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 United Kingdom 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.
Paul Egan
Chief Incubation Officer & Chief Technology Officer of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Bhaskar Khemchandani
CTO of Uplatz
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About : Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
James Harrison
Co-Founder & CTO of Genesis Global
James has over 20 years experience in senior technology, development & implementation roles for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, HSBC and vendors incl. Fidessa. During his career James has lived in New York, London, & Hong Kong. Prior to genesis global, James was regarded as one of the leaders in this field, managing global technical teams in supporting & delivering mission-critical, real-time systems for tier 1 global banking institutions needing their trading businesses to run near 24-7.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Joe Baguley
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA of VMware
Joe Baguley is VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA. He joined VMware in July 2011 and helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use today’s advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes. Joe is a recognised leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. He is a regular commentator on BBC World News, last appearing in January 2018 talking about edge computing with Aaron Heslehurst on Talking Business. In addition, Joe is also on several advisory boards at the European Commission and ETSI and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Gavin Ray
CTO of Digime
Gavin joined ip.access in june 2011. He spend the first 5 years of his career with AT&T in the UK Business Services group followed by five years in Cisco via its acquisition of Stratacom where he held a range of technology leadership positions in Service Provider networking and OSS systems. Recently he has worked as VP Products & Marketing in Telsis a leading messaging vendor and previously he was a partner at New York VC fund MeyerDuffy Ventures and followed with a number of years as a strategic technology advisor to a range of small/mid-size VC funded companies. He holds BSc(Hons) Telcommunications and PhD in network optimisation.
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About Digime, ip.access: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
John Bryant
Chief Technology Officer of Options Technology
John Bryant was named Options CTO in November 2012 having first joined the company in mid-2008 as Head of Technology for Europe, where he oversaw the development of the European Momentum and Velocity low-latency market data product portfolios in addition to managing the company’s European data centre expansion program. John has a wealth of experience in capital markets technologies including trading, market data, data applications and straight-through processing. He holds a joint bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from Liverpool University, holds a certification from the ITIL Foundation, and is a Prince II Practitioner.
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About Options Technology: Options is a global leader in financial technology managed services and IT infrastructure products.
Ian McShane
Field CTO of Arctic Wolf
Ian McShane is the Field Chief Technology Officer of Arctic Wolf. Ian has over 20 years experience in cybersecurity and operational IT, with humble beginnings in a tech support call center and live-fire experience leading sysadmin teams for large multi-national organizations. As a former Gartner analyst, Ian has advised the largest and fastest growing technology companies in the world as well as tens of thousands of organizations world-wide. He is well known as a trusted advisor and popular commentator in our industry, and prior to joining Arctic Wolf Ian also spent time in various product leadership end executive roles at Symantec, Endgame, Elastic, and CrowdStrike.
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About Arctic Wolf: Arctic Wolf helps companies end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service.
Aditya Sarkar
Chief Technology Officer of Lean Technologies
Aditya Sarkar is Chief Technology Officer at Lean.
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About Lean Technologies: Lean Technologies is a FinTech startup that develops a platform to provide access to consumer financial data.
David Santoro
CTO / Co-Founder of Carwow
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
Evan Tzanis
CTO of Credit-Vision
Evan has designed and built the original version of the Credit-Vision platform from the ground up and together with our senior technology advisor Ignacio Ybarra he is leading our technology development. Evan is a specialist in the design, implementation and delivery of large-scale projects. A member of MRC eMedlab, he and his team have been developing a shared computer cluster harnessing UK clinical and genomics data meant to underpin future medical research on rare diseases. He was also the Leading Software Engineer for re-factoring NIESR’s (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) global econometric model software NIGEM, a data analysis software used by major global institutions including the IMF, OECD, BoE and ECB. Evan holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College London, a Msc Degree from the University of Amsterdam and a Bsc/Msc degree from the Technical University of Athens.
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About Credit-Vision: Credit-Vision identifies, captures, aggregates and contextualises financial data for investors in corporate credit.
Vinod Singh
CTO of Concirrus
Vinod leads our technology team including product delivery and development. He has more than 15 years of experience in architecture, design, development, testing and implementation of large distributed applications, spending time at both Google and Amazon.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Neil Murray
CTO and Co-Founder of Mimecast
Neil Murray is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services. Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service. Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s. Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Klaus Michael Vogelberg
Group Chief Technology Officer of Sage Group
Klaus-Michael Vogelberg was R&D Director and partner of the German KHK Software group, acquired by Sage in 1997. In 2000 he joined the Group team to assist Sage operating companies and the Board on software architecture and technology strategy. Between 2004 and 2007 Klaus-Michael acted as R&D Director for Sage UK and Ireland, before taking up his current post of Group Chief Technology Officer.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Ashwind G. Soonarane
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of DMALINK
Ashwind Soonarane is an institutional electronic foreign exchange specialist drawing from his multi-displinary management and technical expertise to formulate and implement strategic plans aimed towards generating competitive advantage for sustainable growth. Ashwind holds an MSc in Finance, MBA and a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) degree. He is a a certified technical analyst of the Society of Technical Analysts, UK.
