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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 CTOโ operating in the Insurance space. If you think a CTOโ 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 โ Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth โ Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management โ Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact โ Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data โ 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.
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, heโs a devoted father of two and is looking forward to sharing his passion for sailing, climbing and skiing with his kids once theyโre 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.
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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 Goatรฉ is Co Founder & CTO at Marshmallow.
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About Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Chris Greeno
Chief Technology Officer of Cuvva
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About Cuvva: Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
Roxana Danila
Chief Technology Officer of Nexus Mutual
Roxana Danila is the Chief Technology Officer at Nexus Mutual.
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About Nexus Mutual: Nexus Mutual uses the power of blockchain technology and Ethereum to allow people from all over the world.
Sarah Greasley
CTO of Direct Line Insurance
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About Direct Line Insurance: Direct Line Group is an organization with a clear mission: to make insurance much easier and better value for customers.
Callum Rimmer
Co-Founder & CTO of By Miles
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About By Miles: By Miles is reinventing car insurance โ pay an annual cost to cover your car while itโs parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month.
Pawel Terpilowski
CTO โ Co-Founder of Bequest
Pawel Terpilowski is the Co-Founder and CTO of Bequest.
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About Bequest: Weโre building an advanced way for millions of people to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Charlie Blackburn
Co-Founder and CTO of Azur Group
Charlie Blackburn is a co-founder of BrightTALK and served as the chief operating officer from BrightTALKโs U.K. headquarters in London, England. Previously, he was vice president of European operations for Scient. He also developed the Investment Banking practice at Pyramid Imaging in San Francisco after starting he career at Accenture. Blackburn earned a first class honors degree from Manchester University (U.K.) in Mechanical Engineering.
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About Azur Group: Azur is a Managing Digital Agency (MDA), in partnership with AIG, one of the worldโs largest and best-respected insurance companies.
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.
Jonathon Valentine
Founder and CTO of ThingCo
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
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.
Riccardo De Leo
CTO of CoVi Analytics
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About CoVi Analytics: Productivity solutions for regulated firms, reducing compliance effort & freeing staff to focus on business.
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.
Andrew Craven
Founder & CTO of Homelyfe
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About Homelyfe: Homelyfe is an insurance app to make insurance simple.
Richard Hodgson
Chief Technology Officer of Ki Insurance
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About Crux Digital, Ki Insurance: Ki Insurance is a fully digital and algorithmically-driven Lloydโs of London syndicate offering instant capacity, accessible at any time.
Sam Hopkins
CTO/Co-Founder of Tapoly on demand insurance
Having been involved in the software engineering industry for over 20 years, within both start-ups and established companies, Samโs professional experience covers finance, file systems, databases, kernel programming, websites, encryption, UI, and 3D graphics. Sam designs systems with the future in mind, keeping things simple yet flexible so they can be adapted to follow the evolution of the business they support. His knowledge, skills and vision help create the Tapoly you see today.
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About Tapoly on demand insurance: On demand insurance for freelancers, contractors and SMEs, and everyone else in the sharing economy and the gig economy.
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.
Artur Kisiolek
CTO of Artificial Labs
Artur Kisiolek is the CTO at Artificial Labs.
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About Artificial Labs, Wthr.in: Weโre making insurance frictionless. We collaborate with leading insurers, using technology to save time, money and increase sales.
Richard Wells
CTO of ThreatInformer
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About ThreatInformer: ThreatInformer provide advanced security metrics tailored for cyber insurance underwriters.
