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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Manager operating in the Electronics 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.
Kevin Lott
Sales Manager of Garmin
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About Garmin: Garmin manufactures marine, aviation, and consumer technologies suitable to run on global positioning systems.
Milan Lakhani
Innovation Strategist & Incubation Manager of Konica Minolta
Innovation Strategist & Incubation Manager Business Innovation Centre Europe, Konica Minolta, Inc. Milan has a passion for business-led innovation, and works as a strategist within the Business Innovation Centre (BIC), Europe, where he manages business innovation, incubation and future business development. Milan’s main areas of expertise are setting up innovation programmes in a corporate environment, globally, understanding cultural paradigms and creating a framework to provide a structure & governance for on-going innovation. Within Konica Minolta, Milan’s focus is working with (existing & prospective) senior clients on innovation-led engagements, with the scope of co-innovating and incubation of projects. He also focuses on collaboration with start-ups, alliance partners, and formalising business innovation as a core function of the BIC. Previous to Milan’s existing role with Konica Minolta, he spent 16 years with Hewlett Packard (HP), as a Senior Consultant, specialising in Enterprise and Corporate Innovation, within the office of the CEO. Milan was instrumental in setting up one of the largest enterprise innovation programmes in the IT Services industry.
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About Konica Minolta: Konica Minolta is an Innovative Company and continues to create inspiring products and services in the field of imaging.
Michele Riga
Senior Product Manager, High Performance IoT of Arm Holdings
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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.
Matt Spencer
Senior Technology Manager of Arm Holdings
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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.
Radhika Jagtap
Senior Product Manager of Arm Holdings
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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.
Antonio Russo
Senior Product Manager – Automotive & IoT of Arm Holdings
Antonio Russo is a Senior Product Manager for Systems and Software Group at Arm. Based in Cambridge, he is responsible for defining debug and trace IP solutions. Over the last 15 years, Antonio has held a variety of roles in the semiconductor industry, spanning from engineering, support, sales and marketing.
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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.
Matt Rushton
Product Manager – Training Services of Arm Holdings
Matt Rushton is Product Manager for Training Services at Arm Having graduated in Electronic Design and Technology in the early 90’s Matt has held various technical training roles with a number of leading technology and big data companies. It was whilst at these companies, he developed a passion for embracing new technologies to help improve technical training. Matt as been with Arm for 12 months, where his focus has been helping the engineering community at Arm to improve their already successful face to face training offering whilst adding in other more accessible technology based training options.
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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.
James Scobie
Senior Product Manager of Arm Holdings
James Scobie is a Senior Product Manager within the Arm CPU group responsible for Cortex-R processors. James has more than 20 years of experience in semiconductor development for the automotive industry over a range of applications including powertrain, body control, gateways and safety systems. James is based in Cambridge UK. Prior to joining Arm James held positions at Motorola and Freescale.
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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.
Alessandro Grande
Ecosystem Manager of Arm Holdings
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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.
Daniele Di Donato
Product Manager of Arm Holdings
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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.
Will Lord
Technology Manager, Embedded Tools of Arm Holdings
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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.
Avril Murphy
General Manager International of Owlet Baby Care
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About Owlet Baby Care: Owlet Baby Care offers a health monitor that allows parents to view their child’s vital signs in real-time.
Richard Owens
Network Optimisation Manager of O2
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Kevin Fotheringham
Project Manager of Teledyne Technologies
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About Teledyne Technologies: Teledyne Technologies provides electronic components, instruments, and communications products in the U.S., Europe, Japan, and Canada.
Ian Davis
Regional Marketing Manager Optical Fiber of Corning
Ian Davis is the regional marketing manager for EMEA, responsible for developing and executing optical fiber product strategy within the region. Davis joined Corning in 1989 and has held various positions in product line management, product engineering, and applications engineering management – Europe. Most recently, Davis was a strategic alliances manager, establishing and maintaining relationships with key suppliers, customers, end-users, and system equipment manufacturers. Davis received First Class Honors from Nottingham University, graduating with a Bachelor of Science in Physics. He also received a diploma in management studies from St. Helens Technical College in Merseyside, England.
