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 CMO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
Paul Bolt
CMO UK of Microsoft
Paul has over 20-years experience in the technology sector across a variety of VP and GM roles. Most recently Paul was appointed as CMO at Microsoft UK after running their UK SMB business and sits as a NED on the board of a SaaS start up. His passions lie in building engaging workplace cultures, understanding how technology drives transformation, collaboration and creates compelling customer experiences. You can find Paul on all the usual platforms if you want to get social.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Chris Marjara
Chief Marketing Officer of The Access Group
Chris comes to Access with a top-class record of leading successful marketing teams at fast-growing tech companies. Chris’s previous roles include Global Marketing Director for Stepstone – one of the earliest SaaS HR solutions. Before that, he spent four years as Vice-President International Marketing at Kronos Inc, a $1 billion Workforce Management software company. Most recently, Chris was Chief Marketing Officer International for McGraw-Hill Education, managing a marketing team of 115 people, driving the fast growth of digital learning solutions. Chris is a Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Sayoko Knight Teitelbaum
Chief Marketing Officer & Co-founder of Toura
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About Great Ormond Street Hospital for Children NHS Trust, Toura: Toura is a scalable app creation tool for a variety of mobile platforms to share content experience, information and entertainment.
Anna Ferenczy
CMO of Codecool
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About Codecool, Tribe of Brands: Codecool finds, trains and matches IT talents to your company’s needs.
Andrew Davies
Chief Marketing Officer of Paddle
Andrew is currently the Head of Brand & Digital at Episerver, after it acquired Idio in November 2019, the business he co-founded. He also advises, supports & invests in early-stage startups, helping them problem-solve around proposition development, people & teams, and B2B/SaaS marketing. Previously, he co-founded Idio, serving as CMO and also leading people ops. He helped build the business to a market-leader in B2B personalization, with a very successful B2B SaaS account-based-marketing approach, a superb team in NYC, SF & London, and enterprise clients including IBM, BNY Mellon and Fitch Group. Idio raised $13m+ from angels & institutional investors. He also sits on the board of Ninety, an agile digital transformation consultancy with clients including Generali, Axa, Allianz & Zurich. Ninety is a social enterprise, with 90% of distributable profits given to alleviate global poverty.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Matthew James Low
Chief Marketing Officer at QPQ of QPQ
Matthew James Low is the CMO at QPQ.
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About QPQ: QPQ is a network infrastructure to enable a digital universe.
Angela Tang
Chief Marketing Officer of Syft
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About Syft: Syft is the UK’s market leading flexible staffing platform.
Nicholas Gregory
Chief Marketing Officer of IRIS Software Group
Nick is CMO of IRIS bringing over 25 years of experience in B2B software marketing, sales and product development. He joined the company in August 2015 as Chief Marketing Officer, having previously led B2B marketing agency MXL, advising and leading brands such as MessageLabs, MySQL and Veritas. Prior to this he ran his own B2B manufacturing analytics software business, Portico. Nick has also held senior roles at content management pioneer, MediaSurface and database giant, Oracle. In 2016, Nick was recognised as one of the 100 most influential B2B tech marketers in Europe.
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About BigChange, IRIS Software Group: IRIS Software Group is a UK-based enterprise software provider.
Aris Papageorghiou
Co-Founder & CMO of Intelligent Ultrasound
Aris Papageorghiou is the Professor of Fetal Medicine at University of Oxford.
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About Intelligent Ultrasound, Royal College of Obstetricians and Gynaecologists, St Georges University Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust, Ultrasound Diagnostic Services, University of Oxford: Intelligent Ultrasound develops software that improves the quality, reliability, and diagnostic power of medical ultrasound.
Hayley M.
Chief Marketing Officer of Aula
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About Aula: Aula is a social learning platform that brings university content and learning experiences online.
Pat Geary
Chief Evangelist & CMO of Blue Prism
Pat Geary is the Chief Evangelist at Blue Prism and has over 30 years of international marketing experience across a range of large multinational and start up software and hardware businesses. Pat was CMO at Searchspace, the world’s first enterprise AI platform, launched the worlds first 64-bit computer at DEC and also launched the world’s first global Internet TV platform at Livestation. Pat joined Blue Prism in 2008 as Chief Marketing Officer when it was a small start up and he invented the term Robotic Process Automation (RPA) in 2012 which has now become a global IT software category of which Blue Prism is the market leader. Pat is a member of the Advisory Board of the CMO Council, a winner of CMO of the Year 2016, a member of the NOA “A list” 2016 and he holds an honours degree in Computer Science.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
David Miller
CMO of Mercaux
David Miller is the Chief Marketing Officer at Mercaux
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About Mercaux: Mercaux brings the benefits of digital into retail stores to drive sales uplift.
