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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based VP’ operating in the Professional Services space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Meg Blight
VP Global Scouting (Consumer customer experience and propositions) of BT Global Services
Meg is a global scout in BT’s External Innovation team whose role is to identify and introduce companies with innovative technologies, propositions and business models to BT Consumer – the largest Broadband and Phone provider in the UK. Prior to scouting, Meg spent more than 10 years in the UK telco sector working in product, commercial and strategic roles at BT and other major providers. She has managed product lines with annual revenues over $3bn per annum in more than 9m households in the UK. Meg has an honours degree from Cambridge in Experimental Psychology and Physics.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Mark Bilson
VP, Client Development & Integration Practice of Intapp
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About Intapp: Intapp is a provider of industry-specific, cloud-based software solutions that enable connected professional and financial services.
Jada Balster
Vice President, Marketing of Workfront
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About Workfront: Workfront providers cloud-based enterprise work management solutions for enterprise teams.
Steven Malawer
Vice President – Senior Counsel of W. R. Berkley
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About W. R. Berkley: W. R. Berkley, an insurance holding company, operates as a commercial lines writer in the United States and internationally.
Jason Martindale
VP Global Sales of Symphony Ventures
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About SYKES Digital Services, Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Craig Sweeney
SVP, Global Strategic Talent Solutions of WilsonHCG
Craig Sweeney is Senior Vice President, Global Strategic Talent Solutions, at WilsonHCG.
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About WilsonHCG: WilsonHCG is a RPO and human capital consulting firm that offers talent consulting and executive search services to its clients.
Betsy Kendall
Vice President of Programmes, Delivery & Content of OPP Ltd
Betsy has responsibility for OPP’s Consultancy and Learning business and has global responsibility for programme development for the CPP Group. She has worked in OPP since its foundation in 1989, and in that time she has led almost every function within the company. Betsy was responsible for setting up OPP’s qualifying training division, and was pivotally involved in designing and developing qualifications workshops for MBTI® Step I, Step II, FIRO® and CPI 260®. For many years she ran the majority of OPP’s training events. She led the Research and Development team that created the 11 European language versions of the MBTI Step I, and she oversaw the development and standardisation of the European versions of MBTI Step I, FIRO-B and CPI. She is the author of the European MBTI Step I Manual Supplement and co-author of the FIRO-B User’s Guide and MBTI and Culture. Betsy has worked around the world, particularly in Europe and the USA, running leadership development interventions, team development processes and assessment centres. She also regularly speaks at national and international conferences on on mid-life development and culture. Betsy is a Chartered Occupational Psychologist and an Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society.
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About OPP Ltd: OPP Ltd is one of Europe’s top business psychology product and services providers.
