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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 Product operating in the Analytics space. If you think a Product 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.
Dan Rogers
Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon
Dan Rogers is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer of Peakon.
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About Peakon: Peakon is an employee success platform that improves employee engagement, inclusion, and growth.
Merinda Peppard
Director, EMEA Product Marketing – Pardot of Salesforce
Merinda Hillier is the Director EMEA Product Marketing – Sales Cloud at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce, Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Mark Orsborn
Senior Director, Product Management of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Cinz Ricciardone
VP of Product of Cognism
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About Cognism: Cognism is a B2B sales acceleration software company that provides a marketing and sales acceleration solution.
Harry Edmonds
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Chris Stutz
Product development of Satalia
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About Satalia: Algorithms | Intelligence | Optimization
Elisabeth Modin
Product Manager of Thomson Reuters
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About Thomson Reuters: Thomson Reuters delivers critical information from the financial, legal, accounting, intellectual property, science, and media markets.
Laura Hutton
Fraud and Financial Markets Products of Quantexa
For over a decade Laura has helped the world’s largest retail and investment banks fight fraud through data analytics. Starting by analysing customer and transaction data within retail banks to tackle an array of fraud typologies, Laura pioneered the early unauthorised trading detection solutions and has since participated in multiple holistic surveillance global initiatives and markets AML programs. Prior to Quantexa, she was one of the founding experts within the Detica NetReveal team and then went on to lead banking fraud for SAS across EMEA/AP.
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About Quantexa, Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Alexon Bell
Compliance Products of Quantexa
Alexon is a hands-on AML practitioner with over 16 years experience helping financial institutions with AML strategies, architectures and implementations. He has a wealth of experience in helping customers deploy and crucially optimise AML, KYC and sanctions screening solutions, having held leadership roles at Actimize (Fortent), SAS as EMEA/AP head of compliance solutions and Oracle. As a thought leader, he works with banks to help them tackle the latest emerging threats, ensure coverage and prepare for new regulation in the fight against organised crime and terrorism.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Projjol Banerjea
Founder & Chief Product Officer, Board Member of Zeotap
Projjol has 10+ years of experience in product management, marketing and business development. He’s the founder and Chief Product Officer of zeotap, a premium data collective that aims to democratise enterprise data for better decision-making across industries. Projjol’s prior roles include those as Chief Product Officer at premium network Moboqo, acquired by mobile advertising company Applovin, as well as VP Marketing & Business Development at mobile supply side platform Fyber (formerly SponsorPay), acquired by RNTS Media for $190 million. Projjol was awarded an MBA by Oxford’s Saïd Business School in 2009. At Oxford, he was a member of the university’s lightweight rowing team. He also holds an MS in HCI from Indiana University’s School of Informatics and a BA in Computer Science (highest honours, Phi Beta Kappa) from DePauw University. He is also an IAPP Certified Information Privacy Technologist (CIPT). Projjol was selected as a Fellow by StartingBloc, an international fellowship of young leaders who share a keen interest in corporate responsibility, cross-sector partnerships and sustainability. In addition to physical activity, he enjoys reading (mostly non-fiction), music and travel; weaknesses include wine and dark chocolate. Projjol has extensive experience speaking at events, including CES, ad:tech, TM Forum, Game Connection and Mediabistro conferences, and has also been published in and/or interviewed by Wired, TechCrunch, Economic Times, Business Standard, Tech in Asia, MediaPost, AdExchanger, PocketGamer and KillerStartups, among others.
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About Nua, Zeotap: Zeotap is a Customer Intelligence platform that helps brands better understand their customers and predict behaviors.
Ellie Burns
Product Marketing Specialist: Fraud & Identity of LexisNexis Risk Solutions
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About LexisNexis Risk Solutions: LexisNexis Risk Solutions provides information to assist customers in industry and government in assessing, predicting, and managing risk.
Pieris Christofi
Product & Operations Lead of Palantir Technologies
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About Palantir Technologies: Palantir offers software applications designed for integrating, visualizing, analyzing data, and fighting fraud.
Samuel Coe
Product Manager of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Ryszard Jedrzejewski
Product Director – Affordability of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Rodolfo Picciau
Director, OMS Product Development and Engineering of FactSet
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About FactSet: FactSet is a financial research company that offers risk analytics tools and real time data feeds for institutional investors.
Sarah Leviseur
Product Manager of Attest
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About Attest: Attest is a consumer research platform that delivers consumer data that drive predictable and repeatable growth to businesses.
Chloe Nicholls
Product Marketing Manager of SimilarWeb
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About SimilarWeb: SimilarWeb offers an AI-based market intelligence platform that helps monitor web and mobile app traffic.
Hannah Stacey
Brand and Product Marketing Director of Ometria
I’m a marketing professional with seven years’ experience in comms, content and demand generation for fast growth tech companies, agency-side and in-house. I’m currently responsible for overseeing inbound and product marketing at Ometria – a customer insight and cross-channel marketing platform for retailers. Interests: lead nurturing, content strategy, sales and marketing alignment and demand generation.
