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 Reading based Director operating in the Internet space. If you think a 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.
Stephen Crompton
Senior Director of Product Management of Bentley Systems
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About Bentley Systems: Bentley Systems is the infrastructure engineering software company. We provide innovative software to advance the world’s infrastructure.
Rob Coombs
Director, ATG, and Director of Ecosystem and Alliances, SSD of Arm Holdings
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
Charles Bell
Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA of Sitecore
Charles Bell is a Director of Sales Engineering, EMEA at Sitecore.
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About Sitecore: Sitecore is a customer experience management company that provides multichannel marketing automation software and web content management.
Mark Wilkinson
Managing Director, EMEA & APAC of Profitero
Mark leads Profitero’s EMEA sales team, partnering with consumer brands and retailers to improve their eCommerce performance. Mark joins Profitero following his 18-year tenure at IRI. Most recently, he was Sales Director in the Technology Solutions group where he helped major FMCG organizations get the most from a diverse range of data to improve their key business processes. Mark has worked with Kellogg’s, Danone, Nestle, Mars and Heineken, helping these companies improve global business performance, in store execution, on shelf availability and multi-channel retailing (including eCommerce). Mark studied business at the University of Sheffield and is based in London.
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About Profitero: Profitero is the eCommerce performance analytics platform of choice for leading brands around the world.
David Whitehead
Senior Director of Sales Engineering and Solution Architecture, EMEA of Harmonic
David Whitehead is Senior Director of Cable Solutions for Harmonic Inc. In this position, David Leads EMEA Sales efforts for Harmonic’s CableOS virtualised CCAP and Remote-PHY solutions. David has contributed to the growth of the Cable Boadband industry from early days of proprietary Cable Modems right through to todays migration to Gigabit services, Virtualisation, NFV and DOCSIS 3.1.
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About Harmonic: Harmonic provides video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, satellite, internet, mobile and telco service providers.
David Whitehead
Senior Director of Sales Engineering and Solution Architecture, EMEA of Harmonic
David Whitehead is Senior Director of Cable Solutions for Harmonic Inc. In this position, David Leads EMEA Sales efforts for Harmonic’s CableOS virtualised CCAP and Remote-PHY solutions. David has contributed to the growth of the Cable Boadband industry from early days of proprietary Cable Modems right through to todays migration to Gigabit services, Virtualisation, NFV and DOCSIS 3.1.
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About Harmonic: Harmonic provides video delivery solutions for broadcast, cable, satellite, internet, mobile and telco service providers.
Chris Smith
Part-time Finance Director of Altitude Angel
Chris Smith is a Scottish Chartered Accountant with 20 years’ experience in NED, CFO and Finance Director positions in rapid growth companies, turnarounds and PE-backed transactions.He is a business advisor and mentor and has expertise in fund raising, corporate governance, strategic planning, financial reporting and business modelling. He works on a portfolio basis across a number of sectors including construction services, engineering, electronics, digital technology, software and business services.
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About Altitude Angel: Altitude Angel makes drones safer by providing the data and cloud services needed to safely unlock their potential.
Steve Jones
Director of Rumko Marketing
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About Rumko Marketing: Rumko Marketing is where all marketing matters by getting more from the Internet.
