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 Banking 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.
Vlad Yatsenko
Co-Founder & CTO of Revolut
Prior to co-founding Revolut, Vlad spent ten years building financial systems at tier one investment banks. Serving as CTO, Vlad has been at the forefront of Revolut’s award-winning technology, building a next generation banking experience.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
Hoos Badakhchani
CTO of Ziglu
Hoos Badakhchani is the Chief Technology Officer at Ziglu.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
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.
Paul Pamment
CTO & Founder of Lendable
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About Lendable: Lendable is a peer-to-peer lending platform that provides instant paperless loans.
Steve Cook
Chief Technology Officer of Form3
Steve has architected and developed great products and managed dynamic technology teams in the financial services sector for over 20 years. He brings a broad range of experience in FinTech, having led key technology teams across banking (Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Gain Capital), and having launched several startups in the FinTech and cloud computing space. Steve previously lived and worked in Asia for 15 years, and has extensive experience in the Asian banking and capital markets environment. He also holds a degree in theoretical physics from Cambridge University. As the CTO of Form3, Steve is responsible for all aspects of technology, including product architecture, development, delivery and support of the Form3 Financial Cloud.
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About Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
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.
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Gaurav Rana
Chief Technology Officer of BABB
Gaurav is an experienced CTO and an industry veteran in the blockchain space with a history of working with distributed systems and financial services at scale. He has contributed to dozens of pivotal projects and seminal literature, and invented pioneering technology in the industry since 2010. Gaurav is a techstars alum, and ex CTO of startups Everledger and Atlas.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Mischa Tuffield
Founding CTO of Monolith
At heart I am a technologist and an entrepreneur. I love the internet, the web, building products, and decentralisation. I am interested in harnessing technology to change behaviour. I am currently the Founding Chief Technology Officer at TokenCard a revolutionary blockchain project. I have a PhD in Computer Science from the University of Southampton supervised by Sir Nigel Shadbolt. Ex- Garlik, PeerIndex, State, Antidote, W3C.
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About Monolith: Monolith is a decentralised banking alternative that integrates the DeFi economy into your daily life.
Mike Moate
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Ritesh Tendulkar
CTO, Co-founder of Modulr
Ritesh Tendulkar is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
Dave Tonge
Chief Technology Officer of Moneyhub
Dave is the CTO of Moneyhub, developing an intelligent financial data and payments platform. He is involved in standards work across the OpenID Foundation, IETF, ISO and Open Banking UK – with a particular interest in security profiles and “decoupled” authorisation flows. He is a co-chair of the Financial API Working Group at the OpenID Foundation.
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About Moneyhub: Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.
Joe Barbour
Chief Technology Officer of Knoma
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Richard Bastin
CTO of Cashplus
Richard is passionate about Technology. Really passionate. No obstacle is too big to overcome and all requirements have a solution. He blends his exceptional tech savvy, knowledge of standards and frameworks, with strong team leadership skills and real business acumen to deliver a highly effective development strategy and process that fulfils both the needs of the business and our customers. Richard has over 20 years IT experience across a variety of industries and has a strong track record of building teams of dedicated software engineers to design and deliver innovative products for customers. He has enviable experience of delivering Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Prior to joining The Currency Cloud, Richard had a variety of roles in technology including being the CTO at Digital Look providing real time stock market data solutions for various stockbrokers, media organisations and banks including HSBC and Barclays. Richard has also been Head of Platform Operations at Venda, delivering high availability and high transactional volume for over 100 eCommerce customers including Tesco, Wickes, Republic and many others.
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About Cashplus: Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
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.
Christophe Monget
CTO and Founder of MatchPlace Limited
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About MatchPlace Limited: New generation Fintech platform. Integrating Financial Services solutions, bridging the gap between Financial Institutions and SMEs
Robert Taylor
CTO & Co-Founder of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
Kartik Venkatesh
Chief Technology Officer of Trunomi
Kartik is a multi-stack architect, and is well-versed in both open stack and Microsoft stack. He has been architecting and building web scale, secure, distributed systems and data solutions for 9+ years. Before Trunomi, Kartik was the Chief Architect for DLA, leading development of a Netflix competitor OTT solution for Latin America, featuring advanced machine learning and big data techniques. Prior to that Kartik led development and technology for several large scale products spanning multiple industries, including Gates Foundation, Starbucks, RedBull, Fox, AT&T and Sony. Kartik started his career at Microsoft straight out of high school, after being discovered for his programming aptitude. Microsoft sponsored his education at University of Washington, where he completed a B.S. in Computer Sciences.
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About Trunomi: Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
Matt Millar
CTO & Cofounder of Updraft
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About Live Talkback, Slick, Updraft: Updraft is a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app for millennials. We turn borrowers into savers.
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.
Allistair Crossley
CTO of Coconut
Ali has over 17 years’ experience working in startups, agencies and corporates.Working at Somo agency he built web and mobile apps for clients including Audi, BP and Red Bull. He’s a seasoned entrepreneur too, previously co-founder of Roxxor and DAD.
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About Coconut: Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Rudolph Graan
Founder & CTO of Expend
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Dermot Dwyer
CTO of BiBox
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About BiBox: Bibox offers integrated and orchestrated bank solutions through the BiBox Marketplace
Dermot Dwyer
CTO of BiBox
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About BiBox: Bibox offers integrated and orchestrated bank solutions through the BiBox Marketplace
Paul Russell
Founder & CTO of Upside Saving
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About Upside Saving: Upside is Intelligent Cashback as an API, fuelled by Open Banking.
