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 Information Services 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.
Stefano Maestri
Chief Technology Officer of Processing Division, Markit of IHS Markit
Stefano Maestri is the Chief Technology Officer of [Markit](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/markit#/entity), a financial information services company that helps businesses improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements. Previously, he was an associate director at [Barclays Investment Bank](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/barclays-capital). Prior to Barclays Investment Bank, Maestri worked as a development manager at [Euronext.LIFFE](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/euronext-liffe#/entity).
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
John Bryant
Chief Technology Officer of Options Technology
John Bryant was named Options CTO in November 2012 having first joined the company in mid-2008 as Head of Technology for Europe, where he oversaw the development of the European Momentum and Velocity low-latency market data product portfolios in addition to managing the company’s European data centre expansion program. John has a wealth of experience in capital markets technologies including trading, market data, data applications and straight-through processing. He holds a joint bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from Liverpool University, holds a certification from the ITIL Foundation, and is a Prince II Practitioner.
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About Options Technology: Options is a global leader in financial technology managed services and IT infrastructure products.
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.
Dominic Forrest
CTO of iProov
Dominic is responsible for the design and development of iProov’s cloud-based infrastructure. Prior to taking up his role with iProov, Dominic was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at mBlox Inc., where he managed a team of fifty developers over three continents, responsible for developing and scaling the platform so that it could seamlessly run over 6 billion transactions per year. Prior to mBlox, Dominic had over fifteen years’ experience in a number of senior roles within UK Telcos and ISPs. This included the responsibly for the Architecture and design of voice, transmission and IP networks for NTL, followed by the launch and growth of the company‘s broadband service to over 2 million customers.
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About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
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.
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.
Gavin Lilley
Chief Technology officer of Zapaygo
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About Media Maison, UK Ministry of Justice, Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
James Eggleston
Chief Technology Officer of appScatter
James is responsible for the delivery of appScatter’s flagship technology – the distribution, performance, tracking and intelligence platform. Prior to appScatter James worked in the mobile gaming industry delivering global technology solutions for international brands.
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About Airnow, appScatter: AppScatter is a B2B SaaS platform that distributes, manages, and monitors mobile apps across multiple app stores worldwide.
Andrew Thompson
CTO of Orbital Witness
Andrew Thompson is the CTO at Orbital Witness.
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About Orbital Witness, Seedcamp: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
Tibor Barna
CTO of GoodBox
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About GoodBox, NextMenu: GoodBox is a fundraising-focused hardware and software tech start-up, primarily serving charities and the non-profit sectors.
Kelvin Clibbon
Chief Technology Officer of Ecrebo
Kelvin joined Ecrebo in February 2018 as Chief Technology Officer. He is an experienced and effective CTO with strong managerial, technical and commercial skills. Building on a first class academic background, Kelvin has an outstanding track record of delivering innovative leading-edge products, which have enjoyed significant market success. He has previously held senior roles at Lumeon, Powa Technologies and Neverfail Group.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Mark Williamson
Co-founder & CTO of Hanzo
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About Hanzo: Hanzo is the world leader in the legally defensible capture, preservation, and analysis of web content and eDiscovery.
Ole Moeller-Nilsson
CTO of Pivigo
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About Pivigo: Data is and will continue to change our lives. It is generated by us, for us and around us.
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.
Ian Bailey
CTO of telicent
Ian is a co-founder of Telicent, building open, standards-based technology for data sharing. Prior to Telicent, Ian was CTO at illumr, building customer-facing data science applications. Ian has a degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in data mapping (ETL). He is a fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). His early career concentrated on legacy data migration and data model re-engineering. He first started working with formal ontologies in the mid-nineties, and has developed a number of ontology-based products as we as other apps around deep neural nets, clustering, market segmentation and geo analytics.
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About illumr, Model Futures, telicent: We enable organisations to flex, grow and transform without being held back by their IT
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO & Co-Founder of Vestemi
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Mary Williamson
CTO and Head of Platform of Stratagem Technologies Ltd
CTO and Head of Platform at Stratagem Technologies Ltd.
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About Stratagem Technologies Ltd: Trading Sports Prediction Markets as an alternative asset class
Mary Williamson
CTO and Head of Platform of Stratagem Technologies Ltd
CTO and Head of Platform at Stratagem Technologies Ltd.
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About Stratagem Technologies Ltd: Trading Sports Prediction Markets as an alternative asset class
Andrew Mahood
Co-founder & CTO of Precursive
Co-founder & CTO at Precursive
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About Precursive: Customer onboarding, resource management and professional services automation native on Salesforce.
Yan Zhang
Co-Founder and CTO of Kuan Intelligence
Yan Zhang is Co-Founder and CTO at Kuan Intelligence.
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About Kuan Intelligence: Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
Andrés Martin-Lopez
CTO of Blokur
Before joining Blokur as CTO Andres headed an innovation team at Universal Music Group, developing several industry-leading platforms for data science, machine learning and repertoire-metadata. During his time at Universal Music Group he was also responsible for Universal’s synch licensing platform and Universal’s meta data API, which powers several streaming services. Before UMG, he worked as a software engineer at companies including Vodafone and Thales. Andrés holds a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from Manchester University.
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About Blokur: Blokur is a tech company that empowers Internet of Creators using blockchain technology.
Siva Ganesamoorthy
CTO of Olocode
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About Olocode: Share your latest contact details with a simple code and always stay connected. Start using Olocode and never lose a contact.
Andrew Shishkin
CTO of GetSmart
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About GetSmart: GetSmart is software development company.
Dom O’Neill
Co-Founder and CTO of Buzzer Feedback
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About Buzzer Feedback: Buzzer is a customer feedback company which provides restaurant management with a high volume of private, specific and verified feedback
Steve Harris
CTO of Aistemos
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About : Aistemos was established to provide IP business intelligence.