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Jeremy Longley
CTO & Co Founder of FunFair Technologies
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About FunFair Technologies: FunFair provides blockchain powered solutions to the online gaming industry.
Phil Wilding
CTO of Vast Visibility
Phil Wilding is the CTO at Vast Visibility.
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About Vast Visibility: Vast Visibility is a technology and online marketing company that is dedicated to the insurance industry.
Dominic Forrest
CTO of iProov
Dominic is responsible for the design and development of iProov’s cloud-based infrastructure. Prior to taking up his role with iProov, Dominic was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at mBlox Inc., where he managed a team of fifty developers over three continents, responsible for developing and scaling the platform so that it could seamlessly run over 6 billion transactions per year. Prior to mBlox, Dominic had over fifteen years’ experience in a number of senior roles within UK Telcos and ISPs. This included the responsibly for the Architecture and design of voice, transmission and IP networks for NTL, followed by the launch and growth of the company‘s broadband service to over 2 million customers.
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About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Aaron Asaro
CTO of Kopernio
Aaron Asaro is the CTO of Kopernio.
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About Kopernio: Kopernio is a free web-based software that enables access to academic journal articles.
Cyril Pluche
CTO of Vauban
Cyril Pluche is the CTO at Vauban.
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About Vauban: Vauban is the easiest way to pool & deploy capital to invest in private companies.
Mark Christie
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Piksel
As Chief Technology Officer, Mark Christie is responsible for Piksel Group’s client solutions including product strategy, innovation, and management, solution deployment, research and development, and global network infrastructure. Mark joined Piksel Group in April 2011, after the acquisition of IP video solutions provider ioko, where he was CEO and co-founder, growing the company over fifteen years from a UK-based business with two employees to an international business with 350 staff and operations worldwide. In addition to leading ioko’s management team and overseeing its client accounts, business development, and operational support organization, Mark built the managed service infrastructure to support tier-one customers like ITV, Channel 4, the BBC, and AT&T. He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Rob Lamb
Client Principal and CTO of Dell Technologies
Rob Lamb is a Client Principal in Dell Technologies Global Transformation Office and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the UK and Ireland. His role is to bring industry expertise and transformation experience, helping customers achieve key business outcomes in times of change. Taking a business centric perspective as a trusted advisor; counseling them on how they can accelerate their IT transformation, while balancing the need for consistent delivery to ensure the desired business outcomes are achieved. Prior to joining Dell EMC Rob was head of infrastructure & CTO in EMEA for a large multi-national, delivering IT services to over 16000 users in 69 locations across 44 countries. He has particular expertise in leadership of major IT transformation programmes, including cloud, data centre consolidation, outsourcing and helping drive the cultural change associated with such major change initiatives. Away from work Rob is a keen yachtsman and is a Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Yachtmaster Instructor and Cruising Instructor Trainer.
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About Dell Technologies: Dell Technologies provides essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future.
Brendan O’Reilly
CTO of O2
Brendan is Telefónica UK’s Chief Technology Officer, with over 15 years’ experience in Mobile Telecoms. Brendan has accountability for O2’s strategy, design, planning, test, delivery and operation of the entire mobile and fixed network, messaging and wifi supported by his team of more than 600 professional engineers. Brendan has held a number of senior roles in the Networks Leadership Team over the past seven years, with achievements including leading the development of O2’s network share partnership with Vodafone in June 2012. He is also experienced in detailed planning and delivery of radio and transmission networks. Delivering the best experience to O2’s customers is at the heart of how Brendan works and knows his people are key to achieve this. Brendan also has a strong focus on his people encouraging development and self-learning across all of Networks.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
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.
Benjamin van Enckevort
Co-founder and CTO of Metomic
Cofounder & CTO at Metomic.
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About Metomic: Metomic is a data privacy software that provides the privacy-by-design infrastructure of the internet.
