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 Software 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.
Ben Stopford
Lead Technologist, Office of the CTO of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
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Bhaskar Khemchandani
CTO of Uplatz
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About : Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Michele Riccardo Esposito
Co-Founder & CTO of Candu
Michele Riccardo Esposito is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Candu.
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About Candu: Candu is a product experience platform for software teams who want to design, refine, and personalize their application’s user interface.
Joe Lyske
Chief Technology Officer of Triller
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About Triller: Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
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.
Steve Lane
Chief Technology Officer of The Access Group
Steve has nearly 25 years’ experience in the software industry. He most recently worked with Achilles, where he was responsible for setting strategy and delivering SaaS platforms through global product development and technology teams. Prior to this, he held board and senior level positions with Experian Decision Analytics, Fair Isaac and Financial Objects.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Pruthvikar Reddy
Co-founder & CTO of Carv
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About Carv: Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach.
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
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Gavin Ray
CTO of Digime
Gavin joined ip.access in june 2011. He spend the first 5 years of his career with AT&T in the UK Business Services group followed by five years in Cisco via its acquisition of Stratacom where he held a range of technology leadership positions in Service Provider networking and OSS systems. Recently he has worked as VP Products & Marketing in Telsis a leading messaging vendor and previously he was a partner at New York VC fund MeyerDuffy Ventures and followed with a number of years as a strategic technology advisor to a range of small/mid-size VC funded companies. He holds BSc(Hons) Telcommunications and PhD in network optimisation.
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About Digime, ip.access: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
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.
Jamie Hutton
Chief Technology Officer of Quantexa
Jamie is a global authority on financial crime detection solutions and architectures, having spent over 11 years assisting major banks, insurers and product companies in harnessing technology and data in the fight against crime. Jamie took early responsibility in shaping the direction of the Detica NetReveal product and its unique capabilities. He then went on to be the key driving force behind the EMEA/AP product direction for the SAS financial crime platform. Today he continues to assist global banks with massive data architectures for financial crime.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Ian McShane
Field CTO of Arctic Wolf
Ian McShane is the Field Chief Technology Officer of Arctic Wolf. Ian has over 20 years experience in cybersecurity and operational IT, with humble beginnings in a tech support call center and live-fire experience leading sysadmin teams for large multi-national organizations. As a former Gartner analyst, Ian has advised the largest and fastest growing technology companies in the world as well as tens of thousands of organizations world-wide. He is well known as a trusted advisor and popular commentator in our industry, and prior to joining Arctic Wolf Ian also spent time in various product leadership end executive roles at Symantec, Endgame, Elastic, and CrowdStrike.
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About Arctic Wolf: Arctic Wolf helps companies end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service.
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.
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.
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.
Ivan Lian
CTO of Grip
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
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.
Zachary Williamson
Co-Founder and CTO of Aztec Protocol
Zachary Williamson is Co-Founder & CTO at CreditMint.
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About Aztec Protocol, CreditMint: Aztec develops an ethereum trading protocol that enables private transactions across the public blockchain.
