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 Product operating in the Developer Tools space. If you think a Product 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.
Liz Leigh-Bowler
Product Marketing Manager of Microsoft
Liz Leigh-Bowler recently joined Microsoft as the Product Marketing Manager for finance, supply chain management and fraud protection. Within this role, Liz is responsible for the commercial success of Microsoft’s core ERP products in the UK across all customer segments. Before coming to Microsoft, she started her career as an assistant language teacher in Japan before making a complete change and jumping to finance at Barclaycard. Since then, she has specialised in proposition and product marketing where she can ensure customer needs are put at the heart of business decisions and Go-To-Market strategies. Following her time at Barclaycard, Liz implemented the global payments and banking strategy across Sage Accounting solutions and took up the position as Director for Product and Marketing at Sage Pay with extensive experience in payments, ecommerce and fraud.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Robert Epstein
Windows Product Marketing Director of Microsoft
Robert Epstein has been in the IT industry for over 20 years. He has run his own IT solutions business and spent time in the IT channel working with industry names including HP and Intel. He has been at Microsoft for over 15 years in various roles including Small Business Audience lead and OEM. He is currently UK Product Marketing Manager for Microsoft 365 including Windows 10 and is responsible for helping all partners from SMB to Enterprise understand the value of Windows 10 and Office Pro Plus He was also responsible for leading the launch of Windows 10 in the UK.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Sophie Harpur
Product Manager of Split Software
Sophie is passionate about making the complex world of experimentation accessible to everyone with core engineering, growth, design and product principles in mind. As Product Manager at Split, her goal is to help companies across a wide range of industries experiment and rollout software in the safest and most effective way. Before Split, she held several positions at Skyscanner, spending her last year as the Growth Experimentation Manager.
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About Split Software: Split Software is a feature delivery platform that powers engineering teams to build impactful products.
Chris Pace
VP, Product & Content Marketing of Immersive Labs
A talented communicator with a strong background in creation and development of compelling content. My background combines journalism, technology, security, and marketing, meaning I’m always discovering cool ways to attract an audience and drive engagement.
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About Coincover, Immersive Labs: Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.
David Sommer
Co-Founder & Product Director of Kudos
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About Kudos, Project Counter: Kudos offers web-based tools and services to help researchers, institutions, publishers, and funders increase the impact of their research.
Nick Omeyer
Co-founder, Product & Data of Stepsize
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Pedro Duarte
Product Engineer of Modulz
Pedro Duarte serves as a product engineer at Modulz. Pedro also works as a lead front end developer at Fathom. Prior to this, Pedro hasa worked at Facebook as a senior front end developer.
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About Modulz: Modulz operates as a visual code editor for designing and building digital products.
Thomas Kinniburgh
Director of Product and Monetization of Ayopa Games
With years of mobile games industry experience, Tom has been a key contributor to some of the largest mobile gaming franchises. Starting his career as a hands-on producer at Chillingo, Tom helped to establish the publishing process and worked with talented development studios such as Rovio, Zeptolab, 11-bit and Mokus Games. He worked directly with each of these previously unheralded partners to create worldwide hits and award-winning franchises. As a mobile game producer with Chillingo, Tom was responsible for helping developers to create their best content specifically for mobile platforms. As the transition into free-to-play began, Tom showcased key skills working with EA as well as helping major license-holders such as NBC and Fox Digital to move into the mobile space. Tom then sought further opportunities in the free-to-play genre, moving into a production and game management role with Wooga, the largest free-to-play development studio in Germany. There, he brought his experience and knowledge to help the company transition from Facebook to mobile. With Wooga, Tom honed his expertise specifically in game design and monetization of a variety of hit franchises, as well as immersing himself in the groundbreaking data-driven approach needed to create hit free-to-play mobile games. Tom has now decided to return to his indie game publishing roots with Ayopa Games. He’s keen to advise and collaborate with indie developers on creating and managing hit new mobile brands that really resonate with players globally. Together with Johnny Coghlan, Tom guarantees genuine publishing prowess for Ayopa Games and its indie development partners, enabling them to succeed and perform in the hugely profitable and highly competitive mobile gaming industry.
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About Ayopa Games: Ayopa Games is an independent game publisher for mobile platforms.MacGuffin’s Curse is a game developed by this company.
Miles Daffin
Product Manager of RepreZen
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About RepreZen: Innovative API design tools that promote interoperability and optimize integration ROI.
