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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 United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Enterprise 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.
Richard Potter
CTO of Microsoft
Richard Potter advises business leaders around the world on a range of digital transformation challenges. However, it’s the building of innovative enterprises that is his real passion. In his day job Richard works with Microsoft’s customers giving them clarity and confidence about their digital journeys, helping them turn their aspirations into transformational business results. He is a renowned keynote speaker and event facilitator with an energising and engaging style. He lives in the UK but travels extensively, shamelessly collecting and telling stories everywhere he goes.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Tarek Elabbady
Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stephen Barr
Central Government CTO of Microsoft
Steve Barr has 30 years experience in business and IT enterprise environments, within both the public and private sector. He has a diverse background covering a broad range of roles including business strategy and enterprise architecture, business management, programme delivery, leading large teams and consultancy. He has extensive experience in initiating and defining innovative solutions based on business needs and delivering enterprise-wide strategic solutions in large accounts. As a strategic leader within Microsoft, Steve has worked with CxOs across Government and the private sector, driving innovation around new technologies such as AI, Blockchain, cloud and mobile, whilst also covering security concerns. He is a member of the Government’s All Party Parliamentary Groups for AI and Blockchain and is often a speaker on innovation, technology driven business outcomes, Cybersecurity and how organisation can transform to the new ‘cloud world’.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ben Stopford
Lead Technologist, Office of the CTO of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Michele Riccardo Esposito
Co-Founder & CTO of Candu
Michele Riccardo Esposito is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Candu.
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About Candu: Candu is a product experience platform for software teams who want to design, refine, and personalize their application’s user interface.
Jason Chown
CTO of vTime Limited
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About vTime Limited: vTime is a virtual reality software company that develops apps and cloud-based solutions that redefine virtual engagement and communication.
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.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
William Montgomery
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Thought Machine
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Ivan Lian
CTO of Grip
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
Anthony Drogon
Founder & CTO of SeedLegals
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About SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Alex McMullan
CTO, International of Pure Storage
Alex began his career in software development after Bachelors and Masters Engineering degrees at Liverpool University, writing flight/test software at British Aerospace, CAD 3D modelling software at Parametric Technology and the RDBMS engine at CA for Ingres before moving into infrastructure design and implementation. Alex transitioned into professional services at Sun and VERITAS through a consulting partner with numerous assignments designing and implementing large scale UNIX and storage systems in financial services before joining UBS to manage the storage and distributed computing infrastructure. From UBS he moved to Barclays to run storage, database and data warehouse engineering and spent 6 years there before joining the Pure Storage team where he holds the role of EMEA CTO.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
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.
Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services of Citrix Systems
Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Ilkka Turunen
Field CTO of Sonatype
Ilkka Turunen is the Field CTO at Sonatype, working at Sonatype in europe. His background is in software and systems engineering, acting as an architect for several commercial projects. He’s helped define everything from the software design to webscale infrastructure architectures and regularly works with companies across the world to understand and improve their software supply chain and continuous delivery pipelines.
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About Sonatype, Sonatype: Sonatype is the developer-friendly full-spectrum software supply chain management platform helps organizations and software developers.
Saviz Izadpanah
CTO / Director of HighQ
Saviz joined HighQ in 2005 as CTO, responsible for leading HighQ technology strategy, product management and product development. Prior to HighQ, Saviz was the global head of Debt Capital Markets IT at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for the program management of multiple applications including Deutsche Bank’s online debt order capture system “dbbonds” for the global DCM sales teams. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Saviz was part of the lead web development team at Barclays Capital. Saviz holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Imperial College of London.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Luca Grulla
CTO of Signal AI
An entrepreneurial Technology Leader, experienced in leading product and technology teams from idea to delivery and monetization. Strategic thinker, core member of the Leadership Team, actively involved in company strategy and value creation. Member of the Core Technology team behind the £200M exit of uSwitch.com in 2015.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Ben Stoneham
Founder and CTO of Autologyx
Ben Stoneham is the Founder and CTO of Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Tsung-Hsien Wen
CTO of PolyAI
Tsung-Hsien Wen is co-founder and CTO at Poly AI.
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About PolyAI: PolyAI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
Brian Remmington
Chief Technology Officer of Alfresco
Brian Remmington is the Chief Technology Officer at Alfresco.
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About Alfresco: Alfresco is an enterprise open-source software company that automates content centric processes for digital business.
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.
Jonny Brankin
CTO of Smartzer
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About Smartzer: Smartzer makes videos and live streams interactive & shoppable on e-commerce, video ads and social.
Murat Abur
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade.
