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 FinTech 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.
Vlad Yatsenko
Co-Founder & CTO of Revolut
Prior to co-founding Revolut, Vlad spent ten years building financial systems at tier one investment banks. Serving as CTO, Vlad has been at the forefront of Revolut’s award-winning technology, building a next generation banking experience.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
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Matt Tuzzolo
CTO of Blockchain.com
Matt Tuzzolo is a CTO at Blockchain.
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About Blockchain.com: Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
Paul Egan
Chief Incubation Officer & Chief Technology Officer of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Guy Farley
Co-Founder and CTO of Bought By Many
Guy is the author of the first-generation technology used by Bought by Many. He now steers the tech ship in the right direction. Outside the office, he’s a devoted father of two and is looking forward to sharing his passion for sailing, climbing and skiing with his kids once they’re old enough.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
Stephen Nundy
Partner & Chief Technology Officer of Lakestar
An experienced Technologist and Engineer with a passion for setting strategy and building commercial solutions for complex and ambitious businesses. Collected over 20 years of global experience, leading new technology innovation, building distributed, high-performance teams, driving significant client engagement, within dynamic and highly competitive businesses. Passionate focus on investing and building companies, and their teams, with hyper-growth solutions and technologies to match.
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About Lakestar: Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs.
James Harrison
Co-Founder & CTO of Genesis Global
James has over 20 years experience in senior technology, development & implementation roles for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, HSBC and vendors incl. Fidessa. During his career James has lived in New York, London, & Hong Kong. Prior to genesis global, James was regarded as one of the leaders in this field, managing global technical teams in supporting & delivering mission-critical, real-time systems for tier 1 global banking institutions needing their trading businesses to run near 24-7.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Ali Minaei
Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy
Ali is the Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy. who has more than 15 years’ experience in tech engineering, has been in payment for the past 8 years working at PayPal and Wonga prior to Yoyo. At Yoyo he is responsible for leading and scaling the Engineering team and building the next generation of Yoyo’s payment and loyalty platform.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
David Osojnik
Chief Technology Officer of Bitstamp
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About Bitstamp: Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
David Hoare
CTO and Co-founder of Codat
David Hoare is the CTO and Co-Founder at Codat.
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About Codat: Codat is an API platform that provides real-time connectivity to the financial software used by small businesses.
Ilia Zintchenko
Co-founder & CTO of Ntropy Network
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About Ntropy Network: Enabling products without data barriers.
Portman Wills
Co-Founder & CTO of Wagestream
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About Wagestream: Wagestream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app.
Ryan Harkins
Co-Chief Technology Officer of Rentify
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Edgars Kohs
Chief Technology Officer of Fly Now Pay Later
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About Fly Now Pay Later: Fly Now Pay Later is a fintech company that helps consumers split the cost of their travel in monthly installments.
William Montgomery
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Thought Machine
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Jakub Fijolek
CTO & Co-Founder of Coinfirm
Jakub Fijolek is Co-Founder and CTO of Coinfirm. An innovative IT and security specialist, has been analyzing and developing around blockchain, cryptocurrencies and their applications since 2010; the former head of multi-algorithm virtual currency mining farms.
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About Coinfirm: Coinfirm is the global leader in regtech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem.
Yury Hushchyn
CTO of Capital.Com
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About Capital.Com: Capital.com is a high-growth, investment trading fintech group of companies empowering people to participate in financial markets.
Evan Tzanis
CTO of Credit-Vision
Evan has designed and built the original version of the Credit-Vision platform from the ground up and together with our senior technology advisor Ignacio Ybarra he is leading our technology development. Evan is a specialist in the design, implementation and delivery of large-scale projects. A member of MRC eMedlab, he and his team have been developing a shared computer cluster harnessing UK clinical and genomics data meant to underpin future medical research on rare diseases. He was also the Leading Software Engineer for re-factoring NIESR’s (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) global econometric model software NIGEM, a data analysis software used by major global institutions including the IMF, OECD, BoE and ECB. Evan holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College London, a Msc Degree from the University of Amsterdam and a Bsc/Msc degree from the Technical University of Athens.
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About Credit-Vision: Credit-Vision identifies, captures, aggregates and contextualises financial data for investors in corporate credit.
Vinod Singh
CTO of Concirrus
Vinod leads our technology team including product delivery and development. He has more than 15 years of experience in architecture, design, development, testing and implementation of large distributed applications, spending time at both Google and Amazon.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
David Goate
CTO of Marshmallow
David Goaté is Co Founder & CTO at Marshmallow.
