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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 Founder operating in the Swimming space. If you think a Founder 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.
Riz Smith
Co-Founder and Creative Director of Riz Boardshorts
Riz Smith is the co-founder and creative director at Riz. He is also a design tutor at Central Saint Martins. Riz is a former associate lecturer at London College of Fashion.
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About Riz Boardshorts: Riz Boardshorts designs and produces sustainable boardshorts and swim shorts for men.
Alistair Murrell
Co-Founder and Director of Riz Boardshorts
Alistair Murrell is the co-founder and director at Riz Boardshorts. Prior to co-founding Riz, Alistair worked at Cairn Capital and JP Morgan.
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About Riz Boardshorts: Riz Boardshorts designs and produces sustainable boardshorts and swim shorts for men.
Tamara Norton
Founder of Sweaty Betty
Tamara Norton is a Founder at Sweaty Betty.
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About Sweaty Betty: Sweaty Betty is a London-based women’s activewear brand.
Andrew Cox
Co-Founder, Fellow Director & Mechanical Engineer of Clear Water Revival
Fellow Director and co-founder Andrew Cox is a qualified mechanical engineer and has been involved in business and new product development of environmental technologies for over 13 years. He has considerable experience in product development including specification, design, patents, prototyping, project management, procurement, manufacturing and quality assurance. Previously Andrew has designed numerous award winning clean-tech products from wind turbines to solar products. Andrew’s industrial experience is wide ranging; he has established wind turbine production facilities in Wales, written and implemented numerous manufacturing quality standards and established steel fabrication facilities in Ukraine for production of solar PV carports. Andrew is responsible for new product development, business operations and rollout of new technology.
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About Clear Water Revival: Clear Water Revival is a leading company in the design and construction of natural swimming pools and natural swimming ponds.
Michael Thomas
Founder of Mini Mantas
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About Mini Mantas, PDu: Mini Mantas creates products that helps children develop swimming skills.
