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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Wellness space. If you think a Director 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.
George Sutherland
Company Secretary & Non-Executive Director of TestCard Ltd
An experienced Company Director and a Fellow of the Institute of Directors who has demonstrated many years of success working with major fast moving consumer goods (FMCG) and Medical companies. Personally managed business with most of the major retailers and has many years of experience in dealing with the NHS and Medical markets. Experience in raising corporate finance, pre and post IPO.
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About : TestCard is the medical technology company behind the eponymous at-home test kit. A partnering mobile app delivers immediate results.
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Rafael López Schietekat
Founder & Managing Director of Diagnostikare
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About Diagnostikare: The first data-driven patient-centric virtual primary care platform in Mexico.
Simon Hancock
Investor and Director of Amplify Life
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About Amplify Life: Amplify Life is an app that provides coaching for fitness and wellbeing.
David Jackson
Agency Commercial Director of United Drug plc
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About United Drug plc: United Drug plc ensures the right products are delivered to the right people at the right time, at the right price.
Peter Lemon
Purchasing Director, United Drug Sangers of United Drug plc
Peter was educated at Annadale Grammar School and when he left school at the age of 18, started working in the Pharmaceutical Sector in the UK as a Trainee Buyer. Most of Peter’s working life has been in the Pharmaceutical Distribution sector with over 40 years’ experience. Peter commenced employment with Sangers in 1993 as a Purchasing Manager and was appointed to the position of Purchasing Director in 1998. Peter is a member of Belvoir Park Golf Club and enjoys playing golf there on a regular basis. His other hobbies and interests include Hockey, Reading and Travel.
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About United Drug plc: United Drug plc ensures the right products are delivered to the right people at the right time, at the right price.
Edwin Bleakley
Operations Director, Sangers of United Drug plc
Edwin was educated at Methodist College in Belfast. He was employed by the Northern Bank, Munster Simms and then AAH Pharmaceuticals as General Manager for 14 years before joining Sangers in 2000. Edwin has a keen interest in music and has been a church organist for many years, now playing in the church on the oldest Christian site in Ireland where St. Patrick started his mission, at Saul near Downpatrick. He has rescued and restored a 1954 Triumph TR2 sports car which he still enjoys driving. Edwin has a large garden which requires significant time commitment. Edwin has three grown up children, two living in Northern Ireland and one in Australia, and five grand-children.
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About United Drug plc: United Drug plc ensures the right products are delivered to the right people at the right time, at the right price.
Philippa Jayanathan
Director Of Operations – Central London Community Healthcare NHS Trust of National Health Service
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About National Health Service: NHS is the UK’s biggest health website which employs people with a wide range of skills from software development to journalism.
Jennifer Hersch
Co-Founder & Director of Ethos
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About Ethos: ETHOS is the ultimate yoga fitness hybrid experience with all one needs.
Karen Harwood
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Victoria Tydeman
Director and Co-Founder of Oodee
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About Oodee: allergen neutral skincare – next generation clean beauty
Thiago Monteiro
Director of Growth of Peak
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About Peak: Peak’s mission is to help the world spend their time better using tools and technique borrowed from education, neuroscience and gaming.
Nikunj Sondagar
Co-Founder & Non Executive Director of Brushlink
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About AUXO, Brushlink, Healthcare Angels Network, Medicalsupply, Tooth Wise, Wise360: Brushlink is a health and wellness company that specializes in the fields of oral care and dental insurance markets.
Peter Maskell
Managing Director of Koninklijke Philips
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About Koninklijke Philips: Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services.
Hayden Vivash
Financial Director of Koninklijke Philips
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About Koninklijke Philips: Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services.
Martin Armstrong
Legal Director/Company Secretary of Koninklijke Philips
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About Koninklijke Philips: Koninklijke Philips is a technology company that provides healthcare, consumer lifestyle, and lighting products, solutions, and services.
Jay Conlon
Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate
Jay Conlon is the Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate Growth.
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About Lumenate: Lumenate is on a mission to make impactful subconscious exploration experiences more accessible than ever
Tom Galea
Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate
Tom Galea is the Co-Founder and Director of Lumenate Growth.
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About Lumenate: Lumenate is on a mission to make impactful subconscious exploration experiences more accessible than ever
Connor Minney
Co-founder and Director of Operations of Grndhouse
Connor Minney Co-founder and Director of Operations at Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Louis Rennocks
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Grndhouse
Louis Rennocks is the Co-founder and managing director of Grndhouse.
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About Grndhouse: Grndhouse is an online fitness platform.
Leigh Phillipson
Director of Partnerships of MoveGB
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About MoveGB: MoveGB allows you to exercise how, when, and where you want.
Maria Salichou
Director of insitu
A scientist by trade and a beauty buff at heart, Dr. Salichou founded insitU on the belief that men and women should be treated as individuals. As a trained chemist, Maria was frustrated with brands’ poor science and the assertion that there are only a few different skin types and set about building products, unique to each customer, with her knowledge of active ingredients and their properties. Prior to launching insitU, Maria gained a P.hD in Chemistry in Nuclear Medicine from the University of Oxford and is an expert in Biotechnology and DNA sequencing.
