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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 CEO’ operating in the Communications Infrastructure space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Evan Wienburg
CEO of TrueSpeed Communications
Evan Wienburg is a co-founder of CEO of TrueSpeed, a full fibre infrastructure and broadband provider based in the South West. In July 2017, Evan secured a £75million investment from Aviva to deploy TrueSpeed’s network across the South West. Providing a futureproof broadband solution for homes and businesses, Evan’s vision delivers guaranteed speed, full fibre broadband to every property TrueSpeed connects whilst keeping a community focused ethos at the forefront of everything it does. Designing and implementing multinational technological initiatives for over a decade, Evan has been responsible for running multinational IT programs throughout his career and leading teams through difficult and demanding projects. Evan is also a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute (FCMI), and a Member of the City and Guilds Institute.
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About TrueSpeed Communications: Innovative fibre optic infrastructure and telecoms company.
Tariq Rauf
Founder & CEO of Qatalog
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About Qatalog: The work hub for modern teams and knowledge workers.
Carl Barton
Group CEO of Mobius Networks
Carl Barton Founder of the Group of which Mobius is a part 30 years ago. The owner of the group vision and technology roadmap and the driver of the operational excellence programme using technological innovation to take cost, time and errors out of processes.
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About Mobius Networks: Mobius is the UKs first integrated data airtime provider.
Simon Beresford-Wylie
Chief Executive Officer of Imagination Technologies
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About Imagination Technologies: Imagination Technologies develops and licenses semiconductor system-on-chip intellectual property (SoC IP).
Daniel Berg
CEO & Co-Founder of NextUp
Daniel Berg joined NextUp Comedy as CEO & Co-Founder in 2016.
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About ComComedy, NextUp: The home of stand-up, showcasing all the wonders of live comedy worldwide.
Nithin Thomas
CEO of Ceerus
I have over 10 years track record in developing and commercializing cutting edge cyber security technologies from early stage research. I am currently the CEO of SQR Systems, a company that I founded in 2010 to bring to market the technology I developed during my PhD. In this role, I have set up multiple R&D and commercial programmes and partnerships with the UK Ministry of Defence, the US Department of Defence and other intelligence and government agencies in the UK. In my role at SQR, I have also been working closely with global defence primes, telcos, mobile device manufacturers and some of the leading financial and professional services organisations and critical infrastructure protection. In my spare time, I like getting involved with the London startup ecosystem through various meet-ups, hackathons and I am a startup mentor at Shell LiveWire and IncuBus London.
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About Ceerus: Security to communicate freely
Misha Kapushesky
Chief Executive Officer of Genestack
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About Genestack: Genestack provides customers in the pharma, biotech and healthcare sectors with multi-omics data management and integration solutions.
Syd Lawrence
CEO of The Bot Platform
CEO of The Bot Platform. Co-founded and sold various businesses. Serial Entrepreneur. First company at the age of 12.
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About : Empowering people to build a better employee experience using bots, digital assistants and automation tools.
Oner Avara
CEO & Founder of My Next Match
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About My Next Match: The ultimate tool for the sports federations to govern, including Medical Passports for the athletes, an MMS and online progression/grading
