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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 VP’ operating in the Mobile space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Judith Shackleton
Vice President M&A Integration of Visa
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About Fraedom, Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Alisa Bornstein
CPO Europe – Vice President of Visa
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About Visa: Visa is a multinational financial services company that facilitates electronic payment systems throughout the world.
Meg Blight
VP Global Scouting (Consumer customer experience and propositions) of BT Global Services
Meg is a global scout in BT’s External Innovation team whose role is to identify and introduce companies with innovative technologies, propositions and business models to BT Consumer – the largest Broadband and Phone provider in the UK. Prior to scouting, Meg spent more than 10 years in the UK telco sector working in product, commercial and strategic roles at BT and other major providers. She has managed product lines with annual revenues over $3bn per annum in more than 9m households in the UK. Meg has an honours degree from Cambridge in Experimental Psychology and Physics.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Paulo Ferreira
VP of Engineering of Trouva
Paulo Ferreira is the VP of Engineering at Trouva.
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About Trouva: Trouva, the online destination for unique products from the best curators around the world
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Sandra Schroeter
VP, Product & Digital Marketing of IMImobile
Sandra Schroeter serves as the Vice President of Product and Digital Marketing at IMImobile.
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About IMImobile: IMImobile is a cloud communication software that helps users manage customer interactions at scale.
Léo Chappaz
Global VP, Performance Advertising of Teads US
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About Teads US: Teads US invented outstream video advertising and is the no.1 video advertising marketplace in the world.
Edward Axon
SVP Business Development of Trōv
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About Blackdog Creative, Trōv: Trov is the world’s leading insurance technology platform, enabling the new ways people live, work, and move.
Connon MacRae
VP Technical Operations, INTL of Ticketmaster
Long time Ticketmaster veteran who started in the UK London call centre selling tickets as a casual worker back in 1997. He got lucky, got help and worked hard. As a result, he now leads the Technical Operations group for the International team at Ticketmaster. Ticketmaster is over 40 years old and during that time, Connon has seen a number of Technology and Culture shifts.
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About Ticketmaster: Ticketmaster is the world’s largest ticket marketplace and the global market leader in live event ticketing.
Nick Stone
VP Engineering of Bink
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About Bink: Bink develops a mobile application that links card payment to loyalty schemes.
Jim Walker
CIO & VP of Global Operations – Technical Co-Founder of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Samuel Heather
VP, Chief Technology Officer of KodyPay
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About KodyPay: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Mahdi Shariff
SVP & Chief Strategy Officer of Biddingx
Shariff serves as Chief Strategy Officer for Sunteng, a Big Data-driven marketing and analytics company which processes 28 billion impressions daily and delivers campaigns for IBM and Qualcomm. Fluent in Chinese, Shariff arrived in China in 2014 searching for an interesting startup in advertising technology. He hails from the United Kingdom where he worked as an investment banker covering Telecommunications, Media and Technology (TMT) deals in London. .
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About Biddingx: BiddingX is an advertising technology company that provides a full set of marketing solutions to its clients.
Sara Vincent
SVP of Publisher Development of JustPremium
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About JustPremium: The World’s most innovative Rich Media Marketplace – We bring creativity to digital advertising
Sukey Miller
VP Marketing Communications of Bango
Sukey Miller is the VP Marketing Communications at Bango.
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About Bango: Bango is the standard platform chosen by leading global stores to deliver mobile payments to everyone.
Peter Walker
VP Strategy of Bango
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About Bango: Bango is the standard platform chosen by leading global stores to deliver mobile payments to everyone.
