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 CEO’ operating in the Virtualization space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Steve Robinson
Managing Director and CEO of Little Fish (UK)
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About Little Fish (UK): Littlefish is an award winning and rapidly growing Managed IT Services Provider.
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Ian Finlay
CEO of Abiquo Group
Prior to joining Claranet, Ian Finlay was CTO of ControlCircle, leading a team of 50 to design, develop, deliver and support a range of networking and managed hosting services and maintaining data centre facilities across Europe and in Singapore. Before that, he held the position of Vice President of IT and Business Systems at Interoute Communications, where he led a worldwide organisation of more than 60 staff to drive business agility, productivity and customer service through innovative technology solutions focused on business priorities. In addition to his work with ControlCircle and Interoute Communications, Ian has held senior positions at FLAG Telecom, Vanco Ltd and Novell UK Ltd.
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About Abiquo Group: Abiquo Group develops hybrid cloud management software for customers to build and monetize cloud-based services.
Julian Chesterfield
Founder and CEO of Sunlight.Io
Julian Chesterfield, founder and CEO of Sunlight, has worked in the cloud and virtualisation industry for over 15 years. After completing his PhD at Cambridge University, he became involved in writing a technology called Xen, which became the foundation of the public cloud back in 2007 when it was adopted by Amazon and most of the emerging public cloud infrastructure providers of the day.
Julian began Sunlight as an incubation project in 2013 to build a lightweight hypervisor for low-power Arm processors. On seeing its value for data-intensive applications at the Edge, Julian and the founding team built it into a full hyperconverged infrastructure stack – Sunlight. Sunlight secured $6m in Series A funding in December 2020 and has gone on to launch new products, including the Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace.
Julian previously held positions at OnApp, as Chief Scientific Officer, and Citrix, as Storage Architect
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About Sunlight.Io: Sunlight.io makes running and managing applications and infrastructure at the edge as easy as in the cloud. Sunlight works with efficient, ruggedized edge hardware – so you can consolidate all of your in-location edge applications with full isolation, security and high availability.
Robin Shenfield
CEO of The Mill
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About The Mill: Their passion is for great ideas, beautifully executed, that engage audiences irrespective of platform, device or venue.
Mat Clothier
CEO, CTO and Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies
Mat Clothier, CEO, CTO & Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies, has over 20 years’ industry experience. He started his first business whilst at university, providing CIO services to SMEs in the South West of England, and has since founded multiple organisations focusing on provisioning enterprise IT solutions. Mat is an expert in enterprise IT technology, virtualization and distributed management of applications, and devotes his time to developing solutions that simplify user access to modern enterprise IT applications. Mat is a motoring enthusiast and enjoys experimenting with new technologies. His focus is on producing IT solutions that make users’ lives easier, a promise that Cloudhouse Technologies constantly works towards. Mat graduated from the University of Plymouth with a BSc Hons in Computer Systems and Networks.
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About Cloudhouse Technologies: Cloudhouse Technologies is an infrastructure software vendor that liberates client and server applications to run on operating systems.
Lisa Hammond
CEO & co-founder of Centrix Software
As CEO, Lisa is the co-founder of Centrix Software, and from the beginning of the company, her passion and leadership have become hallmarks of Centrix’ success. Throughout Lisa’s career, she has been guided by a belief that business performance depends on making the most effective technology choices and this is embedded in Centrix Software’s product development and company strategy. Lisa’s main role at Centrix is leading the company in helping its customers optimize their information and technology to increase productivity and performance. She has authored or co-authored over 25 articles on IT services and business, and is a frequent public speaker.
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About Centrix Software: Centrix Software provides workspace computing solutions that optimize the way IT infrastructures deliver applications and content.
