Best Startup
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 CEO’ operating in the Application Performance Management space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Guy Warren
Chief Executive Officer of ITRS Group
Guy joined ITRS in July 2014 as CEO and brings more than 25 years’ experience in financial services and technology businesses. Guy had previously been a customer of ITRS, using Geneos to improve the availability of the real-time systems when he was COO of FTSE Group. He has also managed a financial services product business as the EVP & General Manager of Misys Banking, a leader in the core banking solutions market. Guy has a strong background in large blue chip organisations and more recently working with private equity backed companies. Earlier in his career, he was the CEO of Logica UK, a large professional services company.
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About ITRS Group: ITRS Group is the leading provider of risk mitigation solutions to global financial institutions.
Maria Kolitsida
CEO, Founder of Winning Minds
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About Missum, Winning Minds: Winning Minds is a conversational analysis tool that generates insights on interaction dynamics and productivity patterns within your teams.
Julian Mills
Founder & Chief Executive Officer of Quorso
Julian is a former partner at McKinsey & Company, where he was a leader in the Travel, Transport, and Infrastructure practices. He also founded and co-chaired the Global Infrastructure Initiative with Madeleine Albright, a gathering of the world’s most influential infrastructure leaders. Julian spent much of his childhood growing up on a remote Scottish island surrounded by sheep and has degrees from Oxford University and Stanford University.
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About Quorso: A new era for store management: Agile. Simple. Human.
Luca Manara
Co-Founder & CEO of AppQuality
Luca Manara is a co-founder and CEO at App Quality.
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About AppQuality: UNGUESS is the tech platform to bring collective wisdom in your decision making processes, fast and at any time needed
Gav Winter
CEO of RapidSpike
Gav has been in the technology industry for over 20 years and founder of The Test People, the Leeds based Technical Testing Consultancy, one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK and fastest growing in Yorkshire & the North East from 2013 to 2015. He won Yorkshire Overall & SME Director of the Year in 2014 and 2015, alongside multiple company awards like Deloitte Fast50, and the Sunday Times TechTrack100 before architecting a merger (£27 million) to create Ten10 in 2015, the UKs largest independent testing consultancy. He is a non-exec director at Ten10. He is a CEO who loves building people focused companies with passion & purpose and his experience working as a fast growth director, in client facing roles and a programme manager has also given him skills as an advisor in strategy, people, communications and marketing along with technical skills in testing, performance and automation, agile and qualified scrum master.
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About RapidSpike, Wintervention Properties: Digital Experience Monitoring SaaS Platform (Magecart Detection, Website Performance Improvement, Customer Interaction Monitoring and More)
Gav Winter
CEO of RapidSpike
Gav has been in the technology industry for over 20 years and founder of The Test People, the Leeds based Technical Testing Consultancy, one of the fastest growing tech companies in the UK and fastest growing in Yorkshire & the North East from 2013 to 2015. He won Yorkshire Overall & SME Director of the Year in 2014 and 2015, alongside multiple company awards like Deloitte Fast50, and the Sunday Times TechTrack100 before architecting a merger (£27 million) to create Ten10 in 2015, the UKs largest independent testing consultancy. He is a non-exec director at Ten10. He is a CEO who loves building people focused companies with passion & purpose and his experience working as a fast growth director, in client facing roles and a programme manager has also given him skills as an advisor in strategy, people, communications and marketing along with technical skills in testing, performance and automation, agile and qualified scrum master.
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About RapidSpike, Wintervention Properties: Digital Experience Monitoring SaaS Platform (Magecart Detection, Website Performance Improvement, Customer Interaction Monitoring and More)
