportunities for brands.
Alexander Nicholson
Engagement Manager of Frog Design
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About Frog Design: Frog Design operates as a global design, innovation, and strategy firm.
Lisa Targett
General Manager of TRIBE
Lisa Targett is UK General Manager of TRIBE, the self-serve marketplace that connects brands with everyday people to celebrate them through beautiful content. Lisa joined TRIBE from Mail Advertising where she was responsible for 65% of the publisher’s UK digital revenue, after successfully establishing their standalone commercial operation in Sydney. Within her first year at the helm, TRIBE UK’s revenues have soared beyond forecast – accounting for over 55% of global revenues and showing no signs of slowing. In recognition of such achievements, she has been named in The Drum’s #50Under30 and named one of Diversity Journal’s Women Worth Watching in 2018. She is widely acknowledged as a thought-leader within Marketing & Advertising, delivering keynotes at Decoded, Millennial2020, PRWeek, Ad:Tech and frequently commenting on industry news for The Drum, Campaign & Business Insider. She also sits on the Wholeinfluence Council and is a member of the IAB’s Future Trends and Content & Native Advisory groups – each designed to create, maintain, and define standards in the influencer marketing industry. Founded in Australia in September 2015, and launched in the UK in April 2017, TRIBE has connected over 7,500 brands with 40,000 influencers generating 450,000 pieces of branded content globally for the likes of Unilever, Amazon, Topshop, American Express, Selfridges, Mars and Diageo.
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About TRIBE: TRIBE is a technology platform that enables digital marketers to quickly and cost-effectively source branded content from creators.
Olly Stevens
Business Development Manager of The Chelsea Magazine Company
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About The Chelsea Magazine Company: The Chelsea Magazine Company is an award-winning publisher of specialist magazines.
Simon Wheeldon
Customer Success Manager of Pynk
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About BitPoster, Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Alexandra Nguyen
Business Operations Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Camilla van Rosendal
Communications & PR Manager of bemoir
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About bemoir: Bemoir is a social media platform that enables its users to share their stories with photos and videos.
Nicola Parry
Account Director and General Manager of Spin Brands
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About Spin Brands: The go-to Scale Up Social Media Specialists
Georgina Dunn
Freelance Digital Marketing Manager of Self-Employed
I’m a freelance digital marketing manager and writer with over five years experience based in London. My specialism is in creating marketing strategies and actionable plans for B2B creative, technology and content startups and agencies.
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About : A Crunhbase collection of Self-Employed individuals.
Anna Maria Balint
Social Media Consultant & Operations Manager of Caliston
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About Caliston, Digital Aesthetics, Social Media Status: ROI-driven Digital marketing agency
Rose Keen
Research Manager of Econsultancy
Rose Keen is a Research Manager at Econsultancy.
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About Econsultancy: Econsultancy publishes research, analysis and advice on digital marketing, social media, e-commerce, SEO, mobile and tech for businesses.
Matt O’Neill
General Manager, Europe of MediaTrust
Matt O’Neill is the Founder & Principal at Teemo.
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About Atlantic Leap, Darabase, Huq Industries, MeasureMatch, MediaTrust, Teemo: MediaTrust offers PerformanceExchange, a CPC bidding and customer delivery system that connects advertisers with customers in real time.
Jennifer Lau
Customer Service Manager of Spare Leash
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About Spare Leash: Spare Leash provides a marketplace for various trusted and verified cat and dog services
Mita Patel
Senior Member & Community Manager of Second Home
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About Second Home: Second Home owns and operates an office space for entrepreneurs and creative businesses.
Elizabeth Hood
Finance Manager of Lingoing
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About Lingoing: Lingoing is a social network that provides an online market place connecting sign language professionals and deaf clients together.
Rachel Krish
Business Development Manager of Vestd
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About Vestd: Vestd is a secure online platform that makes giving shares to your team, customers or partners simple, affordable, and fast.
Ellie Hoy
Product Manager of The Work Crowd
Ellie is our Product Manager here at The Work Crowd, she is passionate about the user experience and adding intuitive and meaningful functionality. After graduating from Leeds University Ellie worked for an online tutoring start-up, helping build their online platform, helping take the company from a standing start to receiving first round funding. Ellie has also worked in executive search prior to joining The Work Crowd, so also appreciates the challenges companies face finding the right talent to meet their business needs.
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About The Work Crowd: The Work Crowd is changing the way talented people choose to work and how work finds talented people!
Deborah Edwards
Office Manager of Hallam
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About Hallam: Hallam is a full service digital marketing agency providing digital campaigns and strategy, SEO, PPC, content marketing, web development.
Marcello Mari
Editorial Manager of eFanswer
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About eFanswer: eFanswer a new way to tell celebrities lives through fans questions and celebs answers in a unique editorial product.
Martin Brown
General Manager of Gnatta
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About FM Outsource, Gnatta: Gnatta allows businesses of all sizes to listen and engage with their customers on an individual basis via one single interface.
Gordon Wright
Programme Manager of Scottish Social Services Council
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About Scottish Social Services Council: Scottish Social Services Council regulates the social work, social care, and early years workforce.
Stephen Portlock
Marketing Communications Manager of NHST Media Group
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About NHST Media Group: NHST Media Group aims to be the best and leading provider of business news in Norway.
Thomas Matiews
IT Manager of iPay Affiliates
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About iPay Affiliates: iPay Affiliates is one of the fastest growing open market, fully transparent, self-service networks
Louise Wyer
Operations Manager of SoccerHubb
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About SoccerHubb: SoccerHubb is a social network platform for football that includes social media suite, interactive multimedia, and live news feed.
Lance Concannon
UK Marketing Manager of Sysomos
Lance has over a decade of PR agency experience as a social media specialist at agencies including Immediate Future and Text 100, working with brands such as Sony Electronics, IBM, Oracle, BP and Accor amongst others. He recently joined Sysomos as the UK marketing manager.
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About Sysomos: Sysomos offers social media monitoring and analytics products that gives insight needed to make smarter business and strategic decisions.
Katherine Holdway
HR & Learning Manager of Impetus
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About Impetus: Impetus is a non-profit organization that supports charities focused on young people from disadvantaged backgrounds.
Nikola Howard
Data Centre Manager of London Borough of Camden
Nikola has worked in IT for over 30 years, starting in the era of the 286, DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1, and has had a career path spanning desktop and server support, SharePoint architecture, Information Security and Infrastructure team management. She is passionate about inspiring women and girls to choose and succeed in STEM so that the world can be a more balanced place.
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About London Borough of Camden: London Borough of Camden.
Nikola Howard
Data Centre Manager of London Borough of Camden
Nikola has worked in IT for over 30 years, starting in the era of the 286, DOS 5.0 and Windows 3.1, and has had a career path spanning desktop and server support, SharePoint architecture, Information Security and Infrastructure team management. She is passionate about inspiring women and girls to choose and succeed in STEM so that the world can be a more balanced place.
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About London Borough of Camden: London Borough of Camden.
Louise Curtis
Product Manager of Telegraph
Louise Curtis is the product manager at The Telegraph.
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About Telegraph: Telegraph is a social network mobile app.
Gavin Ellis
Business and Product Development Manager of gamesGRABR
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About gamesGRABR: gamesGRABR is a London-based social gaming network, which is available on mobile, tablet, and PC.
