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 Business Intelligence 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.
Olivier de Trogoff
CEO @ Maje invest and member of the Board of Director @ ClicData of ClicData
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About : ClicData is a provider of cloud-based dashboard systems that are designed to improve business efficiency through better reporting.
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Ian O’Rourke
CEO & Founder of Adthena
Ian has been involved in technology businesses and start-ups for over 22 years and has built businesses in Australia, Taiwan, Silicon Valley and the UK. One of these, Oovie, became Australia’s largest DVD kiosk operator before being acquired by Hoyts, the country’s top entertainment group. Another venture, Treeview Estates, has created a 148-home retirement village outside of Sydney. Formerly Ian was based in San Francisco heading Asian sales for Intershop, an eCommerce software start-up. From the early stages through a successful Nasdaq IPO and beyond. He established Intershop’s Asian operations growing sales from zero to US$8m in under three years. Ian has grown Adthena since 2012 to its current position as the premier global provider of competitive intelligence. Recent key achievements include a growth rate up from 50% to greater than 100% and a 92% increase in sales value as well as staff engagement scores exceeding 80%. Ian has also secured significant investment from Candy Crush entrepreneur Mel Morris, who now brings unmatched experience to Adthena’s board as it expands its operations in the US, UK and Australia. Ian likes to foster a culture of great products, getting things done, responsibility, freedom and continuous improvement. While Adthena itself has won many major industry awards, Ian’s entrepreneurial determination has also been recognised with the Developing Entrepreneur Award at the WCIT Enterprise Awards – commonly regarded as the ‘Oscars for technology entrepreneurs’. A double graduate of the University of Queensland, Ian is also a fluent Chinese speaker having lived and studied in Taiwan. He is married with two children and is an avid rock climber.
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About Adthena, Treeview Estates: Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
Ricky Thomas
Founder & CEO of Avora
Ricky Thomas As founder and CEO of superfast, cloud-based data intelligence platform AVORA, Ricky Thomas is a key disruptor in his space. Ricky has decades of experience building global, scalable high-speed database and transaction systems & now with AVORA, he has built a platform that aggregates any number of data sources, delivering meaningful insight with the power of machine learning. Ricky believes that “to drive growth, businesses need to drastically reduce data blindspots & the time it takes to access critical information, transforming your business’ time to action.” He is a regular speaker at the London Analytics Forum and industry panels on the challenges of traditional data systems and how to overcome them. Previously CTO at IG Group before building a number of business across Europe, most notably PetMeds which he sold in 2013.
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About Avora, MedicAnimal.com, Socialite: Avora provides a complete augmented analytics solution powered by AI that makes in-depth data analysis as easy as a web search.
David Benigson
Founder and CEO of Signal AI
David Benigson is the Founder of Signal Media Ltd. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Duncan Painter
Chief Executive Officer of Ascential Plc
Duncan joined the company in October 2011 as Chief Executive Officer. In March 2012, he led a significant restructure of the group, which saw the creation of Top Right Group and its separate business units operating at the heart of the customer communities they serve. In December 2015, following a successful three-year turnaround, Duncan formed the new Group Company Brand – Ascential. As CEO, Duncan has a relentless focus on improving our products and services to ensure this drives greater customer retention. Ensuring our customers get improved value every year from our products; seeking constant feedback; adapting what our brands focus on and empowering our experts to have the confidence to be champions of insight or access to the markets we serve; have been the core ingredients to the strong results of the Group over the last few years. Before joining the Group, Duncan was an Executive at BskyB, where he supported their growth objectives to ten million customers. Prior to that, he was Global Product Leader at Experian plc, Founder and Chief Executive Officer of consumer intelligence company ClarityBlue, which was acquired by Experian in 2006, and European Systems Integration Director for Hitachi Data Systems.