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About insitu: World’s No1 personalised skincare brand with a comprehensive range of fully customised products.
David O’Neil
Director of insitu
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About : World’s No1 personalised skincare brand with a comprehensive range of fully customised products.
Pamela Scarborough
Co-Founder & Clinical Director of Pactster
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About Pactster: Pactster is a social exercise platform for people with specific health conditions.
Islam Pearson
Managing Director of Greenliving Pharma
Islam is the man in charge, the overseer, protector, and father figure. With his background in property development and renewable energy technologies, he tends to come at the business from the point of view of the customer, and regularly offers a wealth of knowledge to anyone interested. He lives for his work, and may or may not be a gymnast. We’re not quite sure yet.
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About Greenliving Pharma: Greenliving Pharma is a nutraceutical company that distributes pharmaceutical products.
Jason Grima
Director & Co-founder of Everly Wellness
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About Everly Wellness: Everly Wellness is a technology healthcare company focused on providing honest, expertly researched and personalised nutritional products.
Ozgur Tuncer
CEO & Executive Director of Stablepharma Ltd
Ozgur Tuncer CEO & Executive Director – two decades of experience in the biopharmaceutical industry including working for blue chip companies such as Pfizer, IQVIA and Pharmacia. Most recently, he was Global Vice President in IQVIA, and strategic adviser to life sciences investors. In addition to his role in Stablepharma, Özgür is an Investment Partner with Ascension Ventures.
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About Stablepharma Ltd: An innovative Biotech, developing a wide range of reformulated thermostable and fridge free StablevaX vaccines
Rehab Sofan
Managing Director of SAVANT
Founder and Managing Director of beauty business Savant.
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About SAVANT: Beauty & Aesthetics Services
Peter Blencowe
Managing Director and Co-Founder of Bluecrest Wellness
Peter Blencowe is the Managing Director and Co-founder of Bluecrest Health Screening.
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About Bluecrest Wellness: Bluecrest Wellness is a privately run health screening company founded in the UK in 2012.
Alex Higman
Operations Director and Co-Founder of Bluecrest Wellness
Alex Higman is the operations director and co-founder of Bluecrest Health Screening.
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About Bluecrest Wellness: Bluecrest Wellness is a privately run health screening company founded in the UK in 2012.
Jenny Tillotson
Founder & Creative Director of eScent
Jenny Tillotson is the creator and driving force behind eScent, an enabling platform technology and delivery device that emits precise doses of fragrances at the right time, in the right place, depending on context. This is highly scalable technology for sensing and dispensing scent and liquids, providing a new sensory awareness with wide‐ranging applications in fashion, fragrances for luxury brands, wellbeing, digital health, AR/VR, retail, sports, entertainment, learning and adult industry. Jenny spent 14 years at Central Saint Martins, University of the Arts London developing her award-winning eScent research and was made a Reader in Sensory Fashion in 2013. More recently Jenny has moved to commercialise her research. She formed a company that works at the intersection of fashion, fragrance, smell and wearable technology, co-founded with Professor Andreas Manz, a pioneer of lab-on-a-chip and winner of the EU ‘lifetime achievement’ inventor award for patents on microchip technology for chemical applications. Jenny’s involvement over the past year has specifically been in the area of fine fragrance for the fashion industry and digital health for stress and sleep disorders with a particular focus on leveraging disparate data sources to discover more accurate health-related correlations. The company holds 4 granted patents and 1 pending patent that creates an exclusive market position on wearable sensory data collection related to the sense of smell, pharma and insect control. Jenny has a degree in Fashion Communication from Central Saint Martins and a PhD in interactive olfactory surfaces (Printed Textiles) from the Royal College of Art. She has been a Fellow of the of the Royal Society of Arts since 2009, a Fellow of the Winston Churchill Memorial Trust since 2013 and an Associate of the British Society of Perfumers since 2005. Jenny is also a Visiting Scholar in the Institute of Biotechnology at the University of Cambridge and a STEM Ambassador. Prior to her academic work she was a fashion stylist in the media and worked as a Sensory Designer for Charmed Technology (MIT Media Lab spin-off). She has exhibited internationally, published in science and design journals, consulted for NIKE, Unilever, INTEL, Qualcomm, Toyota and worked with Philips, Cambridge Consultants, The North Face, Adeline André and International Flavours & Fragrances.
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About eScent, The Royal Society for the encouragement of Arts, Manufactures and Commerce (RSA): Wearable technology and sensory data collection for preventative healthcare.
Anya Roy
Managing Director of Syrona Health
Anya Roy is the co-founder of Syrona Health.
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About Syrona Health: Syrona Health is a personalised digital health platform for Chronic Gynaecological/Uterine Conditions like Endometriosis, PCOS etc.
Chantelle Bell
Managing Director of Syrona Health
Chantelle Bell is the Managing Director and co-founder of Syrona Health.
