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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 Chairman operating in the Content space. If you think a Chairman 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.
Farid Haque
Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios
Farid Haque is the Co-Founder ,CEO & Chairman of Erly Stage Studios.He attended to the University of Toronto.
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About AssetVault, DataKiwi, Erly Stage Studios: An Education Venture Studio and digital publishing business, our mission is to make learning fun through engaging content and technology.
Julian Pullan
Vice Chairman & President International of Jack Morton Worldwide
Julian joined Jack Morton in 2002 as director of operations in London and became managing director in 2005. He joined the Global Executive Team in 2009, became President, EMEA in 2011 and was appointed President, International in 2015. Under his leadership, the International operation has grown significantly in size and reputation, including the foundation of Jack offices in Dubai, Germany, and South Korea. Today, Julian is Vice Chairman of Jack Morton Worldwide, stewarding the creative quality and output of the agency in addition to his continued leadership of the agency outside of the US. In his 30 years in the industry, Julian has led major communications campaigns and projects for most of the world’s leading brands. Julian remains a passionate creative at heart, winning many creative awards during his accomplished career. Teams under his leadership have earned over 500 awards, including well over 100 in just the last 2 years. He has served as a member of the board of the International Visual Communications Association, is a regular commentator within the industry trade press and event circuit and is a member of the Superbrands Council.
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About Jack Morton Worldwide: Jack Morton Worldwide is an American multinational brand experience agency.
Elisabeth Murdoch
Chairman, CEO of Shine Group
Elisabeth Murdoch is Chairman, CEO at Shine Group.
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About Shine Group: Shine Group is an international television production and distribution group with 27 production companies across 11 countries
Chris Ingram
Executive Chairman of Bonhill Group
Chris Ingram is a serial entrepreneur, investor and philanthropist. He spent over 40 years in the media and communications industries, mostly as an entrepreneur. He is regarded as the inventor of the modern media agency having started TMD (The Media Department) for the Kimpher Group in 1972. He then established CIA (Chris Ingram Associates) in 1976 with £10,000 of share capital and a £30,000 loan and built a 67 office international network, floated in 1989 and sold to WPP in 2001 for £430m Chris is now an active investor in SMEs, primarily early stage, digitally-orientated companies with high growth potential. These businesses are all based in London and New York. He invests through Ingram Enterprise Investors LLP which was set up in 2008. In 2015 Chris became Chairman of the tiny PLC Vitesse Media, moving to Executive Chairman in February 2016 and increasing his shareholding to 26%. Chris is actively involved in the Pro Bono sector through his family trust, The Ingram Trust which supports approximately two dozen charities both national and international as well as locally in Surrey. He is a passionate art collector and his 680 piece collection is the largest collection of privately owned publicly accessible Modern British Art in the UK. In February 2016 his collection was given over to a public foundation, “The Ingram Art Foundation”. Chris’ weakness is football and since rescuing Woking Football Club in 2002, he was the owner until 2012. He is now their landlord having given the club a demanding 125 year lease at £1 per year.
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About Bonhill Group, Ingram Enterprise Investors, THE INGRAM TRUST: Bonhill Group operates as a B2B media company.
Jon Myers
Strategy Consultant & CAB Chairman of DeepCrawl
Experienced senior leader with over 19 years’ experience within the digital marketplace working for large corporate organisations to start ups within the sector. Currently the Chief Growth Officer of DeepCrawl. www.deepcrawl.com Jon has been working in Digital Marketing since 1997, first agency side, working for Latitude Digital Marketing as one of the original core team members. Then he moved to MediaVest, part of Starcom Mediavest (now part of Aegis), and grew their Search department from around 20 to over 40 people, including setting up the SEO team. After working agency side for 13 years, Jon moved to Yahoo! to head up their search business and display account management. After 2 years at Yahoo! Jon was head-hunted for the position as VP & Commercial Director EMEA with a view of becoming VP & Managing Director of Marin Software EMEA. In his time heading up Marin Software in the EMEA region, Jon helped grow the company; doubling the international revenues, opening new offices and assisted developing the product offering. Also he was part of the exec management team taking Marin Software through IPO in March 2013. Whilst being VP & MD EMEA at Marin Software the company won the following awards: Best PPC Management Software – UK Search Awards in 2011, 2013 and 2014 Best PPC Management Software – European Search Awards 2012, 2013 and 2015 Best Use of Search – Finance with Moneysupermarket.com at European Search Awards in 2014 Best use of PPC Innovation with Moneysupermarket.com at the DADI Awards in 2014 More receltly with DeepCrawl awards for: Best B2B Technology – B2B Expo Awards 2017 Best Search Tool – MENA Search Awards 2017 Jon is seen as a thought leader in the digital marketing industry and speaks, keynotes, chairs and moderates at industry events worldwide. Jon is a regular judge at notable industry awards in the UK and Europe. He contributes regularly to the online and offline digital marketing and mainstream press, as well as trains, mentors and supports up and coming marketers.
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About DeepCrawl: The #1 technical SEO SaaS platform for enterprise businesses
Michael Greenlees
Chairman of Scoota
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About Abercrombie & Fitch, Scoota: A single programmatic platform that enables advertisers to create, activate, measure and optimise brilliant brand campaigns at scale.
David Pattison
Chairman of Rezonence
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About Rezonence: Our mission is to fund journalism through high performance advertising.
Matthew Skelton
Chairman of Scafld
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About Scafld: Helping acquire and convert customers with clever ways to create and deliver engaging customer journeys.
Matthew Skelton
Chairman of Scafld
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About Scafld: Helping acquire and convert customers with clever ways to create and deliver engaging customer journeys.