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About Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Anthony Drogon
Founder & CTO of SeedLegals
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About SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Robert Howes
CTO & Board Advisor of Judopay
Rob co-founded Algomi to build on a strong technology background engineering sophisticated solutions to complex problems. Drawn to opportunities where technology can be used to challenge the status quo, Rob has spent many years successfully leading the delivery of ambitious Fixed Income solutions, including Credit List Trading at UBS and more recently a first of its kind anonymous crossing platform for bonds. Rob holds a M. Eng. in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College.
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About Judopay, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Steve Cook
Chief Technology Officer of Form3
Steve has architected and developed great products and managed dynamic technology teams in the financial services sector for over 20 years. He brings a broad range of experience in FinTech, having led key technology teams across banking (Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Gain Capital), and having launched several startups in the FinTech and cloud computing space. Steve previously lived and worked in Asia for 15 years, and has extensive experience in the Asian banking and capital markets environment. He also holds a degree in theoretical physics from Cambridge University. As the CTO of Form3, Steve is responsible for all aspects of technology, including product architecture, development, delivery and support of the Form3 Financial Cloud.
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About Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
Ashwind G. Soonarane
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of DMALINK
Ashwind Soonarane is an institutional electronic foreign exchange specialist drawing from his multi-displinary management and technical expertise to formulate and implement strategic plans aimed towards generating competitive advantage for sustainable growth. Ashwind holds an MSc in Finance, MBA and a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) degree. He is a a certified technical analyst of the Society of Technical Analysts, UK.
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Cyril Pluche
CTO of Vauban
Cyril Pluche is the CTO at Vauban.
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About Vauban: Vauban is the easiest way to pool & deploy capital to invest in private companies.
Anders Hallsten
Co-Founder & CTO of Divido
Anders Hallsten is CTO and Co-Founder at Divido. Hallsten spent the last 10 years building e-commerce platforms for brands such as Hush Puppies and Fossil Watches.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Samuel Heather
VP, Chief Technology Officer of KodyPay
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About KodyPay: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Hector Wilkerson
Chief Technology Officer of LATOKEN
Hector Wilkerson is the Chief Technology Officer at LATOKEN.
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About LATOKEN: LATOKEN is the leading platform for multi-asset tokenization and cryptocurrency exchange.
Huss EL-Sheikh
CTO & Co-Founder of 9fin
Hussam EL-Sheikh is the CTO & Founder at 9fin.
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About 9fin: The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Andre Elias
Co-Founder & CTO of FIDEL API
Design, Engineering & AI.
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About FIDEL API: Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards.
George Dunning
CTO & Co Founder of Bud
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About Bud: Bud is a financial network combining APIs & data to create a new species of connected experiences.
Simon Needham
CTO of Tradeteq
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About Tradeteq: The global hub for trade finance distribution
Alex Harin
Chief Technology Officer of Wrisk
With an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Moscow University and a PhD in Maths from the University of Natal, it’s safe to say that Alex knows how to wrangle large data sets with ease…which is particularly handy if your business is all about turning tables of data points into personal insights (but is extremely handy in a pub quiz too).
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Ricardo Brizido
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Stake
Ricardo Brizido is the Co-Founder and CTO at Stake.
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About Stake: Stake Properties is a digital real estate investment platform.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Klaus Thorup
Chief Technology Officer of ClearScore
Klaus is a deep technology expert having worked for some of the biggest names in gaming. He’s the heart of our engineering.
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About ClearScore: ClearScore is a financial technology company that provides credit scoring services and a marketplace.
Gaurav Rana
Chief Technology Officer of BABB
Gaurav is an experienced CTO and an industry veteran in the blockchain space with a history of working with distributed systems and financial services at scale. He has contributed to dozens of pivotal projects and seminal literature, and invented pioneering technology in the industry since 2010. Gaurav is a techstars alum, and ex CTO of startups Everledger and Atlas.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Michael Hancock
CTO of Fluidly
Michael has over 15 years’ technical experience delivering large scale e-commerce and finance projects for the likes of Tesco, Auto Trader, London Stock Exchange and most of the major banks. He has spent the last 5 years working in RegTech and FinTech startups and most recently was CTO for digital payments company Judopay. Whilst there he designed and delivered a market leading fraud product, saw the payments volume increase 15x and built a world class team of 20+ engineers. Michael has a passion for using technology to help solve real world problems and is bringing a wealth of experience in scaling platforms and processes to the Fluidly team.