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About Suade: Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis.
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.
Simon McCabe
CTO of BaseStone
As well as a PhD in Physics, Simon has an extensive background in mobile and enterprise development. He has worked within the financial industry and other technology startup companies, with one successful exit under his belt.
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About BaseStone, BeneTalk, Songkick: BaseStone is a mobile and web application built for construction teams to access, capture and communicate information.
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.
Daniel Jones
Chief Technology Officer of Chirp
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About Chirp: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Rotem Hayoun-Meidav
Co-Founder & CTO of Vault Platform
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
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.
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.
Chris Murphy
Regional CTO, EMEA of Viavi Solutions
Chris has 15 years commercial experience in telecommunications covering network performance measurement, optimisation and SON, particularly in cellular RAN including LTE, UMTS, CDMA and WiMAX. His focus has been on the modelling, simulation and optimisation of next generation technologies to build a revenue stream early in the life cycle of each new generation of telecommunication systems. He has contributed to various industry and standardisation bodies including 3GPP and NGMN for optimisation and SON, and the WiMAX Forum. Prior to Viavi Solutions and Arieso, Chris worked for Motorola and NSN developing new technical capabilities for the service portfolio. Chris holds a degree in Mathematics and Computing and a Ph.D. in the calibration of oceanic remote sensing satellites for improved models of climate change. He has authored numerous journal and conference papers and has filed 10 patents.
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About Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
Chris Murphy
Regional CTO, EMEA of Viavi Solutions
Chris has 15 years commercial experience in telecommunications covering network performance measurement, optimisation and SON, particularly in cellular RAN including LTE, UMTS, CDMA and WiMAX. His focus has been on the modelling, simulation and optimisation of next generation technologies to build a revenue stream early in the life cycle of each new generation of telecommunication systems. He has contributed to various industry and standardisation bodies including 3GPP and NGMN for optimisation and SON, and the WiMAX Forum. Prior to Viavi Solutions and Arieso, Chris worked for Motorola and NSN developing new technical capabilities for the service portfolio. Chris holds a degree in Mathematics and Computing and a Ph.D. in the calibration of oceanic remote sensing satellites for improved models of climate change. He has authored numerous journal and conference papers and has filed 10 patents.
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About Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
Hassan Ahmadzadeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Seb Matthews
Chief Technology Architect (Defence & National Security) of Fujitsu
Seb Matthews is the CEO at ProvisionPoint
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About AdeoPoint, Fujitsu, ProvisionPoint: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
Ian Bradbury
CTO – Financial Services, UK and Ireland of Fujitsu
Ian Bradbury, Chief Technology Officer for Financial Services in Fujitsu and a Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer – Ian delivers thought-leadership into business-led transformational engagements in the areas of agile working, digital workplace, customer and colleague journeys, cloud adoption, AI and Intelligent Automation, Open Banking and DLT (blockchain).
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About Fujitsu: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
Neil Stevenson
CTO Hazelcast Platform of Hazelcast
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About Hazelcast: Hazelcast is a real-time, intelligent application platform that enables enterprises to capture value otherwise missed.
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Christopher Doman
CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security Ltd
Chris Doman is the CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security. He joined the industry after winning a forensics and development competition run by the US DoD. Chris is known for building the popular threat intelligence portal ThreatCrowd, which subsequently merged into the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, later acquired by ATT. Whilst working at PwC and ATT AlienVault in research and development, Chris published a number of widely read articles and papers on targeted cyber attacks. His research on topics such as the North Korean government’s crypto-currency theft schemes, and China’s attacks against dissident websites, have been widely discussed in the media. He has given interviews to print, radio, and TV such as CNN and BBC News. cdoman@cadosecurity.com
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About Cado Security Ltd, Ignite Research: Cado Security provides the cloud investigation platform that empowers security teams to respond to threats at cloud speed.
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.
Abdul Hummaida
CTO of Concentra
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About Concentra: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
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.
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
Mark Sheldon
Group CTO of Sidetrade
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About Sidetrade: Sidetrade’s AI-powered Order-to-Cash Platform helps companies improve revenue, grow profitability and optimize working capital
Subhash Muchala
CTO of Dynamify
PhD, University of Oxford
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
Adrian King
Founder, CTO & COO of Q9 Elements
Adrian King is the Founder and CTO at Q9 Elements.
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About Q9 Elements: Q9 Elements is a document hub that helps in cleaning up, document, and drive adoption of Salesforce.
