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 Financial Exchanges 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.
Paolo Ardoino
CTO of Bitfinex
I am a computer scientist, a geek, an innovator and a creative. My strength is to continuously learn new technologies and improve my programming skills so that I can conceive new ideas, tests and projects. Newly learned informations allows me to constantly improve existing projects. Programming languages and technologies (expert level): Javascript, Node.js, GoLang, C, C++, C#, Java, ZeroMQ, RabbitMQ, Linux (Kernel and User-space), MongoDB, Redis, PostgreSQL, MySQL, PHP, Websockets, Socket.io, AngularJS, HTML5, JQuery, D3.js, CSS3 (LESS). I have an extensive knowledge and have coded algorithms applied to many fields, from artificial intelligence and automated learning to data analysis, cryptography and networking: SOM, Genetic Algorithms, GNG, k-NN, large integer factorization algorithms (Pollard P-1, Lenstra’s Elliptic Curve), etc.
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About Bitfinex, Ethfinex: Bitfinex is a digital asset trading platform offering state-of-the-art services for digital currency traders and global liquidity providers.
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.
Anj Latif
Co-Founder and CTO of British Pearl
Anj Latif is one of the founders of British Pearl and is the Chief Technical Officer. He is responsible for the design, implementation and administration of the entire IT infrastructure, including information security. Anj is a highly motivated and ambitious professional with extensive experience in IT management and networking and two decades’ experience in the SME sector. He has worked with companies in retail, legal, manufacturing, finance and health using technologies from Cisco, WatchGuard, Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. He has a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
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.
Vlad Cealicu
CTO and Co-Founder of CryptoCompare.com
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About CryptoCompare.com: We bring you all the data in the world of cryptocurrencies, Bitcoin and Blockchain in an easily digestible value added format.
Hector Wilkerson
Chief Technology Officer of LATOKEN
Hector Wilkerson is the Chief Technology Officer at LATOKEN.
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About LATOKEN: LATOKEN is the leading platform for multi-asset tokenization and cryptocurrency exchange.
David Bujan-Tome
Chief Technology Officer of Coinfloor
David joined Coinfloor in January 2018 and leads the team responsible for the development and stability of Coinfloor’s trading platforms. David brings a depth of experience in financial services technology, with more than 20 years experience in institutions such as Morgan Stanley, RBS, Merrill Lynch and Barclays.
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About Coinfloor: Coinfloor is an established group of cryptocurrency exchanges for institutional or sophisticated investors and traders.
Josh Moont
CTO of WeSwap
Josh is the CTO of WeSwap.com the world’s first person to person currency exchange for travellers.During a career spanning more than 12 years in the IT field Josh has been instrumental in many major web projects. His career began in a small web design agency where Josh designed and developed a large range of multi-platform sites. He liaised with companies ranging in size from small firms to fortune 500 businesses, culminating in an award-winning e-commerce site for Kangol. Moving on to become a senior web-developer for Dial-a-Phone Josh played a key role in the launch of the ‘3’ online shop and developing the leading strategy for future direction of their website. Since leaving Dial-a-Phone in 2006 Josh has continued to build upon his skills, developing many more cutting-edge web sites including a bespoke content management system for Your Golf Travel amongst others. Josh brings with him a wealth of knowledge in the IT sector and web technologies.
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About WeSwap: WeSwap is a mobile application that allows users to swap different types of currency with others.
Dominic Kwok
Co-founder and CTO of Heron Data
Dominic Kwok is the Co-Founder and CTO at Heron Data.
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About Heron Data: We categorise and label bank transaction data.