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About Corning: Corning is a manufacturer of building materials including glass, ceramic, related materials and technologies, and more.
Bryce Johnstone
Automotive Segment Marketing Manager of Imagination Technologies
Bryce Johnstone is responsible for relationships and marketing throughout the automotive value chain in support of defining IP requirements for the rapidly changing car market. Previously at Imagination, he was in charge of Developer Ecosystem largely working with mobile games companies throughout the world. Prior to joining Imagination in 2011, Johnstone spent 19 years with Texas Instruments, where he worked in several technical, managerial and business development roles before moving into the Wireless Terminal Business Unit to head up the OMAP Developer Network activity. He started his career as a Senior Design Engineer at STC Semiconductors. Johnstone holds a BSC. In Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Edinburgh and an MBA from the Open University.
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About Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies develops and licenses semiconductor system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP).
Imre Csuri
Strategic Alliances Manager of Sennheiser
Imre (Immy) Csuri is responsible for Sennheiser enterprise alliances in the UK&I. This is a pivotal role, working with the key Unified Communications players in the market, helping to ensure that Sennheiser is at the forefront and centre of the industry.
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About Sennheiser: Sennheiser develops, manufactures, and markets headphones, headsets, microphones, and integrated systems.
Imre Csuri
Strategic Alliances Manager of Sennheiser
Imre (Immy) Csuri is responsible for Sennheiser enterprise alliances in the UK&I. This is a pivotal role, working with the key Unified Communications players in the market, helping to ensure that Sennheiser is at the forefront and centre of the industry.
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About Sennheiser: Sennheiser develops, manufactures, and markets headphones, headsets, microphones, and integrated systems.
Dotan Ginsbourg
General Manager EMEA of Idomoo
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About Idomoo, Idomoo: Idomoo delivers video-based digital CRM solutions for enterprises to improve communication with their customers.
Jennifer Cleary
HR Manager EMEA & APAC of Andor Technology
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About Andor Technology: Andor Technology (Andor) is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and operates at the high-value end of the global scientific digital camera.
Jennifer Cleary
HR Manager EMEA & APAC of Andor Technology
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About Andor Technology: Andor Technology (Andor) is based in Belfast, Northern Ireland and operates at the high-value end of the global scientific digital camera.
Mark Baber
Technical Marketing Manager. Consumer & B2B Events. UK & Ireland Photo Channel of Sony Electronics
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About Sony Electronics: Sony Electronics (SEL) is the U.S. sales and marketing arm of Sony’s global electronics business. It is a leading provider of audio/video
Tom Ballhatchet
Product Design Manager of Eskesso
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About Eskesso, Yoto: Eskesso is smart sous vide cooking appliance and cloud platform.
Craig Forrester
Connectors Division Manager of Staubli
Craig Forrester is the Connectors Division Manager of Staubli UK Ltd and has been with the company for 19 years. Craig has over 23 years’ experience in the plastics market and over 36 years in factory automation. His technical qualifications include HND in Electrical/Electronic Engineering.
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About Staubli: Staubli is an mechatronics solutions provider for the textile, connectors and robotics.
Martin Woolley
Senior Developer Relations Manager, EMEA of Bluetooth SIG
Martin Woolley is an industry veteran with over 30 years’ experience working with computers large, small and getting smaller. He still has a Sinclair ZX81 somewhere. Bluetooth Smart and IoT grabbed his attention a few years ago when working for BlackBerry. Bluetooth Smart struck him as a phenomenally exciting, useful and developer-friendly technology and it’s no surprise it’s helping fuel the realisation of some remarkable technological visions and is key to some of the most fascinating industry trends of the moment, including IoT, wearables, the smart home and beacons. Martin is a member of the SIG’s Developer Programs team and loves talking with developers about software development and BT
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About Bluetooth SIG: Bluetooth SIG is a tech firm that publishes Bluetooth specifications, administers the qualification program, and more.
