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 Director operating in the Delivery 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.
Oliver Sloane
Director, Amazon Global Communities of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Alex Green
Managing Director, Amazon Video of Amazon
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About Amazon: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Neil Lawrence
Director of Amazon
Neil Lawrence is a Professor of Machine Learning at the University of Sheffield, currently on leave of absence at Amazon, Cambridge. His main technical research interest is machine learning through probabilistic models. He focuses on both the algorithmic side of these models and their application. He has a particular interest on applications in personalized health and applications in the developing world. Neil is well known for his work with Gaussian processes, and has proposed Gaussian process variants of many of the successful deep learning architectures. He is also an advocate of of the ideas behind “Open Data Science” and active in public awareness (see https://www.theguardian.com/profile/neil-lawrence) and community organization. He has been both program chair and general chair of the NIPS Conference.
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About Amazon, University of Sheffield: Amazon is an e-commerce website for consumers, sellers, and content creators.
Michael Muskat
Director of REEF
Michael Muskat is the Director of Reef Technology.
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About REEF: REEF Technology is a company that transforms urban real estate such as parking facilities into thriving mobility and logistical hubs.
Lynn Fordham
Director of Delivering London
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About Delivering London: Delivering London builds an open, hyper-local out of home parcel delivery network for the UK.
Steve Folwell
Managing Director of LoveSpace
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About LoveSpace: LoveSpace is the UK’s first storage-by-the-box company, offering next-day collection and return of items.
Edward Hollands
Managing Director and Founder of DrivenMedia
Ed Hollands is the 23-year- old entrepreneur behind DrivenMedia, the Derby-based advertising agency which creates mobile billboards on commercial trailers for brands, organisations and businesses. Originally from Hertfordshire, Ed graduated from the University of Derby in 2016 with a first-class honours degree in Business Studies and was always ambitious to create his own company. Today DrivenMedia offers companies, brands and organisations the opportunity to advertise on the sides and backs of lorries, trucks and vans as they travel the world delivering goods and services. Ed got the idea of mobile billboards on an early morning walk when he saw traffic – including several large, plain lorries – queuing at a busy roundabout as rush hour traffic began to build. He realised the scope for offering companies a different type of marketing opportunity was huge. Ed grew up in a village called Pitstone near Tring in Hertfordshire with his parents Angela & Graham and his younger brother Will. His mum works for local hospice charity and Graham works for HP. Will is currently studying music at university. It was in primary school (Brookmead Primary School) that the seeds of entrepreneurship were sown when Ed declared he wanted to run a pub called The Happy Inn. He also saw his father being away from his family due to working overseas and felt that he wanted to have some choices around work when he got older. Later when at secondary school in Tring he earned money by carrying bags for small change to the form room. His determination to run his own business became stronger just before selecting his GCSE choices as he already knew he wanted to be the master of his own fate financially. This dictated the subjects he chose at both GCSE and A level. Ed chose to study for his degree at the University of Derby as he felt the campus and the teaching staff had the right ethos around business. Once there he also joined the Business and Entrepreneurship Society and began to be inspired by those who had already walked the walk in business. It was during this time he met Graham Mulholland, a leading local entrepreneur who became his mentor alongside lecturer and friend Bev Crighton Senior Lecturer/Programme Leader BA HRM As part of his studies, he did explore the idea of creating digital billboards on A38 right next to the university. He also set up his own business in the summer of his first year at university but the idea didn’t work mainly because he had not appreciated the important role played by marketing and advertising. It was an early lesson learned. At home, Ed lives with his fiancé Tara and they are childhood sweethearts who met at Scout Camp more than five years ago. Tara is a teaching assistant at a school in Nottingham and also is also an Ofsted-registered nanny currently studying for her level 3 NVQ in childcare. Ed is also a keen dodgeball player and qualified referee. While at university he played for the university team, The Derby Seahawks, and now plays for the Nottingham Sheriffs alongside being an referee. He plays twice a month during the season and referees weekly.
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About DrivenMedia, DrivenMedia: The UK’s major road network is one of the most densely populated highways in the world.
Jane Lawrie
Group Communications Director of Tesco
Jane joined the Executive Committee on 10 October 2016. Jane is responsible for rebuilding trust in the Tesco brand and its businesses. Jane has over 25 years’ experience of corporate, financial, colleague and digital communications. She joined Tesco from Coca-Cola, where she led European public affairs and communications. She has significant experience in advising businesses on trust and corporate reputation through previous roles at Diageo and Boots.
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About Tesco: Tesco PLC is a British multinational grocery and general merchandise retailer headquartered in Cheshunt, Hertfordshire, England.
