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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 COO’ operating in the E-Commerce 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.
Bilal Al-Qureshi
Co-Founder and COO of Krowd
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About Krowd: Krowd to help people sift through the millions of products and services online.
Phill Burton
COO of Bloom & Wild
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About Bloom & Wild, Future London Academy, Seedcamp: Bloom & Wild is an online flower delivery platform developing a modern approach for sending flowers to loved ones.
Elizabeth Swanton
Co-Founder and COO of Feedr
Elizabeth Swanton is the founder and COO of Feedr, a scalable technology platform empowering healthy and artisan food vendors to produce and supply meals for the workplace.
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About Feedr: Feedr is an enterprise food technology platform that gives corporate customers software to support healthier daily eating in workplaces
Daniel Sagi
COO of Kape Technologies
COO at Crossrider
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About Kape Technologies: Kape Technologies is an online distribution and digital product hub.
Andrew Robb
Chief Operating Officer of Farfetch
Andrew Robb have a broad mix of experience gained from strategy consulting, an internet and mobile music startup, a leading e-commerce company and the UK’s largest magazine publisher. His strengths include general management, strategy analysis, creativity, marketing, product development, business development, strategic partnerships and team leadership & management. His focus is on general management and his goal is to create new businesses, products and services that add value to people and businesses. Specialties:Online marketing, affiliate marketing, product development, strategic partnerships, business development, sales management, customer segmentation, qualitative and quantitative research, financial analysis, economic modelling, project management, team management, leadership.
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About Farfetch: Farfetch is an online luxury fashion retail platform.
Mark Allsop
Chief Operating Officer and Chief Digital Officer of Currys
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About Currys: Currys is an online store that offers deals on smartphones and accessories.
Tom Mallory
COO & Co-founder of Clippings
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About Clippings: Clippings operates as an online source for furniture and lighting.
Shahar Tamari
Co-Founder & COO of Global-e
Highly motivated businessman with more than 20 years experience in financial institutions, eCommerce and Payments. Specializing in online and ecommerce payment processing of credit cards and alternative payment options, ePayments operations and Payments platforms management. Business development of digital delivery channels, E-Banking, Mobile Banking, online and off line payments systems, Specialties: online Banking, Credit cards, Debit cards, payments, e Payments, Card acquiring, alternative payment options, e Wallets, e Banking, Mobile Banking, e Business, business development, risk management, eCommerce, conversion, optimization.
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About Global-e: Global-e is cross-border e-commerce enablement platform that enables brands and retailers to deliver purchase experiences to customers.
Robert Gorton
COO of MallforAfrica
Robert has over 18 years experience in the Internet sector, both operationally as an online company founder and also as a venture capitalist. Robert founded the Internet’s first dedicated fashion search engine in 2007 and in 2011, he launched the UK’s first online personalised fashion sales service, which remains the UK’s market leader. The businesses were acquired in August 2016 by one of the world’s largest media companies. Previously Robert was a venture capitalist for over six years at a top performing IT, Internet and media fund in London, which achieved a top decile investment performance. Robert also worked for several years in corporate finance in an M&A team in the London office of KPMG. Robert is a qualified Chartered Accountant and a member of the Securities Institute.
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About MallforAfrica: MallforAfrica is an online mall that enables Africans to find and purchase items from international retailers.
Stephen Doherty
Co-Founder & COO of Nude
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About Nude: The new way to save for and purchase your first home.
Graham Corfield
Chief Operating Officer of Just Eat
Graham is the UK Managing Director, responsible for running the UK business and driving its continued growth. He joined Just Eat in July 2011 as UK Finance Director and was instrumental in helping just-eat.co.uk to its current market leading position. Graham began his career with KPMG, where he trained as a Chartered Accountant. Before joining Just Eat, he held a number of senior financial and management roles at technology and service-based companies, helping scale businesses during periods of aggressive growth and expansion, integrating acquisitions and turning around loss-making operations. Graham has an Honours degree in Accounting and Financial Management from Loughborough University.
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About Just Eat: Just Eat provides convenient and easy access to a huge variety of delivery restaurants and order food online.
Matt Ephgrave
COO of Festicket
Matt Ephgrave is COO at Festicket.
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About Festicket: Festicket is a marketplace to discover and book music festival tickets, accommodation, transfers and extras.
Jamie Powell-Tuck
Chief Operating Officer of ZigZag Global
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About Dolphin Finance Corporation, ZigZag Global: ZigZag Global is a software platform that helps retailers manage their returns globally.