Varun Kabra
Chief Marketing Officer of Proton
Varun Kabra is the Chief Marketing Officer at Proton.
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About Proton: Proton was started in Switzerland in 2014 by scientists who met at the European Organization for Nuclear Research (CERN).
Our vision is to build an internet where privacy is the default through an ecosystem of services accessible to everyone, everywhere, every day. Our first product, Proton Mail, is now the world’s largest encrypted email service.
Subsequent Proton products such as Proton VPN, Proton Calendar, and Proton Drive leverage the same advanced encryption that gives our users full control on how and with whom their data is shared.
Our products are open source, developed by a team of 400, and supported by an active community in more than 180 countries.
Today, Proton is making privacy universally accessible with over 70 million sign ups, including journalists, some of the world’s largest organizations, and people around the world.
Sally Scott
CMO of Advanced
Sally Scott is Chief Marketing Officer at Advanced, having been promoted to the role in December 2015. She had previously been marketing director of its Business Solutions division, delivering a breadth of back office and specialist CRM solutions to the mid and enterprise market. Sally is now responsible for aligning the company’s marketing initiatives and brand awareness to its ambitious growth plans. Sally is passionate about ensuring that marketing makes a real and measurable contribution to sales revenue and is responsible for delivering the company’s integrated new brand, launched in April 2016 as part of the company’s transformation process. Sally brings over 15 years of senior marketing experience to Advanced. Prior to Advanced, she was head of marketing at UNIT 4.
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About Advanced, Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Sally Scott
CMO of Advanced
Sally Scott is Chief Marketing Officer at Advanced, having been promoted to the role in December 2015. She had previously been marketing director of its Business Solutions division, delivering a breadth of back office and specialist CRM solutions to the mid and enterprise market. Sally is now responsible for aligning the company’s marketing initiatives and brand awareness to its ambitious growth plans. Sally is passionate about ensuring that marketing makes a real and measurable contribution to sales revenue and is responsible for delivering the company’s integrated new brand, launched in April 2016 as part of the company’s transformation process. Sally brings over 15 years of senior marketing experience to Advanced. Prior to Advanced, she was head of marketing at UNIT 4.
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About Advanced, Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Andrey Eliseev
CMO of BeMyEye
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About BeMyEye: BeMyEye is a European crowdsourced in-store data as a service (DAAS) provider.
Lynda Lowe
Chief Marketing Officer of Condeco
Lynda is a product and marketing specialist with over 20 years’ experience. She has been at Condeco from the beginning, driving go to market strategies, new business growth and the evolving the brand worldwide. Her experience across both marketing and sales gives her a deep understanding of Condeco’s market and client’s needs enabling her to develop powerful, effective marketing strategies.
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About Condeco: How tomorrow will work: Our workspace booking solutions give you everything you need to work flexibly.
Christine Bailey
CMO of Passfort
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About Passfort: PassFort is a turnkey compliance solution for onboarding customers in regulated markets.
Lauren Fortune
Chief Marketing Officer of Teneo
Lauren avidly promotes consistent customer experience across all global touch points at Teneo. Her interest is in building customer relationships that are mutually beneficial, leading to innovation that enhances business for both Teneo and our customers.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Simon Shah
Chief Marketing Officer of Redwood Software
Simon spearheads marketing to support continued market growth and innovation. Earlier he pioneered sales and marketing for Mattel and Cadbury Schweppes in Russia and the Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS). Post MBA, he led EMEA marketing for Oracle and Global CRM for Sage Group Plc.
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About Redwood Software: Redwood Software is an international company providing job scheduling, report distribution and SAP solutions.
Nick Baker
CMO 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.
Scott Hitchins
CMO of Interact
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About Interact: Interact supplies an award-winning employee experience platform that boosts productivity and drives engagement.
Toby Britton
Co-founder & Chief Marketing Officer of Miappi
Toby Britton joined Miappi as Co-founder and Chief Marketing Officer in 2012.
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About Miappi: Miappi helps brands to discover authentic consumer stories, manage the digital rights and to distribute to marketing channels and ecommerce.
Michael Charalambous
Chief Marketing Officer and Vice President Of Commercial Operations of FuelPlus
Michael joined FuelPlus in 2016 and is responsible for global marketing and communications, based in their UK office. Michael has been helping scale-up great technology companies for nearly 20 years. Prior to joining FuelPlus, he was the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) Director of Marketing for Diligent Corporation, a $100m Delloite top 50 growth company. Michael started his career at British Airways and has held senior marketing roles at Siebel Systems, Oracle, Carbon Trust and Opower. Michael has a degree in aeronautical engineering and a masters in strategic marketing.
