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This list showcases the top London based CTO’ operating in the Medical 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.
Artur Saudabayev
Co-Founder, CTO of Causaly
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About Causaly: Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine
Oliver Brookes
Chief Technology Officer of MedicSpot
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About MedicSpot: MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine
Vicky Smalley
CTO of FundamentalVR
Vicky Smalley has extensive experience working with AI and a passion for big data, working at companies including Sony, Climax, Kuato Studios and If You Can. She started her career specializing in Artificial Intelligence for PC and Console titles and in 2011 took a change in direction, switching platform to mobile and focusing on the educational sector. She is a strong technical lead with a history of managing teams who can deliver complex products to ambitious timescales while maintaining high production values. She is passionate about using cutting edge VR and haptic technology to deliver immersive training that will improve surgical outcomes.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Adrien Desjardins
CTO of Echopoint Medical
Adrien has a PhD from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics with a specific focus on cardiovascular devices, fibre optic sensing, and optical coherence tomography. After his PhD, he led technical developments in an internal venture at Philips Research (Netherlands) to develop devices with integrated optical sensors and brought this technology from benchtop prototypes to in vivo human studies. In addition to his responsibilities at Echopoint Medical, he is a Full Professor at UCL where he leads the interventional devices group with a vision to develop novel methods for performing physiological measurements and imaging with minimally invasive devices. He has over 52 patent applications and granted patents.
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About Echopoint Medical: Echopoint Medical is a medtech company
Artem Stalpouski
Co-founder & CTO of Drfocused
Artem Stalpouski is the Co-founder & CTO @drfocused Bending rules across the borders.
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About Drfocused: Drfocused creates clinician-centred digital solutions improve the working lives of doctors.
Andrew Walker
Chief Technology Officer of Kind Consumer
Andrew Walker is the chief technology officer of Kind Consumer.
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About Kind Consumer: Kind Consumer is a healthcare research and development company focused on inhalation technologies.
Arkadiusz Klemenko
Co-founder, CTO & Tech Leader of Solvemed Group
Experienced Business Objects Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Change Control, Clinical Data Management, Databases, Data Warehousing, and Microsoft Reporting Service. Strong information technology professional with a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) focused in Computer Software Engineering from Technical University of Szczecin.
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About Solvemed Group: Revolutionising neurology diagnostics and drug discovery with the power of Artificial Intelligence.
Gareth Jones
CTO of Jupiter Diagnostics
Gareth was previously the Assistant Director and Head and Science Chair of the Biology and Medicine College, Synchrotron Radiation Department at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Since 2006, he has created and advised on novel diagnostic technologies for 10 UK firms. He is a named inventor on 13 patents and has over 70 papers published including in Nature.
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About Jupiter Diagnostics: Jupiter Diagnostics has developed a diagnostic platform
Ivaylo Yosifov
Co-Founder and CTO of FindMeCure
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About FindMeCure: FindMeCure helps anyone to easily find future treatments and apply for participation in studies within a few clicks.
Joel Douglas
CTO of Loon Medical
Prior to Loon, Mr. Douglas was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Engineered Carbon Solutions (ECS) – a company that commercialized a hybrid pellet for the stove market. Prior to ECS, he co-founded Simplified Energy Solutions (SES) and was CTO of Mystic Technology Partners which merged with SES. SES has launched Solar Thermal Applications, SafeShip Li-ion batteries and has growing sales in the public sector market. Before that, Mr. Douglas founded two medical device companies: Amira Medical, developer of the first alternative site glucose meter, and Sterling Medications, developer of a series of insulin delivery devices. He has also assisted the development of HDH Technologies for SaniChek products sold by Simoniz. Mr. Douglas earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from UConn and an M.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of New Haven. He was honored by the UConn School of Engineering in 2005 when he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers. He has 95 granted US patents and has written 29 FDA 510(k) clearances.
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About Loon Medical: Loon Medical specializes in the fields of healthcare, medical, and medical device.
Christopher Scollo
Acting CTO of MyHealthPal
Former CTO at ciao.com, tech advisor, author and angel investor.
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About MyHealthPal: My Health Pal is a powerful digital companion that enables people with long-term health conditions.
Alex Johnson
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Pixcelldata
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About Pixcelldata: Pixcelldata is a leading innovator of software solutions for the digital pathology domain.