Chris Goddard
CTO of G-Research
Chris Goddard is the Chief Technology Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
Sukhi Gill
VP, Fellow and CTO UKIIMEA of DXC Technology
Sukhi Gill is DXC.technology’s VP, Fellow and Chief Technology Officer for UK, Ireland, Israel, Middle East and Africa where he is responsible for overall technical direction, innovation and leading the senior client facing Account Chief Technologists. His role is responsible for directing the engagement of technologists with business leaders who are challenged with digital business transformation. Sukhi has over 30 years of experience in the IT industry, with very large scale IT services infrastructure modernisation and application delivery programmes. He also has extensive experience across many industry segments where he can collaborate with organizations to enable them to gain significant business advantage through the strategic deployment of technology and process innovation. Prior to the UK&I CTO role Sukhi was a Hewlett Packard Enterprise Fellow leading on business led Digital Transformation initiatives. This was heavily influenced by a sabbatical role for 7 months in 2015 as the CTO and VP Engineering for a Sunnyvale, USA startup.
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About DXC Technology: DXC Technology is a end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change.
Matt Painter
CTO of import.io
Matt is the brains behind the powerful functionality in the import.io tool. His innovative ideas have helped import.io create a tool that allows anyone to tap into the huge potential of data on the web. Matt’s primary responsibility is to oversee the technical strategy and product roadmap of the company. As CTO, he is dedicated to building a team of world-class engineers to keep import.io at the forefront of the industry. Prior to co-founding import.io, Matt was a consultant for Sapient and worked as Senior Engineer and Product Architect for Yahoo.
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About import.io: import.io offers a Web Data Integration solution that provides global businesses with high-quality, scalable data from the web.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Dave Ettle
Co-Founder & CTO of Zynstra
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About Zynstra: Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge.
George Wetz
CPO, CTO & Founding Member of Yumpingo
George Wetz is the Chief Technology Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
David Bestwick
Chief Technology Officer of Arqit Limited
David Bestwick is a Chief Technology Officer at Arqit company.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Craig Johnston
CTO & Co-Founder of ENOUGH
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About ENOUGH, Swedish Biomimetics 3000: ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
Matt Holland
CTO & Co-Founder of Seedata.io
Matt Holland is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Seedata.
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About EF Education First, Seedata.io: Seedata.io is a cybersecurity platform that helps companies mitigate data leak incidents and crime threats.
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
David’s long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Peiman Hosseini
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Bodle Technologies
Peiman is a founder and Chief Technology Officer of Bodle. As a postdoctoral researcher at Oxford, he demonstrated the use of ultrathin functional materials in electro-optical applications, setting up Bodle Technologies with Harish to commercialize this invention. He was a member of the RAEng Enterprise Hub in 2014 and has won numerous awards for this technology including the Printed Electronics R&D Academic Award. Pei leads the technology development and with the other management team members helps define business and development strategy.
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About Bodle Technologies, Bodle Technologies: Developing SRD® technology for a low-power display of vivid colours that doesn’t look washed out in bright conditions
Emilian Siemsia
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of FriendlyScore
Emilian Siemsia is the founder and CTO of FriendlyScore, a platform which combines Machine Learning (AI) techniques, Web Application development and Mobile solutions to process alternative credit-scoring data. Emilian is a dynamic and driven technologist with a rare combination of business knowledge and deep technical expertise. He is passionate about start-ups and understands group dynamics and team building. Artificial intelligence, particularly semantic analysis are of special interest to him. For over 10 years he has held many software developer and technical leader roles. Prior to FriendlyScore he ran a software development house. Emilian was educated at Wroclaw University of Technology, he holds a Master of Science in Automation and Robotics.
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About FriendlyScore: Unlock the power of Open Banking. Simple access to bank APIs, enriched data and predictive analytics
Tom Nimmo
CTO & Co-founder of Ryde
CTO of Gameplan Technology – B2B enterprise software for the facilities management sector. Formerly Co-founder and CTO of Hassle.com – mobile-driven, contingent workforce supplier for B2C cleaners. Sold to Helpling.com.
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About Hassle.com, Ryde: Ryde is the world’s leading fully integrated, last-mile delivery management platform
Christos Ellinas
Co-Founder and CTO of Nodes & Links
Dr. Christos Ellinas holds a doctorate in Complex Systems from Bristol University (UK), where he was a faculty member, and was a Visiting Professor at Stevens Institute (USA). His research is award winning, has been published in leading scientific journals and industry guides, has attracted EU and industry funding and has been piloted across several large-scale projects.
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About Nodes & Links: Nodes & Links empowers organizations across all domains to tame project complexity.
Timothy de Paris
CTO of Decibel
Timothy de Paris is the founder and CTO of Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Pierre Fraisse
CTO of Stelae Technologies
Graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and doctorates from Orsay and former CTO of Datox/Wedia (specialist in editorial platforms for the publishing sector), with extensive experience in designing and building Content/Document Management solutions.
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About Stelae Technologies: Stelae Technologies is a software vendor that offers information management solutions.
Tom Taylor
Co-Founder and CTO of Breakroom
Tom Taylor is the co-founder and CTO at Poplar.