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.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
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
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Steve Homan
Chief Technology Officer of Metapack
Steve is the CIO at MetaPack. His role is to oversee technology across MetaPack, including the engineering and operations of MetaPack’s cloud-based delivery management platform. Steve joined MetaPack in 2018 from a financial services organisation, where he was Digital Transformation Director. Prior to that he spent five years as CIO at Daily Mail Group managing the company’s technology transformation, enabling it to adopt a more customer-centric business strategy. He was also CIO at Fitness First, responsible for all aspects of technology in the group, as well as playing a major role in the evolution of the operations and transformation of the customer experience. Steve holds a BSc in Computing.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Alex McMullan
CTO, International of Pure Storage
Alex began his career in software development after Bachelors and Masters Engineering degrees at Liverpool University, writing flight/test software at British Aerospace, CAD 3D modelling software at Parametric Technology and the RDBMS engine at CA for Ingres before moving into infrastructure design and implementation. Alex transitioned into professional services at Sun and VERITAS through a consulting partner with numerous assignments designing and implementing large scale UNIX and storage systems in financial services before joining UBS to manage the storage and distributed computing infrastructure. From UBS he moved to Barclays to run storage, database and data warehouse engineering and spent 6 years there before joining the Pure Storage team where he holds the role of EMEA CTO.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Donovan Frew
Chief Technology Officer of Goodlord
Donavan brings to Goodlord over 20 years’ experience of building software and technology teams and has most recently occupied a similar role for six successful years at Secret Escapes. When he’s not busy improving the Goodlord platform, you can find him strutting his stuff on the dancefloor or watching one of his (many) favourite football teams.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services of Citrix Systems
Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Xav Kearney
Co-founder, CPO & CTO of Otta
Xav graduated from Imperial College with a Masters in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and specialised in Machine Learning. During his studies, he joined Nested as a Data Scientist for 3 months, and then returned a year later to work as a Software Engineer for 6 months.
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About Otta: Otta is the recruitment platform that recruits man power in technology sector.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Thomas Mary
Founder & CTO of Maze
Thomas Mary is the Founder & CTO at Maze.
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About Maze: Rapid, remote testing for agile teams, from idea to launch
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Saviz Izadpanah
CTO / Director of HighQ
Saviz joined HighQ in 2005 as CTO, responsible for leading HighQ technology strategy, product management and product development. Prior to HighQ, Saviz was the global head of Debt Capital Markets IT at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for the program management of multiple applications including Deutsche Bank’s online debt order capture system “dbbonds” for the global DCM sales teams. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Saviz was part of the lead web development team at Barclays Capital. Saviz holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Imperial College of London.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Aaron Asaro
CTO of Kopernio
Aaron Asaro is the CTO of Kopernio.
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About Kopernio: Kopernio is a free web-based software that enables access to academic journal articles.
Luca Grulla
CTO of Signal AI
An entrepreneurial Technology Leader, experienced in leading product and technology teams from idea to delivery and monetization. Strategic thinker, core member of the Leadership Team, actively involved in company strategy and value creation. Member of the Core Technology team behind the £200M exit of uSwitch.com in 2015.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Stefan Friederichs
Co-Founder & CTO of Leaf Logistics
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About Leaf Logistics: Leaf Logistics connects shippers, providers, and partners to bring financial market efficiency to the transportation marketplace.
Dave Locke
Field CTO EMEA of World Wide Technology
Dave Locke is WWT’s EMEA Field CTO responsible for driving innovative solutions across WWT’s customer base; supporting businesses to modernise their IT, adopt new technologies and drive digital transformation programs.
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About World Wide Technology: World Wide Technology is a systems integrator, provides information technology and supply chain solutions.
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
David Kell
CTO and Co-founder of GYANA
David Kell is a scientist, technologist and nature lover. David has co-founded an ML startup before and was pursuing his PhD in AI in Oxford University when he ran into Joyeeta and her software prototype. Their combined vision of democratising access to data science is the powerful force behind Gyana. He is passionate about simplifying complexities. David is also a Math and Physics Olympiad winner and was a winner of the Gibbs Prize in Physics. He runs several CTO meetup groups and mentors women-in-tech related accelerator startups.
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About GYANA: No-code Data Analytics
Alistair Russell
Co-Founder/CTO of tray.io
Alistair Russell is the co-founder and CTO of Tray.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Tsung-Hsien Wen
CTO of PolyAI
Tsung-Hsien Wen is co-founder and CTO at Poly AI.
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About PolyAI: PolyAI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
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.
Benjamin van Enckevort
Co-founder and CTO of Metomic
Cofounder & CTO at Metomic.
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About Metomic: Metomic is a data privacy software that provides the privacy-by-design infrastructure of the internet.
Chris Goddard
CTO of G-Research
Chris Goddard is the Chief Technology Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
Maksim Sipos
CTO of causaLens
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About causaLens: CausaLens is a casual AI software company that develops intelligent machines.