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About FuelPlus: The FuelPlus Group is the leading provider of fuel administration and management software to the aviation industry.
Sarra Mander
CMO of The Small Robot Company
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About The Small Robot Company: The Small Robot Company is delivering per plant farming for the world’s largest crops.
Jason Hemingway
CMO of Thunderhead
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About Thunderhead: Thunderhead’s ONE Engagement Hub is a market leading conversation-driven customer engagement platform
Mark Little
Co-Founder, COO & CMO of Pynk
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About Pynk: Pynk is where everyday people invest better together.
Hideki Hashimura
CRM Transformation Strategist and CMO of REDK Software Engineering
Hideki is a Digital Transformation expert driven by customer strategy (CX, CRM and Customer Centric Strategic Development). Project director for enterprise CRM software and digital architecture implementation projects. With more than 10 years of experience delivering successful CRM projects and consulting to build customer-centric strategies and the technology frameworks to support them. Value orientated and highly skilled at conceptualising, creating, mapping and carrying out CRM solutions.
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About REDK Software Engineering: Open Source solutions
Andrew Webber
Chief Marketing & Client Relations of Whitespace
Andrew Webber – newly appointed Chief Marketing Officer at Whitespace Ventures. Prior to that Andrew worked for just over ten years at Microsoft in both European and UK roles. In that time Andrew had responsibility across a range of Go To Market teams including tech startups engagement, video game developers engagement and top UK Universities. He was also the EMEA Marketing Lead for Microsoft Financing and saw that business unit grow from $250m to over $2.1 Billion in 2 years. In his time at Microsoft Andrew has been reognised both Gold and Platinum Leadership awards but was also listed in the MCV Top 100 Most Influential People in the UK Games Industry. He also was proud to have conceived and launched the Greenshoots Video Games Investment programme which is still going strong now under ownership of Xbox in Europe. As the new CMO of Whitespace Ventures Andrew has responsibility for their Go To Market planning & execution including the Corporate Partnerships programme.
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About Whitespace: We help businesses innovate, from the small things that can make a big difference to more-involved ‘Eureka!’ projects.
John Dillon
Chief Marketing Officer of Exact
John Dillon is the chief marketing officer of Exact.
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About Exact: Exact is a company that provides cloud based business software for entrepreneurs and their accountants.
Richard Bambury
Co-Founder & CMO of ONCOassist® (Portable Medical Technology Ltd.)
Richard is a medical oncologist at Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center in NYC. He is heavily involved in patient care and academic research. He is the recipient of numerous awards including the the Ainsworth Scholarship from UCC in 2012, the John Quale Travel fellowship in 2013 and is a lead co-investigator on a Prostate Cancer Foundation-Movember Challenge Award worth $1 million in 2014. In his career to date he has presented over 40 original research abstracts at national and international oncology conferences including ESMO, ASCO and ASCO GU. His work has been published in peer reviewed journals including the New England Journal of Medicine. He is dedicated to improving cancer patient care through ongoing innovation and research.
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About ONCOassist® (Portable Medical Technology Ltd.): The go-to app for oncology professionals.
Cindy Etsell
Chief Marketing Officer of Vizolution
Cindy Etsell is Chief Marketing Officer at Vizolution
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About Ezra Coaching, Lee Hecht Harrison, Vizolution: Vizolution develops a screen sharing technology for businesses to directly interact with their clients.
Paul Leeson
CMO of Ultromics
Paul is Professor of Cardiovascular Medicine at the University of Oxford and and Director of the Oxford Cardiovascular Clinical Research Facility. Following a MB/PhD at Cambridge and research at UCL in London, he moved to Oxford and set up a clinical research programme to pioneer the use of novel imaging approaches for prevention of cardiovascular disease. He is also involved in some of the largest cardiovascular imaging research studies in the world and is lead author of Echocardiography, the best selling training handbook for echocardiographers.
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About Ultromics: Ultromics clinicians and engineers working together to set new standards for world-class cardiovascular diagnostic tools.