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About Breakroom: Breakroom is a crowdsourced data platform for hourly and shift workers.
Mandeep Gill
Co-Founder and CTO of Datapane
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About Datapane: Datapane is a Python framework for developing data science documents for companies, clients, or communities.
Marc Sollars
Chief Technology Officer of Teneo
Marc is our chief evangelist and a Company Director. In his role as CTO, Marc has a passion for identifying next-generation technologies that are early to market and can be integrated into Teneo’s services portfolio. He also enjoys introducing these to our global customers.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Rens Troost
Chief Technology Officer of Virtual Clarity
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About Virtual Clarity: Virtual Clarity delivers strategic systems transformations, enabling you to create the right environment for successful business change.
Dotun Rominiyi
Blockchain Strategy – Emerging Tech & Innovation, CTO Office of London Stock Exchange
A Product & Technology expert leader with over 14 years combined experience across the blockchain, FinTech and video gaming sectors. Specialising in executive management, product leadership, with expert skills in blockchain development, games and high performance real-time applications. I have proven commercially focused product leadership as well as technical expertise in Solidity, C/C++, C#, Python, R, Rust, full-stack JavaScript (Node.js) and Java development across a variety of platforms. I’m available for conferences and speaking engagements with a focus on either blockchain & DLT, video games, FinTech or other emerging technologies. Consultancy services offered: https://clarity.fm/dotunrominiyi
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About London Stock Exchange: London Stock Exchange is an online marketplace that enables stock brokers and traders to buy and sell stocks, bonds, and other securities.
Bryan Black
Chief Technology Officer of REPL Group
Since joining REPL in 2012, Bryan has become a leading vision and thought leader in retail technology. Working with some of the biggest retailers in the world, he brings an innovative mobile-first approach to projects spanning augmented reality, artificial intelligence and point of sale. Bryan has over 15 years’ experience in the software industry as lead developer, technical director and chief technology officer. He started his career in the games industry, developing cutting-edge AAA games for PC, Xbox and PlayStation. Since then, he’s successfully delivered large scale global projects, mission critical applications and technical architecture across a multitude of platforms. Bryan now defines and drives REPL’s technical vision, developing exciting new business opportunities with their partners, researching the latest trends and technology and ensuring their products are secure, scalable and maintainable.
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About REPL Group: REPL Group delivers technology and management solutions which transform business operations and processes.
Bill Walker
CTO of QA Ltd
Bill has 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, having started his career in software development and consulting with Deloitte. He manages the company’s relationships with its major vendors and partners, including Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Amazon, Red Hat and Citrix. He sits on advisory boards for many of them and has served three years on Microsoft’s advisory council in Seattle. He is responsible for leading innovation to ensure that QA is at the forefront of technology that helps customers get the most from their investment in training. Bill was a director of Xpertise where he was responsible for growing the business in the technical, project management, service management and soft skills areas. He has a degree in Computer Science, is a chartered engineer and a BCS Certified IT Professional.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Jonathan Whiteside
CTO and Co-Founder of Building Blocks
Jonathan Whiteside is the managing director for design and technology at Dept.
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About Building Blocks: Building Blocks helps global companies solve complex problems using digital technologies.
Mark Skelton
Chief Technology Officer of Cancom
Mark Skelton heads heads up CANCOM’s Professional Services division with overall responsibility for the UK’s technology strategy. Prior to joining CANCOM his background was with big system integrators and large business-focused consulting firms. An expert in digital transformation, workplace transformation and hybrid IT strategy.
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About Cancom: The Cancom group is a provider of IT infrastructure and IT services.
Anuj Saboo
CTO & Founder of Healum
Anuj is responsible for the company’s technology vision and team. He believes in the power of Artificial Intelligence to assist healthcare professionals in supporting and understanding their patients. He has 15 years of deep experience in technology sector from working in AI, mobile, social gaming, e-commerce, payments, digital health and network infrastructure. He is experienced in building scalable technology platforms and managing high quality engineering teams. He holds MSc in Computer Science and MSc in Embedded Systems & Robotics from University of Essex.
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About Healum: Healum provides connected software and apps to improve self-management for patients with long term conditions.
Akeel Ahmed
Co-Founder & CTO of intelliflo Ltd
Akeel cofounded Intelliflo, along with Nick Eatock, in 2004 after completing the successful sale of a touch-screen business. Entrepreneurial and technically savvy, Akeel works on new propositions and is heavily involved in the technology platform. Outside work most of his time is spent with his wife and children.
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About i4C Technology, intelliflo Ltd: intelliflo provides SaaS-based solutions for the financial services sector.