Anthony Welgemoed
Founder and CTO of Ziflow
Anthony Welgemoed is Founder and CTO at Ziflow Prior to co-founding Ziflow, Anthony was co-founder and CTO of ProofHQ, the industry’s leading online proofing solution. At ProofHQ, Anthony built a world-class development team responsible for the market’s most scalable, resilient and secure online review and approval solution. At the time of ProofHQ’s acquisition by Workfront, ProofHQ was used by thousands of companies across the world every day, producing tens of millions of proofs per year. Prior to ProofHQ, Anthony was Director of Product Management at Mtivity, where he helped develop a sophisticated marketing process automation platform for agencies and brands.
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About Ziflow, Ziflow: Ziflow is a SaaS company that builds smart tools for creative production teams.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Chris Scott
CTO of Zephr
Chris Scott serves as chief technology officer at Blaize.io, a mass scale decision engine for subscription experiences.
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Raphael Holca-Lamarre
Co-Founder & CTO of Mimica Automation
Raphael Holca-Lamarre is Co-Founder & CTO at Mimica.ai. Raphael completed a PhD at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning, developing brain-inspired learning algorithms for deep neural networks.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Matt Painter
CTO of import.io
Matt is the brains behind the powerful functionality in the import.io tool. His innovative ideas have helped import.io create a tool that allows anyone to tap into the huge potential of data on the web. Matt’s primary responsibility is to oversee the technical strategy and product roadmap of the company. As CTO, he is dedicated to building a team of world-class engineers to keep import.io at the forefront of the industry. Prior to co-founding import.io, Matt was a consultant for Sapient and worked as Senior Engineer and Product Architect for Yahoo.
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About import.io: import.io offers a Web Data Integration solution that provides global businesses with high-quality, scalable data from the web.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Emanuel Lainas
Tech Co-Founder & CTO of F6S
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About F6S: F6S is the world’s largest platform for founders.
Tim Glaser
Co-Founder & CTO of PostHog
Tim Glaser is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PostHog.
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About PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
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.
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
Jonny Brankin
CTO of Smartzer
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About Smartzer: Smartzer makes videos and live streams interactive & shoppable on e-commerce, video ads and social.
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.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Daniel Zohar
CTO of Memrise
Daniel Zohar serves as Chief Technology Officer of Memrise.Daniel Zohar helps ensure Memrise works flawlessly on all platforms, and coordinates all of technical efforts. Aside from a glittering career founding and growing startups, he is a keen heavy metal guitarist and an expert at moving large objects at or near the earth’s surface.
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About Memrise: Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web.
Alex Metaxas
Co-Founder and CTO of Cloud Maker
Alex Metaxas is Co-Founder and CTO at Cloud Maker
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About Cloud Maker: Cloud Maker is a Visual DevOps platform that enables organisations to easily design and build scalable cloud solutions.
Michael Armitage
Chief Technology Officer of Derivitec
Michael comes to us with over 10 years of experience in various asset management roles within futures settlements, trading and private wealth management. With a background in Actuarial Science, he hit the ground running in his career when he automated his own job at JP Morgan AMSG and quickly progressed into a development role. He then went on to work at the hedge fund Bluecrest working with the Rates and RV trading desk to streamline their process for real-time reporting. As IT Director for Stanhope Capital, Michael was fundamental in the creation of an entire business workflow solution, including trading, reconciliation, reporting, billing and risk management applications in a micro-service architecture. He was also influential in brokering the deal to transfer himself and his software portfolio to BRT, a business process outsourcing and bespoke software solution provider for wealth managers, funds, private banks and trusts. Assuming the role of Chief Architect, he created a white label SAAS version of the solution which was then made available to the rest of BRT’s clients.
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About Derivitec: Derivitec is a cloud based risk analytics applications and software.
