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 London based CTO’ operating in the Risk Management 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.
Rusty Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO of SharpCloud Software
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About SharpCloud Software: Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
Morgan Sowden
Co-Founder & CTO of paydesk
Currently a product-focused CTO at Lendinvest, a VC backed fin-tech disruptor in the mortgage-lending space. Formerly the CTO at the Octopus Group, where I co-founded and built octopuslabs.com, octopuschoice.com and octopuscash.com; built the Octopus digital design team from scratch, as well as their product and (distributed) engineering teams; and initiated the group transformation from waterfall to agile. I am also co-founder and CTO of paydesk.co, a B2B media platform with 6000+ journalists in 165+ countries. Prior to Paydesk, I was interim CEO and CTO of birthdayalarm.com, a very profitable online greeting card site with 55+ million active members. I’ve also been: Entrepreneur in Residence at Monkey Inferno, a San Francisco based startup accelerator; a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded (and sold) two other web businesses, including an early social network (2003); and a board member / NED. Mostly though, I am DJ and love Techno. Search for me on Mixcloud.
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About Facebook AI, paydesk: On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Daniel Saul
Co-Founder & CTO of Risk Ledger
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About Risk Ledger: Risk Ledger is the world’s most innovative vendor risk management platform, built on the model of a secure social network.
Bryan O’Neil
Chief Technology Officer of Digital Shadows
Bryan O’Neil is the chief technology officer of Digital Shadows.
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About Digital Shadows: Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk.
Aeneas Wiener
Co-Founder & CTO of Cytora
Aeneas draws on 10+ years of technical experience developing bespoke cloud-driven web applications. He holds masters degrees in Theoretical Physics and Computational Science from Imperial College London. His widely published postgraduate work focused on optical materials used for chemical sensing and invisibility cloaking. In 2011 Aeneas co-founded the Hermes Academy, an innovative nonprofit organisation backed by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
Stephen Rayment
Co-founder & CTO of Systech International
Stephen Rayment Systech International : Systech International is the leading global provider of commercial management and project controls. www.behance.net/stephenrayment
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About Systech International: Mark Woodward Smith co-founded Systech International in 1991 with Stephen Rayment and Mark Smith is the Group Managing Director .
Matt Sharpe
Chief Technology Officer of Sword GRC
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About Sword GRC: Sword GRC is a software solutions company that specializes in risk, compliance, governance, audit & policy management services.
Riccardo De Leo
CTO of CoVi Analytics
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About CoVi Analytics: Productivity solutions for regulated firms, reducing compliance effort & freeing staff to focus on business.
Chris Miller
Founder and CTO of Percentile
With over 20 years of experience as a software engineer and architect, Chris spent 8 years working on the risk technology platform for KBC Financial Products and KBC Investments. He has a wealth of experience in high-performance software and spearheaded the development of RiskMine’s scalable distributed computing architecture.
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About Percentile: Percentile provides technology to align risk management and front office for better decision making and easier regulatory compliance.
Richard Wells
CTO of ThreatInformer
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About ThreatInformer: ThreatInformer provide advanced security metrics tailored for cyber insurance underwriters.