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About Fluidly: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Jonathan Lister
CTO of PensionBee
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About PensionBee: PensionBee: the clever way to find and combine all your old pension plans in one good-value, online plan Capital at risk.
Joao Martins
CTO of Yapily
Joao Martins is the Chief Technology Officer at Yapily.
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About Yapily: Yapily offers API-based software to enable innovative products to connect to banks.
Dominic Kwok
Co-founder and CTO of Heron Data
Dominic Kwok is the Co-Founder and CTO at Heron Data.
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About Heron Data: We categorise and label bank transaction data.
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
David’s long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Emilian Siemsia
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of FriendlyScore
Emilian Siemsia is the founder and CTO of FriendlyScore, a platform which combines Machine Learning (AI) techniques, Web Application development and Mobile solutions to process alternative credit-scoring data. Emilian is a dynamic and driven technologist with a rare combination of business knowledge and deep technical expertise. He is passionate about start-ups and understands group dynamics and team building. Artificial intelligence, particularly semantic analysis are of special interest to him. For over 10 years he has held many software developer and technical leader roles. Prior to FriendlyScore he ran a software development house. Emilian was educated at Wroclaw University of Technology, he holds a Master of Science in Automation and Robotics.
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About FriendlyScore: Unlock the power of Open Banking. Simple access to bank APIs, enriched data and predictive analytics
Mark Durrand
CTO of TotallyMoney
Mark has a long track record of delivering innovative software solutions in cutting edge development environments. He was director of IT at uSwitch.com, helping re-invent the brand following its acquisition by Forward Group. Prior to that he managed the web development team at Visa Europe. During his career Mark has developed a keen interest in Agile and Lean approaches to software development and has spoken at many conferences on his experiences.
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About TotallyMoney: TotallyMoney puts customers right at the center of their credit data, helping them make smarter financial decisions.
Christopher Shields
CTO and Co-Founder of Givinga
Christopher Shields is the CTO and Co-Founder at Givinga. He oversees Givinga’s technology platform and systems integration and has provided business transformation services to leading enterprise companies. Prior to Givinga, Mr. Shields is a former Technology and Business Consultant, Principal – Technology Solutions, Custom Software Development at Jaroop and was an E-Analyst at ADP Dealer Services International.
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About Givinga: Givinga is a provider of financial technology platform for employers.
Murat Abur
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade.
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About Suade: Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis.
Julian Bowden
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of InvestCloud
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About InvestCloud: InvestCloud is a global company specializing in digital platforms that enable the development of financial solutions.
Ben Smith
Co Founder, Partner & CTO of InReach Ventures
Ben Smith is a Co-Founder and Technology Partner at InReach Ventures. He is a former UK Engineering Director at Yammer / Microsoft. Prior to that, Ben Smith served as the Head of Technology at Top10 and Chief Technology Officer at MetaBroadcast. He is building a technology platform to transform traditional Venture Capital.
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About InReach Ventures: The AI powered VC focused on early-stage European startups
Mike Raath
CTO of Thunes
Mike Raath is the CTO at Thunes.
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About Thunes: Thunes offers a global cross-border payment network for seamless transfer of funds to 100 countries in 60 currencies.
Konstantinos Faliagkas
Co-founder & CTO of Wealthyhood
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About Daedalus investment Platform, Wealthyhood: The first DIY wealth-building app for long-term investors.
Yoel Marson
CTO of BondAval
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About BondAval, Improded: BondAval is a digital platform for B2B credit security to replace bank guarantees and traditional collateral-based instruments.
Emanuele Blanco
Chief Technology Officer of Moneyfarm
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About Moneyfarm: Moneyfarm is a digital wealth manager that offers online financial advisory and investment services.
Peter Ingram
Chief Technology Officer of Hastee
Peter Ingram is the CTO at Hastee.
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About Fixxa, Hastee: Hastee is a mobile application that allows workers to receive a portion of their earned pay immediately.