Alan Gleeson
CMO of NorthRow
Alan is a B2B Marketing Consultant based in London. Alan previously established Palo Alto Software’s UK subsidiary, which focused on the sales and marketing of Business Plan Pro, the best selling business planning software product. In recent years Alan has been heavily involved in the transition to a SaaS offering called Liveplan.com Prior to that Alan was a business development manager at Barclays Plc the leading global financial services provider. He joined Barclays on their graduate programme in 1998 from University College Cork, Ireland and spent 5 years there, including time at Clearlybusiness a London-based innovation unit within Barclays. Alan has an MBA from Oxford University, an MSc and B.Comm from University College Cork, Ireland and a Post Grad Diploma in eCommerce from Birkbeck College, University of London. He is also on the board of the Irish International Business Network (www.iibn.com) You can follow Alan on Twitter @alangleeson or view his website at www.alangleeson.com
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About Carmichael Communications, NorthRow: NorthRow helps businesses to efficiently protect themselves from financial crime, from failures to comply with related legislation.
Alison Levy Bringé
Chief Marketing Officer of Launchmetrics
Alison is the Chief Marketing Officer at Launchmetrics. She joined Fashion GPS in 2013 as the Global Director of Brand Development. Previously she held roles at companies such as IMG Fashion and Net-A-PORTER managing Marketing & PR. She has also spent time guest lecturing at Parsons, The New School, Condé Nast College and Il Sole 24Ore’s Business School. Alison holds a Bachelor’s degree in Advertising & Communications from the Univ. of Central Florida and a Masters from SDA Bocconi’s School of Management.
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About Launchmetrics: Launchmetrics is a provider of social influencer data and insights technology intended to connect the industry through technology.
Gokhan Celebi
Co-Founder and CMO of Delphisonic
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About Delphisonic: Delphisonic is active in the development, production, and sales of hardware and software for industrial measurement technology.
Alexander King
CMO of Fixflo
Saas revenue leader
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About Fixflo: Fixflo is a repair reporting and maintenance management software system.
Sivan Baram
CEO & Co-Founder at radd.
Sivan Baram is the Co-Founder & CEO at radd.
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About radd.: radd. is an Intelligence eCommerce platform for boosting UGC via measurable and LIVE story reviews.
Alexander King
CMO of Fixflo
Saas revenue leader
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About Fixflo: Fixflo is a repair reporting and maintenance management software system.
Kevin Tewis-Allen
CMO of Printt App
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About Printt App: Printt is a mobile application that connects people to a network of printing facilities across the UK
Zsuzsa Kecsmar
Co-founder & CMO of Antavo Loyalty Management Platform
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About Antavo Loyalty Management Platform: Antavo is the leading customer loyalty technology for fashion and retail.
Rob Beck
CMO of Elephants don’t forget
Rob Beck is the CMO of Elephants don’t forget. He is also the current director of Stich Creative.
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About Elephants don’t forget: A low cost, cloud-based online application that continually measures individual employee knowledge gaps and automatic retrains as needed.
Adrian Niculescu
CMO EMEA of CloudCoin
Adrian is the CMO EMEA at CloudCoin Consortium, and the Regional Director for the UK & Romania at Faster Capital Dubai. Adrian has 20 years of experience in building and developing companies, and 10’000 students in his online and offline marketing and business courses since 2013. He mentored 30 tech start-ups since 2014, spoke at 500 gig events, and has been coaching, consulting, and mentoring on all continents since 2010. He completed 250 real estate transactions since 2008. He also possesses copywriting skills, notably in sales pages, e-mails, funnels, facebook ads, and ads on other platforms. His tech skills include Blockchain, RAIDA, Marketing automation expert, Clickfunnels, Sales Manago, Infusionsoft, Leadpages, and Facebook. His marketing skills include marketing, product, and startup launch strategies. He is addicted to personal development and continuous improvement, loves to speak at events about subjects he has practical experience, while keeping as primary focus to add value to the audience.
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About CloudCoin, FasterCapital: CloudCoin is the first cross-reality currency that can be imported and exported from games and spent in the real world.
Patrick O’Reilly
Co-Founder & CMO of LearnCube
Patrick O’Reilly is a Founder at LearnCube.
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About eSplice, LearnCube: LearnCube is a Virtual Classroom Software and eLearning platform.
David Bush
Founder and CMO of Dronecloud
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About Dronecloud, Future Aerial: Dronecloud is a platform created to manage a complex drone operation with ease from start to finish.
Huw Thomas
Chief Marketing and Communications Officer of SG Digital
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About SG Digital: SG Digital offers customers the widest portfolio of content available across our OpenSports and OpenGaming platforms.
Rachel Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of 123friday
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About 123friday: 123friday backs up photos, videos, and contacts from their clients’ Android and iOS mobile devices.
Rachel Bibby
Chief Marketing Officer of 123friday
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About 123friday: 123friday backs up photos, videos, and contacts from their clients’ Android and iOS mobile devices.
Sean Oldfield
CMO of Surple
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About Surple: Surple builds software to help organisations optimise their energy use.
