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 Product operating in the Data Center space. If you think a Product 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.
Andrew Dickerson
Senior Product Marketing Manager of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Responsible for a team of Product Marketeers for Backup, Recovery and Archive Products and Solutions within the Storage Organization.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Michael Cade
Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy of Veeam Software
Michael Cade is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the UK, an IT Professional with over 14 years of industry experience with a key focus on Data Center technologies including Virtualisation, Storage and Data Center. Michael is very active around the social media sphere blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. Michael is a member of several community programs including VMware vExpert, NetApp A-Team and Cisco Champions.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Michael Cade
Senior Global Technologist, Product Strategy of Veeam Software
Michael Cade is a Global Technologist for Veeam Software. Based in the UK, an IT Professional with over 14 years of industry experience with a key focus on Data Center technologies including Virtualisation, Storage and Data Center. Michael is very active around the social media sphere blogging and tweeting relevant technical content. Michael is a member of several community programs including VMware vExpert, NetApp A-Team and Cisco Champions.
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About Veeam Software: Veeam is a single backup and data management platform for cloud, virtual, and physical software.
Robert Neave
Co-Founder, CTO & Vice President of Product Management of Nlyte Software
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About Nlyte Software: Nlyte automates the management of DCIM so organizations can become more agile, reduce costs and operate more efficiently.
Javier Lecanda
Sr. Product Development Manager, Network On Demand of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Rui Ferraz
Global Product Manager Unified and Intelligent Communications of Colt Technology
Rui Ferraz’s main focus is simplification and acceleration, enabling users to focus on their work instead of the technological details around it. This objective has been the motivator of his professional life, be it in the early years spent working in Portugal Telecom and Vodafone as pre-sales and product management, as Unified Communication Director for Huawei Italy, and in his current role. Rui’s passion for UC is infectious, where he is always on the look for the next big thing in the UC space and how can it help customers. Rui is Portuguese and lived in Portugal (Braga, Lisbon, Porto) and Italy (Rome) before moving to the UK (London). He is a foodie, travel enthusiast and loves a good talk, feel free ping him for a talk.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Nigel Tromans
Product Manager of Colt Technology
Nigel has over 16 years’ telecoms experience at Colt, during which time he has been responsible for a range of key product developments and go-to-market launches spanning the Ethernet and Optical product portfolios. During this time Colt has been recognised as one of the world’s leading telecoms providers, regularly winning prestigious MEF awards and other accolades. He is currently responsible for Colt’s optical portfolio, which is delivered via a state-of-the-art Europe-wide WDM infrastructure and directly connects Europe’s key data centre markets, enterprise buildings and international cable landing points. Prior to joining Colt in 2000, Nigel worked as a Director and Network Consultant for a systems integrator, providing local and wide area network solutions for leading organisations in London.
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
Michael South
On Demand / SDN Product Management of Colt Technology
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About Colt Technology: Colt Technology is a company that provides communication and network services.
