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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 Internet 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.
Paul Cutter
Chief Information Officer of Flutter Entertainment
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About Flutter Entertainment: Flutter Entertainment is the world’s leading online sports betting and gaming operator.
Denis Onuoha
Chief Information Security Officer/ Senior Information Risk Officer of Arqiva
Denis Onuoha is the Chief Information Security Officer at Arqiva, a major UK infrastructure company which supports 40% of the UK’s Critical National Infrastructure spanning the broadcast, telecommunications, finance, energy and utility sectors; including its latest innovation – the communications network for the world’s most advanced Smart Metering Network. He has the overall responsibility for Security Risk Management, Information Assurance and Cyber Security for the company and is at the forefront of its fight in defending against the latest media industry cyber-attacks. Denis holds a BSc in Computer and Network Security from the University of Hertfordshire and is close to completing the MSc in Information Security at Royal Holloway. Having completed his undergraduate studies, he commenced work in the financial sector with responsibilities for Risk and Information Security, subsequently making the move across to the broadcast industry. He is a qualified Lead Auditor for the ISO27001 and ISO22301 standards; a Lead Implementer for ISO22301; a Risk Manager in accordance with ISO27005; and has successfully attained ISACA’s CISA and CISM certifications. A proactive IT professional, Denis sits on three of UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) Government Information Security Exchanges, is the elected Chair of the AIB Cyber Security Working Group and is a member of the CREST industry advisory panel.
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About Arqiva: Arqiva is a communications infrastructure and media services company.
Andy Smith
Chief Information Officer of Arm Holdings
Andy Smith joined Arm in 2014 as Chief Information Officer. Prior to this he spent 5 years as a Government CIO working for one of the agencies within Defence. Before that he worked for 20 years with BP in a variety of roles and locations around the world, the last 8 years of which were spent on a series of challenging CIO roles.
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About Arm Holdings: Arm Holdings is a multinational semiconductor company that designs, produces, and licenses IP for digital electronic product development.
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.
Ash Shahata
Enterprise Strategy & CIO Advisory of Wipro Digital
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About Wipro Digital: Wipro Digital, the digital business unit of Wipro
Peer Mohamed
CIO of Favorey
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About Favorey: We are building a community of trust, where we can all ask for help from trusted contacts, and use our skills to help others.
Peter Finch
Group CIO of Trak Global Group
An insurance IT systems specialist. After leaving the NHS, Peter spent 6 years at Carole Nash, the UK’s leading motorbike insurance broker, building and maintaining systems that managed 250,000 policies. Peter has worked with all of the major insurance administration platforms.
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About Trak Global Group: Trak Global Group provides its partners with the very latest in technology to enable and support telematics insurance propositions.
Ryan Bryers
CTO & CIO of Carfinance247
Ryan has 20+ years in the IT industry with Barclays Bank, Atos & Worldline. He?s worked in all aspects of development, testing, service management, IT & IS architecture and Enterprise Architecture. Over the last 5-6 years Ryan has specialized on leading the architecture of major bids, major delivery projects and project recoveries. The wide breadth of experience has led Ryan into leading roles that have culminated in the CTO role for Worldline in UK&Ireland. Ryan is bringing a digital and agile focus to his role and is enjoying the challenges of digital transformation as well as seeding new teams with digital by default.
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About Carfinance247: Vehicle finance company.
Mark Hill
CIO and Co-Founder of Vestemi
Mark has a computer systems engineering background with 15 years of experience managing complex IT systems in the City and 7 years working in start-ups in a variety of leadership roles.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Chris Williams
Chief Information Officer of Community Fibre
Chris Williams is the Chief Information Officer at Community Fibre.
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About Community Fibre: Community Fibre provides up to 1,000 Mbps fiber broadband service.
Robbie Lambert
CIO and COO of Bumper
Robbie Lambert is the CIO and COO at Bumper.
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About Bumper: Bumper is a payment platform for car dealerships.