Steve McEvoy
Alliance Director of Metapack
Steve rejoined MetaPack in 2007. He is responsible for all client facing team members inc Account Management, Service Management and Client Support. Since joining MetaPack in August 2002 Steve has held a number of positions that have grown with the company from Business Development to Partnership management. Steve has over twenty years experience providing IT solutions to the Retail market, the last fifteen of those have been eCommerce focused. Prior to MetaPack Steve has held a number of senior roles in Fujitsu, Post Software International.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Derek Weaver
Director of Logistics of Metapack
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Paul Lewis
Senior Director Cloud Security (BISO) of Elsevier
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About Elsevier, Imperial College London: Elsevier is a world-leading provider of information solutions that enhance the performance of science, health, and technology.
Jane Gibbon
Group HR Director of Just Eat
Jane Gibbon is the HR Director for Just Eat. She has a strong track record of delivering business- focused employee reward, performance management, recognition, mobility, and diversity and inclusion programs internationally. Cross-culturally agile with a global mind-set, Jane has worked in over 50 geographies including her native US, Europe and Asia. Jane’s experience began in the US working for internet pioneers such as AOL, Netscape and Yahoo! With the merger of AOL and Time Warner she started to work extensively in Europe, fuelling her passion for working cross-culturally to optimize outcomes for all parties. She then moved to McDonald’s, where she was the first Reward Director in Europe, building the function from the ground up. During her eight years there, she participated in a highly-selective global leadership program, was the Chairman of the Women’s Leadership Network, and founded the Diversity and Inclusion function in Europe. Skilled at envisioning what is possible and articulating the vision to inspire others to action, she has subsequently served in a variety of HRD roles at Tesco, Starbucks and now at Just Eat, always keeping Inclusion in her remits as they grew. Last year she co-founded ”Lift As You Climb,” a non-profit group designed to create a unique networking space for women across generations to share lessons learned and pass wisdom down on a variety of topics, including mentoring, resilience and career planning.
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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.
Myles Hopper
Founder, Director of Mindful Chef
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About Mindful Chef: Mindful Chef delivers all the fresh ingredients you need to create delicious, heathy meals.
Daniel Spinath
Founder & Managing Director of Crepeaffaire
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About Crepeaffaire, Entertainment Ventures Group International, Frizzenti, Liberation Cocktails, Tap: Crêpeaffaire offers freshly prepared crêpes, waffles, coffees and smoothies.
Shane Lake
Co-Founder and Managing Director of hungryhouse
Shane Lake is co-founder and managing director at Hungryhouse.
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About hungryhouse: hungryhouse is a U.K.-based online platform for takeaway and food delivery that provides a wide range of cuisines and dishes.
Lorenzo Franzi
Co-Founder & Managing Director of Zipjet
Lorenzo is Co-Founder & Managing Director of ZipJet. ZipJet is an urban pick-up & delivery service for laundry & dry cleaning in London and Berlin. Previously, Lorenzo worked with McKinsey & Company as a consultant. Prior to McKinsey, he worked with Voice.ee a micro polling start up. Lorenzo started-off his professional career at JP Morgan in London. Lorenzo holds an MBA from INSEAD and Msc in Finance from the University of Maastricht.
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About Zipjet: Zipjet is an online laundry and dry cleaning service that enables its users to order laundry and dry cleaning pickup and delivery services.
Tim Linssen
Co-Founder & Director of Product of Quiqup
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About Quiqup: Quiqup is a provider of on-demand, same-day, and scheduled delivery solutions to retailers and restaurants.
Ben Thoy
Non-Executive Director of Whey Box
Ben Thoy is the Sales Manager at Trustpilot.
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About Trustpilot, Whey Box: Whey Box is a food and beverages company that specializes in providing protein powder.
Des McManus
Co-Founder – Director of Operations of Friction Free Shaving
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About Friction Free Shaving: UK razor delivery service designed exclusively for women.
Anna Szanto
Co-Founder and Managing Director of The Goodness Project
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About The Goodness Project: The Goodness Project is a highly regarded e-commerce platform offering quality free from gifts, subscription boxes.
Gordon MacAulay
Founder & Non Executive Director of Parsley Box
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About Parsley Box: Parsley Box is the great new way to enjoy wholesome tasty meals at home.
Duncan Hynd
Managing Director of Advanced Oncotherapy
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About Advanced Oncotherapy, Hynd Healthcare: Advanced Oncotherapy is a medical technology company providing advanced radiotherapy systems for the treatment of common and rare cancers.
