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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 CIO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CIO’ 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.
Wouter Volckaert
CIO of Force Over Mass Capital
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About Force Over Mass Capital: Force Over Mass Capital is a London based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments.
Dave Whalley
Chief Information Officer of Thoughtworks
He is a Chief Information Officer at Thoughtworks.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
José Nistal
Chief Information Officer of GoMadrid
José Nistal is co-founder and CIO of GoMadrid. He studied BSc. Finance & Marketing & Business Management at Comillas Pontifical University – ICADE and, additionally, Empirics of Management Program (The London School of Economics and Political Science), Global Leadership Program (Harvard University) and Frontiers of Innovation and Entrepreneurship (Massachusetts Institute of Technology). He is also an MBA, Finance & Entrepreneurial Management by The Wharton School. He previously worked at Merrill Lynch, Soros Private Equity Partners, Lehman Brothers, Alantra Private Equity, Cygnus Asset Management and Ecofin Asset Management.
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About GoMadrid: GoMadrid is a technological ecosystem and innovation hub focused on venture building projects in fintech and blockchain areas.
Damian Atkinson
CIO and Founder of Maxatta Limited
Over 30 years financial markets IT experience and former UK Region CIO for ING Bank for 12 years, spearheading technology strategy for the Bank, whilst running the IT organisation of 90 +staff. Business Leadership and Management at Maxatta. Damian will lead the Robotics CDAAS DevOps operation.
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About Maxatta Limited: Maxatta is a leader in Robotic Process Automation and the delivery of AI through automation for Front Office Financial Markets.
Rafi Vasserman
Chief Information Officer of EBS BrokerTec
Rafi was appointed Chief Information Officer of EBS on June 2012. From 2005 Rafi served as EVP Engineering and General Manager of Israel for Traiana (acquired by ICAP in 2007). From 2000 to 2005 Rafi was VP R&D of ClearForest that developed text mining solutions. Prior to 2000, Rafi was employed in several roles in Tecomatix Technologies Ltd.
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About EBS BrokerTec: EBS BrokerTec is a leading electronic trading platforms and solutions business in foreign exchange and fixed income.
Mark Hill
CIO and Co-Founder of Vestemi
Mark has a computer systems engineering background with 15 years of experience managing complex IT systems in the City and 7 years working in start-ups in a variety of leadership roles.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Daryl Flack
Chief Information Officer and Co-Founder of BLOCKPHISH
Analysis shows that human actions are overwhelmingly at the heart of many data breaches, and cyber attackers are actively seeking to exploit this to compromise target systems. If global organisations and nation states with their considerable resources and budgets are struggling to stem the flow of data breaches from this threat, what hope do ordinary businesses have of protecting themselves? Join us for a comprehensive and insightful presentation from BLOCKPHISH, who will use examples drawn from real attacks to reveal why, if you have a cyber security aware workforce, you can be more confident in your ability to be resilient to cyber-attacks.
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About BLOCKPHISH: BLOCKPHISH provides organisations with the ability to improve their resilience against phishing attacks.
Kaj Siebert
Chief Information Officer of Social Finance
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About Social Finance, Social Finance: We partner with government, social sector and the financial community to find better solutions to society’s most difficult problems.
Mike Simcock
CEO and CIO of ClearMacro
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About ClearMacro: ClearMacro helps institutional investors integrate actionable insights from data into their portfolios to enable smarter decision-making.
Tomas Nascisonis
CIO of Agent House
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About Agent House: Agent House is building a Real Estate Ecosystem – End to End Platform for agents, clients and suppliers.
