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 Cambridge based CTO’ operating in the Information Technology 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.
Jay Jamison
Chief Technology Officer of Quickbase
Jay Jamison is a Partner at BlueRun Ventures. At BlueRun, he focuses on early stage consumer mobile and enterprise mobile investments. He currently serves on the boards of AppCentral, AppRedeem, Foodspotting and Thumb.
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About Quickbase: Quickbase helps organizations see, connect and control every element of the complex projects.
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Simanta Gautam
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Synapse Technology Corporation
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About Synapse Technology Corporation: Synapse uses proprietary deep learning and computer vision systems to modernize the security and defense visual analysis field.
Laurence Bargery
Co Founder & CTO of AccuRx
Laurence Bargery is a Co-founder & CTO at accuRx.
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About AccuRx: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Moe Vazifeh
CTO of AdaViv
Moe Vazifeh is one of the cofounders of Adaviv Inc, an MIT spin-off (designX & DeltaV 2018), creating machine-vision based technology to help indoor farmers grow smarter. He specializes in statistical modeling of complex patterns in large-scale data as well as devising advanced machine learning and optimization algorithms. He holds a PhD in theoretical physics from University of British Columbia (UBC). Before Adaviv, he was a research scientist at Amazon’s Alexa AI team in Cambridge, MA. Before that, he worked as a lead researcher at MIT for three years.
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About AdaViv, FIND: AdaViv is a hardware-enabled, predictive agriculture company.
Karthik Dinakar
CTO & Co-Founder of Pienso
Karthik Dinakar is a computer scientist in machine learning, natural language processing, and human-computer interaction. Karthik was a Reid Hoffman Fellow at MIT and the recipient of the 2015 Dewey Winburne Award. Karthik has previously held positions at Microsoft and Deutsche. He was invited to the White House on two occasions to present his research on the computational detection of cyberbullying and use of probabilistic graphical Bayesian models for crisis counseling. Karthik holds a doctoral degree from MIT.
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About Pienso: Pienso is a machine learning platform that makes it easy to turn text data into insights for non-programmers.
Richard Farrell
CTO of Netcall
Richard Farrell is CTO at Netcall.
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About Netcall: Netcall delivers solutions and services that drive sustainability in the IT sector that helps in improving customer experience through CX.
Chris Pointon
Co-founder & CTO of Racefully
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About Influence Network, Racefully: Enabling businesses to increase employee engagement and lower health costs through a compelling virtual team-based fitness solution.
Bruce Schneier
CTO of IBM Resilient
Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist and author. Described by The Economist as a “security guru,” he is best known as a refreshingly candid and lucid security critic and commentator. When people want to know how security really works, they turn to Schneier. His first bestseller, Applied Cryptography, explained how the arcane science of secret codes actually works, and was described by Wired as “the book the National Security Agency wanted never to be published.” His book on computer and network security, Secrets and Lies, was called by Fortune “[a] jewel box of little surprises you can actually use.” Beyond Fear tackles the problems of security from the small to the large: personal safety, crime, corporate security, national security. His current book, Schneier on Security, offers insight into everything from the risk of identity theft (vastly overrated) to the long-range security threat of unchecked presidential power and the surprisingly simple way to tamper-proof elections. Regularly quoted in the media — and subject of an Internet meme — he has testified on security before the United States Congress on several occasions and has written articles and op eds for many major publications, including The New York Times, The Guardian, Forbes, Wired, Nature, The Bulletin of the Atomic Scientists, The Sydney Morning Herald, The Boston Globe, The San Francisco Chronicle, and The Washington Post. Schneier also publishes a free monthly newsletter, Crypto-Gram, with over 150,000 readers. In its ten years of regular publication, Crypto-Gram has become one of the most widely read forums for free-wheeling discussions, pointed critiques, and serious debate about security. As head curmudgeon at the table, Schneier explains, debunks, and draws lessons from security stories that make the news.
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About Counterpane Internet Security, Harvard Kennedy School of Government, Harvard Law School, IBM Resilient, Open Technology Institute: IBM Resilient provides incident management software empowering organizations to thrive in the face of cyberattacks and business crises.
Tristram Norman
Co-Founder & CTO of Simprints
Tristram Norman, CTO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Tristram is a software engineer with an MSc with high honors from the University of London and professional certifications from MIT in Big Data. His software portfolio includes a complete systems portal with energy industry leader JDR Cables Inc. Tristram is a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Quentin Harmer
CTO of Endomag
Dr Harmer is a Chartered Engineer with more than 15 years’ experience in leading the development of advanced medical devices and drug-device combination products. He joined Endomag from Vectura Group plc where he served as Project Director responsible for the development of novel inhaler products. Before joining Vectura he was a Project Leader at Cambridge Consultants Ltd. He is an inventor on numerous patents that have been licensed in deals worth more than £40m. Quentin holds a PhD in Engineering Design and an MA in Engineering, both from the University of Cambridge.
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About Endomag: Endomag is a medical technology company devoted to improving breast cancer care through its magnetic sensing technologies.
Steve Clarke
CTO and SVP Engineering (IoT) of Wyld Networks AB
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About Wyld Networks AB: Wyld Networks enables affordable low power IoT connectivity through LEO satellites.
William Jones
CTO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
John Naylon
Chief Technology Officer of Cambridge Broadband Networks
A co-founder of CBNL, John is responsible for research and development and holds over 11 years’ experience of developing cutting edge wireless technology. John holds a degree and PhD in computer science from the University of Cambridge.
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About Cambridge Broadband Networks: Cambridge Broadband designs wireless back-haul and access provisions that improve telecommunication network capacity and efficiency.
Christopher Coleman
CTO of Memfault
Christopher Coleman is the chief technology officer of Memfault.
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About Memfault: Memfault provides solutions for firmware delivery, monitoring, and diagnostics to consumer electronics businesses.
Matthew Stannard
CTO & Head of Robots of The Happiness Index
Matt Stannard is the Head of Robots and CTO at The Happiness Index Ltd. Passionate about innovating and driving businesses forward through the use of technology, Matt designed and built the very first iteration of The Happiness Index tool alongside the founders, whilst working for a previous organisation. Since then Matt has taken a leading role in evolving the data and analytics behind the platform which helps organisations measure their culture through the use of neuroscience.
On top of this Matt works as a consultant in data and analytics, developing holistic measurement strategies, as well as helping evolve a ‘cloud first’ strategy. He’s also a passionate Ipswich Town fan who loves nothing more than watching them win at Portman Road alongside his wife and kids!
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About The Happiness Index: Driven by their vision of #FreedomToBeHuman, The Happiness Index has created the world’s only employee engagement AND happiness platform. The platform enables HR and People professionals to move from employee feedback to real-time, actionable insights all in one place, with the ultimate goal of building thriving workplaces all over the world.
Nick Parsons
CTO and Vice President of Engineering of Polatis
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About HUBER+SUHNER, Polatis: Polatis is a tech company delivering optical switching solutions for remote fiber-layer provisioning, protection and monitoring.
