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 Operating Systems 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.
Richard Potter
CTO of Microsoft
Richard Potter advises business leaders around the world on a range of digital transformation challenges. However, it’s the building of innovative enterprises that is his real passion. In his day job Richard works with Microsoft’s customers giving them clarity and confidence about their digital journeys, helping them turn their aspirations into transformational business results. He is a renowned keynote speaker and event facilitator with an energising and engaging style. He lives in the UK but travels extensively, shamelessly collecting and telling stories everywhere he goes.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Tarek Elabbady
Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stephen Barr
Central Government CTO of Microsoft
Steve Barr has 30 years experience in business and IT enterprise environments, within both the public and private sector. He has a diverse background covering a broad range of roles including business strategy and enterprise architecture, business management, programme delivery, leading large teams and consultancy. He has extensive experience in initiating and defining innovative solutions based on business needs and delivering enterprise-wide strategic solutions in large accounts. As a strategic leader within Microsoft, Steve has worked with CxOs across Government and the private sector, driving innovation around new technologies such as AI, Blockchain, cloud and mobile, whilst also covering security concerns. He is a member of the Government’s All Party Parliamentary Groups for AI and Blockchain and is often a speaker on innovation, technology driven business outcomes, Cybersecurity and how organisation can transform to the new ‘cloud world’.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Rashid Mansoor
CTO & Co-founder of Hadean
Engineer & complex systems scientist with entrepreneurial expertise building and scaling deep-tech startups. Rashid Mansoor is the Founder and CEO of MetaGravity.
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About Hadean, MetaGravity: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
Mat Clothier
CEO, CTO and Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies
Mat Clothier, CEO, CTO & Founder of Cloudhouse Technologies, has over 20 years’ industry experience. He started his first business whilst at university, providing CIO services to SMEs in the South West of England, and has since founded multiple organisations focusing on provisioning enterprise IT solutions. Mat is an expert in enterprise IT technology, virtualization and distributed management of applications, and devotes his time to developing solutions that simplify user access to modern enterprise IT applications. Mat is a motoring enthusiast and enjoys experimenting with new technologies. His focus is on producing IT solutions that make users’ lives easier, a promise that Cloudhouse Technologies constantly works towards. Mat graduated from the University of Plymouth with a BSc Hons in Computer Systems and Networks.
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About Cloudhouse Technologies: Cloudhouse Technologies is an infrastructure software vendor that liberates client and server applications to run on operating systems.