Gianluca Carrera
COO of Reward Insight
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About Reward Insight: Reward is a global data monetisation company that helps the worlds largest banks and retailers understand and change consumer behaviour
Lukas Neckermann
COO of Splyt
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About Neckermann Strategic Advisors, Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Michelle Kingsley
COO of Showroom
Michelle runs the teams and processes that commercialise and scale the Showroom network. She has a senior level background in negotiating and closing high value commercial transactions, and in project management. She is responsible for operations, leadership of sales and business development, and legal and contracts. Previously a senior corporate lawyer in London, Michelle holds degrees from the University of Oxford and the London School of Economics.
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About Showroom: Showroom is a distributed marketplace, allowing products to be sold wherever there is a relevant audience for them.
Sohrab Jahanbani
Founder and COO of GoNabit
Sohrab Jahanbani is Founder and COO at GoNabit.
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About Bidvine, GoNabit: GoNabit is an internet retailer with a deal-a-day format, offering items at big discounts.
Filip Mihailovic
Co-founder,COO of Brisqq
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About Brisqq: Brisqq provides local logistics-as-a-service, enabling retailers to offer same day (or future date) deliveries in 1-hour timeslots.
Michael Michelis
Co-Founder & COO of Intelistyle
Michael Michelis joined Intelistyle as Co-Founder and COO in 2017.
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About Intelistyle: Intelistyle provides A.I. styling solutions to fashion retailers, helping them address the needs of customers looking for styling advice.
Jon Clarke
Chief Operating Officer of Onvi
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About Onvi, Viage UK: The mobile-first POS system for hospitality
Tim Sawyer
Chief Operating Officer of Green Man Gaming
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About Green Man Gaming: Green Man Gaming is a global pure play e-commerce and technology business in the video games industry.
Urchana Moudgil
Group Chief Operating Officer of Upgrade Pack
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About Upgrade Pack: Upgrade Pack is your key to a better hotel room or airplane seat.
Peter Wellock
Chief Operating Officer of MyBuilder
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About MyBuilder: MyBuilder connects consumers, builders, and tradesmen and offers a platform that promotes high quality work.
Hemant Ravishanker
COO of KF Beauty
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About KF Beauty: We identify, develop and market innovative products in the Health & Beauty sector.
Hemant Ravishanker
COO of KF Beauty
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About KF Beauty: We identify, develop and market innovative products in the Health & Beauty sector.
Rob Larmour
COO & Co-Founder of Hiyacar
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About Hiyacar: Hiyacar is a UK peer to peer car sharing platform.
David Roe
Chief Operating Officer & Managing Director, Europe of Paramount Commerce
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About Paramount Commerce: Paramount Commerce is a financial services company that enables customers to make purchases online directly from their bank account.
Nir Dupler
CRO & COO of Fornova
Nir Dupler is Chief Revenue Officer at Fornova.
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About Fornova, Pavilion: Fornova empowers hotels to optimise revenue and distribution while reducing costs and improving forecasting.
Lee Parker
Co-founder | COO of Bloomingdeals.co.uk Limited
Established as a reputable professional with extensive experience in; Tech startups, Assessment & Selection internal/external consultancy. Providing solutions in Cost, Time and Quality improvement within the people selection/hiring process • Structuring company hiring strategies • OEM Social Media consultancy • Technical and Specialist Recruitment (Blue & White Collar) • Understanding and consultancy of resourcing market demographics • Talent pool creation and management • Employer brand construction and evolution • Tender management • Technical experience within Electronics, RF, Manufacturing • RPO Planning (Bid proposal) and Management of Projects. • FTSE100 and FTSE250 Account Management. • Exposure to hiring solutions throughout EMEA • Small Business Saturday UK TOP 100 Business 2014 Specialties: Internet Startups | Business Stratagy | Aerospace & Automotive | Defence | FMCG | Manufacturing | IT | Electronics | Design | Social Media | Sales
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About Bloomingdeals.co.uk Limited, Hiringmadesimple.co.uk Limited, Parker Sourcing Limited: Bloomingdeals offers produce delivery services for gardeners and interested parties.
Sasa Sarunic
Co-founder & COO of Bizzon
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About Bizzon: Bizzon allows you to charge cash, debit and credit cards, and billing with the help of a simple application.
Sukhi Jutla
Co-Founder & COO of MarketOrders
Sukhi Jutla is an award-winning entrepreneur and author of 3 books. She is the co-founder of MarketOrders, an online B2B platform for the gold and diamond jewellery industry. She is a leading international speaker, influencer and thought leader in tech and a qualified IBM Blockchain Foundation Developer. She is recognized by a number of industry awards including the Asian Women of Achievement Awards, Management Todays ’35 Women Under 35? and named a Top 100 European Digital Pioneer by The Financial Times and Google. In April 2018 Sukhi made global headlines when she became the World’s First #1 Bestselling ‘Blockchain’ Author.