Dave Dearn
Engineering Manager and Co-Founder of Uniphy Ltd
David has over 30 years of experience of electronics and semi-conductor design and technical management, spanning market sectors from automotive to mobile communications. David’s early career started in the detailed analogue and digital design of automotive electronics and integrated circuits at Lucas TRW, where he became IC design manager of the UK group. From there David, joined Dialog semiconductor, as Design Lead, working on the latest mixed signal IC’s for Siemens Mobile Phones projects. Progressing from there, David became site manager for Wolfson Microelectronics’ design centre in Swindon, building the design team to work on state of the art audio and power management integrated circuits, for leading OEMs both in the US and Europe. Later, he built upon this experience by jointly setting up a Swindon design centre for Silicon Valley based Micrel Semiconductors, before leaving to jointly found Uniphy Ltd. David’s extensive experience is based on decades of hands on analogue and digital IC design, and includes significant technical management roles.
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About Uniphy Ltd: Uniphy is an electronic company that enables intuitive free-form Touch Interfaces that are beautiful, robust and economic.
Sarah Lewis
Sales Administration Manager of Pyronix Ltd
Pyronix is a leading manufacturer of innovative security equipment. After finishing at comprehensive school, I decided I would further my education and attend a Sixth form, where I studied business and leisure. My dream job was to be an air hostess, so I completed all the required courses, however when I attended an interview I was told I wasn’t tall enough to complete the role! I then thought about getting an apprenticeship so I would be earning some money along with gaining practical skills to start my working life. Pyronix offered me a secretarial apprenticeship, which I took with open arms! The environment at Pyronix is great, a real family environment and it’s fantastic to see how the company has grown over the years, which motivates me as I want to part of their success.
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About Pyronix Ltd: Pyronix Ltd is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of products and technologies for use in the security industry.
Steven Plant
Technical Support Manager of Pyronix Ltd
Pyronix are a UK based, family run company and as a result its employees really are made to feel part of the family! I started in the Security Industry as an apprentice Alarm Engineer shortly after leaving school and after serving my apprenticeship, I worked in various roles before becoming an Engineering Manager. I then started my own company with a former colleague, providing subcontract labour to various companies After dissolving the company in 2008, I worked various Engineering roles, before being offered the position of UK Technical Support Manager at Pyronix in 2012. It has been a refreshing change to work for a manufacturer and I have been allowed to build a team of experienced former engineers, with the full support of my superiors, while introducing many changes to improve the overall effectiveness of the department. I also get the opportunity to travel the country visiting customers to provide training, which I enjoy very much.
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About Pyronix Ltd: Pyronix Ltd is a market-leading designer and manufacturer of products and technologies for use in the security industry.
Rebecca Laborne
Product Manager of Sure Petcare
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About Sure Petcare: Sure Petcare is a pet lifestyle product specialist that develops smart pet products that improve the way we care for our pets.
Mark Shanley
International Business Manager of Astute Electronics
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About Astute Electronics: Astute Electronics is an electronics distribution company.
James Lumb
Senior Category Manager of ao.com
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About ao.com, Webtise: ao.com is an online marketplace that sells various consumer electronic products.
Alex Metcalfe
Transversal Offer Manager of Socomec
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About Socomec: Founded in 1922, Socomec is an industrial group with a workforce of 3100 people.
Sacha Visram
Manager of HMD
Sacha Visram is the Founder & CEO of Glo Glu, a unique digital gaming platform for parents and children alike. Prior to setting up Glo Glu, Sacha was the Founder & CEO of desi mobi, the UK’s pay monthly MVNO’s (Mobile Virtual Network Operator). Sacha exited the business to Tier 2 Telco in late 2012. Sacha is also a Trustee of the Sea Sanctuary Charity, that is supported by The National Lottery, the NHS, Vodafone and Help for Heroes amongst others. The mission is to create the ideal setting for mental health to flourish by offering hope and purpose through therapy, education and training utilising Cornwall’s marine environment. Added to these ventures, he has over 14 years’ experience in blue chip telecoms, home entertainment and retail businesses, working alongside Iconic brands such as James Bond, MGM, Liverpool FC, Manchester United and Vodafone.
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About B2E Consulting, HMD: HMD designs and manufactures mobile phones.
