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 Cambridgeshire based CEO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Warren East
CEO of Rolls-Royce
Appointed to the Board in January 2014 and Chief Executive in July 2015 Warren joined ARM Holdings in 1994 and was appointed Chief Executive in 2001. Under his leadership the company became the world’s leading semiconductor IP licensing company. He retired from ARM Holdings in 2013. He is a Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering, and a Distinguished Fellow of the BCS, the Chartered Institute for IT. He was awarded the CBE in 2014 for services to the technology industry. Prior to his appointment as Chief Executive, Warren had been appointed as a Non-Executive Director in 2014 and was Chairman of the Science and Technology Committee and a member of the Audit Committee and the Nominations and Governance Committee. Warren is a non-executive director of Dyson Ltd. In July 2015, he was appointed as a member of the UK Government’s business advisory group.
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About British Computer Society, Institution of Engineering and Technology, Rolls-Royce, Royal Academy of Engineering: Rolls-Royce is an industrial technology company that provides integrated power and propulsion solutions.
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Konstantin Kiselev
CEO of Conundrum
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About Conundrum: Conundrum is a platform helps factories to solve the tasks of predictive maintenance.
Sam Bose
CEO / Founder of IntelliSense.io
Sam got exposed to the world of Machine 2 Machine some 10 years ago. Back then he could see the potential of technology in changing the world around us, but change came with numerous obstacles. After encountering the challenges of first generation technologies, IntellISense.io was started as one of the first next generation IoT solutions companies. The technology and solution were selected as one of the eight IoT solutions to be showcased by the UK government.
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About IntelliSense.io: An Industrial AI company focusing on the Mining sector increasing efficiency sustainability & safety with trusted & transparent AI solutions
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Co-Founder, Co-Inventor, and CEO of Nu Quantum
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as Chief Executive Officer. Carmen is a national award-winning physicist and leader of pro-equality action in science and beyond.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a quantum networking start-up building the entanglement fabric essential to scaling quantum computers.
Boyd Mulvey
CEO & Founder of Chorus Intelligence
Boyd started his career in 1990 as a data analyst for Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP), an investment bank which created and traded derivative financial instruments based in London. At CSFP Boyd created a database for analysing capital at risk for the bank called FRED (Financial Risk Exposure Database) which is still in use today. Boyd moved from analyst to strategy at UBS and then into investment banking where he helped to raise money for and float several technology companies on the UK Stock Exchange before launching a Venture Capitalist Fund called the CREATE East of England Fund, which specialised in investing into early stage tech companies around the Cambridge area. Following the completion of that Fund, Boyd founded Chorus Intelligence to focus on data analytics once again.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Stephanie Race
CEO of Crop Performance
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About Crop Performance: Crop Performance provides predictive analytics for sustainable agriculture to transition growers to regenerative practices.
Toby Norman
Co-Founder & CEO of Simprints
Toby Norman, CEO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Gates Scholar and PhD in Management from the University of Cambridge, BA in Biology from Harvard. Toby has worked >10 years with frontline workers across Africa, Asia, and Central America on initiatives to improve global health and development through technology. Toby is a 2018 GLG Fellow, 2017 Schwab Social Entrepreneur of the Year, and 2016 Forbes 30 Under 30 Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Eric Mayes
CEO of Endomag
Dr Mayes has over 20 years’ experience in developing and leading materials technology companies. Prior to joining Endomag as CEO in 2010, Eric held executive positions in Cambridge Display Technology (CDT) and NanoMagnetics. He was named the Royal Society of Chemistry’s ‘Entrepreneur of the Year 2003’ for his founding role in NanoMagnetics. Eric is an advisor to the University of Texas at Austin’s ‘Texas Health Catalyst’ and the European Healthtech Translation Advisory Board (HealthtechTAB). A US-UK dual national, he holds a BSc in Physics from Arkansas State University and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bath. Eric is a Fellow of the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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About Endomag: Endomag is a medical technology company devoted to improving breast cancer care through its magnetic sensing technologies.
Patrick Short
CEO & Co-Founder of Sano Genetics
Co-Founder and CEO of Heterogeneous, a genetic data sharing platform dedicated to providing researchers with access to high-quality and dynamic genetic and medical data while empowering users to own and control their own data. https://www.heterogeneous.co.uk/
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About Sano Genetics: Sano Genetics is a personalised medicine research platform with data privacy and transparency at its core.
Colin Bray
CEO of 1Spatial
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About 1Spatial: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Colin Bray
CEO of 1Spatial
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About 1Spatial: 1Spatial provides the software solutions and services that manage the world’s largest spatial big data.
Julian Chesterfield
Founder and CEO of Sunlight.Io
Julian Chesterfield, founder and CEO of Sunlight, has worked in the cloud and virtualisation industry for over 15 years. After completing his PhD at Cambridge University, he became involved in writing a technology called Xen, which became the foundation of the public cloud back in 2007 when it was adopted by Amazon and most of the emerging public cloud infrastructure providers of the day.
