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 CEO’ operating in the Lead Generation 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.
Titus Sharpe
CEO of MVF
Titus is CEO and Co-Founder of MVF, one the world’s fastest growing customer acquisition firms. He has a passion for starting Internet companies and has had two successful exits thus far. Titus co-founded Approved Index in 2004, built it into the UK’s largest B2B Lead Generation firm and then sold it to Reed Elsevier in 2008. In 2001 Titus co-founded a Web Development agency called Moodia, specialising in website optimisation. The company was sold to Zone Content in 2009. Titus is also a Fulbright Scholar and holds a first class degree in Artificial Intelligence.
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About Goals for Giving, MVF, Profind: MVF provides Customer Generation for some of the world’s largest companies.
Nicolae Buldumac
CEO of Global Database
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About Global Database: Company Intelligence on Global Markets
Andrew Skipwith
Founder and CEO of Rated People
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About Rated People: Rated People is an online recommendation service that connects homeowners with local, recommended tradespeople.
Darren Lester
Founder & CEO of SpecifiedBy
Founder at SpecifiedBy
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About SpecifiedBy: SpecifiedBy helps architects, designers and specifiers to make informed decisions about building products
Patrick Byrne
CEO of Pursuit Marketing
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About Pursuit Marketing: The UK’s Leading B2B Demand Generation Agency.
Emma Bowkett
CEO of Convertr
Emma Bowkett is CEO at Convertr Media, a pioneering technology company focused on providing the optimal suite of Customer Acquisition Management tools to their clients.
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About Convertr: Convertr is an API-first data optimization platform that acts as a firewall. We protect companies against expensive, bloated databases.
Phil Morgan
Founder, CEO & Managing Director of Intelling
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About Intelling: Intelling is a communications business that provides customer services support for companies such as Telefonica and Misguided.
Galia Jordanova
CEO of Gaida.ai
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About Gaida.ai: Gaida.ai is a care of all your digital enquiries (leads) across their full journey all the way until deal.
Nigel Botterill
Owner, CEO of Entrepreneurs Circle
Nigel Botterill is a straight-talking UK entrepreneur and bestselling author who has built eight separate £million+ businesses from scratch. Nigel is passionate about business/marketing; he now devotes a big chunk of his time to helping other entrepreneurs.
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About Entrepreneurs Circle: Entrepreneurs Circle exist to educate, motivate, help and inspire business owners to achieve more than they ever thought possible.