Vincent Miceli
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of NXT-ID
Vincent Miceli, age 56, has extensive hands on experience in financial and operational management and business leadership in both substantial private and public companies. He is also experienced with working with public company Boards of Directors, as well as financial institutions. Vincent Miceli was the Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer of Panolam Industries International, Inc., a company which primarily designs, manufactures and distributes decorative and industrial laminates, from May 2006 to mid-December 2013. Prior to that, Vincent Miceli was the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller of Opticare Health Systems, Inc., a public company which provides integrated eye care services, from 2004 to 2006. Prior to 2004, Vincent Miceli held senior accounting positions at Amphenol Corporation and United Technologies, Inc. Vincent Miceli holds a BS in accounting from Quinnipiac College, an MBA, with a concentration in Finance, from the University of Hartfordand he is an affiliate member of both the AICPA and the CT Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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About NXT-ID: Sensor, Mobile, HealthTech, MedTech
James Winter
SVP, Europe of Thunes
James Winter is the senior vice president, Europe for Thunes.
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About Thunes: Thunes offers a global cross-border payment network for seamless transfer of funds to 100 countries in 60 currencies.
Dave Nicholson
VP Strategy & Partnerships & Co-Founder of Yoyo Wallet
Dave is a co-founder and VP Strategy & Partnerships at Yoyo Wallet, responsible for ensuring that Yoyo continues to innovate and scale in the digital loyalty space through building relationships with partners. Before starting Yoyo, he was co-founder and Head of Product at Zopa – the world’s first peer to peer lender.
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About Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Geraldine Butler-Wright
VP of People and Culture of Yoyo Wallet
Geraldine joined Yoyo as their VP of People and Culture in June 2018. Her role is to curate an exceptional culture to attract, develop and retain brilliant minds to grow our awesome product. Geraldine, who has more than 15 years’ experience in HR, has worked across industries, to include heading up talent acquisition at Imperial College – the first university to adopt Yoyo, when the company launched in 2014. Prior to Imperial, Geraldine worked at PayPal, where she delivered strategic hires across EMEA during a period of rapid international growth. She has also lead change initiatives with global organisations, to include the US Government.
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About Healthily by Your.MD, Yoyo Wallet: Yoyo Wallet is a mobile payment, loyalty and marketing platform.
Shashi Nirale
SVP and GM, EMEA of Servion Global Solutions
Shashi serves as the Senior Vice President and GM for the Europe and Middle East business at Servion. Shashi has a deep understanding of the customer experience domain and a strong track record of growing businesses across the region. At Servion, he drives Servion’s business operations and is responsible for strategic market expansion across the EMEA region. In his previous organization, Shashi was the Vice President and Head – UK Operations at Synechron, where he was responsible for setting the direction for organic and inorganic growth of the European business. Prior to Synechron, Shashi served as a Vertical Head at Capgemini where he managed and grew the capital markets, asset and wealth management, and security services businesses globally. Before Capgemini, Shashi held leadership roles in Headstrong’s UK and European business. Post-acquisition by Genpact, Shashi led the European Sales and Business operations for the capital markets business. Shashi has also been associated with brands like Red and Lowe Lintas. He holds a Bachelor’s degree in Management Studies from the Mumbai University, India and a Master’s Degree in Business Administration from the University of Strathclyde (UK).
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About Servion Global Solutions: Servion Global Solutions specializes in Customer Experience Management (CEM) solutions that help companies.
Nick Norman
EVP Sales, The Americas of Consult Hyperion
Nick is the EVP Sales Americas at Consult Hyperion, (www.chyp.com). Nick has over 18 years experience in the Retail and Mobile Payments industries, within Gemalto and Consult Hyperion. He has helped Financial Institutions, Transit Operators, Retailers, Processors and their suppliers to formulate their strategies towards card and mobile services, for both local and remote transactions. Recently he has focused on the security of mobile and IOT services, new cardholder verification technologies, identity management and identifying real applications for Blockchain technologies. Grab him in the corridor or bar if you want to know more.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
David Bailey
Vice President, Global Merchandising of SmartThings
David Bailey, Vice President, Marketing Communications at SmartThings
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About SmartThings: SmartThings, a smartphone app, allows its users to monitor and control their domestic affairs even when they are out of their home.
