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 COO’ operating in the Database space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Mark Boxall
Chief Operating Officer of D4t4 Solutions
Mark Boxall has over 20 years of experience of the IT industry. He has considerable operational, sales and financial experience having been both board director and senior manager at technology consultancies and product based technology companies such as rbase, Morse, PTC and Siemens. Mark has also been involved with both start-ups and global corporations, most recently as Senior Manager at EMC, where he was responsible for managing sales engagements to transform IT for the largest global investment banks. Prior to EMC, Mark also gained valuable experience in corporate finance transactions, both as principal and advisor and, before that, was a founding director of Chapter26 Ltd which was acquired by D4t4 Solutions in 2008. Mark was subsequently responsible for the continued success and integration of the two organisations.
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About D4t4 Solutions: D4t4 Solutions is a business-to-business provider of information technology products and services.
Tomás Sabat
Chief Operating Officer of Vaticle
Tomás is the Chief Operating Officer at Vaticle. He works closely with Vaticle’s open source and enterprise users who use TypeDB to build applications in a wide number of industries including financial services, life sciences, cyber security and supply chain management. A graduate of the University of Cambridge, Tomás has spent the last seven years founding and building businesses in the technology industry.
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About Vaticle: Empowering engineers to solve complex problems – creators of TypeDB and TypeQL
Ian Hammond
COO of GeoSpock
Ian has a strong background in technology and business operations at both small and large scale, bringing 15+ years of experience from leadership roles in telco, media, and technology organizations as well as the UK public sector. He spent 5 years living in the Netherlands where he led a global team as SVP of Technology Operations at TomTom, responsible for delivering and supporting global digital services to millions of consumers as well as B2B services to some of the world’s largest companies. Most recently Ian held C-level positions within central government and a UK based procurement technology SME. Ian joins the GeoSpock management team to build and lead the operations function, delivering and supporting solutions for GeoSpock customers.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Ian Hammond
COO of GeoSpock
Ian has a strong background in technology and business operations at both small and large scale, bringing 15+ years of experience from leadership roles in telco, media, and technology organizations as well as the UK public sector. He spent 5 years living in the Netherlands where he led a global team as SVP of Technology Operations at TomTom, responsible for delivering and supporting global digital services to millions of consumers as well as B2B services to some of the world’s largest companies. Most recently Ian held C-level positions within central government and a UK based procurement technology SME. Ian joins the GeoSpock management team to build and lead the operations function, delivering and supporting solutions for GeoSpock customers.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Matthew Skinner
Chief Operating Officer of Xenomorph
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About Xenomorph: Xenomorph believes that great decisions are made when everyone can easily access and analyze the same high quality data.
