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 Glasgow based CTO’ operating in the Information Technology 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.
Craig Johnston
CTO & Co-Founder of ENOUGH
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About ENOUGH, Swedish Biomimetics 3000: ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
Rogelio Arellano
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Citruslabs
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About Citruslabs: Clinical trials run on Citrus
Nigel Ellis
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Synaptec
Nigel is a graduate mechanical and electrical engineer with 34 years in the energy industry with North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board (SSE). Nigel’s career has included conventional engineering roles through senior project and commercial development positions, energy trading and ultimately new technology investment and corporate venturing as the Technology Development Manager of SSE Venture Capital Limited. He now focuses on encouraging the development of disruptive technologies and new business models to address the need to provide new sustainable energy solutions. Nigel provides Synaptec with independent and specialist guidance on strategy and governance, drawing upon a wealth of experience in the energy industry.
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About Synaptec: Synaptec develops and deploys photonic sensing systems.
Tom Cox
Chief Technology Officer of Akari
Tom Cox is Chief Technology Officer at Akari Solutions and Cloud Architect with previous experience working with Microsoft as a Technical Architect. Tom has built his knowledge to cover the core Microsoft suite including: The Microsoft Cloud Stack (Office 365 Suite), The Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite and Azure Platform. Tom has most recently been delivering Azure based architecture and deployment to global organisations, building out innovative solutions and best practice guidance for cloud implementations, including a mix of cloud ready deployment knowledge and referencing the Azure UK Government blueprint.
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About Akari: Akari, they strive to inspire change with inventive and creative technologies to further enable people’s experiences.
Ijonas Kisselbach
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of EmergeAdapt
Ijonas is the current CTO and Co-Founder of EmergeAdapt, a startup business founded in 2012 with the sole intent to make customer service adaptive to changing environments – through the use of their case management platform – CaseBlocks. CaseBlocks is currently in closed beta with a handful of medium-sized businesses. Check out http://www.caseblocks.com or contact Ijonas if you’re interested to find out more. Ijonas is also involved in the Scottish tech community organizing the local chapter of Techmeetup.co.uk in Glasgow – a monthly meetup drawing a crowd of 70+ designers, coders and geek all-rounders. For info on events checkout http://www.techmeetup.co.uk, You’ll find him on most social networks under the name: ijonas. Specialties: product management, deployment & production planning, GUI design, interaction design, UX, learning new programming languages, enterprise content management systems, software product design, test driven development
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About EmergeAdapt: EmergeAdapt are the creators of CaseBlocks which enables users to create cloud based business solutions.