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About Ometria: Ometria is a customer data and marketing platform that helps retailers increase CRM revenue by sending personalized marketing messages.
David Barker
Principal Product Manager of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Luke Reynolds
Chief Product Officer of Featurespace
Luke is responsible for Featurespace’s fraud clients in Financial Services and Insurance, and has over twenty years’ experience in banking fraud management. Prior to joining Featurespace, Luke held a position as Callcredit’s Commercial Director of Fraud and ID for a year, and prior to this he served in a variety of roles in Lloyds Banking Group (Head of Retail Audit, Head of Fraud, and Head of Group Security and Investigation). Before joining Lloyds Banking Group,Luke held fraud prevention roles at the UK Card Association (formerly APACS) and NatWest
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Sean Neary
Senior Product Officer of Featurespace
Sean joined Featurespace as the Financial Services Subject Matter Expert at the end of 2016. His role is to use his industry expertise and knowledge to ensure that Featurespace’s ARIC platform development matches the Finance sector’s needs and expectations. Sean’s been in the Financial Fraud industry for over ten years. Starting his career in the operational environment as a Fraud Analyst at Barclaycard, where he worked his way through the operational sectors, from complex fraud to special investigations & management. He then moved from the front line and into fraud strategy and analytics,where his main role was to risk assess new trends, technologies and project that affected fraud across the bank. This role enabled him to work within all areas across the bank, gaining an understanding of the holistic aspect of the business and how fraud was linked to everything! Sean spent the last three years leading the global fraud technology team at Barclaycard, covering issuing, acquiring & commercial.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Kristian Carter
Product Marketing Specialist of Featurespace
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Rebecca Carson
Chief Product Officer of Brandwatch
After 10 years conducing consumer research using a variety of offline methodologies and SaaS insight platforms, I now have the pleasure of building the software and intelligence that powers them.
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About Brandwatch: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Philip Agnew
Director of Product Marketing of Brandwatch
Phillip Agnew is the Director of Product Marketing at Brandwatch.
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About Brandwatch: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Marc Tuckmantel
Head of Product Development of Derivitec
Marc joins us from Goldman Sachs, where he worked as a front office strategist on the equity derivatives desk in London. In his four years at the firm Marc extended tools for quoting and risk management of flow products, implemented pricing models and developed propietary algorithmic indices based on trading strategies for clients of the equity exotics desk. Before he joined Goldman Sachs, Marc worked as a doctoral researcher in CERN, conducting research into elementary particle physics and superstring theory.
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About Derivitec: Derivitec is a cloud based risk analytics applications and software.
Marcus Wildsmith
Founder & CPO – Product Management of Cutover
Formerly the Global Head of Telco and High Tech practice at a niche global consulting firm, Marcus has 15 years of experience with major launch transition projects including EE (the UK’s largest Telco) and the first UK 4G Services.
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About Cutover: Cutover is an orchestration and observability platform that optimizes the planning of complex workflows.
Chris Barrett
Chief Product Officer of Concentra
Chris is the CTO and architect behind OrgVue with over 18 years of experience in software product design and development. He is responsible for the design and delivery of OrgVue, as well as leading the architecture and development teams. He provides technology and practice leadership to product development at Concentra with expertise in AWS, cloud security, scalable architecture, data visualisation and analytics. Alongside supporting and enabling continuous improvement of Concentra’s products, Chris maintains an external focus on the opportunities and threats presented by trends in the industry.
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About Concentra: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
Mike Jongbloet
Head of Product Design & Research of Snowplow Analytics
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About Snowplow Analytics: Snowplow Analytics provides enterprise-strength digital analytics across multiple platforms
Oliver Smith
Product Director of Credit Benchmark
Oliver Smith is responsible for managing Product and Content within Credit Benchmark. Before joining Credit Benchmark, Olly was co-head for Markit Securities Finance Europe, also managing product Development. He previously held roles at Bloomberg and Thomson Reuters within sales and business development.
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About Credit Benchmark: Credit Benchmark is a financial data analytics company.
Charles Paumelle
Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Microshare
Currently heading Global Alliances and International operations for Point.io (www.Point.io), a leading Backend-as-a-Service (BaaS) platform and application programming interface (API) – designed to help enterprises access and share even their most sensitive information with absolute security. You can reach me at cpaumelle@point.io I also head up the International expansion for Savana, a FIS partner with CRM solutions for banks. With experience both on the corporate and vendor side in selling and implementing Enterprise innovation in the European market for the last two decades I founded EroundIT in 2013. EroundIT is a European distributor for emerging technology such as Point.io and Savana. Prior to that, I started the European arm of Knowledge Rules Inc., a boutique consulting practice specialised on BPMS leader Pegasystems. We established a presence in the UK, France, Spain and Bulgaria. Knowledge Rules was acquired by Accenture in Nov 2010. Specialties: European Business Development, Entreprise Content Management, Marketing Technology products, Financial Services industry, Oil & Gas industry, Computer Hardware industry, Business Process Management (BPM), Pegasystems PRPC
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About Microshare: Microshare® provides Smart Facilities data solutions at scale that bring safety, cost savings and sustainability to the Built World.