Serge Lubensky
Founder | Executive Managing Director of ReTool Ventures
Serge is a geek who enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to difficult problems. Along the way, he managed to become a successful entrepreneur with a track record of starting, growing and selling technology companies. Serge grew up in a family of scientists and artists. Not smart enough to become a scientist and not creative enough to be an artist, Serge chose to pursue a computer engineering degree in his hometown of Minsk strictly to avoid being drafted into the Russian Army during the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan. Serge’s first successful exit, from a failing 70-year old startup called the USSR, occurred in 1988. Fresh off the boat, Serge joined a computer company in Queens, NY, developing software for service contractors. Architecting and supporting a system that businesses relied on allowed Serge to learn the intricacies of the commercial repair and maintenance trades and ways to apply technology to solve real-life challenges for business owners and their field technicians. In the process, Serge and the company’s founder, Steven Gottfried, became friends and business partners and started to formulate plans for their next business venture. In 1999, Steven and Serge founded a cloud-based facilities management platform, ServiceChannel, with the goal of transforming the highly inefficient multi-billion dollar commercial repair and maintenance industry. As with their previous company, which was successfully sold, Steven was the idea generator and a master salesman, while Serge worked behind the scenes as CTO to help ServiceChannel achieve a dominant position in the global facilities management marketplace. In 2016, Serge moved to London to accelerate ServiceChannel’s expansion in Europe. In the summer of 2017, Accel, an elite technology VC firm, invested $54M in ServiceChannel continuing to fuel its growth and allowing Steven and Serge to realize a highly successful exit. Now Steven and Serge run ReTool Ventures, a technology investment firm.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: ReTool Ventures is a new technology investment firm that seeks to retool the facilities management industry by curating a “digital toolbox”
Arun Singh
Co Founder, Director of e-CARGOWARE Ltd
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About e-CARGOWARE Ltd: e-Cargoware is a cargo logistics applications on cloud for cargo airlines, ground handlers, cargo GSAs and freight forwarders
Steve Owen
Operations Director of Panther Logistics
Steve joined Panther in January 2015. He has over 25 years’ experience in the logistics sector, working at Parcelforce and TNT before joining CityLink in 2004 and working his way up to UK Network Manager in 2012. Steve has demonstrated a keen eye for process improvement and has a history of delivering significant cost savings and operational performance improvements when in post.
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About Panther Logistics: Panther Logistics specialises in two-man and one-man assisted delivery services for major brands and retailers.
Reza Nejabati
Co Founder, Director of Zeetta Networks
Reza is currently a Senior Lecturer in Department of Electrical and Electronic Engineering, University of Bristol, UK. Prior to moving into academia he worked in project management and network architecture roles with leading telecom vendors. Reza has over fifteen years of experience in the field of telecommunication and computer science and has been actively involved in SDN and Network Function Virtualisation (NFV) standardisation. He has made important and pioneering contributions to the research fields of Optical Networking, Software Defined Networking, Network & Data Centre Infrastructure Virtualization, Grid Networking and Large Scale Future Internet Experimentation. He has co-/authored over 150 peer reviewed papers and three SDN standardisation documents.
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About University of Bristol, Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Daniel Blignaut
Managing Director of UCook
An articulate and passionate entrepreneur looking to utilise my unique background in management, finance and software engineering by taking on a role that challenges me to innovate business and drive value creation
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About UCook: UCOOK is a food and beverage platform that offers meal kit delivery service.
Regina Borda
Managing Director of Pizza Hut
Regina Borda serves as the Managing Director at Pizza Hut in Europe, Canada, and United Kingdom.
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About Pizza Hut: Pizza Hut is an American restaurant chain and international franchise known for Italian-American cuisine including pizza and pasta.
Clair Scott
Finance Director of Wellocks
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About Wellocks: Wellocks provides an online ordering service to all restaurants that need ingredients.
Andrew Talbot
Managing Director of Custom Gateway
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About Custom Gateway, Custom Gateway: A cloud based software platform, content database and fulfilment network to aide manufacturing Customisable or On Demand products profitably
Simon Tutton
Founder & Director of TheFullWorks
Simon Tutton, founder of ecommerce platform Thefullworks.
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About TheFullWorks: Thefullworks is a subscription based end-to-end eCommerce services solution, providing webshops, storage, and distribution.
Andrew Laurillard
Co-Founder and Managing Director of Giggling Squid
Andrew Laurillard is the Co-Founder and Managing Director at Giggling Squid.
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About Giggling Squid: Giggling Squid is a Thai food sensation
Russell Yershon
Director of Connecting Brands
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About Connecting Brands: Connecting Brands is a sports marketing business that delivers and activates partnerships and brand ambassadors for brands with Sport.
David Mathewson
Non-Executive Director of Brave Bison
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About : Rightster, the cloud-based video distribution and monetisation network.
Jack Barnett
Non-Executive Director of Brave Bison
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About : Rightster, the cloud-based video distribution and monetisation network.
John Burke
Co-Founder and Commercial Director of Craft Clubs
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About Craft Clubs: Craft Clubs offers quality food and drink brands a powerful new way to reach consumers, both in their homes and online.
