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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 London based CTO’ operating in the Biotechnology space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Matthew Simmonds
Chief Technology Officer of Entocycle
Forbes 30 under 30 entrepreneur, built and sold a tech company to the NHS, 1st class Oxford engineering graduate, guitar shredder.
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About Entocycle: Entocycle’s automated insect farm produces environmentally friendly insect protein to feed farmed animals.
Radouane Oudrhiri
Chief Technology Officer of Eagle Genomics
Radouane has an extensive experience in leading world-class software and data-intensive system developments in different industries from Telecom to Healthcare, Nuclear, Automotive, Financials. Radouane is Lean/Six Sigma Master Black Belt with speciality in high-tech, IT and Software engineering and he is recognised as the leader and early adaptor of Lean/Six Sigma and DFSS to IT and Software. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and member of the ISO Technical Committee (TC69: Applications of Statistical methods) where he is co-author of the Lean & Six Sigma Standard (ISO 18404) as well as the new standard under development (Design for Six Sigma). He is also part of the newly formed international Group on Big Data (nominated by BSI as the UK representative/expert). Radouane has also been Chair of the working group on Measurement Systems for Automated Processes/Systems within the ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering).
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Ferdinando Randisi
Co Founder & CTO of FabricNano
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About FabricNano: FabricNano is a cell-free biomanufacturing company that develops a DNA-based flow reactor to unlock the future of biochemistry.
Jaya Krishnan
Co-founder & CTO of Genome Biologics
Prof. Jaya Krishnan has more than 20 years experience in preclinical models and cardiovascular disease research. He completed his PhD at Imperial College London and led research at the ETH-Zurich, Medical Research Council UK and Imperial College London. He currently leads an RNA Therapeutics group in Germany.
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About Genome Biologics: Genome Biologics identifies novel tissue-specific RNAi therapies targeting the transcriptome of cardiovascular and cardiometabolic disease
Robert Simion
CTO & Co-founder of EnzBond
Robert holds a PhD in Organic Chemistry from Oxford University. He has more than 8 years of research experience with main focus on computational and organic chemistry. Robert has published several peer-reviewed papers and has consulted for companies within biotechnology.
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About EnzBond: In-silico development of enzymes for pharma
Sam Bruggen
Co-founder & CTO of ThinAir
Sam Bruggen is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at ThinAir Water.
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About ThinAir: ThinAir – bringing water to water scarce communities across the globe.
Ben Holland
Co-founder and CTO of Antiverse
Ben Holland is the Co-founder and CTO at Antiverse.
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About Antiverse: Engineering the future of drug discovery