Mike Moate
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
John Davies
CTO & co-founder of Velo Payments
CTO and co-founder of Velo Payments & Incept5 Previously CTO and co-founder of C24, founded in 2000, sold to Iona Technologies (on NASDAQ) in 2007 (which was then sold to Progress Software 2008). C24 bought back from Progress Software in 2011 and sold to Gresham Technologies (on UK Stock Exchange) in Oct 2016. C24’s product was payments integration technology for investment banks, predominately SWIFT, Fedwire, SEPA, ISO 20022, BOJNet etc. and used by the majority of the worlds largest banks as customers. C24’s [patent-pending] “binary Java” technology-enabled Vodafone to handle over a million messages per second; John was the inventor. John is also CTO of Incept5, leaders in innovation and the team behind Visa Checkout and the BBC’s new iPlayer. John was also designed and ran FX trading technology at Paribas, head of technology consulting in BNP Paribas and global head of architecture at JP Morgan, also an interim chief architect at several startups. John has co-authored 5 Java and architecture books and is a regular speaker at technical and financial services conferences.
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About Incept5, Velo Payments: Velo Payments is the global smart data network for business disbursements.
Makis Saridis
CTO of Loyalize
Makis has an extensive track record in retail and technology. He is currently the Lead Systems Architect at ASOS, having previously been the Solutions and Innovations Director at Oracle. Before Oracle, Makis worked for some of the world’s largest retailers, including LVMH, M&S Group and Sainsbury’s to build out their IT solutions.
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About Loyalize: Loyalize is a white label payment, loyalty and customer engagement platform
Simon Morley
Chief Technology Officer of Vaultoro
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About Vaultoro: Vaultoro is a financial technology company specialized in digital assets and commodities trading.
Ian Fuller
CTO & Cofounder of Freetrade
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About Freetrade: Freetrade is a challenger stockbroker that offers free share trading in mobile phones.
Guy Evans
CTO of Koyo
Experienced hands-on CTO/VP Engineering
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About Koyo: Koyo uses machine learning to serve customers with competitively priced credit
Antonio Marino
Co-Founder & CTO of Emma
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About Emma: Emma is a financial app advocate that helps users avoid overdrafts, find wasteful subscriptions, and allows users control of their finances.
Julien Deray
Co-Founder & CTO of Mespo
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About Mespo: Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Mitch Ebdon
CTO of essDOCS
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About essDOCS: essDOCS enables paperless trade; focusing on digitizing paper-heavy shipping, trade and logistic processes.
Derek Ewing
CTO of KITE EDGE LTD
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About : Customisable Search Platform for Asset Managers/Banks
Mark Hornsby
CTO of Trustology
Mark is a dedicated technologist with extensive industry experience in top tier investment banks. In his most recent role, Mark was recognised as a Distinguished Engineer in his Senior Innovation Engineer role, where he was responsible for examining emerging technology and its possible applications within Royal Bank of Scotland. Previously, Mark was head of Counterparty Credit Risk Technology at RBS. Prior to working at RBS, Mark was a Credit Risk developer at UBS, and OTC Derivatives developer at Deutsche Bank.
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About Trustology: Trustology is building a custody platform to safeguard your crypto assets.
Joe Barbour
Chief Technology Officer of Knoma
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Gabriele Cacciola
CTO of Ocyan
Gabriele has engineering in his DNA: focused and visionary about tech. His experience as Big Data in the Fintech space with ClearScore (since they were a small startup to the worldwide scale it is now) followed many years spent in high tech startups and corporates. When is not busy directing Ocyan’s tech work, he works along with AWS to present his Big Data serverless platforms and support other startups in this journey.
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About Ocyan: Financial marketplace for European Expats
Daniel Howard
CTO of SimbaPay
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About SimbaPay: SimbaPay is a B2B SaaS for banks in Africa that enables their customers to send money abroad using mobile money or e-banking.
Nick Buller
Chief Technology Officer of ThinCats
Nick’s entrepreneurial spirit, developed at the helm of several London based start-ups, is coupled with a direct appreciation of how investment in technology can transform businesses. This has driven him to ThinCats, where he is able to use this first-hand experience to help facilitate the funding of UK SMEs. Nick is responsible for overseeing technological advancement at ThinCats; spearheading innovation, building infrastructure, maximising security and promoting development across the business. He has vast experience in finance and technology; having spent over 10 years at Barclays at Director level, he has held CTO positions at a number of other London-based technology firms, as well as CTO for ESF Capital.
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About ThinCats: ThinCats is an alternative finance provider dedicated to funding growing and ambitious mid-sized SMEs across the UK.
