Best Startup
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 CFO’ operating in the Electronics space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Tim Pullen
Chief Financial Officer of Arm Holdings
Tim is Chief Financial Officer at Arm. He joined the business in July 2017. He was previously at O2 | Telefonica UK, where he held a variety of positions including Finance Director for Technology Operations and Transformation, Finance Director for O2’s B2B and Digital Products segments, Head of Finance Operations and was a non-Executive Director at Tesco Mobile. Prior to O2, Tim has worked in a number of technology and services businesses, including Serco, Fujitsu and Dell. He is a Chartered Accountant by background having qualified with Ernst & Young.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Robert Bahns
Chief Financial Officer of SmartKem
Robert Bahns is the Director of Technology Ventures at Imperial Innovations where he focusses on investments in the hardware and materials sectors. Robert has over fifteen years’ experience in venture capital and prior to joining Innovations was a Director in the technology investment team at Nomura International plc, where he led investments in the communications and electronics sectors. Robert trained as an electronics engineer and worked in Japan for Pioneer Electronics Corporation, both in R&D and in establishing the company’s first UK manufacturing facility. Robert is on the board of CCS, GKN-Evo eDrive Systems, Impression Technologies, Plaxica, Drayson Wireless, Sub Salt Solutions and Oxford Biotrans. Robert has an MBA from Insead and an Electrical Sciences degree from the University of Cambridge.
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About Imperial Innovations, IP Group, SmartKem, Touchstone Innovations: SmartKem is a high tech enterprise developing an exciting new technology platform focusing on high performance/high value organic
Wissam Jabre
Chief Financial Officer & Senior Vice President of Dialog Semiconductor
Wissam joins Dialog after serving as Corporate Vice President of Finance at Advanced Micro Devices (AMD) since 2014. Between 2003 and 2014, Wissam Jabre held various executive positions at Freescale Semiconductor, including Vice President and Chief Procurement Officer, Vice President Global Pricing, Chief Financial Officer of the Networking & Multimedia Solutions Group as well as senior roles within Corporate Treasury. During this period he gained extensive experience in accounting, financial planning, treasury, procurement, and merger and acquisition integration. He began his career at Schlumberger, gaining international experience in the Middle East, Europe and North America, before joining Motorola in 2000. He holds a Bachelor of Electrical Engineering degree and received an MBA from Columbia Business School, New York in 1998.
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About Dialog Semiconductor: Dialog Semiconductor makes energy-efficient, highly-integrated, and mixed signal ICs for mobile, IoT, and solid state lighting applications.
Graham Screawn
Chief Financial Officer of Ultimate Products
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About Ultimate Products: Ultimate Products is a brand and product development house in the UK that specializes in house-ware and electrical goods.
Iain Silvester
Co-CEO / CFO of Plessey Semiconductors Ltd
Iain has over 20 years’ experience in private and public growth stage technology companies. Most recently, he was CFO of picoChip Inc. and Finance Director of Motion Media PLC, where he managed its IPO on the LSE in 2000. Iain holds a B.Sc. degree in Chemistry and is a qualified Chartered Accountant with Ernst & Young where he specialised in corporate finance.
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About Plessey Semiconductors Ltd: Plessey is a British high-tech company operating in the field compound semiconductors.
Peter Fosh
CFO EMEA of Optoma USA
Peter Fosh is CFO EMEA at Optoma. He once with Samsung Semiconductor as finance director.
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About Optoma USA: Optoma is a designer and manufacturer of projection and audio products for business, professional audio/video, and home entertainment.
Mark Higgins
Chief Financial Officer of AO World
Mark Higgins is a Chief Financial Officer at ao.com.
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About AO World: AO World is a online retailer company.
Francisco Martínez-Davis
Chief Financial Officer of Atlantica Yield
Francisco Martinez-Davis has more than 24 years of experience in senior finance positions both in the United States and Spain. He has served as Chief Financial Officer of several large industrial companies. Most recently, he has been Chief Financial Officer for the company responsible for the management and operation of the metropolitan rail service of the city of Madrid where he was also member of the Executive Committee. He has also worked as CFO for a retailer and as Deputy General Manager in Finance and Treasury for Telefonica Moviles. Prior to that, he worked for different investment banks in New York City and London for more than 10 years, including J.P. Morgan Chase & Co. and BNP Paribas. Francisco Martinez-Davis holds a Bachelor of Science, cum laude, in Business Administration from Villanova University in Philadelphia and an MBA from The Wharton School.
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About Atlantica Yield: Atlantica is a total return sustainable infrastructure company.