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Natasha Christie-Miller
CEO / President of Ascential Plc
Natasha Christie-Miller is CEO of Plexus, the digital intelligence and live events business that formed by the coming together of EMAP, 4C and Planet Retail. Natasha started her career in sales and led the commercial teams on consumer brands such as Elle, Red, and the Emap parenting portfolio before taking on the role of Publishing Director of Drapers, the fashion industry bible at Emap B2B in 2005. She then became Managing Director for the Retail portfolio in 2007 and was appointed CEO of EMAP in 2010. As chief executive of Plexus, Natasha manages 19 product lines that include market leading brands HSJ, Planet Retail, Glenigan, Retail Week, and Groundsure.
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About Ascential Plc: Ascential is a global information company that enables smart decision-making for business.
Bashir Nurmohamed
Co-Founder & CEO of Hantec Markets
Bashir is a co founder of Hantec Markets Limited and a veteran of the financial markets with a wealth of experience accumulated over the last 30 years. His career has been truly diverse ranging from start up businesses, through principle brokerage houses, investment banks and central banks gaining him extensive knowledge of Foreign Exchange, Bullion, Financial & Commodity Futures and OTC Derivatives products. Bashir is responsible for the overall strategic management and direction of the company. His passion for offering clients a superior service led him to joining forces with Hayel in 2010 to grow Hantec Markets Limited into a dominant force in the online foreign exchange and financial brokerage sector.
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About Hantec Markets: The Hantec Markets company culture is centred on one simple philosophy Trust Through Transparency.
Chris Ganje
CEO & Co-Founder of AMPLYFI
Chris Ganje is co-founder and CEO of AMPLYFI, a company that has developed the world’s first business intelligence platform to combine leading artificial intelligence, surface and deep web harvesting and decision support visualisations within a single integrated, user-friendly platform.
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About AMPLYFI, Innovate UK: AMPLYFI is a privately held company that provides software platform capable of intelligently harvesting open source data from the internet.
Daumantas Dvilinskas
CEO & Co-Founder of TransferGo
At the age of 28 Dvilinskas has already founded several companies and is currently heading TransferGo, a high-growth purely-digital global money transfer service. He is a well-known advisor in the fintech scene and was part of the Innovative Finance delegation at the World Economic Forum in Davos in 2016.
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Pilgrim Beart
CEO & Founder of DevicePilot
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About 1248, DevicePilot: DevicePilot provides Service Monitoring for connected devices
Ilya Levtov
Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Craft.co
Ilya is the founder and CEO ofCraft providing data and analytics on thousands of companies for free to professionals researching their next career move or conducting business development. He started his career at Goldman Sachs in London, then received his MBA from Stanford. Later he joined venture capital firm Venrock in Menlo Park, and then joined Venrock’s portfolio-company Crunchyroll, as EVP. Ilya believes that access to more and better information for professionals and candidates about employers and opportunities, is a key to solving the talent challenges we face today.
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About Craft.co, Digital Supply Chain Institute: Helping supply chain and procurement professionals discover, evaluate, and monitor suppliers to create stronger supply chain resilience.
Paroma Indilo
Co-Founder and CEO of Datacy
Paroma Indilo is the Co-Founder and CEO at Datacy.
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About Datacy: datacy is an online marketplace for collecting and exchanging datasets directly to businesses.
Gordon Wilson
CEO of Advanced
Gordon is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Advanced. Having joined the company in September 2015, he brings extensive experience in the software industry from which to continue to drive Advanced’s impressive growth trajectory. Gordon is leading Advanced’s ambitious transformation process which includes a four pillar process of reorganisation, rebranding, relocation and restructuring. With over 20 years’ General Management experience in the software and business support sectors, Gordon’s former roles include serving as Managing Director at Kerridge Automotive Systems, ADP Dealer Services and leading Aquila Heywood, the UK’s largest provider of pension and policy administration software and services.