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About Syrona Health: Syrona Health is a personalised digital health platform for Chronic Gynaecological/Uterine Conditions like Endometriosis, PCOS etc.
Rebecca Terrell
Founder and Managing Director of Tribeca Studios
Rebecca Terrell is the founder and managing director of Tribeca Studios.
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About Tribeca Studios: Tribeca Studios is a boutique fitness club that operates as a pay-as-you train studio.
Giovanna Forte
Founding Director & CEO of Forte Medical
Giovanna is credited within bringing her GP brother’s invention to life. She invested personally in his idea, to explore design and material R&D, secure IP rights and ultimately attract investment from the GLA Early Growth Fund in 2006. As CEO she realised the successful launch of Peezy Midstream, established credible clinical evidence, developed PR, marketing, sales campaigns and has overseen the ongoing investment needs of the business. Specimen collection is arguably the most basic procedure required for analysis, diagnosis and treatment of myriad conditions; Giovanna’s desire to improve these often messy processes drove engagement with clinicians, microbiologists and patients. Her inquiry and love of good design has led to development of The Specimen Collection.
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About Forte Medical: Forte Medical is a diagnostic center in London, England.
Dr Anna Puri
Managing Director of SkinVie
Dr Anna Puri is a St. Andrew’s and The University of Manchester graduate in Medicine and practises aesthetic treatments in the areas of Berkshire, Surrey & Ascot.
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About Skinora, SkinVie: Chain of Aesthetic Clinics in London, Surrey & Berkshire
Dr Sarah Shah
Managing Director of Artistry Clinic
Dr Sarah Shah has started her career in the medical field and transitioned in 2014 into aesthetics, becoming one of the most well-known Injectors in the UK.
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About Artistry Clinic: Aesthetic Clinics by Dr Sarah Shah
Lucy Fleming
Operations Director of Safer Food Scores
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About Safer Food Scores: Safer Food Scores provides food hygiene and health and safety advice, audits, training, and e-learning.
Sean Grant
Sales Director of Premier Global
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About Premier Global: Premier Global provides digital and virtual fitness education, personal trainer options, nutrition courses and training services.
Matthew Snyman
Co-Founder and Creative Director of Grass & Co.
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About Grass & Co.: Grass & Co. is one of the leading CBD & wellness brand in the UK.
Nick Niziolomski
Director of Ortus-iHealth
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About Ortus-iHealth: Ortus-iHealth is a provider of a digital clinic platform that helps deliver personalized healthcare for patients.
Garry Spreadborough
Sales Director – United Kingdom & Ireland of Keiser Corporation
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About Keiser Corporation: Keiser Corporation is a manufacturer of strength training and fitness equipment for trainers and professional sports teams.
Pip Black
Co-founder & Director of Frame
Pip Black is Co-founder and Director at Frame.
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About Frame: It was put on Earth to make sure keeping fit and healthy never feels like a chore.
Joan Murphy
Director of Frame
Joan is a hardcore super Kiwi, with more energy than the Duracell Bunny. Her classes are hard, you’ll leave exhausted but ALWAYS in a FANTASTIC mood. She borders on the ridiculous, so look out for sequins and animal print and flouro… and remember, that the countdown always gets you through, no matter how much pain you may think you’re in! Joan has previously represented New Zealand in a number of random sports, from Pole Vault to Track Cycling… and if it’s good enough for NZ, it’s got to be good enough for us.
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About Frame: It was put on Earth to make sure keeping fit and healthy never feels like a chore.
Samantha Oxford
Managing Director of Boulder Hut
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About Boulder Hut: Boulder Hut is an indoor climbing brand.
Paul Ford
Director Of Operations of Medicalea
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About Medicalea, WalkinWifi: Medicaleaf improves people’s health and well-being by offering the healthcare industry with pain management and chronic illness solutions.
Tim Aston
Founder and Director of emoquo
Tim Aston is Founder & Product Director at emoquo.
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About emoquo: Emoquo is an award winning digital coaching app and real-time people analytics platform for everyone at work.
Ellie Wharton
Founder & Creative Director of Positivitea
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About Positivitea: Positivitea is a range of delicious, uplifting and award-winning teas based on the chakras and blended for balance.
Dr Andrew Weber
Medical Director & Lead Physician of Bodyvie
Founder, Medical Director and Lead Physician of Bodyvie Aesthetic & GP clinic in Richmond, London.
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About Bodyvie: A medical and aesthetic clinic in Greater London established since 1999.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
Matthew Ashcroft
Co-Founder and Director of Kusaga Athletic
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About Kusaga Athletic: Kusaga Athletic creates future fabrics and sustainable lifestyle apparel for run, yoga, gym, outdoors.
Jim McCallum
Director of Walker Healthcare
Jim comes from an accountancy background and is responsible for the financial control of all of the companies within the James Walker Group, including Walker Healthcare, and the central shared management services to the individual companies within the group.
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About Walker Healthcare: Walker Healthcare is provides range of high-quality healthcare services primarily for older people.