Stuart Clarke
Chief Technology Officer – Cybersecurity of Nuix
Stuart is an internationally respected information security expert who is responsible for the overall security and intelligence strategy and delivery at Nuix. During his time at the company, Stuart has advised the United Nations’ peak cybersecurity body ITU and provided cybersecurity training for over 60 computer emergency response teams. He led the development of Nuix Investigation & Response, an innovative investigative tool used to delve into the causes and scope of data breaches. He also currently leads the development of Nuix Insight Analytics & Intelligence, a powerful security intelligence platform. Stuart has a deep understanding of the Nuix technology and capabilities. Prior to joining Nuix, he used Nuix offerings extensively in breach response. He brings that understanding together with a vision for the cybersecurity needs of Nuix’s current and prospective clients. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Computer Forensics and is currently working toward a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. He has developed and delivered training for a Master of Science program in Computer Security and Forensics, has recently contributed to a book covering evidence preservation as well as published several industry-recognized white papers.
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About Nuix: Nuix software pinpoints the critical information organizations need to anticipate, detect, and act on cybersecurity, risk.
Hugo Rodger-Brown
Co-Founder & CTO of YunoJuno
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About YunoJuno: Online platform connecting freelancers and clients in the creative and technology sectors
Andrew Barraclough
CTO & Co-Founder of Voxpopme
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About Voxpopme: Voxpopme is the world’s #1 video insight solution. We build great brands, products, and experiences with agile video feedback.
Kelvin Clibbon
Chief Technology Officer of Ecrebo
Kelvin joined Ecrebo in February 2018 as Chief Technology Officer. He is an experienced and effective CTO with strong managerial, technical and commercial skills. Building on a first class academic background, Kelvin has an outstanding track record of delivering innovative leading-edge products, which have enjoyed significant market success. He has previously held senior roles at Lumeon, Powa Technologies and Neverfail Group.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Gareth Davies
CTO & Co-founder of CloudApps
Gareth is a founding member of CloudApps and is responsible for Product Development & Architecture, bringing with him a wealth of cloud computing platform knowledge to the role. Prior to joining CloudApps, Gareth was Chief Technical Architect at Astadia where he was responsible for helping clients to achieve success with the Force.com platform. During his tenure at Astadia he led numerous complex and highly successful cloud computing projects. Before joining Astadia, Gareth spent 7 years at Celerant where he was responsible for architecting the company’s enterprise. Gareth pioneered the early adoption of SaaS based technologies and led a team to create an integrated set of business applications based on these early cloud computing platforms. Prior to Celerant, Gareth spent several years developing his technical skills, using web and database technologies to create sophisticated business applications in a variety of roles. Gareth has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Sussex and a masters degree in Microwave Solid State Physics from the University of Portsmouth. Gareth is married and lives in Surrey, UK.
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Fraser Hardy
CTO of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Fraser Hardy is Founder & CTO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Ian Pridham
Co-Founder & CTO of Openplay
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About Openplay: OpenPlay is an online platform that allows any sports facility to take online bookings, payments and manage their customers.
Alistair Jackman
CTO of Letyano
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Alistair Jackman
CTO of Letyano
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Stuart Cochran
CTO of BridgeU
Stuart is Chief Technology Officer at Huddle and is responsible for overall product design and direction, technology and infrastructure strategy, and technical operations. He has over 20 years’ experience in both start-up and large, public enterprise software companies. Stuart has a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics and a MSc in Computing and Computer Modelling of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Greg Dickson
Chief Technology Officer of Appointedd
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About Appointedd, Appointedd: Appointedd is a cutting-edge online booking and scheduling solution that makes it easier for you to connect with your customers.
Paul Ford
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of DadShed
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About DadShed: DadShed is enabling the data within buildings to be ‘easily’ accessible for marketplace opportunities.
Prashant Majmudar
Founder & CTO of Growth Intelligence
Prash spent six years as an engineer at BAE Systems Detica, where he oversaw the delivery of sensor and electro-optic surveillance systems for the Ministry of Defence. He is a proponent and advocate of the use of full stack data science, machine-learning and predictive lead generation. He co-authored GrowthIntel and NIESR’s 2013 report on the UK digital economy and is well versed in Python and Natural Language Processing. – See more at: http://growthintel.com/about-us/#sthash.1CIDS80S.dpuf
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Darren Anstee
Chief Technology Officer of Arbor Networks
Darren Anstee is the Chief Security Technologist within the CTO office at Arbor Networks, based in the UK. Darren has over 20 years of experience in the pre-sales, consultancy and support aspects of telecom and security solutions. Prior to joining Arbor, Darren spent eight years working in both pre- and post-sales for core routing and switching product vendors. Currently in his twelfth year at Arbor, Darren is involved in both the research and strategic activities at Arbor in relation to their enterprise and ISP network threat detection, mitigation and traffic visibility solutions. Working with Arbor’s Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT), Darren is able to identify trends and monitor the current threat landscape through ATLAS, research infrastructure that uses anonymous data from over 300 customers to monitor approximately one-third of all internet traffic. This previous experience and involvement with ASERT means Darren is au fait with attack methodologies and well placed to advise organisations on how to protect their networks threats ranging from DDoS attacks to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). He speaks regularly at shows such as Infosec Europe, and is often quoted on a range of topics in media outlets such as BBC, Forbes and SC Magazine UK.
