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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 Product operating in the Recruiting 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.
Christos Malliaros
Product Management Director, Leadership Solutions of SHL
Christos Malliaros is an Organisational Psychologist with over 20 years of HR experience. He holds a master’s degree in Organisational Psychology from London’s City University, a Diploma in Human Resource Management from London Metropolitan University and Advanced Certification in Executive Coaching from Bristol Business School. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK). Christos has a varied background of in-house HR and Recruitment roles with private and public sector organizations in the UK. Over his career, he has worked and delivered consulting services in Hong Kong, China, and Singapore, especially in the areas of Executive Assessment, and Leadership Development Centres. Since 2016, Christos has exclusively focused on developing new Leadership Solutions for SHL, with the largest and most ambitious product being SHL Leader Edge. Leader Edge is an innovative Leadership assessment and development solution based on SHL Research findings on the importance of context in leadership performance. SHL Leader Edge won the 2018 SIOP M. Scott Myers Award for Improving the Accuracy of Identifying and Developing Best-Fit Leaders.
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About SHL: SHL, the global leader in talent innovation, helps companies transform productivity through deeper people insight.
Christos Malliaros
Product Management Director, Leadership Solutions of SHL
Christos Malliaros is an Organisational Psychologist with over 20 years of HR experience. He holds a master’s degree in Organisational Psychology from London’s City University, a Diploma in Human Resource Management from London Metropolitan University and Advanced Certification in Executive Coaching from Bristol Business School. He is a member of the British Psychological Society and a member of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development (UK). Christos has a varied background of in-house HR and Recruitment roles with private and public sector organizations in the UK. Over his career, he has worked and delivered consulting services in Hong Kong, China, and Singapore, especially in the areas of Executive Assessment, and Leadership Development Centres. Since 2016, Christos has exclusively focused on developing new Leadership Solutions for SHL, with the largest and most ambitious product being SHL Leader Edge. Leader Edge is an innovative Leadership assessment and development solution based on SHL Research findings on the importance of context in leadership performance. SHL Leader Edge won the 2018 SIOP M. Scott Myers Award for Improving the Accuracy of Identifying and Developing Best-Fit Leaders.
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About SHL: SHL, the global leader in talent innovation, helps companies transform productivity through deeper people insight.
Charles Bloomfield
Product Manager of Lantum
Product Manager at Lantum
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About Lantum: Lantum is the online platform that enables healthcare providers to manage their clinical workforce.
Shahab Ali
Product Manager of YapJobs
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About YapJobs: Real Time Hiring App for Hospitality & Retail
Oliver Fisher
Co-Founder & Chief Product Officer of Springpod
Oliver Fisher is the Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Ellie Hoy
Product Manager of The Work Crowd
Ellie is our Product Manager here at The Work Crowd, she is passionate about the user experience and adding intuitive and meaningful functionality. After graduating from Leeds University Ellie worked for an online tutoring start-up, helping build their online platform, helping take the company from a standing start to receiving first round funding. Ellie has also worked in executive search prior to joining The Work Crowd, so also appreciates the challenges companies face finding the right talent to meet their business needs.
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About The Work Crowd: The Work Crowd is changing the way talented people choose to work and how work finds talented people!
Phil Brown
Chief Product Officer of Tungl
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About Tungl: Tungl is a tech assessment platform designed to streamline tech recruitment and enable data driven hiring decisions.
Tatum Bisley
Director of Innovative Products and Projects of HiUp App
Tatum Bisley has been in the L&D space for 15 years, spending time with technology vendors, content providers, and internal L&D departments within organisations. Tatum was fortunate enough to be working inside a forward thinking Tel-co retailer and brought about the UK’s first national social learning initiative… forming a template that has been since replicated in many more organisations. Tatum went on to help evolve a social and video-based mobile learning product for a company call Fuse Universal, set up digital capabilities within a few larger companies and more recently, he works with Hiup (a new job and training matching app in the B to C market) as the COO and also with Olive Digital (rebranded from Olive Learning) as their director of Innovation with a particular focus on the next big trends in digital corporate learning – Virtual Reality.
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About HiUp App: HiUp App is a provide a meeting-place for job-seekers, employers and recruiters.
Liam Nolan
Head of Product of Zealify
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About Zealify: Zealify is a recruitment tool assisting enterprises in finding candidates for higher level positions.
