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 E-Commerce 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.
Jonathan Howell
Chief Technology Officer of Cazoo
Jonathan Howell is the chief technology officer at Cazoo.
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About Cazoo, Unbiased: Cazoo is an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars.
Jason Torres
Co-Founder & CTO of Slerp
Jason Torres is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slerp.
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About Slerp: Slerp is an e-commerce platform for the hospitality industry.
Lucas McGregor
CTO of Lyst
Lucas McGregor is a SVP Engineering at Adconion Media Group.
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Paul Clarke
Chief Technology Officer of Ocado Group
Paul Clarke is Director of technology at Ocado, the world’s largest online-only grocery retailer. After joining Ocado in 2006, Paul initially worked on warehouse control systems and then joined the team designing Ocado’s next highly automated fulfilment centre. After establishing new teams for simulation and mobile development, Paul then co-wrote the first of Ocado’s award-winning mobile apps, which remain the only apps from a major retailer supporting full offline shopping. In his current role, Paul heads up Ocado Technology, whose 600+ software engineers and other IT specialists are responsible for building all the software and IT infrastructure that powers Ocado and Morrisons’ online grocery business. Ocado is in the midst of re-platforming its complete solution to create the Ocado Smart Platform — a combination of scalable, modular hardware for building automated warehouses and its end-to-end e-commerce and fulfilment solution running in the cloud. Ocado will use this platform to put retailers around the world online using their unique business model. In what little spare time he has alongside his work and family, Paul loves to invent and build stuff, design PCBs, write software and generally tinker.
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About Ocado Group: Ocado is an online grocery retailer providing services, technology, and automation to grocery e-commerce businesses around the world.
Vikram Simha
Co-Founder and CTO of Pouch
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About Global Savings Group, Pouch: Pouch is a technology company that develops tools to save online shoppers time, money and hassle.
Robert Howes
CTO & Board Advisor of Judopay
Rob co-founded Algomi to build on a strong technology background engineering sophisticated solutions to complex problems. Drawn to opportunities where technology can be used to challenge the status quo, Rob has spent many years successfully leading the delivery of ambitious Fixed Income solutions, including Credit List Trading at UBS and more recently a first of its kind anonymous crossing platform for bonds. Rob holds a M. Eng. in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College.
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About Judopay, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Steve Homan
Chief Technology Officer of Metapack
Steve is the CIO at MetaPack. His role is to oversee technology across MetaPack, including the engineering and operations of MetaPack’s cloud-based delivery management platform. Steve joined MetaPack in 2018 from a financial services organisation, where he was Digital Transformation Director. Prior to that he spent five years as CIO at Daily Mail Group managing the company’s technology transformation, enabling it to adopt a more customer-centric business strategy. He was also CIO at Fitness First, responsible for all aspects of technology in the group, as well as playing a major role in the evolution of the operations and transformation of the customer experience. Steve holds a BSc in Computing.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Shaun Pearce
CTO of Gousto
CTO at Gousto
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About Gousto: Gousto is an online meal-kit manufacturer and retailer, using AI and automation to provide extensive choice and personalisation.
Ben Phillips
CTO & Co-Founder of Thread
Ben is the co-founder of Thread.com and runs the development team there. Founded last year, Thread brings personal styling to everyone, and it’s free. Before Thread, Ben co-founded Playfire and scaled the site to over 1.5 million users. Ben also enjoys product and graphic design but leaves these things to the experts most of the time.
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Mehdi Doghri
Co-Founder & CTO of Save Your Wardrobe
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor. Interested in the Fintech, Fashion Tech, Retail Tech and consumer mobile apps.
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Anders Hallsten
Co-Founder & CTO of Divido
Anders Hallsten is CTO and Co-Founder at Divido. Hallsten spent the last 10 years building e-commerce platforms for brands such as Hush Puppies and Fossil Watches.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Richard Taylor
CTO of Good Club
Richard Taylor is the CTO at Good Club.
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Samuel Heather
VP, Chief Technology Officer of KodyPay
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About KodyPay: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Darren Lee
Chief Technology Officer & Coder of AI Bots as a Service – a Conversational AI engine by AI BaaS
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About AI Bots as a Service – a Conversational AI engine by AI BaaS, Atos: A world-leading Conversational AI engine. Voice assistants powered by AI BaaS.
Geoff Wells
Chief Technology Officer of AudienceView
Geoff Wells serves as a CTO at AudienceView.