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About Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Gordon Wilson
CEO of Advanced
Gordon is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) of Advanced. Having joined the company in September 2015, he brings extensive experience in the software industry from which to continue to drive Advanced’s impressive growth trajectory. Gordon is leading Advanced’s ambitious transformation process which includes a four pillar process of reorganisation, rebranding, relocation and restructuring. With over 20 years’ General Management experience in the software and business support sectors, Gordon’s former roles include serving as Managing Director at Kerridge Automotive Systems, ADP Dealer Services and leading Aquila Heywood, the UK’s largest provider of pension and policy administration software and services.
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About Advanced: Advanced provide software & services for commercial, public and third sector organisations that make the complex simple.
Gary Goodman
Founder & CEO of Yumpingo
Gary Goodman is the Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Tom Dawes
Co-Founder & CEO of Valuechain.com
After completing an Honours degree in manufacturing engineering at the University of Liverpool, he undertook a Government funded Knowledge Transfer Partnership to improve production planning and supply chain management at an aerospace precision machining SME whilst studying for a PhD in supply chain collaboration systems. Tom worked on projects with Airbus UK and Westland Helicopters to prototype proof of concept supply chain collaboration platforms. Tom established an aerospace supply chain management company in 2003 and acquired an aerospace surface treatment company in 2005. After trebling the businesses in the first two years Tom established companies in Poland and India to offer surface treatments to the emerging aerospace supply chain in Eastern Europe and Asia. Tom won UK Young Entrepreneur of the Year in 2006 and won the UK Chambers of Commerce Best New Business in 2007.
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About Valuechain.com: Valuechain.com enables global manufacturing customers, suppliers and partners to connect, collaborate and increase competitiveness.
Matthew Scullion
Co-Founder and CEO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Nicolae Buldumac
CEO of Global Database
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About Global Database: Company Intelligence on Global Markets
Mohamed Elmasry
CEO & Co-Founder of Tactful
Mohamed Elmasry is a person with “think, plan, act & accomplish” mentality who has a proven experience in motivating people to work towards challenging goals. I have been in the business world for several years running and growing businesses. I excelled in the fields of project management, business development, engineering management, and building strategic business relationships. My passion goes to distributive innovation, managing products development, defining processes and methodologies, also sustaining engineering and business activities.
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About Arm Holdings, Tactful: Unified Cognitive Customer Experience Platform
Steve King
CEO of Black Swan Data
Steve is co-founder and CEO of Black Swan, the fastest growing start up in the UK which uses Artificial Intelligence to predict human behaviour. Since reading Cognitive Science the 90’s, Steve’s applied his tech, coding and visualisation skills to solving his clients’ challenges.Black Swan works with brands such as Disney, PepsiCo and GSK and through connected aircraft across most of the major airlines.
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About Black Swan Data: Black Swan’s SaaS solution uses data analytics to allow brands to more accurately predict future consumer trends
Giles Palmer
Founder & CEO of Brandwatch
Giles Palmer is the founder and CEO of Brandwatch, a leading social intelligence company. Formerly of BSkyB, Giles started Brandwatch and since its launch in August 2007, it has grown to become one of the world’s leading social media analytics and listening companies. Giles’ goal for Brandwatch is to help organisations find and engage with online conversations that matter. This motivation has turned Brandwatch into a platform that gathers millions of online conversations every day and provides users with the tools to analyze them. This empowers brands and agencies to make smarter, data-driven business decisions. Brandwatch has developed a social listening and analytics offering, Brandwatch Analytics, and a social command center platform Brandwatch Vizia, which showcases real-time visualizations across enterprises. Currently, Brandwatch has over 1,000 customers including 30 of the Fortune 100 companies, and serves businesses across the globe, from FTSE100 companies to SMEs. Giles regularly speaks at social media conferences and serves on the Industrial Advisory Board for Sussex University as well as the Social Media Committee for the Chartered Institute of Public Relations.
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About Brandwatch, Futrli: Brandwatch is a consumer intelligence and social media listening platform.
