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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 Manager operating in the Data Storage space. If you think a Manager 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.
Mike Nayler
District Manager, Government & Defence of Dell EMC
Mike Nayler is a District Manager, Government & Defence at EMC.
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About Dell EMC: DEll EMC manufactures information management and storage software systems.
James McClung
Account Manager – Higher Education of DataDirect Networks
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About DataDirect Networks: DDN is the leading provider of data management and storage solutions for AI and analytics.
Dan Chester
Unstructured Data Solutions Manager – UK Enterprise & Public Sector of Pure Storage
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Stuart Gilks
Systems Engineering Manager of Cohesity
Stuart is responsible for SimpliVity’s Technical Services in the UK & Ireland through both SimpliVity Field staff and a network of SimpliVity authorised partners. Designing & implementing HyperConverged solutions to meet & exceed customer requirements from distributed Remote Offices, to Data Centers, from Test & Dev to VDI to Tier 1 Apps is all in a day’s work for SimpliVity Solution Architects. Stuart is an industry veteran having spent over 20 years at Open Systems Vendors including most recently European Director for NetApp Systems Engineering.
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About Cohesity, Simplivity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Stuart Gilks
Systems Engineering Manager of Cohesity
Stuart is responsible for SimpliVity’s Technical Services in the UK & Ireland through both SimpliVity Field staff and a network of SimpliVity authorised partners. Designing & implementing HyperConverged solutions to meet & exceed customer requirements from distributed Remote Offices, to Data Centers, from Test & Dev to VDI to Tier 1 Apps is all in a day’s work for SimpliVity Solution Architects. Stuart is an industry veteran having spent over 20 years at Open Systems Vendors including most recently European Director for NetApp Systems Engineering.
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About Cohesity, Simplivity: Cohesity offers hyperconverged secondary storage for backups, test/dev, file services and analytics use cases.
Tracy Ridgley
Marketing Manager of Celerity
Tracy Ridgley is a marketing manager at Celerity.
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About Celerity: Celerity designs and builds systems to support servers and data storage.
