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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 Associate operating in the Non Profit space. If you think a Associate 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.
Annika Small
Co-founder & Associate of CAST
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About CAST, Here We Are: CAST is growing the supply and demand of technology for social impact.
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Gnima Diop
Senior Program Associate of myAgro
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About myAgro: myAgro is a nonprofit social enterprise that invests and provides services for the development of smallholder farmers in Mali.
Phoebe Griffith
Associate Director of IPPR
Phoebe specialises in race relations, migrant integration and community cohesion. She is also a research fellow at the Centre for Social Relations at Coventry University (formerly Icoco). Previously she was a programme leader at the Young Foundation, where she led a research programme on the promotion of civility in modern Britain. As research and partnerships manager at the Barrow Cadbury Trust, she developed a major research and grant-making programme focusing on the challenges facing increasingly diverse urban areas. Phoebe holds an MA in Latin American studies from the University of London and a first-class honours degree in modern languages from Oxford University.
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About IPPR: The IPPR is a think tank that conducts and publishes research and promotes public education.
Michael Wilkinson
Associate Director for Digital and Innovation of RNID
Michael is an experienced digital and technology leader, having worked in multiple sectors over the past 13 years.
He is Associate Director for Digital and Innovation at RNID and has been a director at the organisation since May 2019 where he has led on a digital-first strategy and introduced a product mindset and Agile working practices.
Previously he was Head of Digital Change at Young Lives vs Cancer and, prior to that, Head of Digital Content at the Liberal Democrats. He was previously a key player in the digital transformation of The Telegraph, where he was a digital editor and political correspondent.
At The Telegraph, he supported the rollout of the new Telegraph.co.uk, delivered digital coaching for 500 journalists and his own editorial content was viewed 105 million times.
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About RNID: RNID provides funding, assistance, and support to people with hearing loss.
Sam Geall
Associate Fellow of Chatham House
Sam is an anthropologist, writer, editor and consultant with a focus on China and the environment. He has a PhD in Social Anthropology from the University of Manchester. From 2012-2013, he was Departmental Lecturer in Human Geography of China at the University of Oxford. In 2013, he was also the International Coordinator of a Special Policy Study, “Promoting Social Media and Public Participation in China’s Green Development” for the China Council for International Cooperation on Environment and Development (CCICED). he is on the board of the EU-China NGO Twinning Exchange. His research interests include innovation for sustainability, environmental journalism, the politics of climate change, public participation and citizen science. He is an editor of China and the Environment: The Green Revolution (Zed Books, 2013). His writing on Chinese affairs has appeared in many international publications, including BBC Chinese, State of the World 2014, The Guardian, The New Statesman, Shanghaiist, Foreign Policy, New Humanist, Index on Censorship, Solutions, ChinaFile, the China Policy Institute Blog, How We Get To Next, The Conversation and Green Futures. He has also been interviewed by a number of media outlets, including BBC World Service, Monocle 24, PRI, Time Out Beijing and Businessweek.
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About Chatham House: Chatham House aims to analyze and promote the understanding of major international issues and current affairs.
Michael Mulquin
City Standards Associate of Future Cities Catapult
Michael Mulquin has been involved in the use of technology to help cities and neighbourhoods work better for the last 20 years, managing projects on the ground and helping with policy work at Governmental level. At the moment he is focused on helping develop standards for smart cities. He is co-chair of BSI’s Advisory group on Smart Cities and was technical author for BSI’s recently published PD8101 Smart cities – Guide to the role of the planning and development process. He is a member of the CEN/CENELEC/ETSI Smart and Sustainable Cities and Communities Co-ordination Group, the IEC Smart Cities Systems Evaluation Group, the ISO TMB Strategic Advisory Group on Smart Cities, and has just joined ISO/TC 268/WG 3 on Terminology for sustainable communities and cities. He is editor for the ISO/IEC JTC1 Smart Cities Study Group and is leader for the technical paper on SSC Standards for the ITU-T Smart and Sustainable Cities Focus Group. He is also heavily involved with the City Protocol Task Force
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About BSI, Future Cities Catapult: Future Cities Catapult, a global centre of excellence on urban innovation.
