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 File Sharing 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.
Gordon Willoughby
CEO of WeTransfer
Gordon Willoughby is CEO of WeTransfer. Gordon is working at Amazon for eight years now. He has worked at Amazon as Director of Books, Kindle Europe, and Amazon Media Group Europe, and currently serving as Director, category leader, Grocery, Alcohol, Baby and pets. Gordon also joined eBay Inc. as VP European Operations and customer support and Cityspace as Managing Director. In 1998, he was Global Marketing & Content Sales Director of The Financial Times. He has also worked at FTSE, Diageo, and Boston Consulting Group.
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About Amazon, WeTransfer: WeTransfer offers a way to send files around the world through its platform.
Tony Pepper
Co-Founder & CEO of Egress Software
Tony Pepper co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company. Tony has overseen the company’s rapid expansion, driving innovation and worldwide sales. Tony currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all aspects of business growth and innovation, with particular focus on Sales and Marketing. Pepper has an in-depth understanding of the data security market and prior to Egress held executive management and integration roles at Reflex Magnetics Ltd, Pointsec Mobile Technologies, and Check Point Software Technologies. Over the years, he has presented on a variety of data security-related issues and strategies for mobile computing and best practices surrounding secure data exchange. Pepper holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Politics from Nottingham Trent University. He also holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Liverpool University.
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About Egress Software: Egress is a software company that specializes in human layer security designed to prevent accidental and intentional data breaches.
Randhir Shinde
CEO of Galaxkey
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About Galaxkey, Image Analyzer: Galaxkey is an encryption platform to easily protect confidential information.
Jim Liddle
CEO of Storage Made Easy
Prior to Storage Made Easy, Jim Liddle was responsible for sales and operations for GigaSpaces in the UK Europe after joining the company in 2006 to help expand European operations. Jim was previously the General Manager for Europe and New York Finance for Versata, a business process and rules management company. During his 6 years at Versata, Jim filled in technical, product management, and product marketing roles. Jim has extensive experience in Big Data, Middleware and Cloud technologies and has successfully built teams and grown sales for high growth technology companies for the last 20 years. Jim holds a BA (honors) from Brunel University in History and Computer Science and studied for an MSc. in Data Communications at Kingston University.
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About Storage Made Easy: SME provides software, the Enterprise File Fabric, which unifies a company’s File & Object Storage accessible through a global file system.
Richard Osho
CEO & Co-Founder of Zentry
CEO & Co-Founder at Zentry
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About Zentry: Zentry is a photo/video sharing mobile application and ticketing service that allows users to create collaborative albums with your friends.
Pieter Vos
CEO and Founder of Rodeo
Pieter Vos is the CEO and Founder at Rodeo.
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About Rodeo: Rodeo is a software company that develops an easy-to-use, clean, and agile project admin tool.
