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 Managing Director operating in the Marketplace space. If you think a Managing Director 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.
Sam James
Managing Director of Hassle.com
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About Hassle.com: Hassle.com is an online marketplace that matches busy people with local, trusted cleaners.
Pierre Sapin
Managing Director of BORN
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About BORN: BORN is the world’s first private B2B platform that connects a global network of design-led lifestyle brands and retail buyers.
Jason Anastasinis
Managing Director of TravelStaytion
Jason Anastasinis is a Managing Director at TravelStaytion.
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About TravelStaytion: TravelStaytion is an online holiday rental marketplace, enables its users to list their spare property or get accommodation at lower prices.
Tony Xu
Founder and Managing Director of Perfocal
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About Perfocal: Perfocal is the easiest way to hire an awesome photographer, on-demand.
James Miles
Managing Director & Co-Founder of Liv-ex
James Miles was born in Hong Kong and attended school and university in the UK. He started his career with Jardine Fleming Investment Management in Hong Kong in 1991, before becoming an equities analyst and strategist with Asia Equity (which later became Banque Paribas and then BNP Paribas). He moved to London in 1997 and left banking in March 2000 to set up Liv-ex.
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About Liv-ex: Liv-ex is the global marketplace for the wine trade, to whom we supply data, trading, technology and fulfilment services.
Simon Maisey
Managing Director, Global Head of Business Development of Tradeweb
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About Tradeweb: Tradeweb Markets is a global marketplace for electronic fixed income.
Michael Cole
Managing Director of RightSite
Since founding RightSite in January of 2008, Michael has taken primary responsibility for making it the leading online property exchange in Asia, and an important platform for all members of the industrial property community. Before establishing RightSite, Michael played an integral role in launching major media projects in more than five different Asian markets since 1992. Michael also previously served as General Manager for Advertising Operations with Global Sources (GSOL) and assisted that firm in going public on the NASDAQ exchange in the year 2000. Originally from the United States, Michael holds a Bachelor’s Degree from St Olaf College, as well as a Master’s Degree from the University of Minnesota. Besides achieving advanced level qualifications in Vietnamese language at the University of Hanoi in 1991, Michael also speaks French, Thai and Mandarin Chinese. You can follow Michael’s experiences in launching and managing RightSite through his blog at www.mingtiandi.com.
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About RightSite: Industrial Property Site for Asia
Matthew Funge
Managing Director & Founder of Your Stand Builder
Matthew is the Managing Director & Founder of event technology company Your Stand Builder, and currently lives in London. He is a graduate from the University of Manchester who already has valuable experience of living and working in both the USA and France, in addition to various parts of the UK, which has provided him with valuable international exposure already. He is responsible for building and launching the Your Stand Builder platform in March 2019, following more than 5 years’ in an exhibition project manager role preparing 25+ worldwide events annually for his previous employer – an experience which directly led to the YSB idea being born. Matthew is passionate about making a difference in the global events industry, and is committed to continually exploring technological innovation. He has taken YSB from concept all the way through to execution and plans to build upon this in the future through gradually developing the service further.
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About Your Stand Builder: SaaS, online marketplace, web platform
Mike Johnson
Managing Director of Blank Lab
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About : Online Creative Platform and Marketplace
