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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 CEO’ operating in the Audiobooks space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Ben Drury
Co-Founder and CEO of Yoto
Ben began his career in 1996 as a founder of dotmusic.com, an internal venture at United News and Media which attracted over 1.8m unique users per month (in 1999). In 2000 Ben was recruited by BT Group to head up the broadband music efforts at their ISP BT Openworld where he successfully launched a major music channel. Following the partnership between BT and Yahoo! to form BT Yahoo! in 2003, Ben engineered the sale of dotmusic to Yahoo! for approx. £3.3m. Ben then founded 7digital with James Kane in 2004 with the vision of creating a digital media marketplace. 7digital operates services that bring together suppliers and consumers of digital media. In September 2008 7digital.com was the first company in Europe to launch DRM-free MP3 downloads with all four major record labels. In September 2009 HMV Group acquired a 50% equity stake in 7digital with an investment of £7.7m. Ben was named by Growing Business magazine as a Young Gun 2006 – the award for leading entrepreneurs under 35. In 2007, 7digital was awarded the prestigious Red Herring Top 100 Europe Award as one of the most promising technology companies in Europe.
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About Pimoroni, Yoto: Yoto – The screen-free audio platform for kids.
Andrew Baev
CEO of Bookmate
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About Bookmate: Bookmate is mobile story-on-the-go subscription service providing convenient access to ebooks, audiobooks and other long-form content
Ian Miles
Chairman & CEO of Abbey House Media
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About Abbey House Media: Abbey House Media Inc., doing business as BooksOnBoard, Inc., operates as an online retailer of eBooks and audio books.
Richard Blackwell
Co-Founder & CEO of Quinn Blackwell Media Ltd
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About Quinn Blackwell Media Ltd: A New Audiovisual Platform for Audiobooks & eBooks
Hammy Havoc
CEO of Split An Atom
CEO of Split An Atom and Previous Magazine. Makes music as The Orion Correlation and runs Voidance Records too. An active cypherpunk who advocates the usage of open standards, striving for a future where everything and everybody plays together nicely. Enjoys nothing more than subverting control and giving it back to the public.
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About Clikyz, Previous Magazine, Split An Atom, Voidance Records: Split An Atom is a multiple award-winning integrated marketing agency with digital, content, and PR at the forefront of all our work.