Cristian Dan
Co-Founder and CTO of YAYZY
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About YAYZY: Yayzy is an application for carbon footprint calculator.
Vivek Doraiswamy
Co-Founder / CTO of MeVitae
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About MeVitae: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
Stuart Fiske
CTO of Consult Hyperion
Stuart is a founding Director of Consult Hyperion. Prior to 1986 he was involved in the development of transaction processing systems and fault-tolerant command and control software. Stuart obtained a BA Honours degree in Physics and a PhD from the University of York. Stuart has specialised in the analysis of business requirements and the specification and verification of payment systems. He provides and oversees specialist consultancy to clients focussing on the design and deployment of innovative identity and payment methods based around the use of secure cryptographic devices. Stuart works with clients such as the global card schemes, banks and fixed and mobile telecommunications operators. His current interests include both contact and contactless payment cards, NFC-enabled phones, and the specification and verification of vendor products which form part of those schemes.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Guy Evans
CTO of Koyo
Experienced hands-on CTO/VP Engineering
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About Koyo: Koyo uses machine learning to serve customers with competitively priced credit
Aeneas Wiener
Co-Founder & CTO of Cytora
Aeneas draws on 10+ years of technical experience developing bespoke cloud-driven web applications. He holds masters degrees in Theoretical Physics and Computational Science from Imperial College London. His widely published postgraduate work focused on optical materials used for chemical sensing and invisibility cloaking. In 2011 Aeneas co-founded the Hermes Academy, an innovative nonprofit organisation backed by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
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.
Philip Sibson
CTO and Co-Founder of KETS Quantum Security
Philip is arguably the world leader in integrated photonic systems for quantum communications. He is the lead developer behind the world’s first chip-to-chip QKD demonstration and the main inventor on both of KETS’ patents. He is a QTEC alumni fellow and a key contributor to the UK’s Quantum Communications Hub.
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About KETS Quantum Security: KETS Quantum Security is developing a range of future-proof, cost-effective technologies for quantum-secured communications.
Mostafa Afgani
Co-Founder and CTO of pureLiFi
Mostafa is a respected hardware and firmware engineer. A chief architect of VLC hardware platforms over the past three years, Mostafa holds three patents and has filed for two more in the VLC field. Prior to co-founding pureLiFi he developed sensitive signal anomaly detection hardware for Agilent and held a research position at DoCoMo labs, Munich, Germany. Mostafa has BSc and MSc degrees in electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany and a PhD in communications and signal processing from the University of Edinburgh.
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About pureLiFi: pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
Harsha Gowda
CTO & Board Member of Getronics
Harsha Gowda Siddaveere is the Chief Technology Officer at Getronics.
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About Getronics: The Getronics family is an ICT Services group consisting of the Getronics and Connectis brands.
Mitul Sudra
Co-Founder & CTO of OpenWrks
A key figure at the very earliest stages of Open Banking’s inception, Mitul is transforming the vision for Open Banking into real value. Mitul’s team create the technology that powers everything OpenWrks does.
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About OpenWrks: OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company.
Derek Ewing
CTO of KITE EDGE LTD
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About : Customisable Search Platform for Asset Managers/Banks
Paul Bray
CTO of Computacenter
Paul has been Computacenter’s Chief Technologist for End User Services for 5 years. Working closely alongside our partners, customers and market agents to develop Computacenter’s strategy and represent that externally to our clients and the market. Currently Paul’s focus is on supporting customers through their Digital Transformation priorities, and evangelising “Digital Me”, Computacenter’s response to the needs for modern workplace environments. Prior to working at Computacenter Paul has worked for a number of IT Service providers and has a degree in Business and Economics.
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About Computacenter: Computacenter provides IT infrastructure services and solutions in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Belgium.
Troy Batley
Chief Technology Officer of Chorus Intelligence
Troy began his career as a software engineer in 1990 moving to Database and Systems Administration then to Project and Programme Management. He worked in the Banking and Finance industry in the 90’s before moving into Retail where he gained extensive experience managing digital technology transformation programmes for household name businesses such as Sainsbury’s and M&S. He has a passion for building, developing and leading successful high-performing technology teams.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Dael Williamson
European CTO (Data & AI) | Global Data Technology Lead of Avanade
Technology leader, innovation architect and data scientist. Global Chief Architect of BEYONDigital (by HCL Technologies). We are a global digital and data consultancy specialising in design thinking, experience design, innovation, technology strategy, process digitisation and big data predictive analytics. Co-founder and Chief Strategy & Data Officer of ThinkLab.AI. A machine learning algorithm marketplace offering clients artificial intelligence solutions to deliver game-changing insights from data. Dael also serves on the Advisory Board for FitSprint as Product, Technology & Data Advisor. Vast experience working for and with start-ups as a technology specialist. Passion for data science developed while in academia, producing theoretical protein models and experimental protein structures. Master’s degree (First Class); several degrees and publications.
