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 Open Source 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.
Monira Rhaimi
Lead Product Strategist of Thoughtworks
Monira Rhaimi is a Lead Product Strategist at Thoughtworks. She has worked across multiple roles from software engineer to product manager, in different regions of the world. Having experienced many different environments, teams and cultures, she developed a passion for product management, lean and agile practices and culture change in organizations. Currently working for ThoughtWorks as a Product Consultant, she has the opportunity to practice her craft and deepen her learnings while helping teams start a change.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Oli Gibson
Lead Product Manager of Thoughtworks
Oli Gibson is a Lead Product Manager at ThoughtWorks. He has worked with companies, across all sectors, helping them build better products. He has been an entrepreneur, developer and is now a Product & Strategy Consultant at ThoughtWorks. After several startups, his focus shifted towards the enterprise where he now helps organizations transform their business strategy, take an experimental approach to product development and manage cultural transformation.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Daniel Bryant
Product Architect of Ambassador Labs
Daniel Bryant works as a Product Architect at Ambassador Labs (formerly Datawire), and is the News Manager at InfoQ and Chair for QCon London. His current technical expertise focuses on ‘DevOps’ tooling, cloud/container platforms and microservice implementations. Daniel is a leader within the London Java Community (LJC), contributes to several open source projects, writes for well-known technical websites such as InfoQ, O’Reilly, and DZone, and regularly presents at international conferences such as QCon, JavaOne, and Devoxx.
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About Ambassador Labs, InfoQ: Ambassador Labs is making it easy for developers to build resilient microservices.
Abel Ureta-Vidal
Chief Product Officer & Founder of Eagle Genomics
With more than 12 years bioinformatics experience and a scientific background in molecular biology and immune-virology (PhD from the Pasteur Institute, France), Abel first mastered bioinformatics tools and code in the early 90s whilst working on viral phylogenetic studies. After his PhD, he joined the effort at Genoscope (Evry, France) in ramping up the human genome project, putting in place the automatic gene annotation system for human chromosome 14. In 2001, Abel moved to the European Bioinformatics Institute (Cambridge, UK) where he led the Ensembl comparative genomics team until 2007. He founded Eagle shortly before graduating from the Cambridge Judge Business School MBA program in 2008.
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Tanu Chellam
VP Product of Seldon
Social-impact oriented tech entrepreneur who has won awards for managing both people and products, across corporate and startup environments.
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About Seldon: Machine Learning Deployment Platform
Thomas Howlett
Product Manager of SonarSource
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About SonarSource: SonarSource provides open-source and commercial code analyzers to help developers manage code quality.
Mike Jongbloet
Head of Product Design & Research of Snowplow Analytics
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About Snowplow Analytics: Snowplow Analytics provides enterprise-strength digital analytics across multiple platforms
Neil Cook
VP of Security Product of Open-Xchange
As Chief Technology Officer, Neil Cook is responsible for Cloudmark’s technical strategy and roadmap and oversees Cloudmark’s Product Management, Technology Services and Sales Engineering teams. Neil Cook has more than 20 year’s experience in Mobile and Internet messaging and security, designing scalable and secure solutions for telecommunications companies globally. He has a particular experience and interest in the security issues facing the convergence of Internet and Mobile technologies and applications. He has been at Cloudmark for over six years, where he led the EMEA Technology Services team, led some of the company’s largest deployments and was an integral part of the company’s research and design activities before becoming CTO in 2012. Prior to Cloudmark, Neil was at Openwave (previously Software.com), where he was instrumental in bringing new mobile and messaging solutions to market, including one of the first picture-messaging deployments at JPhone, and the first telco-scale IP Voicemail deployment for Telecom Italia. In the past, Neil has also developed large-scale cryptographically-secure messaging and directory systems for governments and the US military. Neil has a BSc and PhD in Computer Science from the University of Nottingham, and is the author of several IETF RFCs for mobile messaging and streaming.
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About Open-Xchange: Open-Xchange is committed to a borderless internet that is open, safe and free allowing users to protect their own data and privacy.
