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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based COO’ operating in the Logistics space. If you think a COO’ 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.
Jack Waley-Cohen
Co-Founder / COO of what3words
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About what3words: what3words is a mapping technology startup that creates a proprietary geocode system for logistics firms.
Filip Mihailovic
Co-founder,COO of Brisqq
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About Brisqq: Brisqq provides local logistics-as-a-service, enabling retailers to offer same day (or future date) deliveries in 1-hour timeslots.
Marina Comninos
COO of essDOCS
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About essDOCS: essDOCS enables paperless trade; focusing on digitizing paper-heavy shipping, trade and logistic processes.
George Thomas
Chief Operating Officer of Xeneta
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About Xeneta: Xeneta is the leading ocean freight rate benchmarking and market intelligence platform and index.
Ian Hammond
COO of GeoSpock
Ian has a strong background in technology and business operations at both small and large scale, bringing 15+ years of experience from leadership roles in telco, media, and technology organizations as well as the UK public sector. He spent 5 years living in the Netherlands where he led a global team as SVP of Technology Operations at TomTom, responsible for delivering and supporting global digital services to millions of consumers as well as B2B services to some of the world’s largest companies. Most recently Ian held C-level positions within central government and a UK based procurement technology SME. Ian joins the GeoSpock management team to build and lead the operations function, delivering and supporting solutions for GeoSpock customers.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Ian Hammond
COO of GeoSpock
Ian has a strong background in technology and business operations at both small and large scale, bringing 15+ years of experience from leadership roles in telco, media, and technology organizations as well as the UK public sector. He spent 5 years living in the Netherlands where he led a global team as SVP of Technology Operations at TomTom, responsible for delivering and supporting global digital services to millions of consumers as well as B2B services to some of the world’s largest companies. Most recently Ian held C-level positions within central government and a UK based procurement technology SME. Ian joins the GeoSpock management team to build and lead the operations function, delivering and supporting solutions for GeoSpock customers.
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About GeoSpock: GeoSpock builds GeoSpock DB, the unique space-time analytics database that delivers rapid insights at a fraction of the cost.
Lee Everett
Chief Operating Officer of Radius Payment Solutions
Lee joined the Group in 2010, leading the development of the Group’s European fuel card business. In 2014 Lee was appointed as Managing Director of our UK and Ireland businesses. As Chief Operating Officer, Lee now holds overall responsibility for the Group’s global fuel card business which provides market leading Oil company and Own Brand fuel card solutions to over 1.2m cardholders, spanning Europe, South-East Asia and the U.S. Lee has a BA (Hons) degree in Business and Finance and more than 20 years’ experience in the fuel card and payment industry.
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About Radius Payment Solutions: Radius Payment Solutions operates as a service provider to the fleet and logistics market.
Pete Shannon
Chief Operating Officer of HelloDone
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About HelloDone: Automating social messaging for online retail brands
Sylviane Boucharens
Chief Operating Officer and co-founder of BioAscent
Sylviane has more than 20 years’ experience in scientific research and drug discovery environment. Sylviane has a track record in building and leading outstanding and productive teams into seamless successful enterprises in start-up and medium and large pharma environment. Prior to BioAscent Sylviane was Head of Global Compound repository and in-vitro Screening (Merck Sharp & Dohme, Newhouse Scotland). She was also responsible for managing a portfolio of early Drug Discovery projects in Cardiovascular from Target Identification and validation to Lead Optimisation. Sylviane attained her PhD in Cellular and Molecular Biology from the University Joseph Fourier, Grenoble, France, followed by post-doctoral positions at the INSERM U366 Laboratory, France and University of Manchester, UK under the Wellcome Trust International Fellowship.
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About BioAscent, Discovery Performance & Strategy: BioAscent operates a full compound management, logistics and shipping service from our modern, Automated Compound Store.
