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 Advisor operating in the Communities space. If you think a Advisor 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.
Simon Wardley
Researcher [Advisor] of Leading Edge Forum
Simon Wardley is a researcher for the Leading Edge Forum focused on the intersection of IT strategy and new technologies. Simon is a seasoned executive who has spent the last 15 years defining future IT strategies for companies in the FMCG, retail, and IT industries—from Canon’s early leadership in the cloud-computing space in 2005 to Ubuntu’s recent dominance as the #1 cloud operating system. As a geneticist with a love of mathematics and a fascination for economics, Simon has always found himself dealing with complex systems, whether in behavioral patterns, the environmental risks of chemical pollution, developing novel computer systems, or managing companies. He is a passionate advocate and researcher in the fields of open source, commoditization, innovation, organizational structure, and cybernetics. Simon’s most recent published research, “Clash of the Titans: Can China Dethrone Silicon Valley?,” assesses the high-tech challenge from China and what this means to the future of global technology industry competition. His previous research covers topics including the nature of technological and business change over the next 20 years, value chain mapping, strategies for an increasingly open economy, Web 2.0, and a life-cycle approach to cloud computing. Simon is a regular presenter at conferences worldwide and has been voted one of the UK’s Top 50 Most Influential People in IT in Computer Weekly’s 2011 and 2012 polls.
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Tim Harper
Emerging Technologies Global Advisory Council of The World Economic Forum
Tim Harper is a Chief Executive Officer at Element 2.
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Colin Adams
Non-exec and Advisor of Indie Media Labs
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James Koons
Research Advisory Board of International Association of Privacy Professionals
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About International Association of Privacy Professionals: IAPP a not-for-profit association with more than 16,000 members across 83 countries, focused on education and certification.
Arnaud Benard
Advisor of Pally
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Stoyan Petrov
Advisor of Pally
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Annie Machon
Advisor of Courage Foundation
Annie Machon was an intelligence officer for the UK’s Security Service, MI5, in the 1990s, before resigning to help blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies. She is now a writer, media commentator, political campaigner, and international public speaker on a variety of related issues: the war on terrorism, the war on whistleblowers, the war on drugs, and the war on the internet. She is currently the European director of LEAP, and Co-Director of Code Red, as well as a member of the Sam Adams Associates. Annie has an MA (Hons) Classics from Cambridge University.
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Annie Machon
Advisor of Courage Foundation
Annie Machon was an intelligence officer for the UK’s Security Service, MI5, in the 1990s, before resigning to help blow the whistle on the crimes and incompetence of the British spy agencies. She is now a writer, media commentator, political campaigner, and international public speaker on a variety of related issues: the war on terrorism, the war on whistleblowers, the war on drugs, and the war on the internet. She is currently the European director of LEAP, and Co-Director of Code Red, as well as a member of the Sam Adams Associates. Annie has an MA (Hons) Classics from Cambridge University.
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Lillian Kuan
Alumni Advisory Committee Board Member of Chiasma
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About Chiasma: Chiasma is New Zealand’s premier student-led non-profit organisation.