Florian Thaler
Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX of OilX
Florian is Oil Strategist, CEO and Co-Founder at OilX, a startup that is innovating oil trading analytics through deep empirical knowledge and state-of-the-art data science. Florian has >15 years’ oil experience at Shell, Citibank and Och-Ziff. He completed a doctorate at Vienna University of Economics and Business and a business administration degree at Bocconi University. Florian is one of 100 Future Energy Leaders of the World Energy Council.
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About OilX: OilX is a oil sector that provides a global real-time oil supply-demand balance.
Richard Potter
CEO of Peak
Richard Potter is a Co-Founder & the Chief Executive Officer at Peak.
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About Peak: Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services.
Andrew Williams
CEO / Founder of Quantile Technologies
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About Quantile Technologies: Quantile helps market participants reduce their counterparty risk.
Jigar Patel
CEO & Co-Founder of The Ticket Fairy
COO & Founder at The Ticket Fairy. CEO & Founder at Desinex Group International.
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About Desinex Group International, The Ticket Fairy: Full-stack event marketing, ticketing, analytics and advertising platform
Oliver Bradley
CEO of Global Fund Media
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About Global Fund Media, HedgeWeek: Global Fund Media connects all the institutional investment sectors with actionable market intelligence.
Loubna Bouarfa
Co-Founder & CEO of OKRA Technologies
Loubna has won several awards and was recognised as a leading innovator by the MIT Technology Review in 2017. Beyond her business, Loubna has recently been appointed by the European Commission as a High-Level Expert on Artificial Intelligence. She will support the EU by developing recommendations on ethical, legal and societal issues related to AI, impacting the health, safety and freedom of the wider society. On a personal level, Loubna is a strong advocate for diversity and challenging the status quo. Having lived in Morocco, moving to the Netherlands at the age of 17, and later to the UK with a young family, she realised the power of remaining outside her comfort zone.
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About OKRA Technologies: OKRA is an AI analytics company for healthcare. We combine complex data sets, you get evidence-based insights and predictions in real time.
Richard Heyns
Founder and CEO of brytlyt
Founder at brytlyt.
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About brytlyt: Brytlyt provides transformational serverless acceleration for analytics
Tim Ward
CEO and Co-Founder of OPPORTUNI
Tim Ward is the CEO and Co-Founder at OPPORTUNI.
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About OPPORTUNI: OPPORTUNI enables SMEs seeking new growth to match with and win public sector contracts.
Rasmus Hansen
Co-founder & CEO of Airfinity
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About Airfinity: Airfinity is a science information and analytics company
Robert King
Chief Executive Officer and Member of the Board of Acuity Knowledge Partners
Robert King is the executive director of Moody’s Analytics Knowledge Services.
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About Acuity Knowledge Partners: Acuity Knowledge Partners is a provider of research, analytics and business intelligence to the financial services sector.
James Cobb
Founder and CEO of Crowd Connected
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About Crowd Connected: Pioneering a new generation of big data location intelligence
Malcolm Glaister
CEO and Founder of SiriusInsight.AI
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About SiriusInsight.AI: Real-Time Intelligence: Sea, Land, Cyber
Colin Hewitt
Co-Founder & CEO of Float
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About Float: Float is a SaaS based real-time financial intelligence solution for small businesses to forecast short and long-term cash flow.
Simon Williams
CEO of NTT DATA UK
Simon Williams is the Chief Executive Officer of NTT DATA UK.
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About NTT DATA UK: NTT DATA UK is a consulting and IT service provider to manufacturing, banking public sector, telecom, and financial services.
Tim Oldman
Founder & CEO of Leesman
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About Leesman: Leesman is engaged in delivering insights that drive better workplace strategies.
Conrad Poulson
CEO of Huq Industries
Founder of Huq Industries.
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About Huq Industries: Huq is building the world’s largest consumer research network, helping businesses understand their offline markets with digital precision.
Wesley Rashid
CEO and Co Founder of Accountancy Cloud
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About Accountancy Cloud: Accountancy Cloud provides the best full finance stack for startups.
Joel Silverman
CEO / Co-Founder of KidsKnowBest
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About KidsKnowBest: A full-service creative agency; driven by insights; powered by youth. Delivering effective and results-led solutions.
