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 Computer 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.
Graeme Cox
CEO/CTO of Emteq
Graeme Cox has a degree in artificial intelligence, over 20 years experience in scaling product development teams, and has a track record of building profitable, high-growth technology businesses. He has founded and managed four technology businesses and has served as board member and advisor on several more across the range of software, hardware and services. A project and person manager with 20 years of continuous experience in the management of teams and individuals with project ownership, management and delivery of individual budgets up to $100 million.
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About Emteq: The world’s first emotion recognition and analysis platform in smart glasses
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
Brendan O’Reilly
CTO of O2
Brendan is Telefónica UK’s Chief Technology Officer, with over 15 years’ experience in Mobile Telecoms. Brendan has accountability for O2’s strategy, design, planning, test, delivery and operation of the entire mobile and fixed network, messaging and wifi supported by his team of more than 600 professional engineers. Brendan has held a number of senior roles in the Networks Leadership Team over the past seven years, with achievements including leading the development of O2’s network share partnership with Vodafone in June 2012. He is also experienced in detailed planning and delivery of radio and transmission networks. Delivering the best experience to O2’s customers is at the heart of how Brendan works and knows his people are key to achieve this. Brendan also has a strong focus on his people encouraging development and self-learning across all of Networks.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Boris Ploix
Co-founder and CTO of Calipsa
Boris has spent 4 years working with transport authorities in France and England where he worked closely with transport planners and intelligent transport systems teams. He has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London
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About Calipsa: Deep Learning powered video monitoring
Chris Emery
Co-Founder & CTO of CloudNC
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About CloudNC: Creating autonomous manufacturing
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.
Elnar Hajiyev
Co-Founder & CTO of Realeyes
Elnar stands at the heart of Realeyes’ core technology and IT architecture, driving the company’s emotions tracking vision. Elnar started coding at the age of 10 and built some of the first online shops in Azerbaijan. At 18, he created Azerbaijan’s first online beauty pageant, which got hundreds of thousands of hits, millions of TV viewers and extensive nationwide press coverage. He has also co-authored numerous academic publications, as well as been the recipient of several awards and prestigious scholarships. He went on to study for a fully-funded PhD in Computer Science at Oxford focused on database structures, which now form the essential foundation of our technology platform. During his PhD Elnar co-founded Semmle – working on big data analytics technology to provide business intelligence – and managed the company during its first few years before a fateful meeting with Mihkel led him to becoming one of the co-founders of Realeyes. He has built and now leads our Research & Development offices in Eastern Europe, and has been granted a US patent, with 6 more EU patents currently pending.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
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)
Raunaq Bose
CTO, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Stephen Dodson
CTO/Founder of Prelert
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About Prelert: Prelert provides incident management tools that automatically isolate the causality of application interruptions in real time.
Subhash Muchala
CTO of Dynamify
PhD, University of Oxford
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
Marko Djukic
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Ingenii
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About : Ingenii is a data engineering platform that provides access to a growing library of data engineering tools and templates.
William Thomas
Co-Founder and CTO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
Matthew Eric Bassett
CTO of PRODA
Matthew Eric has 15 years of experience in delivering commercial software, with a strong focus on solving data science problems. He headed up the film industry’s first data science group at Universal Pictures. Under his leadership, the team successfully increased box office revenues and cut costs for several films, and expanded to television and home entertainment. He went on to found Gower Street Analytics, offering a suite of software simulating product release strategies in response to audience viewing habits to help studios make data-driven commercial decisions. Matthew Eric holds an MSci in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a PhD in Number Theory. He serves as an advisor on several academic and governmental boards on strategy and research for big data and machine learning.
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About PRODA, Sneffel: PRODA is focuses on solving core data processing pain points in real estate.
Stan Karpenko
Co-Founder & CTO of GiveVision
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About GiveVision: GiveVision is a high tech low vision aids enhancing the remaining sight of partially sighted people.
Robert Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO of Salesorder.com
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About Salesorder.com: Salesorder is an inventory and order management software for distributors, wholesalers, and ecommerce.
Guillaume Lebedel
CTO & co-founder of Upper.ai
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About Upper.ai, Yieldify: Upper.ai seamlessly merges simplicity and power by learning about relationships and patterns in your data sources.