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 VP’ operating in the Business Development space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Elizabeth Van Den Berg
Senior Vice President of Insight Partners
Elizabeth van den Berg currently works as the Senior Vice President for Insight Partners. She previously worked at TMARA Group as the Non-Executive Director.
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About Insight Partners: Insight Partners is a private equity firm that invests in growth-stage technology and software companies.
Luke Parsons
Vice President of Summit Partners
Luke joined Summit in 2017 and focuses primarily on the healthcare and life sciences sector in Europe. Prior to Summit, Luke served as Vice President in the Mergers & Acquisitions division of Jefferies. Luke holds an MA in applied economics, with honors, from the University of St. Andrews.
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About Summit Partners: Summit Partners is an investment firm that is currently investing in to growth equity, fixed income, and public equity opportunities.
Edward Hughes
Vice President of Providence Equity Partners
Edward Hughes is a vice president based in our London office. Prior to joining Providence in 2013, Mr. Hughes was a vice president in the telecommunications, media and technology investment banking group at J.P. Morgan in London. He received a Bachelor of Science from Durham University.
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About Providence Equity Partners, Providence Strategic Growth, PSG: Providence Equity Partners is a private equity firm that focuses on media, entertainment, communications, and information investments.
Alberto Zenga
Vice President of TCV
Alberto Zenga is a Vice President at TCV. Alberto joined TCV in 2021 and focuses on investment opportunities in the internet, software, FinTech, and technology-enabled services sectors. He supports TCV’s investment in FarEye and Dream Sports.
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About TCV: TCV provides investment capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.
Alexander Wortmann
Vice President of TCV
Alexander Wortmann currently works as the Vice President for TCV. He previously worked at Merrill Lynch as an Investment Banking Analyst.
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About TCV: TCV provides investment capital to growth-stage private and public companies in the technology industry.
Mark Bilson
VP, Client Development & Integration Practice of Intapp
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About Intapp: Intapp is a provider of industry-specific, cloud-based software solutions that enable connected professional and financial services.
Mathen Ganesan
Executive Vice President – Invention Investment Fund of Intellectual Ventures
Mathen was co-founder of Storage Genetics which developed game changing signal processing technology for the Flash industry, obtained over 50 patent applications, and was sold to Micron Technology in 2010. As Vice President of Worldwide Sales and Business Development, Mathen was responsible for Go-To-Market Planning and Strategic Partnerships. Prior to Storage Genetics, Mathen ran International Sales at Cornice, Inc. (with Kevin Magenis) the first company to produce the consumer oriented “micro” HDD. Mathen’s focus has always been on introducing disruptive technologies and services into high growth markets, demonstrated by repeatedly building revenues from zero to in excess of $150M for various Semiconductor and Storage Technology companies. He has also acted as a consultant and advisor to companies in the Mobile Advertising, and Music/New Media markets, successfully integrating value added software applications into over 100 million end user devices.
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About bot2bot.com, Intellectual Ventures: Intellectual Ventures engages in invention and investment business that creates, incubates, and commercializes impactful inventions.
Yuval Arav
VP Solutions Architecture of PNMsoft
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About PNMsoft: PNMsoft, a software company, develops and supports business process management, case management, and work optimization software.
Mike O’Donoghue
VP Business Partners & Alliances of PNMsoft
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About PNMsoft: PNMsoft, a software company, develops and supports business process management, case management, and work optimization software.