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About Department for International Trade, Haymarket, MarketOrders, UCL Centre for Blockchain Technologies, University of West London: MarketOrders is a B2B tech-enabled marketplace connecting retailers directly to manufacturers to source gold & diamond jewellery products
Felicity Stinton
Chief Operating Officer of Big Fish
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About Big Fish: Big Fish is a creative agency that deals with graphic design, interaction design, text and web development.
Nathalie du Preez
COO of Jellyfish
Born and raised in South Africa, Nathalie began her career in 2005 with Goldman Sachs in their investment banking division in New York. In the years since, she has worked in brand management at Colgate-Palmolive, led performance search marketing at Net-a-Porter, co-founded a start-up and, most recently, held the title of COO at on-demand beauty services company blow LTD. She holds a BSc in Economics magna cum laude from The Wharton School, University of Pennsylvania and an MBA with Distinction from Harvard Business School.
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About Jellyfish: Jellyfish is a ecommerce content production platform for online businesses.
Adrian Maseda
Co-Founder & COO of Cheerfy
Adrian has worked for many years for large corporations like Nortel and Aricent Group in various Business Management and Sales roles. Adrian then became an entrepreneur: Co-Founder @ We2 (Social Wifi), Founder @ Protos (an advisory firm). Adrian is now focused is his latest project, Cheerfy. Adrian believes in using technology to solve problems and reshape how things work. In particular, he sees opportunity in the intersection between social and hyper-localised interactions in a mobile world.
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About Cheerfy, Protos Global Services: The new way restaurants sell post-COVID
Gill Smith
COO of Adimo
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About Adimo: Admio integrates with any form of marketing to make it shoppable.
Agata Boczkowska
COO and Co-Founder of RAIS
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About RAIS: The Customer Intelligence Business – helping D2C brands grow the value of their customers faster.
William Lorenz
COO of Kwanji
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About Kwanji: Online FX Comparison Platform Bridging Emerging & Traditional Markets
Phil Hackney
Chief Operating Officer of The Very Group
Phil Hackney is the Chief Operating Officer at The Very Group.
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About The Very Group: The Very Group is an integrated digital retailer and financial services provider.
Pam Aujla
Chief Operating Officer of Six3
Chief Operating Officer at Cura TV
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About Six3: Transforming mobile communication and commerce through the power of video.
Steve Davies
Chief Operating Officer of eve Sleep
Steve Davies is the Chief Operating Officer at eve sleep.
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About eve Sleep: eve Sleep is a pioneer of luxury sleep solutions, promising the perfect start to every day thanks to a guaranteed great night’s sleep.
Femi Opeodu
COO of Nea Genia
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About Nea Genia: Instant way to pay by cash, for everyday services, such as mobile top-ups, utility bills, and various online services.
Mira Abdullahi
COO of Dimble App Ltd
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About Dimble App Ltd: Straight-to-the-point shopping app
Matthew Shaw
Chief Operating Officer of CMS Payments Intelligence
Matthew Shaw is the chief operating officer at CMSPI. Prior to joining CMSPI in 2012 as a marketing manager, Matthew served as a digital marketing manager at Marketing Cheshire. He holds an MBA degree from Alliance Manchester Business School.
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About CMS Payments Intelligence: CMS Payments Intelligence is an independent consultancy that helps merchants optimize and reduce payments costs.
Henrike Grund
COO of AtHashtags
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About AtHashtags: Combined Online and real world Marketplace that allows vendors to sell and connect with consumers online and in multiple physical locations
Erica Allen
Co-founder & COO of SODA SAYS
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About SODA SAYS: SODA SAYS is building the leading lifestyle destination for understanding and shopping technology products.
Wang Feng
Chief Operating Officer of Aixuedai
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About Aixuedai: Aixuedai is an online payment platform that allows students to buy items using monthly installment plans.
Diego Jenzer
Co-founder & COO of Fromigo
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About Fromigo: Fromigo is a marketplace of authentic experiences by local people.
Massimo Rossi
COO and Co-Founder of Shoppi
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About Shoppi: Shoppi is a marketplace to connect local companies with travelers by overcoming existing cultural barriers.
Harvey Francis
Co-Founder & COO of Noah
Harvey Francis is a Co-Founder and COO at Noah.
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About Noah: First Steps, Covered.
Chistina Mulhall-Brown
Co-founder & COO of Adavow
Co-founder & Finance Manager at Adavow
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About Adavow: Adavow is a cloud-based platform that enables advertisers to pre-validate ad choices against a real-time, user transaction database.
Niall Smith
Cofounder & COO of BeInspired Fitness
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About BeInspired Fitness, Zone App Limited: BeInspired Fitness offers an e-commerce platform that enables its users to find and get service from physiotherapists and nutritionists.