Shubham Nagar
Chief Executive Officer of InfoAxon Technologies Limited
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About InfoAxon Technologies Limited: InfoAxon Technologies is a provider of enterprise services and business solutions powered by open source.
Richard Corner
Director and CEO of Alscient
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About Alscient: Alscient specialise in IT consultancy, software development and systems integration.
Sam Amrani
CEO & Founder of Olvin
Founder & CEO of Olvin.com and Founder of Tamoco.com, interested in and focussed on AI, geo-spatial data, real-world intelligence, analytics, communication and insight.
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About Olvin, Tamoco: Olvin helps real-world businesses get proactive through its AI powered predictive analytics platform.
Shumel Lais
Founder & CEO of Appsumer
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Mario Manchester
CEO & Founder of Wealthy Gorilla
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About Wealthy Gorilla: A website created by Dan Western for advice on business, success & life motivation.
Wayne Johnson
CEO & Co-Founder of encompass
Wayne co-founded encompass in Sydney and took the product to the Australian market in 2012. Since then, as CEO he has led the international expansion of the company, including the UK launch in 2015 and recognition as one of the UK’s most influential RegTech firms. Prior to encompass Wayne was co-founder and CEO of Software Associates, until the company’s successful exit to a Hong Kong listed Company.
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About encompass: encompass robotically automates information and news discovery for KYC requirements for onboarding, event-driven refresh and remediation.
Furtak Aleksandr
CEO of Mighty Digital
I have a telecom engineering background and extensive entrepreneurial experience as a Product Owner in high-growth digital areas, including mobility, gaming, marketplaces. Currently, I’m a CEO at Mighty Digital, and we empower data-informed growth for digital consumer products. We help clients leverage data to acquire, activate, and retain more customers. We build full-scale data solutions and analytics teams. If that sounds interesting to you – drop me a line, and let’s grow together!
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About Mighty Digital: Mighty Digital is a growth engineering agency that empowers data-informed decision making for digital consumer brands
Barnaby Piggott
Founder & CEO of Holland Mountain
Barnaby is a highly accomplished private equity project specialist with more than 15 years of experience working with private equity fund managers, administrators and investors throughout Europe and the US. He has completed over 50 client engagements with leading industry names, including Coller Capital, Bridgepoint, UBS (now MUFG), IK Partners and Octopus Investments. Barney began his career in private equity with AnalytX (now eFront) before spending six years with consulting firm 4vco. He founded Holland Mountain in 2009. Barney is a CFA® Charterholder, a CIPM® Certificant and a PRINCE2® Registered Practitioner.
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About : Holland Mountain is a leading specialist consulting firm and data solutions provider.
Kevin McManus
Founder, CEO of LaunchWorks
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About LaunchWorks, RapidScaler: LaunchWorks brings customers close to better decisions by connecting the dots between you and your data.
Patrick Charlton
Co-Founder & CEO of Buzz Radar
Patrick is a social marketing and digital specialist, with a track record of creating a wide range of award-winning campaigns and projects for some of the world’s most exciting brands. He is co-founder of Buzz Radar, an industry leader in capturing and visualising real-time data. Buzz Radar makes live data of all types collaborative, easy to understand and shareable for everyone. He works with some of the world’s largest events, brands and retail spaces, including Twitter, Samsung, Nike, Google, adidas, Intel, Skype, Marks And Spencer, IBM, Red Bull and Adobe, helping them create a culture of listening and marketing in the moment. Over his career, Patrick has been lucky enough to lead major-ground breaking projects on multiple global social engagement campaigns, providing leadership, strategy, production savvy, creative direction and client management in a fast-paced, demanding environment with an online audience in the tens of millions.
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About Buzz Radar: Buzz Radar is an industry leader in making data, insightful, accessible and actionable
Edward Upton
Founder and CEO of Littledata
Edward Upton is the Founder and CEO at Littledata.
