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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 CMO’ operating in the Payments space. If you think a CMO’ 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.
Andrew Davies
Chief Marketing Officer of Paddle
Andrew is currently the Head of Brand & Digital at Episerver, after it acquired Idio in November 2019, the business he co-founded. He also advises, supports & invests in early-stage startups, helping them problem-solve around proposition development, people & teams, and B2B/SaaS marketing. Previously, he co-founded Idio, serving as CMO and also leading people ops. He helped build the business to a market-leader in B2B personalization, with a very successful B2B SaaS account-based-marketing approach, a superb team in NYC, SF & London, and enterprise clients including IBM, BNY Mellon and Fitch Group. Idio raised $13m+ from angels & institutional investors. He also sits on the board of Ninety, an agile digital transformation consultancy with clients including Generali, Axa, Allianz & Zurich. Ninety is a social enterprise, with 90% of distributable profits given to alleviate global poverty.
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About Paddle: We’re the only complete payments infrastructure provider for SaaS companies.
Alex O’Shaughnessy
Chief Marketing Officer of Zepz
Alex leads the marketing and communications teams at WorldRemit, helping deliver brand value, strategic planning and an improved customer experience. He brings more than 18 years’ marketing experience to the role, having worked in both domestic and international markets. Before joining WorldRemit, Alex led a highly successful team at William Hill as the Group Chief Marketing Officer, having joined the company as Head of UK Marketing in 2008. Alex holds a Postgraduate Diploma in Business, Marketing and E-commerce from the University of Liverpool.
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About Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
Marius Nedelcu
Chief Marketing Officer of TransferGo
Marius Nedelcu is the head of growth at TransferGo.
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About TransferGo: TransferGo offers international money transfers for both migrant workers & businesses using their digital account-to-account business model.
Josh Graham
Co-Founder & CMO of Airtime Rewards
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About Airtime Rewards, Samply: Airtime Rewards is an innovative loyalty platform pioneering unique rewards solutions with mobile operators.
Anil Malhotra
Chief Marketing Officer of Bango
Anil Malhotra is the co-founder and chief marketing officer of Bango.
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About Bango, Forbes Communications Council: Bango is the standard platform chosen by leading global stores to deliver mobile payments to everyone.
Gerry Carr
Chief Marketing Officer of Ravelin
Gerry Carr serves as CMO at Ravelin.He is responsible for Ravelin’s marketing strategy and operations and has worked across the company’s commercial functions since its inception. A tech industry veteran, Gerry is passionate about applying the magic of data-based prediction in new business areas.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Jide Akindele
Founder-CMO of Mobile Media Info Tech Global Limited
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About Mobile Media Info Tech Global Limited: Mobile Media Info Tech (MMIT) is a mobile payment processing company.
