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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 Principal operating in the Big Data space. If you think a Principal 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.
Manuel Tagliavini
Senior Associate – Principal Analyst MEMS and Sensors of IHS Markit
Manuel Tagliavini, a principal research analyst at IHS Markit, covers MEMS and sensors technology. Manuel joined IHS Markit in 2017. His key areas of focus are MEMS and Sensors for Consumer Electronics & Mobile and he is responsible for the tracking of sensors in handsets, tablets, laptops, sports and fitness products and other IoT applications. Prior to IHS Markit, he spent over 10 years with STMicroelectronics working in various roles including product engineering, program management and marketing and business development in the company’s MEMS division. Manuel earned an Executive Master of Business Administration (MBA) at SDA Bocconi School of Management, and his Master’s of Science in Electronic Engineering from the University of Parma, both in Italy.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Andy Wilkinson
Senior Principal Software Engineer of Pivotal
Andy is a software developer on the Spring team at Pivotal where he’s currently working on Spring Boot, Spring REST Docs, and the Spring IO Platform. When he’s not working with server-side Java, Andy enjoys the different challenges presented by developing for iOS.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Ben Wilcock
Principal Product Marketing Manager for Spring of Pivotal
Ben Wilcock is a Senior Solutions Architect for Pivotal Labs and helps Pivotal’s Fortune 500 clients to go cloud-native using the Pivotal Application Service (PAS) and Pivotal Container Service (PKS). Ben has a passion for CQRS, event sourcing, microservices, cloud, and mobile applications. He’s also an established technology blogger whose articles have featured in DZone, Java Code Geeks, InfoQ, The Spring Blog and more.
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About Pivotal: Pivotal is a software company that provides digital transformation technology and services.
Fiona Maini
Principal – Global Compliance and Strategy of Medidata Solutions
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About Medidata Solutions: Medidata Solutions offers SaaS-based clinical development solutions addressing the functioning of customers’ clinical trials.
Corey Burke
Principal Enterprise Cloud Architect of Rackspace
Corey Burke is a Principal Architect with Rackspace Hosting, a Managed Cloud Hosting provider located in Hayes, London in the UK. He is a contributing author for the Professional SharePoint 2013 Administration book, and a Technical Editor for Beginning SharePoint 2013: Building Business Solutions. Corey has presented at various SharePoint Saturday events as well as User Group Meetings and Microsoft TechEd Europe. He is a huge fan of SharePoint and using PowerShell for automation.
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About Rackspace: Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Simon Bailey
Principal Software Engineer of TriNetX
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About egghead.io, Newtriks Ltd, Sayansho Ltd, TriNetX: TriNetX is the global health research network that revolutionizes clinical research
Herve Schnegg
Principal Data Scientist of Station10
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About Station10: Station10 translates data into insights that helps to analyze multi-channel customer data behavior.