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About AudienceView: AudienceView offers the entertainment industry with tools that enables intelligent ticketing and e-commerce solutions.
Nic Ferrier
CTO of WooMe
Nic is a technical leader specializing in highly agile, lean environments. He has a background as a devops hacker before devops was understood as a specific discipline. He codes in Python, Java and various Lisps and speaks emacs and vi. Nic has been involved in various open source projects, maintains a github for his personal hacks and worked within the Sun JCP on specifying the Servlet specification of Java web components. Nic is currently a consultant on agile development and infrastructure with ThoughtWorks.
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About HSBC, WooMe: WooMe is an online dating app that connects people who have common ground.
John Marsden
Chief Technology Officer of Nixplay
Chief Technology Officer at Nixplay.
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About Nixplay: Nixplay is the no.1 selling Smart Photo Frame. Nixplay Signage is a complete Enterprise Digital Signage Solution.
Jules Curran
CTO of SimplyCook
Jules Curran is the CTO at SimplyCook.
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About SimplyCook: SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.
Stephen Mason
Co-Founder & CTO of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Natalia Mila
Chief Technology Officer of Upstream
Natalia joined Upstream in 2008 as a senior software engineer. She has worked in several roles within the company, as a team leader and later on as chief architect and head of engineering, leading the design and implementation of Upstream’s mobile commerce platform. She is now the company CTO, responsible for its technical product, engineering and infrastructure functions. She has more than 17 years of work experience in enterprise software, in companies such as Intracom and Intralot S.A. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master’s degree in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems, from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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About Upstream: Upstream is leading the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets.
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.
Giles Williams
Co-founder & CTO of Urban
Giles Williams is the Co-Founder and CTO of Urban. He bringing experience across all development disciplines, he leads the technical architecture and engineering for the business, as it scales rapidly across the globe. As with all engineers, the need to stretch out after a long day at a desk means his favorite massage treatment is Thai Yoga.
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
Tim Boughton
CTO & Co-founder of Mention Me
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About Mention Me: Harness the exponential power of your brand fans
Tom Cohen
CTO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Tom Cohen joined Popsa as Co-Founder & CTO in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Daniel Vartnov
CTO of Veeqo
CTO at Veeqo.
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About Veeqo: Veeqo provides a cloud service that helps online retailers manage their business operations.
Co-Founder and CTO of Clouder
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About Clouder: Clouder is a marketplace, subscription service and hyperlocal delivery.
Pete Craghill
Chief Technology Officer of Visualsoft
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About Visualsoft: Visualsoft eCommerce Based in the North East of England, Visualsoft is one of the UK’s leading web development companies.
Dave Clark
Co-Founder & CTO of LoyaltyLion
Dave handles software development, system administration and design. He holds a degree in Computer Science and has worked for Sun Microsystems and Oracle. Alongside LoyaltyLion, Dave writes about coding and devops and reads lots of books.
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About LoyaltyLion: Social loyalty framework for ecommerce
Gavin Love
Chief Technology Officer of MyBuilder
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About MyBuilder: MyBuilder connects consumers, builders, and tradesmen and offers a platform that promotes high quality work.
Panagiotis Tsarouchis
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duel
Panagiotis ‘Naio’ Tsarouchis is an award winning designer and developer with prolific experience in entrepreneurship having founded design and technology education startups including Consider Magazine, Art In Progress and Treesix. Naio is Duel’s Co-Founder, CTO and expert in both complex computer science and user-centric design, having built Duel from a UGC platform into a fully-featured Brand Advocacy suite. As a fellow Co-Founder of Daredevil Project gaming studio, he has a deep, technical understanding of how gaming virology, authentic brands and customer behaviour intersect on a platform level. When not working, you’ll probably find him rescuing art in Bristol, adding to his impressive rum collection and rocking his synth.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
Charles Lee
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kontainers
Charles Lee is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Kontainers.
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About Kontainers: Kontainers is as Enterprise SAAS Provider providing e-commerce capabilities to Freight Forwarders and Shipping Lines
Marc Roberts
Chief Technology Office of Hiyacar
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About Hiyacar, Neutron Creations: Hiyacar is a UK peer to peer car sharing platform.
Tom Kirkpatrick
Chief Technology Officer of Fullcube
Tom is responsible for the product development roadmap of fullcube’s proprietary subscription management and integration platform. Prior to fullcube, Tom co-founded SystemSeed, and built a global reputation as an evangelist and leader in the open source community.
