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 CIO’ operating in the SaaS 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.
Wouter Volckaert
CIO of Force Over Mass Capital
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About Force Over Mass Capital: Force Over Mass Capital is a London based venture capital firm focused on early-stage technology investments.
Jim Walker
CIO & VP of Global Operations – Technical Co-Founder of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
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.
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.
Stephen Darnell
CIO & Co-founder of Workteam
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About Workteam: Provider of HR employee management SaaS offering
Michel van Tol
CIO and Co-founder of Huddlestock
Michel is co-founder and CIO of Huddlestock, a financial technology company based in Oslo, Norway and London, United Kingdom. Michel has experience from working at Meditor Capital in London, and UBS O’Connor in Chicago.
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About Huddlestock: SaaS, Fintech, Mobile App, Wealth Management, Asset Management, Trading, Investing
