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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 CIO’ operating in the Software space. If you think a CIO’ 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.
Matt Wilkins
Chief Information Officer of Thought Machine
Matt Wilkins is the Advisor at Clim8 Invest.
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Peter Ebden
Chief Infrastructure Officer (CIO) 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.
Dave Whalley
Chief Information Officer of Thoughtworks
He is a Chief Information Officer at Thoughtworks.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Adrien Pujol
CIO of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Andrew Porter
Chief Information Officer of Brightpearl
Andrew’s technology career spans over 20 years, in market leading investment banks, most recently at CIO level. Responsibilities have ranged from running targeted, business critical programmes, to managing a technology organisation of 500+ staff across 5 major locations. Functional areas covered, include; high volume, highly available, transaction processing systems, as well as process automation, workflow and client facing technologies. Andrew started his career as a graduate programmer, after completing an MSc in Information Technology and still likes to occasionally write code, to ensure he retains a deep understanding of what it takes to develop quality software.
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About Brightpearl, Serisys: Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place.
Alex Haynes
Chief Information Security Officer of CDL Software
Alex Haynes is an independent researcher with a background in offensive security. He is credited for discovering vulnerabilities in products by Microsoft, Adobe, Pinterest, Amazon Web Services and IBM. He is a former top 10 ranked researcher on Bugcrowd and a member of the Synack Red Team. Alex is also a frequent contributor to publications like the United States Cyber Security Magazine, Cyber Defense Magazine and Infosecurity magazine and speaks regularly at conferences on the topics of offensive security, vulnerability management and crowdsourced security. He is currently CISO at CDL.
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About CDL Software: CDL is a market leader in software solutions for high volume retail insurance operations.
Laura Mitchell
CIO of JUST DEVELOP iT
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About JUST DEVELOP iT: Just Develop It (JDi) is a Hampshire based investment company that specialises in early stage and growth capital across.
Mark Slaven
Chief Information Officer of Computacenter
Mark joined Computacenter in 2001 as UK Information Services Director. Following the acquisition of the German business in 2003 his role expanded to cover all Group companies as Group CIO. He is responsible for all of Computacenter’s systems and infrastructure and has played a key role in the design and development of most of the systems in use across the Group.
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About Computacenter: Computacenter provides IT infrastructure services and solutions in the United Kingdom, Germany, France, and Belgium.
Sanjeev Jain
Chief Information Officer for EMEA of Verizon Enterprise Solutions
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About Verizon Enterprise Solutions: Verizon Solutions is a company that designs, builds, and operates the networks, information systems, and mobile technologies.
Craig Gregory
Co-Founder & Chief Information Security Officer of Cutover
With over 15 years of enterprise software implementation and operations support experience, Craig has worked with many major clients, from Jaguar Land Rover to Gazprom.
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About Cutover: Cutover is an orchestration and observability platform that optimizes the planning of complex workflows.
Rafi Vasserman
Chief Information Officer of EBS BrokerTec
Rafi was appointed Chief Information Officer of EBS on June 2012. From 2005 Rafi served as EVP Engineering and General Manager of Israel for Traiana (acquired by ICAP in 2007). From 2000 to 2005 Rafi was VP R&D of ClearForest that developed text mining solutions. Prior to 2000, Rafi was employed in several roles in Tecomatix Technologies Ltd.
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About EBS BrokerTec: EBS BrokerTec is a leading electronic trading platforms and solutions business in foreign exchange and fixed income.
Gavin Scruby
CIO and Director of Smartdebit
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About Smartdebit: Streamline payment handling, improve your cashflow and increase customer retention with SmartDebit.
Andrew Hill
CIO of Serco
Andrew recently took on Serco’s central government CIO role with a focus on direct support of Serco’s services and solutions for government customers. Andrew has been with Serco for nearly 8 years in a variety of P&L roles and more recently as MD for the London Cycle Hire Scheme, a fully managed outsource (design, build and operate) for Transport for London. Prior to joining Serco Andrew built a track record in large public sector technology enabled change programmes and ICT management, including : • Managing Partners and Suppliers; • Portfolio and Programme Delivery • ICT Operational Strategy Development and Planning; • Delivering in political and complex multi-stakeholder environments • Provision of ICT from the supplier perspective. Andrew joined Serco from IBM and prior to that spent 18 years in the public sector with Inland Revenue (HMRC). Joining as a fast streamer from Warwick University where he completed a PhD in Mathematics, Andrew built a portfolio of experience in government ICT delivery in large complex programmes and operations. As a senior civil servant he spent 18 months in his final role with HMRC heading the department’s ICT Operations.
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About Serco: Serco is a provider of professional, technology, and management services.
Stephen Darnell
CIO & Co-founder of Workteam
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About Workteam: Provider of HR employee management SaaS offering
Mike Simcock
CEO and CIO of ClearMacro
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About ClearMacro: ClearMacro helps institutional investors integrate actionable insights from data into their portfolios to enable smarter decision-making.
Dan Mauger
CIO & Co-Founder of Demand Logic
Dan is an experienced developer of enterprise information and ecommerce systems and has an MSc in Information Systems from City University for which he won a departmental award. Dan leads on the development of Demand Logic’s core software, from the underlying data management engines to the front-end web application.
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About Demand Logic: Demand Logic is an online energy efficiency system that analyzes data from building management systems.