Radouane Oudrhiri
Chief Technology Officer of Eagle Genomics
Radouane has an extensive experience in leading world-class software and data-intensive system developments in different industries from Telecom to Healthcare, Nuclear, Automotive, Financials. Radouane is Lean/Six Sigma Master Black Belt with speciality in high-tech, IT and Software engineering and he is recognised as the leader and early adaptor of Lean/Six Sigma and DFSS to IT and Software. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and member of the ISO Technical Committee (TC69: Applications of Statistical methods) where he is co-author of the Lean & Six Sigma Standard (ISO 18404) as well as the new standard under development (Design for Six Sigma). He is also part of the newly formed international Group on Big Data (nominated by BSI as the UK representative/expert). Radouane has also been Chair of the working group on Measurement Systems for Automated Processes/Systems within the ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering).
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
Gyan Chawdhary
Founder & CTO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Timothy de Paris
CTO of Decibel
Timothy de Paris is the founder and CTO of Decibel.
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About Decibel: Decibel is a real-time intelligence platform that enables businesses to measure and improve online customer experiences.
Stefanos Zafeiriou
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Facesoft
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About Ariel AI, Facesoft: FaceSoft is develops databases that improve 3D facial recognition and computer-genetared facial reconstruction technologies.
David Edoja
Founder and CTO of Analytics Intelligence
David Edoja is the founder of Analytics Intelligence. He is a web analyst and entrepreneur, based in London. Previously, he worked at British Telecom and Omniture.
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About Analytics Intelligence: Palantir of Africa
Pierre Fraisse
CTO of Stelae Technologies
Graduate of the Ecole Polytechnique and doctorates from Orsay and former CTO of Datox/Wedia (specialist in editorial platforms for the publishing sector), with extensive experience in designing and building Content/Document Management solutions.
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About Stelae Technologies: Stelae Technologies is a software vendor that offers information management solutions.
Chris Emery
Co-Founder & CTO of CloudNC
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About CloudNC: Creating autonomous manufacturing
Simon McCabe
CTO of BaseStone
As well as a PhD in Physics, Simon has an extensive background in mobile and enterprise development. He has worked within the financial industry and other technology startup companies, with one successful exit under his belt.
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About BaseStone, BeneTalk, Songkick: BaseStone is a mobile and web application built for construction teams to access, capture and communicate information.
Onoufrios Malikkides
Chief Technology Officer of Labstep
Onoufrios Malikkides is the Chief Technology Officer at Labstep.
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About Labstep: Labstep captures real time scientific process data to provide an internally shareable timeline of a lab’s activity.
Alexander Gorelik
CoFounder,CTO & VP Product of Zamna
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About Zamna: Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience
Rens Troost
Chief Technology Officer of Virtual Clarity
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About Virtual Clarity: Virtual Clarity delivers strategic systems transformations, enabling you to create the right environment for successful business change.
Keith Stenson
CTO Cloud Services of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Michael Huth
Chief Technology Officer of Xayn
Michael Huth is CTO of XAIN AG and a Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London. He is a Diplom-Mathematiker (TU Darmstadt, Germany) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1991 (Tulane University of Louisiana, USA). His research focuses on cybersecurity (notably the interplay of trust, security, risk, and economics), as well as security and privacy in machine learning. Michael served as the technical lead of the Harnessing Economic Value theme at PETRAS IoT Cybersecurity Research Hub in the UK. Professor Huth is an active research and product advisor within London’s cybersecurity startup scene.
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About Xayn: Xayn builds Web Search as it should be.
Lewis Hemens
Co-founder and CTO of Dataform
Lewis Hemens is a Co-founder and CTO at Dataform.
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About Dataform: Dataform manages data pipelines in data warehouse.
Anuj Saboo
CTO & Founder of Healum
Anuj is responsible for the company’s technology vision and team. He believes in the power of Artificial Intelligence to assist healthcare professionals in supporting and understanding their patients. He has 15 years of deep experience in technology sector from working in AI, mobile, social gaming, e-commerce, payments, digital health and network infrastructure. He is experienced in building scalable technology platforms and managing high quality engineering teams. He holds MSc in Computer Science and MSc in Embedded Systems & Robotics from University of Essex.
