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 Cloud Data Services 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.
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.
Paddy Byers
CTO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
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.
David Kell
CTO and Co-founder of GYANA
David Kell is a scientist, technologist and nature lover. David has co-founded an ML startup before and was pursuing his PhD in AI in Oxford University when he ran into Joyeeta and her software prototype. Their combined vision of democratising access to data science is the powerful force behind Gyana. He is passionate about simplifying complexities. David is also a Math and Physics Olympiad winner and was a winner of the Gibbs Prize in Physics. He runs several CTO meetup groups and mentors women-in-tech related accelerator startups.
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About GYANA: No-code Data Analytics
Ed Thompson
Co-Founder & CTO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Steve Costigan
Field CTO EMEA of Zadara Storage
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About Zadara Storage: Zadara Storage offers enterprise-class storage as a service for private and public clouds.
Pierre Fraisse
CTO of Stelae Technologies
Graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and doctorates from Orsay and former CTO of Datox/Wedia (specialist in editorial platforms for the publishing sector), with extensive experience in designing and building Content/Document Management solutions.
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About Stelae Technologies: Stelae Technologies is a software vendor that offers information management solutions.
Stuart Tarrant
Co-founder & CTO of 4sl
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About 4sl: 4sl focused on data custody and availability services for mid-size and enterprise firms.
Harsha Gowda
CTO & Board Member of Getronics
Harsha Gowda Siddaveere is the Chief Technology Officer at Getronics.
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About Getronics: The Getronics family is an ICT Services group consisting of the Getronics and Connectis brands.
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.
Imran Shafqat
Co-Founder & CTO of ThingTrax
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About ThingTrax: ThingTrax helps manufacturers reduce downtime and increase operational efficiency with their devices capturing data from machines.
Charlie Pickering
Chief Technology Officer of Causeway Technologies
Charlie Pickering is the Chief Technology Officer at Causeway Technologies.
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About Causeway Technologies: Causeway Technologies is a provider of software solutions to the construction industry.
Damon Neale
Chief Technology Officer of BASE Media Cloud
Damon is a serial entrepreneur with experience in founding and scaling an international business portfolio. He is a leading technology consultant, with extensive experience providing analysis, design and implementation of cloud, AI, streaming and workflow automation solutions in the Media & Entertainment industry. He has held several MD and CTO positions and used this experience to mentor many businesses and Directors from start-ups and scale-ups to major international enterprises. He has acted as a board member providing a voice of reason, advised on business strategy, assisted in angel and VC investment rounds, invested in and also been a part/full time CTO for several businesses to provide the technical strategy and implementation for companies with and without an existing CTO/Technology Director.
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About BASE Media Cloud, BeBop Technology, Damon Neale Mentoring, Mediate Solutions, Somers Town Legal Advice Corner: BASE Media Cloud is an innovative Managed Cloud Services company.
Martin Paton
CTO, and Cloud & Platform Engineering leader of Kin and Carta
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About Kin and Carta: Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation business that advises, creates, and connects marketing and customer experience.
David Barker
Founder & CTO of 4D Data Centres
David B. is the Founder & CTO at 4D Data Centres.
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About 4D Data Centres, techUK: Cloud, Connectivity and Colocation, with data centres in Sussex, Surrey, Kent & London.
Mohamed Bakeer
CTO of Converge Technology Specialists
Mohamed Bakeer is the CTO at Converge Technology Specialists. Prior to joining Converge, Mohamed served as a CTO at LIMA. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Cairo University.
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About Converge Technology Specialists: Converge Technology Specialists is a specialist provider of hosted and managed IT services through private cloud.
David Trossell
CEO / CTO of Bridgeworks Ltd
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About Bridgeworks Ltd: Bridgeworks’ Accelerates datay even encrtpted/compressed flow up to 40Gb/s across WAN without changing or modifing the data.
