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 Insurance 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.
Guy Farley
Co-Founder and CTO of Bought By Many
Guy is the author of the first-generation technology used by Bought by Many. He now steers the tech ship in the right direction. Outside the office, he’s a devoted father of two and is looking forward to sharing his passion for sailing, climbing and skiing with his kids once they’re old enough.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
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Martin Boyle
CTO of Nationwide Building Society
Martin Boyle is a Chief Transformation Officer at Nationwide Building Society.
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About Metro Bank, Nationwide Building Society: Nationwide Building Society is a British mutual financial institution and the largest building society in the UK.
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.
David Goate
CTO of Marshmallow
David Goaté is Co Founder & CTO at Marshmallow.
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About Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Chris Greeno
Chief Technology Officer of Cuvva
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About Cuvva: Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
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.
Dan Hughes
Co-Founder & CTO of Surematics
Dan Hughes is founder & CTO at Radix.
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About Radix, Surematics: Surematics is helping commercial insurance brokers structure complicated deals online.
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.
Roxana Danila
Chief Technology Officer of Nexus Mutual
Roxana Danila is the Chief Technology Officer at Nexus Mutual.
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About Nexus Mutual: Nexus Mutual uses the power of blockchain technology and Ethereum to allow people from all over the world.
Sarah Greasley
CTO of Direct Line Insurance
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About Direct Line Insurance: Direct Line Group is an organization with a clear mission: to make insurance much easier and better value for customers.
Alberto Romero
Co-Founder & CTO of Humn.ai
Alberto Romero is the Co-Founder and CTO at HUMN.ai.
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About Humn.ai: Humn.ai develops an insurance platform that delivers risk-adjusted insurance pricing in real time for commercial vehicle fleets.
Callum Rimmer
Co-Founder & CTO of By Miles
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About By Miles: By Miles is reinventing car insurance – pay an annual cost to cover your car while it’s parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month.
Vincent Audoire
Co-Founder, CTO of Feather
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About Feather: Popsure specializes in giving personalized insurance advice.
Pawel Terpilowski
CTO – Co-Founder of Bequest
Pawel Terpilowski is the Co-Founder and CTO of Bequest.
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About Bequest: We’re building an advanced way for millions of people to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Charlie Blackburn
Co-Founder and CTO of Azur Group
Charlie Blackburn is a co-founder of BrightTALK and served as the chief operating officer from BrightTALK’s U.K. headquarters in London, England. Previously, he was vice president of European operations for Scient. He also developed the Investment Banking practice at Pyramid Imaging in San Francisco after starting he career at Accenture. Blackburn earned a first class honors degree from Manchester University (U.K.) in Mechanical Engineering.
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About Azur Group: Azur is a Managing Digital Agency (MDA), in partnership with AIG, one of the world’s largest and best-respected insurance companies.
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.
Jonathon Valentine
Founder and CTO of ThingCo
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
Greg Smyth
Co-founder & CTO of Urban Jungle
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About Urban Jungle: Urban Jungle provides an insurance technology to help young people get cheaper, better home insurance.
Riccardo De Leo
CTO of CoVi Analytics
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About CoVi Analytics: Productivity solutions for regulated firms, reducing compliance effort & freeing staff to focus on business.
Matthew Wardle
CTO & Co-Founder of Kasko
CTO and Co-Founder of Kasko
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About Kasko: Kasko is an insurance distribution network that allows you to quickly and easily integrate insurance products into a site, service, or app.
Andrew Craven
Founder & CTO of Homelyfe
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About Homelyfe: Homelyfe is an insurance app to make insurance simple.
Alvaro Gauterin
Co-Founder & CTO of FitSense
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About FitSense: Uses wearable data for the pricing & selection of risk in health & life insurance
Richard Hodgson
Chief Technology Officer of Ki Insurance
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About Crux Digital, Ki Insurance: Ki Insurance is a fully digital and algorithmically-driven Lloyd’s of London syndicate offering instant capacity, accessible at any time.
Sam Hopkins
CTO/Co-Founder of Tapoly on demand insurance
Having been involved in the software engineering industry for over 20 years, within both start-ups and established companies, Sam’s professional experience covers finance, file systems, databases, kernel programming, websites, encryption, UI, and 3D graphics. Sam designs systems with the future in mind, keeping things simple yet flexible so they can be adapted to follow the evolution of the business they support. His knowledge, skills and vision help create the Tapoly you see today.
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About Tapoly on demand insurance: On demand insurance for freelancers, contractors and SMEs, and everyone else in the sharing economy and the gig economy.
Lee Cadman
Group Chief Technology Officer of MYJAR
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About MYJAR: Helping people manage their finances by providing responsible short term loans to reliable borrowers.
Artur Kisiolek
CTO of Artificial Labs
Artur Kisiolek is the CTO at Artificial Labs.
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About Artificial Labs, Wthr.in: We’re making insurance frictionless. We collaborate with leading insurers, using technology to save time, money and increase sales.
Jorj Ives
CTO of Bikmo
Jorj is The Code Guru here at Bikmo. Some say Jorj sees the world as a waterfall of glowing green text, other say he can bend trees away from his handlebars with the power of his mind (though we’re yet to see that one in practice). Godfather of Bikmo, Mountain Man, or Jorj Ives, whatever you want to call him, Jorj is The Code Guru here at Bikmo. Some say Jorj sees the world as a waterfall of glowing green text, other say he can bend trees away from his handlebars with the power of his mind (though we’re yet to see that one in practice). Up hill or down dale, Jorj can be found with a laptop in his pack, a mountain bike beneath him, and a Gransfors Bruks forest axe slung on his belt.
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About Bikmo: Bikmo provides simple, brilliant and inclusive bicycle insurance for road, MTB, triathlon and e-bike riders.
Richard Wells
CTO of ThreatInformer
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About ThreatInformer: ThreatInformer provide advanced security metrics tailored for cyber insurance underwriters.
Anton Kozyr
Chief Technology Officer of Balance Re
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About Balance Re: Balance Re is the life reinsurance startup specialized in quantitative asset-liability management.
Dave Williams
Group CTO of Ed.
Experienced CIO/CTO/CDO/CPO/Programme Director with end to end programme and business transformation experience in both B2C and B2B environments. Entrepreneurial by nature and used to working at Board level, with excellent business, transformation and IT skills, company start-up (including PE experience), accelerated company growth (up to 250% pa) and global corporate experience. An excellent track record in working with the business to create comparative advantage through innovative technology, building IT functions on greenfield sites or transforming and managing IT functions (up to 140 internal staff) supported by offshore resources, IT Strategy, solutions architecture, product owner, programme management, systems migration, software development (in house and 3rd party), digital, DevOps, SaaS, cloud, account & supplier management, contract and P&L experience up to £50M.
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About Ed.: Ed is an award winning, global insurance and reinsurance broker with offices in the world’s key regional and global insurance centres.