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About Avanade, ThinkLab.ai: Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Katarina Wagnerova
Principal Technologist (OCTO) of Creative ITC
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About Advecti, Creative ITC: Creative deliver real-world IT infrastructure solutions for today, to take you where you need to go tomorrow.
Rob Smith
Chief Technology Officer of Creative ITC
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About Creative ITC: Creative deliver real-world IT infrastructure solutions for today, to take you where you need to go tomorrow.
Marc Barry
CTO and Co-Founder of Enclave Networks
Marc Barry is the CTO and Co-Founder of Enclave Networks. He is a Master’s graduate in Information Security who builds, researches and secures computer networks. He has worked extensively with internet-based technologies, encryption and digital assurance, spending several years prior to Enclave Networks leading the security and infrastructure team of a large UK based digital media agency, delivering solutions to Government and enterprise.
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About Enclave Networks: Connect all your computers, servers, cloud instances and containers across any infrastructure with effortless Zero Trust Network Access.
Martyn Walker
CTO of ENTIQ
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About ENTIQ: Entiq is a global innovation and economy enabler, and a leader in innovation delivery, new venture development and ecosystem creation
Julian Polzella
Founder & CTO of Shopwave
Julian founded Shopwave following the acquisition of his startup VouChaCha, which built multi-platform, location-based, scalable, API-driven architectures for top 200 UK retailers & enterprise clients such as Orange & Lastminute.com. VouChaCha was acquired as part of Markcomedia in a £55 million deal by Monitise PLC. Julian is an Entrepreneurial Spirit Award Winner and holds a first class honours degree in Computing Sciences. He developed expertise in economic, trading, social, reinforcement & machine learning AI technology at Palantir and at university.
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About Nift-e Labs, Shopwave: Kitchen & Ops Automation, POS, App Integration & Payments. Shopwave helps the worlds leading restaurant and retail brands to scale globally.
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.
Pieter Ennes
CTO of Energyworx
CEO & co-founder of Authentiq
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About Authentiq, Energyworx: Energyworx provides a SaaS-based platform for energy data management and energy intelligence solutions,
Bilal Khan
CTO and Co-Founder of Skwire
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About Apply.Property, Skwire: Skwire provides an online tool to manage and acquire real estate investment.
Steve Smith
CTO & Head of Engineering and Intelligence of ProFinda
CTO/Head of Engineering and Intelligence
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About ProFinda: ProFinda is a digital platform that intelligently organizes people around work by matching skills to relevant projects and bids.
Mark Hornsby
CTO of Trustology
Mark is a dedicated technologist with extensive industry experience in top tier investment banks. In his most recent role, Mark was recognised as a Distinguished Engineer in his Senior Innovation Engineer role, where he was responsible for examining emerging technology and its possible applications within Royal Bank of Scotland. Previously, Mark was head of Counterparty Credit Risk Technology at RBS. Prior to working at RBS, Mark was a Credit Risk developer at UBS, and OTC Derivatives developer at Deutsche Bank.
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About Trustology: Trustology is building a custody platform to safeguard your crypto assets.
Simon Tindal
Chief Technology Officer of Smart Communications
Simon leads the product development, engineering, and customer support teams to drive continuous innovation across our product portfolio. Previously the head of Professional Services and Pre-Sales, Simon led the transition to our SaaS services offering. In this role, Simon and his team of industry-leading consultants built a reputation for implementing game-changing solutions across today’s most complex enterprise organizations. Simon brings 18 years’ experience in the software industry, having held several senior positions at Cincom Systems and Triangle Computer Services prior to joining Smart Communications in 2005.
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About Smart Communications: Smart Communications is a privately held company that provides cloud-enabled customer communications management services.
Jacob Clarkson
CTO of Amigo Technology
Jacob Clarkson is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Amigo Technology. He’s a startup CTO with over 8 years of commercial experience architecting, developing and maintaining complex software systems in a variety of languages. Before joining Amigo, he worked in Java software development, predominantly working with J2EE stacks, JSF and Oracle databases. Working in relatively large scale national systems at various places (one of which being the NHS), he gained expertise in relational databases.
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About Amigo Technology: Amigo is a cloud-based marketing technology platform that turns marketing ideas into brilliant digital experiences.
Gabriele Cacciola
CTO of Ocyan
Gabriele has engineering in his DNA: focused and visionary about tech. His experience as Big Data in the Fintech space with ClearScore (since they were a small startup to the worldwide scale it is now) followed many years spent in high tech startups and corporates. When is not busy directing Ocyan’s tech work, he works along with AWS to present his Big Data serverless platforms and support other startups in this journey.