Simon Negus
EVP Worldwide Sales of Tenefit
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About Tenefit: Tenefit provides a simple, secure, and real-time solution for enterprise-grade digital transformation.
James Robinson
VP Research and Innovation of Opensignal
As the leader of OpenSignal’s mobile engineering team, James has led the development and adoption of multiple OpenSignal mobile apps, which have been downloaded on over 20 million consumer devices (and counting) around the world. He also focuses on pioneering next generation technologies to fuel company growth. James is an OpenSignal co-founder and holds a Physics & Philosophy degree from Oxford University.
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About Opensignal: Opensignal is a mobile analytics company.
Ray Berry
SVP, Finance of Vibrant Media
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About Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media is dedicated to contextual marketing, advertising, content marketing and digital media.
Michelle Weston
SVP, Global Human Resources of Vibrant Media
Michelle Weston heads global human resources and recruitment for Vibrant Media, the world’s leading provider of in-content contextual technology. Michelle has almost a decade’s experience in senior HR roles in the media industry. Prior to her career in HR Leadership, Michelle spent 15 years as a senior advertising sales executive in leading international publishers including Thomson Reuters, EMAP and Centaur. While at Centaur, Michelle was responsible for the successful development and subsequent sale of the industry leading online service Lawtel to Thomson Reuters.
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About Vibrant Media: Vibrant Media is dedicated to contextual marketing, advertising, content marketing and digital media.
Olly Paulovich
Co-Founder & VP Marketing & Sales of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Vladimir Mitrasinovic
EVP Channels and Alliances of Acision
Vladimir Mitrasinovic is the executive vice president of global channels and alliances at [Xura](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/xura#/entity), a company that offers digital communication services. He was previously an SVP at TOA Technologies. Mitrasinovic also worked as a VP at Acision and MetraTech. Mitrasinovic holds a bachelor’s degree in computer science from Belgrade University and a master’s degree from De Montfort University.
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About Acision: Acision is a mobile communications network infrastructure company specializing in messaging and charging systems.
Teemu Sorvisto
Senior Vice President – EMEA of JUNO TELE
Teemu brings over 15 years of professional experience in Business Development, Sales and Marketing from Mobile, Apps, Information Technology and Software businesses across markets globally. He has been in leadership positions in multinational mobile and cloud solutions companies such as Nokia, BlackBerry and F-Secure, being responsible for business development, partnerships and operator channel sales in mobile application ecosystem and VAS divisions. Teemu has a thorough understanding of various mobile solutions, related technologies and modern business models. He comes with a broad experience in leading and developing business across regions in EMEA, Asia Pacific, Latin America and North America, while he has been living in the UK, Singapore and Finland.
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About JUNO TELE: JunoTele is a mobile payments technology company.
Neil Stevens
VP, GM Products & Marketing of Skype
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About Skype: Skype provides a telecommunications platform that offers free video chat and voice calls to internet-connected devices.
Eran Gonen
VP Sales Africa of Airspan Networks
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About Airspan Networks: Airspan Networks provides 4G broadband wireless systems and solutions that deliver high-speed data, voice, and multimedia services.
Royyuru Avinash
VP Products of tenCube
Royyuru Avinash is a VP Products at tenCube.
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About tenCube: tenCube enables its users to remotely lock and track down a lost device, retrieve a copy of the data securely, and remotely wipe off data.
David Langton
Senior VP, Marketing & Executive Producer, IOT Leaders Podcast of Eseye
David has over 15 years senior B2B technology marketing experience, varying from start-ups to SMEs and multinational organisations. Before joining Eseye, David successfully built and led a high performing global marketing function at cybersecurity software leader Boldon James (part of QinetiQ Plc), significantly growing its brand profile internationally, increasing marketing ROI and transforming marketing into a profit centre.
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About Eseye, Eseye: Eseye provides global M2M managed connectivity across all devices.