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About Arbor Networks: Arbor defines the leading edge of network security and management for today’s network operators.
Alberto Pasqualotto
Chief Technology Officer of Spixii
Alberto Pasqualotto brings huge experience in machine learning, high-performance computing for large scalable applications, advanced information security and databases architecture, as well as a passion for compliance and data protection. Prior to Spixii, Alberto worked as a tech consultant for Italian and Swiss banks and founded other companies. Alberto is an Oracle database expert and holds a BSc and MSc with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Milano.
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About Spixii: Accelerate digitalisation of insurance processes with Spixii Conversational Process Automation (CPA) platform
Riccardo Valente
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Restorepoint
Chief Technology Officer at Restorepoint
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About Restorepoint: Restorepoint is a pioneer in network configuration and change management.
Mario Menti
CTO & Co-founder of Ally Chatbot
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
Andrew Smith
CTO of Nucleus
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About Nucleus: Nucleus is a software platform that allows financial advisors to manage and customize their clients’ investments.
Baris Ozdemir
Co-Founder & CTO of Trio Mobil
Baris Ozdemir is the Co-Founder and CTO at Trio Mobil.
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About Trio Mobil: Trio Mobil is a fast growing company specialize in Industrial IoT solutions targeting manufacturing, retail and services industries.
Alex Shiell
CTO of Cognitive Geology
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About Cognitive Geology: A specialist software provider for the oil industry
Paul King
CTO of The Bot Platform
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About : Empowering people to build a better employee experience using bots, digital assistants and automation tools.
Siva Ganesamoorthy
CTO of Olocode
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About Olocode: Share your latest contact details with a simple code and always stay connected. Start using Olocode and never lose a contact.
Andy Ward FREng
CTO & Founder of Ubisense
Andy Ward FREng is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Ubisense.
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About Ubisense: Ubisense is a developer of real-time location systems that provide enterprise business automation services.
George Matau
CTO of Opinsta
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About Opinsta: Opinsta is a single platform to manage defect reporting (QA), health and safety checks, Inspections, 3rd party maintenance and more.
Rupert Jabelman
CTO & Founder of Col8
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About Col8: Unlocking the potential in every video by allowing you to search and use it more intuitively
Gianluca Angelici
CTO of Adgistics
Entrepreneur and expert of marketing related technologies. MSc in computer engineering, specialised in Artificial Intelligence applied to Web data. I’m particularly interested in how technologies impact and change organisations. Investigating about it I wrote the book “The Liquid Corporation”. I’m currently CTO and Board Member of Adgistics.
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About Adgistics: Adgistics is a specialist Digital Asset Management solutions provider for world-class brands.
Peter Richards
Co-Founder & CTO of Gleanin
Peter Richards is a Co-Founder & CTO at Glean.in.
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
David Eves
CTO of amBX
David Eves is a CTO at amBX.
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About amBX: amBX is a software company engaged in the development of lighting control technologies.
John Hind
Co-Founder & CTO of Supplibase
Co-Founder & CTO of Supplibase.
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About Supplibase: Supplibase is a B2b enterprise network.
Louis French
CTO of Hypha Knowledge Integration
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About Hypha Knowledge Integration, Viadynamics: Hypha is a new Innovation Intelligence Platform that unifies people, knowledge, data, insights and strategy to drive growth.
Joel Stobart
Co-Founder, CTO of Custodian Solutions
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About Custodian Solutions: Custodian provides powerful tools which empower investigators, intelligence analysts, brand protection professionals and legal experts.
Jakub Pietrzak
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of SKY ENGINE
Jakub Pietrzak is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
Benjamin Huston
CTO of Loopa
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About Loopa: Private community communication and collaboration platform
Paul White
CTO of Wirefast
Paul White is the CTO at Wirefast.
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About Wirefast: Wirefast is a provider of a cloud-based, enterprise messaging services.