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About Ocyan: Financial marketplace for European Expats
Matthieu Louis
CTO of Stepsize
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About Stepsize: Stepsize build devtools for teams to develop better software faster.
Bangdao Chen
Chief Technology Officer of OxCEPT
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About OxCEPT: OxCEPT is an Oxford University spin-out company which has developed the ‘World’s Most Secure’ way to transmit data.
Bangdao Chen
Chief Technology Officer of OxCEPT
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About OxCEPT: OxCEPT is an Oxford University spin-out company which has developed the ‘World’s Most Secure’ way to transmit data.
Charlotte Slingsby
Co-founder, CTO of Nettoken
Charlotte Slingsby is the founder of Moya Power: London based wind energy harvesting startup, developing a flexible building textile to scavenge from existing infrastructure. Our future relies on farming green energy, therefore their mission is to capture abundant ambient wind energy from wasted urban space; creating energy generating hubs. Working together with CrossRail they have tested the potential in underground train tunnels, and have been recognised by Forbes 30u30 and Shell LiveWIRE.
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About Nettoken: The control panel for your digital identity!
Krzysztof Worsa
CTO & Co-Founder of Gophr
Co-Founder, CTO, Board Member at Gophr.
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Chris Case
Chief Technology Officer of Oxford PV
Dr Chris Case joined Oxford PV in April 2014. Chris brings a strong track record of senior technology management to the business. Since 2009, he has been running his own consultancy providing high level strategic technology commercialisation advice to global companies and small companies alike, including Voltaix Llc; recently acquired by Air Liquide, and Surrey NanoSystems. Prior to this, he spent ten years with BOC Edwards and The BOC Group, latterly part of the Linde Group where he was Chief Technology/Scientific Officer, responsible for driving global technology strategy and R&D for the €8 billion business. Chris has a strong scientific background in patents and IP management, and is passionate about realising their commercial value. His experience spans markets across the world including the US and he has worked for a number of companies – from large corporates to small start-ups – to help manage their IP portfolios, broaden their scope of influence and build successful and profitable businesses. As well as being extensively published in international press and periodicals, Chris is also a regular speaker and lecturer on integrated circuits and photovoltaics, and chaired the interconnect team of the International Technology Roadmap for Semiconductors (ITRS) for more than 10 years. He began his career as Assistant Professor of Engineering at Brown University followed by 10 years at AT&T Bell Laboratories. He was a Fulbright-Hays scholar at the Université de Bordeaux, and holds a ScM in engineering and a PhD in materials science from Brown University.
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About Oxford PV: Oxford PV is a provider of perovskite solar cells.
Justin Ashurst
Co-Founder, CTO & COO of AppInstitute
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About AppInstitute, Peckish: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Limor Schweitzer
Founder and CTO of MOV.AI
Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal, loves all things technical, has been granted some 15 patents, accumulated 25 years experience in IT, Telecom, web and robotics, and rarely ever worked for a company he didn’t own. Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics, filed lots of patents and raised quite a bit of venture capital. Specialties Creating startups. Software development and distribution, IT services, Telecom software marketing, Internet Security, Computer Networks. Internet of Things, E-Commerce and making humanoid robots run.
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About BIND 4.0 Open Innovation and Acceleration Program, MOV.AI, RoboSavvy: We provide robotic developers with enterprise grade ROS development & run time environment (Robotics engine platform).
Rogelio Arellano
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Citruslabs
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About Citruslabs: Clinical trials run on Citrus
Ian Redmond
Chief Technology Officer of Ceres Holographics
Dr. Ian Redmond has 27 years experience in research and industry, as a technologist and manager. Most of his experience has involved applications of holography following a PhD in Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs) from Heriot –Watt University, Edinburgh. He was co-founder of US-based consumer electronics company DataPlay, whose products won overall Best of Show at CES in 2001. Before returning to Scotland to found Ceres Imaging Ltd., he spent four years at the core of world-leading holographic data storage company InPhase Technologies, a spin-out from Bell Labs. There he led the holographic optical drive product development effort, pushing the development of the highest performance photopolymer media to date. This material was subsequently licensed to Bayer MaterialScience (Now Covestro), forming the foundations of the high-performance film developed under a joint development agreement (JDA) for Ceres, and now in production. His combination of knowledge in all aspects of holography, optics and photopolymer chemistry, at practical and theoretical levels is unmatched in the field. Dr Redmond remains at the heart of the company development advancing the core technology and defining customer solutions based on Ceres advanced capabilities.
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About Ceres Holographics: Ceres Holographics is enabling next-generation transparent AR displays with innovative holographic technology.
