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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Director operating in the Facility Management 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.
Henry Watts
Managing Director of Atalian Servest
Having gained accounts training with BDO, Henry headed a successful catering company for over 15 years before joining Servest in January 2013 as part of the acquisition of 7 Day Catering Limited. Following a period of integration and succession management within the Catering Division, Henry became head of mergers and acquisitions for the Group in February 2016.
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About Atalian Servest, Atalian Servest: Servest Group is a multi-service facilities management provider.
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Les Turner
Managing Director of Cleaning of Atalian Servest
Les joined Servest as part of the acquisition of Turner’s Cleaning and Support Services in 2011, a company he had established and ran for more than 30 years. Les heads up the recently established Strategic Accounts team and has utilised his extensive experience in operations and sales to become the driving force of the growth of the business into the corporate and public sectors.
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About Atalian Servest: Servest Group is a multi-service facilities management provider.
Serge Lubensky
Founder | Executive Managing Director of ReTool Ventures
Serge is a geek who enjoys finding pragmatic solutions to difficult problems. Along the way, he managed to become a successful entrepreneur with a track record of starting, growing and selling technology companies. Serge grew up in a family of scientists and artists. Not smart enough to become a scientist and not creative enough to be an artist, Serge chose to pursue a computer engineering degree in his hometown of Minsk strictly to avoid being drafted into the Russian Army during the Soviets’ invasion of Afghanistan. Serge’s first successful exit, from a failing 70-year old startup called the USSR, occurred in 1988. Fresh off the boat, Serge joined a computer company in Queens, NY, developing software for service contractors. Architecting and supporting a system that businesses relied on allowed Serge to learn the intricacies of the commercial repair and maintenance trades and ways to apply technology to solve real-life challenges for business owners and their field technicians. In the process, Serge and the company’s founder, Steven Gottfried, became friends and business partners and started to formulate plans for their next business venture. In 1999, Steven and Serge founded a cloud-based facilities management platform, ServiceChannel, with the goal of transforming the highly inefficient multi-billion dollar commercial repair and maintenance industry. As with their previous company, which was successfully sold, Steven was the idea generator and a master salesman, while Serge worked behind the scenes as CTO to help ServiceChannel achieve a dominant position in the global facilities management marketplace. In 2016, Serge moved to London to accelerate ServiceChannel’s expansion in Europe. In the summer of 2017, Accel, an elite technology VC firm, invested $54M in ServiceChannel continuing to fuel its growth and allowing Steven and Serge to realize a highly successful exit. Now Steven and Serge run ReTool Ventures, a technology investment firm.
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About Equip ID, ReTool Ventures: ReTool Ventures is a new technology investment firm that seeks to retool the facilities management industry by curating a “digital toolbox”
Nigel White
Business Development Director of Bellrock
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About Bellrock, Property Solutions UK Ltd: Bellrock Property & Facilities Management provides a property and facilities manager.
Stuart Glover
Group Managing Director of Securus Group
Stuart Glover is a Group Managing Director at Securus Group.
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About Securus Group: The Securus Group is one of the UK’s leading independent providers of electronic life safety and security products and services.
Director of Products and Analytics of Mitie
Alejandro works within Mitie’s Professional Services and Connected Workspace business and has prime responsibility for identifying and developing innovative business solutions that use emerging technologies to help transform the way organisations work. He has published articles in industry magazines and co-authored studies on data centres, emerging markets, and future trends. A Civil Engineer in Electronics, Alejandro holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Science in Innovation and Technology. He is an expert on digital technologies and the opportunities and challenges they present to businesses and the future of work. Alejandro has over 20 years of professional experience, working extensively in LATAM and EMEAR, first developing fixed and mobile telecoms infrastructure, and later providing advice and delivering solutions to Fortune 500 companies in areas such as strategy definition, digital transformation, market analysis, product development, performance improvement, and change management.
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About Mitie: Mitie is a strategic outsourcing company that provides facilities, property, and energy management for public and private sector businesses.