Julian began Sunlight as an incubation project in 2013 to build a lightweight hypervisor for low-power Arm processors. On seeing its value for data-intensive applications at the Edge, Julian and the founding team built it into a full hyperconverged infrastructure stack – Sunlight. Sunlight secured $6m in Series A funding in December 2020 and has gone on to launch new products, including the Sunlight Infrastructure Manager (SIM) and Marketplace.
Julian previously held positions at OnApp, as Chief Scientific Officer, and Citrix, as Storage Architect
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About Sunlight.Io: Sunlight.io makes running and managing applications and infrastructure at the edge as easy as in the cloud. Sunlight works with efficient, ruggedized edge hardware – so you can consolidate all of your in-location edge applications with full isolation, security and high availability.
Adam Greenwood-Byrne
CEO of RealVNC
Adam was appointed CEO in March 2018 after successfully building RealVNC’s intellectual property licensing (OEM) business and transforming their end-user proposition to a SaaS model. Leading the business into Livingbridge’s 2021 investment has left RealVNC poised for its next stage of growth.
With a background in Mathematics and Computer Science, and a career spent growing IT companies from the ground up, Adam bridges the technical and commercial interests of the business. Seeing his role as building a world-class team that works together in harmony to deliver an excellent service, this has been an important attribute.
Over his career, he has helped charities, non-profits, start-ups, scale-ups and corporates alike to deploy technology that maximises efficiency and effectiveness. His passion for RealVNC as a productivity solution that’s relevant in every industry sector, at every organisation size, is only amplified by its long history of reducing carbon emissions and creating workplace equity by enabling people to reduce their personal travel and work wherever works.
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About RealVNC: Accelerate your business with secure remote desktop access and support for a connected world.
Mohammad Al-Ubaydli
Founder & CEO of Patients Know Best
Mohammad is founder and CEO of Patients Know Best and has over 15 years of experience in medical software. He trained as a physician at the University of Cambridge; worked as a staff scientist at the National Institutes of Health; and was a management consultant to US hospitals at The Advisory Board Company. He is the author of seven books, including Personal health records: A guide for clinicians and Streamlining Hospital-Patient Communication: Developing High Impact Patient Portals. He is also an honourary senior research associate at UCL medical school for his research on patient-controlled medical records. In 2012 he was elected an Ashoka Fellow as a social entrepreneur for the contributions he has made to patient care.
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About Patients Know Best: Patients Know Best provide hospitals with personal health records software so that their patients can better manage their health.
Misha Kapushesky
Chief Executive Officer of Genestack
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About Genestack: Genestack provides customers in the pharma, biotech and healthcare sectors with multi-omics data management and integration solutions.
Ed Colby
CEO and Founder of Purrmetrix
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About Purrmetrix: Purrmetrix uses real time data loggers to drive powerful, hassle free analytics.
Antony Rix
CEO of Granta Innovation
An entrepreneur with an engineering background, Antony has spent over 20 years working in telecommunications, wireless technology, medical devices and product development. He started his career at a major telecoms research laboratory, then co-founded Psytechnics, a spin-out commercialising network quality assessment and monitoring technology. He then spent more than a decade at TTP, the leading technology and product development consultancy, before joining 8power as co-founder and CEO. He is currently founder and CEO at Lucida Medical, developing AI for cancer screening using MRI.
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About Lucida Medical: Research, consulting and development of AI and ML applications in business and healthcare
Josh Harris
Founder & CEO of Doc2
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About Doc2: Allowing SMEs to create, send and eSign their contracts in seconds.
David Flanders
Chief Executive Officer of Agrimetrics
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About Agrimetrics: Agrimetrics is a big data platform for agri-food value chain, from farm through to consumer.
Adam Bishop
CEO of SchemeServe
Adam will try to convince you he invented Software-as-a-Service. He’s been running web based software companies since 15 when still at grammar school and over the years in between migrating (Oxford >> Cambridge >> Italy) has programmed most things: real-time Forex and futures trading systems, 3D games, medical software, music production apps… He passes his (precious) spare time penning classical music, trading Bitcoin and reading Wikipedia. He wants SchemeServe to be perfect.
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About CityTech, SchemeServe: SchemeServe is a cloud based insurance software, including simple scheme management, online billing and beautiful MI reports.
Nizar Romdan
CEO & Co-founder of Virtual Arts Ltd.
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About Virtual Arts Ltd.: We are building a leading state of the art Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Technology and interactive content company.
Mark Dawe
Chief Executive Officer of The Skills Network
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About The Skills Network: The Skills Network develop and deliver innovative technology-enabled training and skills solutions to individuals and organisations.