Daniel Slowe
Founder & Chief Product Officer of Quorso
Before Quorso, Dan was at McKinsey, delivering transformation for global food services, travel, retail, and pharmaceutical companies, as well as the NHS. He’s a graduate of Oxford University, where he received a Masters of Engineering, Economics & Management. When Dan isn’t solving the world’s most complex problems, he’s doing things like cycling across South America – including the length of the Atacama (the driest place on earth!).
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About Quorso: A new era for store management: Agile. Simple. Human.
Alan Greenhalgh
Chief Product Officer of Vortini
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About Vortini: Vortini is an analytics solution for sales forecasting and business insight.
Clement Boutignon
Head of Product of Appsumer
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Andrew Hollister
Chief Architect & Product Manager of LogRhythm
Andrew Hollister, Sr. Technical Director EMEA oversees LogRhythm’s regional technical resources in order to advance LogRhythm’s vision of providing an unrivalled platform for Unified Threat Lifecycle Management. Andrew studies the threat landscape to understand how customers can leverage analytics to detect and respond to cyber threats. For the past 20 years, Andrew has worked in a variety of IT consulting roles, in both the private and public sector, including SIEM, DLP and application level firewall design and implementation.
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About LogRhythm: LogRhythm is a NextGen SIEM Platform combining advanced security analytics, UEBA, NDR, and SOAR in a single end-to-end solution.
Ansar Mehmood
Chief Product Officer of Cubeware
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About Cubeware, Redbeard: Cubeware GmbH is a
Olubusayo Longe
Co-Founder and Product Manager of Formplus
Olubusayo is co-founder and product manager at Form+.
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About Formplus: Formplus is a cloud-based, enterprise-focused data collection SaaS.
Simon Dumville
Chief Product & Marketing Officer of Optimal Strategix Group
Simon Dumville is shief product & marketing officer at Optimal Strategix Group.
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About Optimal Strategix Group, Optimal Strategix Group: Optimal Strategix Group (OSG) is the Catalyst for Customer-Centered Marketing.
John Oliver
Chief Product Officer of Purple
Director of Product Development of Purple WiFi.
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About Purple: Purple is a WiFi analytics and marketing platform.
Dan Williams
Head of Product Management of Cambridge Intelligence
Dan works closely with our customers who are building advanced graph applications, helping them to make the best possible visualization tools. He has a Master’s in Physics from Oxford University and a wealth of experience with a variety of software products across many different industry verticals.
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About Cambridge Intelligence: Cambridge Intelligence builds graph visualization tools that ‘join the dots’ in data and make the world a safer place.
Jay Krall
Chief Product Officer of Socialgist
Jay Krall is a Chief Product Officer at Socialgist
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About Socialgist: Socialgist is social media data provider.
Richard Churchill
Founding Director & Chief Product Officer of SessionCam
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About SessionCam: SessionCam is an exciting UK company developing uniquely innovative and intelligent solutions for website optimization.
Xiang Yu
Senior Product Manager of Investment Metrics
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About Investment Metrics: Investment Metrics provides investment analytics and benchmarking software solutions for the global institutional investment community.
Alex Bordei
Head of Product Management of Bigstep
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About Bigstep: Bigstep.com is a cloud provider dedicated to making professional analytics solutions accessible to companies of all sizes.
Chris Read
Production Director of Corinium Global Intelligence
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About Corinium Global Intelligence: The leading community for Chief Data Officers, Chief Analytics officers and Chief Data Scientists.
Jide Sobo
Director – Digital Products & Services of Ebiquity
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About Ebiquity: Ebiquity operates as an independent marketing analytics specialists.
Alexandre Mercier
Co-Founder and VP, Product Development of Corymbus Asset Management
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About Corymbus Asset Management: Corymbus is a business risk analytics and fund development platform that uses unstructured data.
Christopher Welch
Head of Product of Brismo
Chris Welch spent nine years in the natural resources space initially as a minerals economist and then as a metals and mining analyst at both global and boutique investment banks. Chris gained a BSc (Hons) in geology from University College London and also holds an advanced certificate in Economics and an MSc in International Business Management.
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About Brismo: Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.
Christopher Welch
Head of Product of Brismo
Chris Welch spent nine years in the natural resources space initially as a minerals economist and then as a metals and mining analyst at both global and boutique investment banks. Chris gained a BSc (Hons) in geology from University College London and also holds an advanced certificate in Economics and an MSc in International Business Management.
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About Brismo: Brismo is a provider of lending performance data.