Stephen Dodson
CTO/Founder of Prelert
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About Prelert: Prelert provides incident management tools that automatically isolate the causality of application interruptions in real time.
Robert Russell
CTO & Co-founder of Senseye
Rob is the Chief Technology Officer at Senseye, with a BEng in mechanical engineering. He has spent the last 15 years designing and deploying asset management and condition monitoring systems within the aerospace, defence and transport sectors. Having a mechanical engineering background in the software sector has enabled Rob to bridge the gap between the end user and the software teams he leads. His previous position was as CTO of Critical Software, an advanced software engineering company serving the aerospace and defence industries. Rob is passionate about maximising asset and equipment usage but believes in keeping things simple.
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About Senseye: Senseye is a cloud-based software for predictive maintenance.
Andy Fielder
Chief Technology Officer of BigHand
Andy Fielder was appointed as CTO in January 2013. Andy has over 26 years of experience leading development teams and developing software on numerous technical platforms. Andy is an agile advocate, coaching and mentoring teams to adopt the mind sets and practices that enable them to continuously deliver market leading products. Prior to BigHand Andy, was Head of Software Development at NetNames, an international role managing teams in Copenhagen, Cambridge and London. Before this Andy managed the Web and iSeries teams at Edexcel a Pearson company. At BigHand Andy is responsible for strategy, software development, product management, services and infrastructure enabling the delivery of world class technology. Andy is a Certified Scrum Master and has a BTEC National Diploma in Business and Finance from Harlow College.
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About BigChange, BigHand: BigHand develops voice productivity software solutions for legal, healthcare, property, and financial companies.
Gavin Lilley
Chief Technology officer of Zapaygo
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About Media Maison, UK Ministry of Justice, Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
Steve Borthwick
Founder & CTO of Artesian Solutions
What does Steve do at Artesian? I am responsible for helping to shape and implement our strategic business goals through the design, development and roll-out of innovative and market leading software products. About Steve I have over 30 years’ experience in the software and IT services industries, prior to founding Artesian I was CTO of a MRM software start-up “Then-UK” which was successfully acquired by US firm Aprimo. Prior to Aprimo I was CTO of Palo Alto (USA) based analytics software vendor WhiteLight and helped design and develop a market leading multi-dimensional BI/analysis product which was later acquired by SunGard. Before WhiteLight I worked in a number of senior roles for Canadian software firm Cognos in the UK and Europe, both in the product consulting and product development groups. Outside of being a student of the art of making great software and my family I have a wide range of interests which include collecting fine wine, playing guitar and keeping fit.
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About Artesian Solutions: Artesian is the company intelligence service which is changing the way B2B sales people work.
Chris Loy
CTO & Co-founder of datasine
Chris has spent ten years in product development and software engineering, having led large engineering projects within leading technology teams across London, including at Ocado and the BBC. He holds degrees in Physics from Oxford and Machine Learning from UCL, with research efforts focused on using deep learning for complex frequency analysis. He has commercial experience spanning distributed system design, high-traffic web architectures, big data analysis and real-time engineering.
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About datasine: We empower marketers with intelligent, data-driven insights to improve the performance of creative content.
Craig Bloodworth
CTO of The Information Lab
Craig first discovered the power of Tableau through constant frustration with data report authoring using classic spreadsheet applications. Since buying his own copy of Tableau, Craig has never looked back, joining The Information Lab in 2011 and helping people install, understand, and create exciting visualizations with Tableau. Outside of Tableau, Craig lives in York with his partner and their three-year-old daughter. Being a local food enthusiast you’re sure to find him browsing a North Yorkshire farmers’ market in search of seasonal, local produce.
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About The Data School, The Information Lab: The Information Lab is a team of passionate Tableau software professionals.
Charaka Goonatilake
Founder & CTO of Panaseer
Charaka is the brains behind our big data technology. His team lead the way in generating innovative techniques for deriving new security insight for our customers.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Matthew Bates
CTO of Jetstack
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About Jetstack: Jetstack builds modern, cloud-native infrastructure using Kubernetes.
Siim Talvik
CTO of Sorry As A Service
Sorry as a Service, CTO
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About Sorry As A Service: Sorry As A Service is a platform helps companies when a customer complaints or has an issue & suggests actions to rebuild the relationship
James Eggleston
Chief Technology Officer of appScatter
James is responsible for the delivery of appScatter’s flagship technology – the distribution, performance, tracking and intelligence platform. Prior to appScatter James worked in the mobile gaming industry delivering global technology solutions for international brands.
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About Airnow, appScatter: AppScatter is a B2B SaaS platform that distributes, manages, and monitors mobile apps across multiple app stores worldwide.
