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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 Computer 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.
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.
Don Syme
Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research
Don Syme is an Australian computer scientist, an F# community contributor and a Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research, Cambridge, U.K. He is the designer and architect of the F# programming language. Earlier, Don created generics in the .NET Common Language Runtime, including the initial design of generics for the C# programming language, along with others including Andrew Kennedy and later Anders Hejlsberg. He holds a Ph.D. from the University of Cambridge and is a member of the WG2.8 working group on functional programming. He is a co-author on the book Expert F#.
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About Microsoft, Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Danielle Belgrave
Principal Research Manager of Microsoft Research
Danielle Belgrave is a Machine Learning Researcher in the Healthcare AI Division at Microsoft Research Cambridge. She also has a (tenured) Research Fellowship at Imperial College London and received a Medical Research Council Career Development Award in Biostatistics (2015 – 2018). Her research focuses on integrating expert scientific knowledge to develop statistical machine learning models to understand disease progression over time, with the goal of identifying personalized disease management strategies. She has experience of applied machine learning for personalized health both within the pharmaceutical industry and academia.
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About Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Marc Brockschmidt
Senior Principal Researcher of Microsoft Research
Marc Brockschmidt is a Researcher at Microsoft Research in the Programming Principles and Tools group in Cambridge. Brockschmidt’s research focuses on topics around software developer productivity. This includes fully automatic analyses of implicitly specified properties (such as memory safety, termination or complexity) and the use of machine learning techniques to help where classical program analysis fails. Most recently, Brockschmidt also returned to some of his F/OSS roots and started studying the efficient use of build systems with colleagues in MSR and TSE. Brockschmidt obtained his Ph.D. at RWTH Aachen under the supervision of Jürgen Giesl, where he worked on termination and complexity analysis of (Java) programs. There, Brockschmidt focused on heap abstractions in the analysis of object-oriented programs.
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About Microsoft Research: Microsoft Research conducts basic and applied research in computer science and software engineering.
Robbie Mouat
Principal Quantitative Analyst of ActiveViam
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About ActiveViam: ActiveViam provides operational analytics solutions to business users in need of timely decision-making.
Thomas Cannon
Principal Consultant of NCC Group
Thomas Cannon is the former Director of R&D at viaForensics LLC.
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About NCC Group: NCC Group exists to make the world safer and more secure.
David Christiansen
Principal Technologist of Leidos holdings
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About Leidos holdings: Leidos holdings is a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