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About Fullcube, SystemSeed: Fullcube is a platform integrating and automating the “subscription economy.”
Pavel Sich
CTO of Moovshack
As software architect, Pavel is responsible for the technical direction and full software development lifecycle at Sequent, Moovshack and IOSBITS.
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About Moovshack: The first fully interactive, mobile-first property platform that doubles as a free-to-list portal & a brandable estate agent app
Alex Christodoulou
Co-Founder and CTO of Weengs
Alex Christodoulou is the Co-founder & CTO at [Weengs](http://www.weengs.co.uk), where he leads the tech team while taking care of how the vision of the company is reflected on the product. Serial entrepreneur with a background in software engineering, algorithms and long experience in web/mobile developing. His major academic research was a study on hybrid Artificial Intelligence systems, merging neural networks with heuristic rules in decision making systems. Also founder of [Locish](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/locish), a real-time Q&A app operating in NYC and SF.
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Jun Wang
Co-Founder / CTO of Nozzle.ai
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About Nozzle.ai: Nozzle.ai is an eCommerce and advertising optimization platform for Amazon.
Michal Martyniak
Co-Founder & CTO of Reebee
Michal Martyniak is the Co-Founder and CTO at Reebee.
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About Reebee: Reebee is the simplest way to browse your flyers. FEATURES INCLUDE: – Current Flyers – An up to date section illustrating deals you can
Sean Redfearn
Co-founder | CTO of Bloomingdeals.co.uk Limited
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About Bloomingdeals.co.uk Limited: Bloomingdeals offers produce delivery services for gardeners and interested parties.
Jamie Sutherland
CTO of Mallzee
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About Mallzee: Mallzee is a B2C clothing retail app and a B2B data suite for clothing retailers to improve margins and make smarter buying decisions
Paul Inman
Co-Founder and CTO of Maybe*
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About Maybe*: Maybe*. The platform that connects the online, offline and social retail journey.
Paul Inman
Co-Founder and CTO of Maybe*
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About Maybe*: Maybe*. The platform that connects the online, offline and social retail journey.
Mev-Rael
Founder & CEO and CTO of Bunny AI
Product Manager, Software Engineer, Designer, Leader, Martial Artist, Philanthropist, Buddhist, Teacher, Philosopher.
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About Bunny AI: Bunny AI is social search engine and marketplace for local on-demand services.
Adam Pluta
Co-Founder & CTO and Lead Software Developer of ExpoCart
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About ExpoCart: ExpoCart is home to the biggest range of products and services for events.
Andrew Lucas
CTO of Taggstar
Andy is a start-up veteran, having started a web hosting business during the late 1990′s. Post dot-com boom he moved to networks & operations, managing the European IP network for a global telco. In the last 5 years he has delivered software and managed engineering teams for three startups, working in Java, in the cloud, with big data and machine learning, across ad tech and now influence marketing. In his spare time he likes to drink coffee and cook experimental dishes
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About Taggstar: Real-time social proof message expert for enterprise eCommerce | Conversion uplift by up to 12% | Shop Direct, N Brown, TUI, Missguided use.
Robert Ashcroft
Co-Founder & CTO of Zenstores
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About Zenstores: Zenstores is a platform to propel online sellers to ecommerce greatness.
Tom Percival
CTO of toucanBox
Tom Percival currently serves toucanBox as the CTO. Prior to joining toucanBox, Tom spent eight years with the Graze as the co-founder and CTO.
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About toucanBox: ToucanBox delivers packages of educational and inspirational activities that are suitable for children.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Mike Kimberley
Chief Technology Officer of Rakuten Fits Me
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About Rakuten Fits Me: Fit Origin is the ultimate fit recommendation solution for eCommerce fashion retailers.
Chris Farrelly
Founder & CTO of Volo
Chris Farrelly is the Founder and CTO, an ecommerce software pioneer Chris founded eSellerPro in response to the growing demand for solutions to manage the complexity of marketplace selling. Chris has previously built successful platforms and companies focussed on business process automation principally in the Insurance and Retail sectors.
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About CFA, Volo: Volo is an ecommerce business.
Andrew Martin
Founder and CTO of Inkpact
Andrew Martin is the founder and CTO of Inkpact. He previously served as the head of product at Sideways 6. Andrew earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Portsmouth.
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About Inkpact: Deliver handwritten personalised notes and gifts to the people who make your business great
Karl Wintrell
Chief Technology Officer of The Very Group
Karl Wintrell is the Chief Technology Officer at The Very Group.
