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 Director operating in the Crowdsourcing 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.
Heather Corcoran
Senior Director of International of Kickstarter
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About Kickstarter: Kickstarter is a crowdfunding platform for creative projects such as movies, music, art, theater, games, comics, design, and photography.
Neil Hadfield
Director, CEO of Ricall Ltd
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About Ricall Ltd: Crowdsourced exchange for (1) licensing music for use in videos and (2) selling and distributing digital downloads.
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.