Paolo Ursino
CTO of VentureFounders
Paolo joined VentureFounders as CTO in 2018 and is in charge of all the technical aspects as well as the nFiniti platform. He is passionate about technology and its potential to transform their lives through disciplines such as IoT, AI, Cloud systems, analytics and Big Data. Paolo has more than 20 years experience in a wide range of technologies, including robotics, cellular communication, IoT and B2B and B2C cloud platforms, and has worked for large corporates, such as Samsung and Broadcom, as well as having been co-founder of two startups.
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About VentureFounders: VentureFounders is an investment platform providing HNW client base with access to highly-curated and structured investment opportunities.
Ernesto Jiménez
CTO of topi
Ernesto Jiménez is the chief technology officer of Topi.
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About Slackline, topi: Topi is a fintech company that offers digital payment solutions for business sellers and buyers.
Vincent Hus
Co Founder, CTO of Flymble
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About Flymble: Flymble is a next generation travel platform that offers instant travel financing. Book flights for just 1/10th upfront and spread the cost.
Jonathan Senior
CTO of OpenGamma
Jon is Chief Technology Officer at OpenGamma. He leads the technology strategies that drive our modern approach to cloud-based services. In this role he has transformed our technology stack, from the inception of Strata, our award-winning market risk foundations, to our highly secure, scalable hosted services architecture. Prior to OpenGamma, Jon was a developer on the Credit Derivatives desk at KBC Financial Products. He also worked on trading systems for the Equity Derivatives and Asian Warrants businesses, as well as Peel Hunt’s Equities business (then part of KBC).
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About OpenGamma: OpenGamma is the analytics company dedicated to reducing the costs of trading derivatives.
Richard Bastin
CTO of Cashplus
Richard is passionate about Technology. Really passionate. No obstacle is too big to overcome and all requirements have a solution. He blends his exceptional tech savvy, knowledge of standards and frameworks, with strong team leadership skills and real business acumen to deliver a highly effective development strategy and process that fulfils both the needs of the business and our customers. Richard has over 20 years IT experience across a variety of industries and has a strong track record of building teams of dedicated software engineers to design and deliver innovative products for customers. He has enviable experience of delivering Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Prior to joining The Currency Cloud, Richard had a variety of roles in technology including being the CTO at Digital Look providing real time stock market data solutions for various stockbrokers, media organisations and banks including HSBC and Barclays. Richard has also been Head of Platform Operations at Venda, delivering high availability and high transactional volume for over 100 eCommerce customers including Tesco, Wickes, Republic and many others.
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About Cashplus: Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Greg Smyth
Co-founder & CTO of Urban Jungle
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About Urban Jungle: Urban Jungle provides an insurance technology to help young people get cheaper, better home insurance.
Matthew Wardle
CTO & Co-Founder of Kasko
CTO and Co-Founder of Kasko
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About Kasko: Kasko is an insurance distribution network that allows you to quickly and easily integrate insurance products into a site, service, or app.
Bartosz Alksnin
CTO, Co-Founder of flatfair
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About flatfair: Secure your rental with flatfair’s flexible solutions
Morné Van Dalen
CTO of Liberis
CTO of Liberis Group.
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About Liberis: Liberis provides access to simple, flexible, and fair finance for small businesses.
Christophe Monget
CTO and Founder of MatchPlace Limited
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About MatchPlace Limited: New generation Fintech platform. Integrating Financial Services solutions, bridging the gap between Financial Institutions and SMEs
Oliver Bayes-Shelton
CTO of CoInvestor
Oliver Bayes-Shelton is the CTO at BYOB.
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About BYOB, CoInvestor, Loan Optics: Alternative asset investment platform connecting advisers and investors with premium tax-efficient, capital growth and yield investments
Simon White
Co-founder & CTO of Rebank
Simon White is the co-founder and CTO of Rebank. Prior to joining Rebank, he worked at Soreto Limited as the head of technology/lead developer. Simon has held positions at Fincluster Ltd, Thales Australia, and Unisys Australia.
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About Rebank: The single source of truth for startup finances
Kishore Patel
Chief Technology Officer of Demica
Kishore Patel is the Chief Technology Officer at Demica.
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About Demica: Demica provides innovative working capital solutions to major corporations and financial institutions.
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.
Lee Cadman
Group Chief Technology Officer of MYJAR
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About MYJAR: Helping people manage their finances by providing responsible short term loans to reliable borrowers.
Hardeep Nagi
CTO and Co-Founder of Yordex
Hardeep is an experienced hands on architect, specialising in designing and implementing highly transactional and secure applications. Hardeep has delivered several multimillion production software working as an architect that codes whenever needed.