Qianji Zhao
Manager of quality of GTK UK
Qianji Zhao has been serving as manager of quality at GTK UK since May 2015.
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About GTK UK: GTK UK manufactures and sells electronic cable assemblies, connectors and adaptors, and optoelectronics.
Qianji Zhao
Manager of quality of GTK UK
Qianji Zhao has been serving as manager of quality at GTK UK since May 2015.
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About GTK UK: GTK UK manufactures and sells electronic cable assemblies, connectors and adaptors, and optoelectronics.
Keith Maclean-Martin
Technical Manager of Piller Power Systems
Keith Maclean-Martin is the Technical Manager for Piller UK Ltd. He has more than 12 years of experience working with high power rotary UPS solutions in both Project and Sales related roles. During this time, he has developed his knowledge of not only the UPS, but also the supporting systems through industry recognised courses, enabling him to offer optimised solutions to best achieve client’s requirements. Keith is responsible for developing and overseeing the solutions offered, delivered and supported by Piller UK Ltd. While ensuring they not only meet current standards, he assists with the integration and development of innovative market leading solutions.
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About Piller Power Systems: Piller Power Systems manufactures high capacity rotary UPS, hybrid rotary UPS, diesel rotary UPS, static UPS and. static transfer switches.
Chris Wootton
Founder and R&D Manager of Verdel Instruments
Chris is the leader of the hardware and software development team, with over 6 years MS experience. Chris was involved in designing and building the prototype. He is the company’s electronics & software specialist.
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About Verdel Instruments: Verdel Instruments has developed new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology.
Dave Rungay
Executive Manager of LMR Tech
Dave is one of the founders of LMR Geartech. He is immensely proud of LMR’s 20 year history in delivering real value and quality service to its customers. He has over 40 years of engineering and gear manufacturing experience providing a breadth of knowledge that has helped to develop an unrivalled reputation for LMR Geartech as a specialist gear manufacturing company.
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About LMR Tech: LMR Tech is the high-tech hardware developer, specializing on the optic modulator R&D and production
Julian Maloney
Manager of Thermal Detection Ltd
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About Thermal Detection Ltd: Manufacture Temperature Sensors
Mark Major
Warehouse Logistics Manager of Kontroltek
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About Kontroltek: Kontroltek is an industrial automation and electronic repair company.
John Kreyling
Regional Sales Manager of Uninterruptible Power Supplies
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About Uninterruptible Power Supplies: Uninterruptible Power Supplies is a provider of power protection product and service solutions.
John Chewins
Manager of Bioquell
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About Bioquell: Bioquell is biodecontamination systems and services specializing in the design, manufacture of Hydrogen Peroxide Vapor technology.
Nicholas Hoskings
Manager of technical sales of Devlin Electronics
New business development Proposal and tender preparation Account management Technical sales OnePage CRM
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About Devlin Electronics: Devlin Electronics focuses on four key product groups; Input Devices, Healthcare Computing, Electronic Components and Power Supplies.
Sandra Godfrey
Manager of operations of Devlin Electronics
Sandra Godfrey has been serving as manager of operations at Devlin Electronics since October 1978.
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About Devlin Electronics: Devlin Electronics focuses on four key product groups; Input Devices, Healthcare Computing, Electronic Components and Power Supplies.
Jamie Fidler
Senior Marketing Manager of Rutronik
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About Rutronik: Rutronik is a broadline distributors of electronic components.
Jacques du Toit
Product Manager of Numerical Algorithms Group
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About Numerical Algorithms Group: The Numerical Algorithms Group (NAG) delivers high quality numerical computing software and high performance computing (HPC) services.
Jeremy Lock
Senior Project Manager of Sharp Laboratories of Europe
Jeremy Lock – With a degree in electronics having over 30 years’ experience in the electronics industry with extensive project management of new display development including Display working group chair of MIPI. Currently working for Sharp Devices within the industrial sector in Europe covering wearables through to large size displays.
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About Sharp Laboratories of Europe: Sharp Laboratories of Europe carries out research and development in consumer electronics for Sharp Corporation.
