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 Intellectual Property 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.
Philip A. Smith
Chief Executive Officer of Europe, Middle East and Africa, and Asia operations of StoneX
Philip A. Smith was appointed Chief Executive Officer of the Company’s Europe, Middle East and Africa (“EMEA”) operations in July 2008 and in January 2015 this responsibility was expanded to include Asia. Mr. Smith joined the Company in 2004 following its acquisition of Global Currencies Ltd, a U.K. foreign exchange payments company specializing in exotic and emerging market currencies, which Mr. Smith joined in 1996. Mr. Smith was elected to the Board of Global Currencies in 1999 and was also a principal shareholder. Following its acquisition in 2004 Mr. Smith became CEO of INTL Global Currencies Ltd until its consolidation into INTL FCStone Ltd in 2014. Mr. Smith is the Chief Executive Officer of INTL FCStone Ltd, with regional responsibility for EMEA and Asia.
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About StoneX: StoneX provides a range of customized financial services and tools to help them protect their margins and manage volatility.
Simon Baggs
CEO & Co-Founder of Incopro
Simon Baggs is CEO at INCOPRO and Partner and Head of IP at Wiggin LLP. His litigation team has won many of the most significant cases in the UK concerned with protecting IP rights in the online environment. Simon co-founded INCOPRO to provide IP owning businesses and their legal advisers with intelligence based technology and services to help fight the explosion of IP infringement online. In 2015, Simon’s team won the Financial Times Award for Innovation in Intellectual Property and in 2016 his team won the Legal Week award for innovation.
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About Incopro, Wiggin: Incopro is an online brand and intellectual property protection company.
Boyd Mulvey
CEO & Founder of Chorus Intelligence
Boyd started his career in 1990 as a data analyst for Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP), an investment bank which created and traded derivative financial instruments based in London. At CSFP Boyd created a database for analysing capital at risk for the bank called FRED (Financial Risk Exposure Database) which is still in use today. Boyd moved from analyst to strategy at UBS and then into investment banking where he helped to raise money for and float several technology companies on the UK Stock Exchange before launching a Venture Capitalist Fund called the CREATE East of England Fund, which specialised in investing into early stage tech companies around the Cambridge area. Following the completion of that Fund, Boyd founded Chorus Intelligence to focus on data analytics once again.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Clifford Gross
CEO of Tekcapital
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About Lucyd, Tekcapital: Tekcapital plc is an international provider of technology and intellectual property (IP) services.
Jan Telander
Founder, President and CEO of ProGreen US
Jan Telander is the Founder & CEO at ProGreen US.
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About ProGreen US: ProGreen US engages in the ownership and management of agricultural and real estate projects.