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About Yordex: Smart Spend Management Software, SaaS, B2B Payment Service
Robert Taylor
CTO & Co-Founder of Origin
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About Origin: Origin is the primary marketplace for fixed income borrowers and dealers.
Panos Savvas
Co-Founder and CTO of Akoni Hub
Panos has extensive retail and commercial banking expertise. With over 13 years in Banking and Fintech, he has been leading global product development teams and change management programmes for leading financial organisations including RBS, IG Group, Intelligent Environments and others. Panos has worked with a wide range of Fintech and e-commerce ventures, providing consultancy on tech strategy and product/service design. Panos holds a BSc Computer Science, an MSc Distributed Systems and an Executive MBA from London Business School.
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About Akoni Hub: Akoni provides simple cash management tools for individuals and SMEs.
Theodor Chichirita
CTO and Co-Founder of Playter
Theodor Chichirita is the CTO and Co-Founder at Playter.
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About Playter: Playter is funding the community of startups and scaleups by helping them convert any invoice into Buy Now, Pay Later.
Ashutosh Chauhan
CTO & Co-Founder of Capexmove
With 11+ years of professional experience developing software for global leaders. He leads the company’s technology strategy.
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About Capexmove: Capexmove is a platform to draft and digitise debt financing documents.
Matt Millar
CTO & Cofounder of Updraft
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About Live Talkback, Slick, Updraft: Updraft is a part lending, part credit report, and part financial planning app for millennials. We turn borrowers into savers.
John Long
CTO of Aicura Solutions
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About Aicura Solutions: Aicura Solutions is a high-growth FinTech prototyping company focusing on financial services.
John Long
CTO of Aicura Solutions
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About Aicura Solutions: Aicura Solutions is a high-growth FinTech prototyping company focusing on financial services.
Artur Kisiolek
CTO of Artificial Labs
Artur Kisiolek is the CTO at Artificial Labs.
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About Artificial Labs, Wthr.in: We’re making insurance frictionless. We collaborate with leading insurers, using technology to save time, money and increase sales.
Allistair Crossley
CTO of Coconut
Ali has over 17 years’ experience working in startups, agencies and corporates.Working at Somo agency he built web and mobile apps for clients including Audi, BP and Red Bull. He’s a seasoned entrepreneur too, previously co-founder of Roxxor and DAD.
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About Coconut: Coconut is the current account that takes care of your accounting and tax.
Rudolph Graan
Founder & CTO of Expend
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Richard Hoptroff
Founder & CTO of Hoptroff
Awarded a PhD in Physics by King’s College London for work in optical computing and artificial intelligence. A long track record of technological innovation in AI, Bluetooth and, most recently, time synchronisation. Currently working on developing hyper-accurate synchronised timestamping solutions for the financial services sector and beyond, based on a unique combination of grandmaster atomic clock engineering and proprietary software.
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About Hoptroff: We develop proprietary UTC time synchronisation solutions, combining AI with resilient and secure network technology.
Aidan Hamade
Chief Technology Officer of WiseAlpha
Aidan spent 6 years working as a development manager and solutions architect building custom applications for multinationals including HSBC, Deutsche Bank and ANZ. In 2012 he founded a digital agency, Guerilla Software with Andrew Barrett working alongside Google Ideas and Shine Group designing and creating web based platforms using simple and intuitive solutions focusing on modern web patterns. Aidan studied Mathematics with Artificial Intelligence and graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2002.
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About WiseAlpha: WiseAlpha is the UK’s leading digital bond market giving investors access to the world of corporate bonds.
Michael Arnaldi
CTO and Founder of CreditSCRIPT
Michael Arnaldi is CTO of CreditSCRIPT. He has been active in the fin-tech industry for the past 5 years and has a strong background on full-stack development in the field of scalable and highly available financial applications. His personal goal is to improve the financial industry and he is also co-founder and CTO of MyMonexEx a London-based Blockchain-focused platform. Michael is enrolled in Computer Science faculty, University of Pisa.
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About CreditSCRIPT, MATECHS: CreditSCRIPT is an alternative credit investment platform that helps professional investors assess loans and portfolios.
James Pursaill
Co-Founder & CTO of Plend
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About Plend: Building a better way to borrow, where people are no longer held back by their credit history
Juliano Alves
Co-Founder | Chief Technology Officer of Broad
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About Broad: The European neobank for Brazilians to spend money overseas
