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 Social News 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.
Jasmine Cox
Product Designer of BBC
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Tim Sargeant
Head of Product, Systems & Services of BBC
Tim is a Chartered Engineer with significant experience in the broadcast and media industry. In his current role he leads a team of engineers to plan, develop and deliver production systems used by BBC teams at MediaCityUK, including Sport and Children’s. Big focus areas for him at the moment are the tools and technologies used for the production of low-cost Live and Short-form content for the BBC’s digital platforms. He is passionate about developing new talent and sponsors the BBC’s broadcast engineering apprenticeship and trainee schemes, accredited by the Institute of Engineering and Technology. Tim has Masters degree in Electronic Engineering & Music Technology, and started out his career in working in Research & Development writing software for AR and VR for broadcast television.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Matthew Postgate
Chief Technology and Product Officer of BBC
As Chief Technology Officer, Matthew Postgate is responsible for the corporation’s Technology & Systems. In addition, Matthew is a director of Youview Ltd; a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, C4, Channel Five, BT, Talk Talk and Arqiva that is developing a next-generation hybrid television platform. Prior to his current role within the organisation Matthew was Controller, Research & Development. He was part of the management team that launched BBC iPlayer and was in charge of BBC mobile where he was responsible for building the corporation’s world leading mobile services. Before joining the BBC, Matthew worked as a telecommunication consultant, was the director of an internet infrastructure start-up and worked at a digital strategy agency for clients including the Royal Mail, BT, Lloyds TSB, Visa and Qinetiq.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Daniel Whaley
Senior Architect – Product (Voice + AI) of BBC
Dan Whaley has been involved in voice and artificial intelligence since the earlier noughties and has worked in design, development and as a consultant. Currently at the BBC, helping build the future of broadcast media, Dan has seen the AI world emerge from the shadows to the mainstream and gained years of practical experience along the way.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Neil Hall
Head of Product, BBC iPlayer of BBC
A senior product leader with over 15 years’ experience creating and managing digital services, Neil is currently Head of Product for BBC Sport, leading the product development of the UK’s biggest and best digital sport offering.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Stephanie May
Executive Product Manager of BBC
Stephanie is a product management expert who was included in Product Management Festival’s 50 Women in Product in Europe List in 2018. Having gained an MEng from the University of Cambridge, she spent the next two years volunteering as a Biomedical Engineer on the MV Africa Mercy, the world’s largest charity hospital ship, before moving into software development. She’s passionate about collaboration and design thinking and has a range of product management experience across FinTech, B2B and consumer products. Stephanie now leads the Content Discovery product team at the BBC, looking at the strategy and delivery of products such as the BBC Homepage, Discovery Engine and Search.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
Niko Vijayaratnam
Director of Product of Financial Times
Niko Vijayaratnam is Head of Product for FT Core who develop platforms that support the wider FT Product and Technology division. Prior to working for the FT, Niko has developed products for global media companies such as the BBC and Dow Jones & WSJ.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Amy Nicholson
Product Manager of Financial Times
In 2016 Amy graduated from Makers Academy, a coding bootcamp in London, and joined the Financial Times as a junior developer. After 18 blissful months of coding she decided to dive into the curious world of Product and has since been a product manager working on FT.com.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Nick Bennett
Chief Product Officer of Live For Football
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About Live For Football: Live For Football is a vertical social network co-owned by the people that make the content that matters most to fans
