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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 VP’ operating in the CRM 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.
Ashling Kearns
Vice President of UK&I Marketing of Salesforce
Ashling Kearns is the Vice President of UK&I Marketing at Salesforce.
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Chris Hemingway
Regional VP, ISV Sales; SalesForce EMEA of Salesforce
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About Salesforce: Salesforce is a global cloud computing company that develops CRM solutions and provides business software on a subscription basis.
Ollie Sharpe
VP of Revenue, EMEA of Salesloft
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About Salesloft: Salesloft helps thousands of the world’s most successful selling teams drive more revenue with The Modern Revenue Workspace™.
Richard Young
Vice President, Vault CDMS of Veeva
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About Veeva: Veeva Systems is a provider of cloud-based business solutions for the global life sciences industry.
Warrick Godfrey
VP, Industry Solutions of Braze
Warrick has a wealth of international experience in marketing with a focus on growth, ecommerce, retail and mobile applications. Warrick has specialised in startups in emerging markets over the past 15-years and is VP of Industry Solutions at Braze, a leading customer engagement platform built for today’s mobile-first world. Earlier Projects; *From 2016 to 2019, Warrick ran the regional/central marketing function as Sr Regional Marketing Director at Souq.com. Souq was acquired by Amazon in 2017 and remains the largest marketplace operating in the MENA region. *On-demand delivery application in the Middle East called Fetchr, built to overcome the issue of no physical addresses in the region. The app launched in May 2015. *Warrick joined Namshi in 2014 as CMO where he led the marketing function directing the overall strategic direction of the companies brand and marketing efforts. *In 2013 Warrick joined Facebook to bring the platform’s presence to Sub-Saharan Africa. Specialising in retail, media, and E-Commerce, Warrick looked after a portfolio of top advertisers in the continent. This work was instrumental in Facebook’s regional office launch in South Africa. *Prior to Facebook, he successfully built one of the Middle East’s leading ecommerce businesses, Cobone.com in 2010. As co-founder and CMO, Warrick led marketing, PR, platform, CRM, and brand strategy, making Cobone.com one of the fastest-growing ecommerce ventures in MENA.
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About Braze: Braze is a customer engagement platform that delivers messaging experiences across push, email, in-product, and more.
Mark Farnell
VP Revenue Operations of NewVoiceMedia
Mark heads Marketing Operations at NewVoiceMedia, is a Marketo Certified Expert & Marketo Champion. Focussed on AI, predictive lead scoring, Revenue Cycle Analytics, and process improvement.
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About NewVoiceMedia: NewVoiceMedia provides cloud technology that helps businesses sell more, serve better, and grow faster.
Paul Turner
VP Benelux and Nordics of NewVoiceMedia
Paul is responsible for global operations (network operations, professional services and client support). Prior to NewVoiceMedia, he held leadership positions in software and telecommunications businesses world-wide and has a strong track record of growing global businesses. He has a passion for customer service and an inspirational approach to leadership.
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About NewVoiceMedia: NewVoiceMedia provides cloud technology that helps businesses sell more, serve better, and grow faster.
Audelia Boker
Global VP Marketing of Glassbox
Audelia Boker joined Glassbox in January 2016 after spending over 17 years in Israel’s largest FMCG and flagship tech companies, including Strauss-Elite, Orange (now Partner), Comverse (now Xura) and NICE Systems. Equally at home with storytelling as with crunching analytical data, Audelia’s international background and leadership abilities have recently brought her back to Europe, where she grew up. Her most recent role was in London, where she headed Demand Generation for EMEA at NICE Systems, managing inside sales teams as well as the Enterprise integrated off-line and online marketing strategy and execution for the company across Europe. Before this, Audelia ran a team of marketing managers and had global responsibility over the Real-Time Solutions product marketing activities, significantly contributing to the success of the fastest growing business within NICE’s Enterprise portfolio. Audelia holds an MBA from ESCP Europe where she studied in Paris, France, majoring in Strategy and Marketing.
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About Glassbox: Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.
