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 Manchester based CTO’ operating in the Software 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.
Sridhar Rajagopalan
Co-founder & CTO of StepZen
Sridhar leads Engineering at StepZen. Sridhar was a senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google, combining software and systems engineering skills to help build and run large-scale, massively distributed systems. Before that, he was a senior engineer and architect at Apigee and served for two decades as a member of technical staff and architect at IBM.
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About StepZen: StepZen helps developers build concise, flexible GraphQL faster. Whether backends are REST, databases, or GraphQL, teams can be up and running, delivering flexible APIs in days, not weeks or months.
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Steve Costigan
Field CTO EMEA of Zadara Storage
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About Zadara Storage: Zadara Storage offers enterprise-class storage as a service for private and public clouds.
Philip Clegg
CTO of MirrorWeb
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About MirrorWeb: We archive thousands of websites a year, hundreds of social media accounts, and index billions of documents.
Jon Stokes
CTO of CultureAI
Jon Stokes is a CTO at CultureAI.
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About CultureAI: CultureAI enables clients to orchestrate personalised security awareness, behaviour and culture programmes.
Glyn Powditch
CTO & Co Founder of Dream AI Ltd T/A Dream Agility
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About Dream AI Ltd T/A Dream Agility, Pre-PIM AI, SBG Bury: Multi-award winning, AI company with proprietary Visual AI and Machine Learning, specialising in Retail
Alastair Brown
Chief Technology Officer of BrightHR
Alastair Brown is Chief Technological Officer at BrightHR Alastair is responsible for driving forward BrightHR’s expansion plans and the management of the businesses technological needs. Alastair’s career has always been delivery focused and he has extensive experience in transforming businesses through technological and process change. Before joining BrightHR, Alastair worked as a director of delivery for an international hotel bookings site. He also worked as a leader for a global accountancy software business, which supported millions of entrepreneurs across 23 countries. An enthusiastic and motivated professional with twenty seven years experience in Information Technology. From a very strong technical background with delivery focussed experience across many business sectors. • A proven successful influencer of stakeholders at all levels. • Strong leadership and motivation skills, leading by example. • Ability to understand business needs and the strategy required to deliver a coherent information solution to them. • Articulate and able to communicate clearly and concisely at many levels in organisations. • Enthusiasm for demonstrating business value from pragmatic implementation of IT strategy. • Extensive experience of business transformation through technology and process change. • Highly developed analysis and problem solving skills demonstrated through a background in technical delivery. • Many years experience of delivering very large and complicated IT projects and programmes, with a reputation for guaranteed delivery to the highest quality. • A clear understanding of risk management approach and impact analysis. • A strong will to succeed and desire to deliver on promises and lots of energy for success. Specialties: Performance, integration, project rescue, delivery
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About BrightHR: BrightHR is a human resource software and support service for small business owners.
Mona Demaidi
CTO of M & M Innovators
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About M & M Innovators: M & M innovators is focusing on developing software and educational games to bring change in the existing IT industry.
Peter Baba
Founder/CTO of RecruitBubble
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About RecruitBubble: Recruit Bubble is a Specialist Recruitment Software solution that helps recruiters businesses grow faster and run more efficiently.