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About Healum: Healum provides connected software and apps to improve self-management for patients with long term conditions.
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.
Jiameng Gao
CTO and Co-founder of Papercup
Jiameng Gao is CTO and Co-founder at Papercup.ai. Jiameng has an MPhil in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing and an MEng in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He was previously the first employee at Calipsa.
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About Papercup: Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker
Joao Caxaria
Co-Founder and CTO of Codacy
Over 15 years of experience in Software development. Specialities: Scala, Java, .NET, Objective-C
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About Codacy: Codacy is an automated code review tool that helps developers save time in code reviews and manage technical debt.
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.
Pete Craghill
Chief Technology Officer of Visualsoft
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About Visualsoft: Visualsoft eCommerce Based in the North East of England, Visualsoft is one of the UK’s leading web development companies.
Daniel Jones
Chief Technology Officer of Chirp
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About Chirp: Chirp uses existing speakers and microphones to enable frictionless M2M communication to seamlessly and securely transfer data via sound.
Sven Mischkewitz
CTO & Co-Founder of ThinkSono
Sven is an award-winning software engineer from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany. Before joining Entrepreneur First, he worked on annotation tools for brain cells on projects for the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research. He focused on the field of Human-Computer-Interaction during his studies.
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About ThinkSono: Cutting edge AI ultrasound software for detection of blood clots (DVT)
Rotem Hayoun-Meidav
Co-Founder & CTO of Vault Platform
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Dael Williamson
European CTO (Data & AI) | Global Data Technology Lead of Avanade
Technology leader, innovation architect and data scientist. Global Chief Architect of BEYONDigital (by HCL Technologies). We are a global digital and data consultancy specialising in design thinking, experience design, innovation, technology strategy, process digitisation and big data predictive analytics. Co-founder and Chief Strategy & Data Officer of ThinkLab.AI. A machine learning algorithm marketplace offering clients artificial intelligence solutions to deliver game-changing insights from data. Dael also serves on the Advisory Board for FitSprint as Product, Technology & Data Advisor. Vast experience working for and with start-ups as a technology specialist. Passion for data science developed while in academia, producing theoretical protein models and experimental protein structures. Master’s degree (First Class); several degrees and publications.
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About Avanade, ThinkLab.ai: Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Pieter Ennes
CTO of Energyworx
CEO & co-founder of Authentiq
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About Authentiq, Energyworx: Energyworx provides a SaaS-based platform for energy data management and energy intelligence solutions,
James Meier
CTO of Synervoz Communications
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About 01system, Switchboard, Synervoz Communications: Synervoz is building the world’s most flexible communications platform.
Jon Brookes
CTO of Accrosoft
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About Accrosoft, Vacancy Filler: Accrosoft is a software as a service company with two products currently in the market.
Hassan Ahmadzadeh
Co-Founder & CTO of Elixivity
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About Elixivity: Elixivity quantifies and benchmarks people-related impact on financial performance using AI
Sherif Fawzy
CTO of MoneyFellows
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About MoneyFellows: MoneyFellows is a collaborative money management and lending platform digitizing ROSCAs offering users competitive financial solutions.
Charlotte Slingsby
Co-founder, CTO of Nettoken
Charlotte Slingsby is the founder of Moya Power: London based wind energy harvesting startup, developing a flexible building textile to scavenge from existing infrastructure. Our future relies on farming green energy, therefore their mission is to capture abundant ambient wind energy from wasted urban space; creating energy generating hubs. Working together with CrossRail they have tested the potential in underground train tunnels, and have been recognised by Forbes 30u30 and Shell LiveWIRE.
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About Nettoken: The control panel for your digital identity!
Krzysztof Worsa
CTO & Co-Founder of Gophr
Co-Founder, CTO, Board Member at Gophr.
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
