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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 COO’ operating in the Industrial Automation space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Thomas Fleming
Co-Founder & COO of Arctoris
Thomas Fleming is an award-winning chemist, cancer researcher, and SME Leader of the Royal Academy of Engineering. Tom is the Co-Founder & COO at Arctoris.
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About Arctoris: Arctoris is a tech-enabled platform company in biotechnology, combining robotics & data science to accelerate drug discovery.
Dimitris Nikolaidis
Co-Founder and COO of Perceptual Robotics
Dimitris Nikolaidis is the COO and co-founder at Perceptual Robotics.
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About Perceptual Robotics: Perceptual Robotics is creating intelligent automation to make wind turbine and other infrastructure inspection simple and fast
Duncan Mann
COO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
Wasif Mehdi
Chief Operating Officer of Unmanned Life
Wasif Mehdi is the Chief Operating Officer at Unmanned Life.
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About Unmanned Life: Unmanned Life is the leading software platform for seamless orchestration of autonomous robotics
Adrien Hitz
Co-Founder and COO of Materialize.X
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About Materialize.X: Data-Driven Directors for Manufacturing
Andrew Lloyd
Chief Operating Officer of Intelligent Growth Solutions
Andrew has more than 25 years’ global IT industry experience in sales and marketing leadership roles with industry leading brands, including Oracle, CA and Netegrity. He has held various executive roles, including Chairman, CEO, Executive VP and Non-Executive Director. Andrew has formulated and executed strategies to kick-start growth and ingrain a solution-value selling culture. He has also led the successful integration of various acquisitions involving multicultural teams. Andrew’s cricket addiction extends beyond playing to cutting the square and maintaining the club’s match statistcs. For those who care to know, his batting average for the 2013 season was 40.71.
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About Intelligent Growth Solutions: Power, lighting and communications platforms in controlled environments.
