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 Executive Director operating in the Events space. If you think a Executive 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.
Hugo Drayton
Independent Non-Executive Director of Future
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About Future: Future creates high-quality multi-media products which reach their audiences online, on mobile and in print.
Tim Cobbold
CEO & Executive Director of UBM Plc
Tim is the CEO & Executive Director of UBM, an event services platform.
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About UBM Plc: UBM is a global events-led marketing and communications services business.
Scott Witters
Founder & Executive Director of Glownet
Scott is the skipper of the Glownet crew. The leader and visionary, he is passionate for good design and innovation. You rarely get to see much of Scott sitting down. His time is split between Madrid, London, and sleeping on airplanes. A family man, with two vibrant young daughters. Soon after graduating with an MBA from IE Business School in 2003, he shortly became a serial entrepreneur. Just prior to Glownet, Scott was the Festival Director/CEO of Rhythm Group. Rhythm is the producer to New Zealand’s premier music festivals including the 30,000 capacity Rhythm and Vines now in its 12th year. Scott always makes time to mentor business students and support them with their own plans and ambitions. Scott was never cured after being infected by electronic music back in rave scene of the early 90’s. He loves working in the live event industry. He seems to feed off the adrenaline of the show. To him, it’s all about the people you work with.
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About Glownet: Glownet transforms the event landscape through RFID innovation, developes world-class technology that delivers and inspires.
Darren Thomson
Non Executive Director of TeenTech
Darren Thomson is CTO and VP of Technology, EMEA. In this role, Darren is responsible for creating and leading marketing strategy across the EMEA region. Since joining Symantec in July, 2003, Darren has run various groups including global services practices covering Business Continuity Management, Storage & Data Management and Cloud Computing. More recently he and his teams have worked with our clients to improve their IT risk postures and improve their IT operational efficiencies using forward thinking and innovative consulting techniques. Before joining Symantec, Darren worked at The Morse Group, a pan-European systems integrator focused on the design and implementation of critical I.T. systems in the Financial Services, Telco and Media sectors. His final position at Morse was as their Group Technical Strategist, focused on “next generation” compute and storage network technologies. This role brought Darren into contact with many of today’s leading edge companies. A citizen of the UK, Darren is a published author, his latest work being “Delivery Utility Computing: Business Driven IT Optimization” (ISBN 0-470-01576-4). He was educated in Hertfordshire, England and now holds several I.T. related qualifications including ITIL Practitioner and Management of Risk (“MoR”) accreditations from the UK Office of Government Commerce. Darren is also a regular contributor to various media publications and appears regularly on podcasts, television and radio programmes across Europe, the Middle-East and Africa.
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About TeenTech: Discover how your school can enter the TeenTech Awards.
John Matthews
Non Executive Director of Una Tickets
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About Una Tickets: Una, the UK’s first transparent ticket agency.
John Matthews
Non Executive Director of Una Tickets
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About Una Tickets: Una, the UK’s first transparent ticket agency.