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About Littledata, Teachable: Littledata is an ecommerce analytics connector for Shopify stores.
Thomas Gatten
CEO & Founder of Growth Intelligence
Tom Gatten is a thought-leader in big data-driven B2B marketing and predictive lead generation. Before founding GrowthIntel he worked as a broadcast journalist for the BBC and at business intelligence firm IHS.
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Charles Thiede
CEO and Co-Founder of Zapnito
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About Zapnito: Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Graham Henderson
Founder & CEO of Snagr
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About Snagr: Snagr is designed to monitor the progress of complex projects.
Jo Halliday
Founder, CEO of Talking Medicines
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About Talking Medicines: Talking Medicines captures the unstructured global voice of the patient using AI, ML, and NLP technologies.
Matt Little
Founder and CEO of Blue Ocean Insight
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About Blue Ocean Insight, Inquisitive Systems: Blue Ocean Insight helps companies scale up together with a full understanding of their product, team, and technology risks.
Philip Callow
CEO of OAG
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About OAG: OAG is a leading global travel data provider with the world’s largest network of flight information data.
George Rockett
Co-Founder & CEO of DatacenterDynamics
George is a co-founder of the global DatacenterDynamics Conference and Expo Series and is the Publisher of ZeroDowntime Magazine. He and his team are responsible for the content direction of all DCD events. Having been involved in IT and Business publishing for over a decade, he cut his teeth on the data centre market in 1998 with the launch of ‘Colocation Network Europe’ and has been involved in a multitude of publishing initiatives within this market sector since that time, including the award-winning ‘Building Datacentres Europe’ Directory. George’s ability to view things continually from a fresh perspective and to join the dots between the various disciplines that converge on the data centre market are hallmarks of DCDs success as an organisation. DatacenterDynamics considers itself much more than just a B2B media provider which is highlighted by the number of long-term relationships that have been forged internationally with end-users, vendors and consultants alike.
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Brian Oleen
Founder, CEO of Samso Group
Leadership expert that has seen the best leaders in the world in action firsthand and studied what it meant to be a “good leader”. Was this only a trait that executives held? Were people just born leaders? Did their status give them leadership advantages? Brian has twenty years of leadership experience in the US Army and developed speaking, mentoring and coaching skills in hundreds of Soldiers around the world. Brian understands that leadership is a trait that we all possess and it is not about titles or status, leadership is an important tool for all of us to be successful. Brian has served as a senior NCO in the military for the past 9 years. He is a certified project manager and business continuity practitioner.
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About Samso Group: Samso Group was established 2014.
Steve Colwill
CEO & Founder of Velocimetrics
Steve Colwill has over 25 years of financial services experience. He is a software architect and senior manager, and spent 15 years of his career building high volume, real-time FX, fixed income and equity pricing, risk and trading systems for a number of tier 1 investment banks. For over 4 years he held the position of CTO at Iris Financial, during this time he gained experience of managing R&D and service teams of 60+ people, while driving the complete redevelopment of the product from the bottom up. Prior to which he held positions at Dresdner Kleinwort Benson (now Commerzbank), Investment intelligent Systems Corp and Siemens. He has gained extensive software architecture consultancy experience and has a track record in building companies to revenues in excess of $20 million.
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About Velocimetrics: Velocimetrics delivers comprehensive, real-time business insight to the global financial community.
Neil Herron
Founder and CEO of Grid
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About Grid: Grid connects city businesses, services, people and technology.
James Davis
Founder & CEO of Upad
James Davis is a Founder & CEO at upad.
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About Upad: Upad is the UK’s largest online letting agency.
Mark Rittman
CEO of Rittman Analytics
Founder at MJR Analytics, ltd.
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About Rittman Analytics: Data Engineering, Data Strategy and Data Analytics Consultancy
Mark Rittman
CEO of Rittman Analytics
Founder at MJR Analytics, ltd.
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About Rittman Analytics: Data Engineering, Data Strategy and Data Analytics Consultancy