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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the E-Learning 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.
Chris Evans
Chief Technology Officer of Drops
Currently CTO @ Drops. A reliable, resilient and proactive technologist taking a catalystic approach to building product. Proven track record of scaling and supporting cross-functional engineering teams from the ground up. Plans, executes and nurtures any technical project. Supported a variety of companies at differing stages, assisting in VC, PE, crowdfunding and angel investment sourcing including expectation management.
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About Drops: Drops is a game-based language learning application.
Sam Stagg
CTO of Third Space Learning
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About Third Space Learning: Third Space aims to help every student access great quality online tuition to help them succeed in, and love, their learning
Joe Simms
Chief Technology Officer of Uptime App
Joe Simms is the Chief Technology Officer at Uptime App.
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About Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Daniel Engelke
CTO of BibliU
Chief Technology Officer with a history of working in the e-learning industry. Skilled in Javascript, Python, C++ and Management. Has a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering with majors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Physics and Applied Maths from the University of Western Australia.
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About BibliU: An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Tomos Evans
Chief Technology Officer of Framework
Tomos Evans is the founding CTO of Framework. He attended University of Oxford in 2003.
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About Edplus, Framework: Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school especially made for startupland
Dave Porter
Chief Technology Officer of Tutorful
Dave Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at Tutorful.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Daniel Zohar
CTO of Memrise
Daniel Zohar serves as Chief Technology Officer of Memrise.Daniel Zohar helps ensure Memrise works flawlessly on all platforms, and coordinates all of technical efforts. Aside from a glittering career founding and growing startups, he is a keen heavy metal guitarist and an expert at moving large objects at or near the earth’s surface.
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About Memrise: Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web.
Ryan Dunwoody
Co-Founder & CTO of Pi-Top
Ryan Dunwoody is a Co-Founder & CTO at Pi-Top.
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About Pi-Top: Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers.
Gyan Chawdhary
Founder & CTO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Ashish Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of HowNow
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About HowNow: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Dorian Logan
Co-Founder & CTO of BrightTALK
has been the chief architect of BrightTALK™s technology since joining the company in 2004. Mr. Logan brings more than 20 years experience developing enterprise applications to his position as chief technology officer, working previously for IBM Global Services in the Interactive Media Center and Scient. He graduated from Nottingham Trent University (U.K.) with a bachelor™s degree in Computer Systems.
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About BrightTALK: BrightTALK provides videos and webinars for professionals and their communities.
Brian Carroll
CTO of MusicGurus
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About MusicGurus: MusicGurus is an online learning company that helps anyone learn music from the world’s top artists.
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.
Benoit Alvarez
CTO of Volume
Benoit started his career working for the International Radio Astronomy Centre in France, building software with scientists who were studying Saturn. He then joined Thales Armament, working on on-board software for missile guidance systems. After 15 years of conceptualizing and building enterprise solutions, Benoit retrained in AI (studying under Professor Andrew Ng) and successfully achieved AI certifications from Stanford University and Coursera. As Volume moved toward AI-powered conversational platforms, Benoit conceptualized two key products: Volume’s advanced AI-powered conversational platform and QBox. The latter was the first of its kind and is a patent-pending technologies tool, recognized by Gartner as a chatbot corpus-management and training tool.
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About Volume: Leading the way in Conversational AI.
Steve Mansell
Chief Technology Officer of V-Learning Solutions
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About V-Learning Solutions: V-Learning Solutions provides virtual learning solutions that are more effective than traditional training methods.
Ernie Gray
Chief Technology Officer of LTS Education Systems
Ernie brings over 15 years of professional experience developing new media technology to the LTS team. He previously served as managing partner at Red Herring Innovation & Design, managing partner of Netlinks Inc. and has worked with hundreds of clients nationally as a new media business consultant, developer and systems analyst. Ernie serves LTS through product design, market strategy, project team management, development partnerships, systems analysis, application programming & new media marketing.
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About LTS Education Systems: LTS Education Systems is a online education provider.