Kate Barry
VP Advertising Solutions EMEA of Amobee
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About Amobee: Amobee is a global digital marketing technology company and a wholly owned subsidiary of Singtel.
Tom Luke
VP Sales, Marketing and Alliances of Tutela
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About Tutela: Tutela crowd-sources mobile usage and experience data from millions of mobile devices every day to provide insight to the mobile industry
Simeon Coney
Senior Vice President, Security Practice of AdaptiveMobile
Prior to joining AdaptiveMobile in 2006, Simeon established a management consultancy business, undertaking portfolio and business restructuring for US and European VC portfolio companies. Building the company at AdaptiveMobile since formation, Simeon now works closely with Service Providers on the protection of their subscribers and network. Simeon has over 20 years’ experience within the mobile, fixed line and IT infrastructure markets, providing strategic guidance and operational execution to European & US companies. With a career spanning Marketing, Product Management, Business Development and Operations, Simeon has brought award winning products to market in Europe and the US, created high growth business units for Infrastructure suppliers and built Service Provider networks across the globe. He has worked with leading operator groups and networks including Vodafone, T-Mobile, SITA, BT, USAF, Cable & Wireless and Bharti Airtel whilst establishing new technology companies in the UK & US, and with key accounts teams at Nortel and Ericsson.
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About AdaptiveMobile: AdaptiveMobile operates as a mobile security provider for enterprises and individuals.
Simeon Coney
Senior Vice President, Security Practice of AdaptiveMobile
Prior to joining AdaptiveMobile in 2006, Simeon established a management consultancy business, undertaking portfolio and business restructuring for US and European VC portfolio companies. Building the company at AdaptiveMobile since formation, Simeon now works closely with Service Providers on the protection of their subscribers and network. Simeon has over 20 years’ experience within the mobile, fixed line and IT infrastructure markets, providing strategic guidance and operational execution to European & US companies. With a career spanning Marketing, Product Management, Business Development and Operations, Simeon has brought award winning products to market in Europe and the US, created high growth business units for Infrastructure suppliers and built Service Provider networks across the globe. He has worked with leading operator groups and networks including Vodafone, T-Mobile, SITA, BT, USAF, Cable & Wireless and Bharti Airtel whilst establishing new technology companies in the UK & US, and with key accounts teams at Nortel and Ericsson.
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About AdaptiveMobile: AdaptiveMobile operates as a mobile security provider for enterprises and individuals.
Gerry O’Keeffe
EVP – EMEA / APAC of Likewize
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About Likewize: Likewize offers comprehensive protection against any technology disruption.
Mark Roberts
SVP Sales & Marketing of Miura Systems
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About Charity Engine, Miura Systems: Miura Systems provides secure electronic payment hardware for the retail, hospitality, financial, government and healthcare markets.
Johnny Hammond
VP of BuyerPrice Inc.
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About BuyerPrice Inc.: BuyerPrice is a revolutionary new way to buy your home for less.
Adrian James
VP Sales and UK MD of Walkbase
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About Walkbase: Walkbase, the in-store analytics and marketing platform for retailers and airports to personalize the omnichannel customer experience.
Adrian James
VP Sales and UK MD of Walkbase
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About Walkbase: Walkbase, the in-store analytics and marketing platform for retailers and airports to personalize the omnichannel customer experience.
Manos Macromallis
VP of SEKEE
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About PARKGURU, SEKEE: SEKEE is engaging in the development of a mobile application that focuses on innovative communication, content, and application services.
Andy Buckingham
SVP Product Innovation of Aiir
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About Aiir: The complete platform for audio content creators.
Amanda Steward
VP, Marketing of Pushfor
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About Pushfor: Pushfor is a secure content sharing platform that pushes, controls and tracks content of any type or size.
David McInerney
VP Sales of Connect2Media
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About Connect2Media: Connect2Media, a Manchester, UK-based digital entertainment publisher. The company, which publishes, develops and distributes games across
