20 Successful CEOs to watch out in 2021 - UK Edition

David Hicks, CEO of TribeCX, provided the initial entrepreneurial spark that has now evolved into TribeCX’s market-leading products and services. He’s been involved in Customer Experience (CX) for more than two decades and has now invited the most successful senior CX practitioners to join TribeCX.

According to Fabrizio Majorana, CEO at Six Sigma Management Institute Europe, the importance is in the brand. Six Sigma was established by Mikel Harry, recognized today by the customers, and, most importantly, by the big brands.

Franck Vialaron, CEO and founder of Accelex, has a wealth of qualities that have transformed and aided the company’s growth since its inception in 2018. His extensive experience spans 20+ years in the FinTech space; notably, Franck previously founded Expand Research, with a successful exit to BCG in 2011.

Heath Gunn, CEO of Enham Trust, is a passionate and committed leader whose strategic vision, positivity, values, and drive to improve people’s lives have been instrumental to the transformation Enham Trust has undergone in the last four and a half years.

Ian Shapiro joined Reall as CEO in early 2018 and found an organisation ‘head down’ building homes for people on low incomes in Africa and Asia. He is driven by a passion that where you are born should not dictate your life chances and the recognition that poor people were being bypassed by the rapid urbanisation in emerging economies.

Jacqueline Daniell is the driving force behind Wey Education. As Chief Executive Officer, she has a demonstrated history of working in the e-learning industry. Her astuteness in business planning and development is coupled with her strong sense of how to translate technology for the user’s benefit.

Jim Fairbairn arrived at Megger as CEO in late 2017, joining an eponymous market leader that needed a refreshed and more compelling longer-term vision. Although the company was number one in many of its products and applications and had a dedicated and passionate workforce, a new strategic direction would allow the business to further its leading position and stay relevant in the medium and long term.

The chances are most people have spoken to a Moneypenny PA without even realizing it, as the company manages more than 20 million calls, chats, text messages, and emails for more than 21,000 clients annually.

Paul Gill, CEO, Gillgraphics, is ambitious and not afraid of a challenge and has succeeded in building up his own company up from scratch. Early on, Paul realized that to shy away from a potential opportunity is to fail before one has even begun. With that said, how one responds to failure also makes a huge difference.

Wallace Davis, CEO of TravelWifi and military veteran, has been around the military for the last 33 years and has seen a lot of different wars. During that time, he noticed that when communicating back to family and loved ones, forms of communication were always lagging. He got the initial idea to use satellite when the fiber would go down for communication.

Zain Ali, CEO of Centuro Global is both calm and methodical in his approach as a leader which has been tested particularly in 2020. With the onset of the coronavirus the company has remained on target to launch their new technology at the end of the year