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About The Very Group: The Very Group is an integrated digital retailer and financial services provider.
Alexandru Todorut
CTO of ScreenHits TV
Alex is a graduate of Kingston University where he received a Masters in Software Engineering. His course work exposed him to different coding environments which he employs at ScreenHits. Alex oversees the entire programming and coding team at ScreenHits, as well as the development of all aspects of the site for the consumer and business portals and works with our third party technology partners.
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About ScreenHits TV: ScreenHits TV app integrates all your TV and film streaming apps, Live TV and VOD channels into one place.
Ryan Townsend
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Shift Commerce
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About Shift Commerce: Shift Commerce delivers a next-generation, API-centric, SaaS-based Digital Retail Platform.
Chris Roach
Co-founder & CTO of Moltin
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About Moltin: Moltin is a API-based commerce solution that makes it simple, flexible and fast to bring commerce experiences to life.
David Henderson
CTO of Fresh Relevance
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About Fresh Relevance: The Personalization Platform to Boost ROI. Built to Help Marketers Get Their Jobs Done..
Melvin Artemas
Chief Technology Officer of Localz
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About Localz, Medipass Solutions: Localz is the leading provider of Day of Service software.
David Burns
Co-founder & CTO of Original People
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About Original People: Digital design and innovation studio, based in Soho, London
David Burns
Co-founder & CTO of Original People
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About Original People: Digital design and innovation studio, based in Soho, London
Andrew Flack
CTO & CIO of WorldStores
Andrew Flack is the CITO of The PIPE Company.
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About WorldStores: WorldStores is a UK-based online retailer of furniture and homewares.
Victor Olatunya
CTO of AtHashtags
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About AtHashtags: Combined Online and real world Marketplace that allows vendors to sell and connect with consumers online and in multiple physical locations
Flávio Heleno
CTO & Co-founder of Veridu
Founder at Veridu.com
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About sorteia.eu, Veridu: Veridu offers a range of frictionless, consent-driven social identity solutions to reduce fraud in the global internet economy.
Timothy Scully
CTO of Villoid
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About Villoid: Villoid offers a shopping app that enables shoppers to find and buy products from a range of brands, and share and follow fashion trends.
Henric Larsson
Co-Founder and CTO of Dashl
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About Dashl: A digital hair and beauty booking platform.
Robert Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO of Salesorder.com
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About Salesorder.com: Salesorder is an inventory and order management software for distributors, wholesalers, and ecommerce.
Stephanie Troeth
CTO of Book Oven
Stephanie is a user experience strategist, researcher and designer. In over 15 years of working on the web, she has worn many hats, including a product lead for a tech startup in publishing, and a studio director at a digital agency. More recently, she spearheaded international audience research with MailChimp as an independent consultant and led design research at The Telegraph. Well-travelled and living on her fourth continent, Steph is also a hopeless BBC World Service radio addict, aspiring literary novelist, once-a-musician, occasional silversmith, serendipitous gardener and slow food aficionado.
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About Book Oven: online collaborative space
Zoltan Dudas
CTO of CashPal
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About CashPal: Global Cash Delivery and remittance
David Bishop
CTO and Founder of Love the Sales
David Bishop is the Founder and CTO at Love the Sales.
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About Love the Sales: Love the Sales takes the sales on many websites and puts them on one website.
Davide Coppola
CTO of padpeep
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About padpeep: Browse through homes in your neighbourhood.
Ignat Thorovsky
CTO and Co-Founder of Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform
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About Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform: Poptop helps event planners find and book entertainment professionals quickly, easily and safely.
Josh Kopecek
CTO of SwarmBuild
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About ECHOES, SwarmBuild: SwarmBuild is an online marketplace for designs and digital fabrication, including 3D printing, CNC and laser cutting.
Jakub Koba
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Coders Center
Co-founder of Coders Center. Together with the team delivers development, hosting, support and maintenance to global enterprise organizations. Developer and highly skilled IT specialist. Enterprise Content Managements Systems Expert.
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About Coders Center: Coders Center delivers advanced ECMS and E-commerce based solutions. We are Sitecore Gold Implementation Partner.
Laurence Gillian
CTO of Gather & See
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About Gather & See: Bringing the best womens sustainable and ethical fashion online.
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
Fraser Ingram
CTO of Objective Associates Limited
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About : Software development for the ecommerce and marketplace sectors.
Fraser Ingram
CTO of Objective Associates Limited
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About : Software development for the ecommerce and marketplace sectors.