Phil Poore
Technical Director of Bullet News
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About Bullet News: A mobile app and platform delivering smart fast news in bullet points from news providers.
Peter Klauber
Director of Swishd
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About : When you need something delivered or collected, Swishd helps you find someone who is already going that way
Amar Kotak
Director of TAP APP
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About TAP APP: TAP APP is a new mobile ordering and payment solution for the hospitality industry.
Previta Karthigesu
Creative Director of AlfredLah
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About AlfredLah: Virtual Reality + Food + Explore
Rob Pointen
Finance Director of Vacancy Filler
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About Vacancy Filler: Vacancy Filler provide world-class, state of the art Recruitment Software & Services to in-house HR & recruitment teams.
Mitesh Chauhan
Co-founder and Technical Director of Vacancy Filler
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About Vacancy Filler: Vacancy Filler provide world-class, state of the art Recruitment Software & Services to in-house HR & recruitment teams.
Tony Brookes
Director of Vacancy Filler
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About Vacancy Filler: Vacancy Filler provide world-class, state of the art Recruitment Software & Services to in-house HR & recruitment teams.
Daniel Woodcock
Operations Director of Vacancy Filler
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About Vacancy Filler: Vacancy Filler provide world-class, state of the art Recruitment Software & Services to in-house HR & recruitment teams.
Stuart Young
Managing Director of Etive Technologies
Stuart Young is a managing director at Etive Technologies.
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About Etive Technologies: Etive which is expanding its Birmingham operations, is capitalising on the government’s desire to move all public services online.
Edward Farquhar
Director of Grace Personnel
With over 15 years of City experience specialising in SMEs, Ed has invaluable experience in guiding and working with management teams.
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About Grace Personnel: Grace Personnel provide recruitment for permanent and temporary office support personnel throughout Maidenhead.
Terry Blake
Business Development Director – EMEA of LEMON Mobile LLC
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About LEMON Mobile LLC: Location Enhanced Mobile Opt-In Network
Simon Collins
Director of Cup of Tea
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About Cup of Tea: Cup of Tea is a specialising in the sourcing and distribution of some of the world’s finest teas.
Christine Collins
Director of Cup of Tea
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About Cup of Tea: Cup of Tea is a specialising in the sourcing and distribution of some of the world’s finest teas.
Christine Collins
Director of Cup of Tea
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About Cup of Tea: Cup of Tea is a specialising in the sourcing and distribution of some of the world’s finest teas.
Julie Sharpe
Director of Sharpe Recruitment
Julie’s experience comes from the last 30 years working in The Design, Fashion and Media industry including TV post production and facilities, Fashion, photography and online ecommerce, covering business development, sales, marketing, PR and customer service.
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About Sharpe Recruitment: Sharpe Recruitment is a North East based consultancy, dedicated to placing professionals in rewarding jobs.
Alun Bain
Managing Director of Black Robin Coffee Limited
An entrepreneur with 25yrs business experience, primarily in technology and food & beverage with a focus on sales, customer experience and product development. Currently a director and founder of Black Robin Coffee and Swap a Cup. Numerous investments in tech, food and beverage and eco products.
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About Black Robin Coffee Limited: High quality food & beverage available in-store, online and via subscription, aiming to be the ultimate convergence of coffee and technology
Kerry Gaffney
Director Community & Communication of MOFILM
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About MOFILM: People Powered Marketing by a community of creative & strategic talent that disrupts & innovates; building brands, better, cheaper, faster.
Michael Hobson
Director of MySalarySurvey
LinkedIn – https://uk.linkedin.com/in/michaelhobsongv Email – michael@mysalarysurvey.com
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About MySalarySurvey: We develop world class web applications to help our partners around the world launch powerful websites, focused on talent acquisition.
Nick Redford
Managing Director of Caterforce
Nick Redford is the managing director of Caterforce.
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About Caterforce: Caterforce is a foodservice buying and marketing consortium in the UK.
Paula Wilkinson
Director of Mums Bake Cakes
Paula Wilkinson is director of Mums Bake Cakes.
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About Mums Bake Cakes: Mums Bake Cakes is Quality cakes, created by Local Bakers across the UK.
Andrew Rumney
Solutions Architect & Director of Intelisense IT
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About Intelisense IT: Intelisense IT specialise in the delivery of world class business solutions.
Abdullah Abdulaziz Alduraibi
Director of Regulatory Affairs Department of Saudi Food & Drug Authority
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About Saudi Food & Drug Authority: Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) is an independent body corporate that directly reports to The President of Council of Ministers.
Abdullah Abdulaziz Alduraibi
Director of Regulatory Affairs Department of Saudi Food & Drug Authority
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About Saudi Food & Drug Authority: Saudi Food and Drug Authority (SFDA) is an independent body corporate that directly reports to The President of Council of Ministers.
