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 CFO’ operating in the Cloud Computing space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Andrius Kazlauskas
Founder & CFO of Heficed
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About Heficed, IPXO: Heficed provides full-range services for IP lease, monetization, and management services.
Nigel Fairhurst
CFO of Claranet
Nigel Fairhurst has a vast range of experience working as commercial Finance Director for a wide variety of organisations, ranging from partnerships to PLCs. He has over ten years of European experience, working in Paris for 3 years for M&S and as European Financial Director for Donaldsons and DTZ. His experience also includes roles at PwC – Coopers & Lybrand in Audit and Systems – where he qualified as a chartered accountant; and the William Reed Group as Finance Director of the main publishing company, and then as Group IT Director. With his background and experience, Nigel has a solid understanding of IT and systems as well as the issues of operating, controlling and reporting across a range of countries. He has proved a catalyst for change management within the finance arena, and has worked with different senior management teams on successfully moving businesses forward. Nigel joined Claranet in April 2010.
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About Claranet: Claranet is an expert in modernising and running critical applications and infrastructure.
Gavin Horn
Chief Financial Officer of Eagle Genomics
Gavin is a Chartered Accountant with 15 years’ experience managing the varied financial operations of rapidly growing technology businesses. Gavin qualified with PwC in London before moving into the high technology sector and has worked extensively both in the UK and overseas. He has been involved with many companies during intense periods of both organic and acquisitive expansion. His most recent appointment was at AIM listed Brady plc during a time when the group went through a period of rapid revenue growth and geographic expansion including the integration of multiple significant acquisitions. The group also secured a substantial and significantly oversubscribed share placing. He has a BSc in Software Engineering from Durham University.
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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.
Kevin Budge
Chief Financial Officer of Nasstar
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About Nasstar: Nasstar is Managed Services provider that takes the pain and complexity out of IT.
Gary Greasby
CFO of Civo
Gary Greasby is the Chief Financial Officer at Civo and ServerChoice.
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About Civo, ServerChoice: Cloud hosting specialists running the the world’s first Kubernetes service powered by Rancher Lab’s K3s.
Nigel Drakeford Lewis
CFO of Logicalis
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About Logicalis: Logicalis is a platform that provides IT solutions and managed services.
Andrew Galloway
CFO of Guestline
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About Guestline: A Shrewsbury, UK-based provider of software for the hospitality sector.
Phil Wright
CFO, Treasurer and Company Secretary of PrismTech
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About PrismTech: PrismTech provides software platforms and tools for the Internet of Things, Industrial Internet and advanced wireless communications.
Dan Gray
Founder and CFO of Elephants don’t forget
Dan Gray is the founder and CFO of Elephants don’t forget. He previously worked as managing director – property Services at E.ON UK.
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About Elephants don’t forget: A low cost, cloud-based online application that continually measures individual employee knowledge gaps and automatic retrains as needed.
