Ellie Horvath
At Best Startup London we track over 100,000 London based 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 London based President operating in the Analytics space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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 Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sally Moore
Senior Vice President, Strategic Alliances of IHS Markit
Sally Moore is senior vice president and global head of strategic alliances at IHS Markit. She is responsible for corporate development and the company’s strategy and relationships with partners. Sally provides companywide leadership of third party content licensing, content acquisition, and mergers and acquisitions. Sally leads the company’s fin-tech strategy, including its investment in Illuminate Financial Management, a venture capital fund. She joined Markit in 2006, where she led the European credit business and global loan business. Previously, she spent six years at Thomson Reuters, as co-head of the Loan Pricing Corporation’s operations in Europe and later as a senior vice president and co-head of sales in North America.
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
Stuart McKenzie
Vice President Mandiant Consulting, EMEA of FireEye
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Will Wells
Founder & President of Hummingbird Technologies
Will founded Hummingbird Technologies in January 2016, where the business spent its first year developing Machine Learning algorithms at the Imperial College technology incubator. Prior to this, Will spent 10 years in the Finance and Investment sector. This included M&A and other special advisory roles at Citigroup and Lincoln International, as well as investment management at the successful multi-billion dollar Highclere global equity fund, where he was also a Partner. Will grew up on a farm and is a keen sportsman. He holds an MBA from INSEAD Business School and a First Class MA Honours degree in English Literature from the University of Edinburgh. Will sits on the Board of a Royal Marsden cancer charity and Math Engine plc, a UK public investment fund.
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About Hummingbird Technologies: Hummingbird is a drone and satellite enabled imagery analytics business for precision agriculture.
Lisa Macedo
Vice President of Moody’s Investors Service
Lisa Macedo is a Vice President – Senior Analyst in Moody’s Investors Service Structured Finance Group, based in London. She has been responsible for assigning ratings to over 100 securitisation transactions. The asset classes encompass peer-to-peer, consumer loans, student loans, credit card receivables, auto ABS, CMBS, non- performing loans, and all RMBS asset types: non-conforming, reperforming, warehouse, reverse mortgage, master trusts, prime and buy to let loans. She has covered EMEA, APAC and US jurisdictions including Germany, Netherlands, UK, France, Spain, Italy and Portugal. Currently she is responsible for surveillance of consumer asset securitisations, focused on the UK, Russia, Ireland and is also involved in rating methodology projects, research on market relevant topics, and has been involved in special focus groups covering matters including Brexit and IBOR transition.
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About Moody’s Investors Service: Moody’s Investors Service is a bond credit rating business that provides research, credit rating, and financial risk analysis services.
Baz Khuti
President US of Modak Analytics
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About Modak Analytics: Data Engineering
Mukhtar Ahmed
President, Science Group of Clarivate Analytics
Mukhtar Ahmed is the President & Science Group at Clarivate Analytics.
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About Clarivate Analytics: Clarivate Analytics accelerates the pace of innovation by providing trusted insights and analytics.
Chris Deboer
President & CEO of GAIN Credit
“I joined Global Analytics because of the extraordinary quality of the team, the size of the global market, the commitment to excellence and the opportunity to make a difference in changing the industry.” Chris leads our business development and partnerships and has over 20 years of experience in sales, client partnerships and key account management. Prior to Global Chris managed a team of industry professionals tasked with maintaining and growing relationships with Fair Isaac Corporation’s five largest customers. There, he developed a team-based, relationship-driven sales model with a focus on gaining deeper relationships across the client base. Chris holds a MSEE and BSEE from the University of California at Santa Barbara and plays tennis competitively.
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About GAIN Credit: GAIN Credit is a fintech company dedicated to providing credit for people who are underserved by mainstream financial service companies.
Andrew Fullerton
President, EMEA of Emarsys
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About Emarsys: Emarsys enables brands around the world to deliver truly personal customer interactions across email, mobile, social, and web.
Simon Jaffery-Reed
Vice-President of Product of Qubit
Simon joined Qubit as its first external hire during the company’s research and development phase. He was initially responsible for product innovation and developing analysis techniques that lead the way in conversion optimisation. After working on each of its core products across the platform, he is now responsible for leading product strategy across its entire product suite as Group Product Manager.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Kimberley Wood
Vice-President of Customer Affairs of Qubit
Proven international Professional Services leader in the SasS space with strong cross functional Customer Success experience, specialising in Social, Digital and CRM. Results focussed change agent that thrives in fast moving, innovative environments with track record in building and growing Global Professional Services Teams. A revenue generating leader with a true passion for creating and executing upon a Customer Success strategy
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Lance Miller
Assistant Vice President of R&D Marketing of Teradata
Lance Miller is Assistant Vice President, R&D Marketing, for Teradata where he is responsible for marketing all services. Mr. Miller’s is a subject-matter expert in several areas of the software industry including: databases, data warehouses, decision support (DSS/EIS), data visualization, CRM, and very large database technologies. Before joining Teradata, Lance was Chief Technology Officer (CTO), CIO, and VP, Software Development for Customer Insight Company, CIO for Woodward-Clyde, VP Software Development for Cray, and VP Software for Solbourne. Lance holds a B.S. degree in Computer Science from the U.S. Air Force Academy and an MBA (Strategic Marketing) from Chadwick University.
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About Teradata: Teradata is the connected multi-cloud data platform company. Our enterprise analytics solve business challenges from start to scale.
Sudhir Chaturvedi
President & Executive Board Member of L&T Infotech
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About L&T Infotech: LTI is a global technology consulting and digital solutions company helping more than 250 clients succeed in a converging world.
Kristian Keep
Vice President Of Engineering of Decibel
Kristian Keep is the vice president of engineering at Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Sandeep Bathina
President and Founder of StockViews
Sandeep is the President and Co-Founder at StockViews. He is a serial entrepreneur and private investor.
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About StockViews: StockViews is an investment research platform.
Keith Waterman
President and Co-Founder of BankBI
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About BankBI: BankBI is a Business Intelligence and Analytics for financial institutions.
Tom Reuner
Senior Vice President of HFS Research
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About HFS Research: It is our mission to provide visionary insight into the major innovations impacting business operations
