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 Enterprise 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Christopher Doman
CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security Ltd
Chris Doman is the CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security. He joined the industry after winning a forensics and development competition run by the US DoD. Chris is known for building the popular threat intelligence portal ThreatCrowd, which subsequently merged into the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, later acquired by ATT. Whilst working at PwC and ATT AlienVault in research and development, Chris published a number of widely read articles and papers on targeted cyber attacks. His research on topics such as the North Korean government’s crypto-currency theft schemes, and China’s attacks against dissident websites, have been widely discussed in the media. He has given interviews to print, radio, and TV such as CNN and BBC News. cdoman@cadosecurity.com
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About Cado Security Ltd, Ignite Research: Cado Security provides the cloud investigation platform that empowers security teams to respond to threats at cloud speed.
Abdul Hummaida
CTO of Concentra
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About Concentra: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
Charaka Goonatilake
Founder & CTO of Panaseer
Charaka is the brains behind our big data technology. His team lead the way in generating innovative techniques for deriving new security insight for our customers.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Siim Talvik
CTO of Sorry As A Service
Sorry as a Service, CTO
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About Sorry As A Service: Sorry As A Service is a platform helps companies when a customer complaints or has an issue & suggests actions to rebuild the relationship
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.
Stuart Clarke
Chief Technology Officer – Cybersecurity of Nuix
Stuart is an internationally respected information security expert who is responsible for the overall security and intelligence strategy and delivery at Nuix. During his time at the company, Stuart has advised the United Nations’ peak cybersecurity body ITU and provided cybersecurity training for over 60 computer emergency response teams. He led the development of Nuix Investigation & Response, an innovative investigative tool used to delve into the causes and scope of data breaches. He also currently leads the development of Nuix Insight Analytics & Intelligence, a powerful security intelligence platform. Stuart has a deep understanding of the Nuix technology and capabilities. Prior to joining Nuix, he used Nuix offerings extensively in breach response. He brings that understanding together with a vision for the cybersecurity needs of Nuix’s current and prospective clients. He holds a Bachelor of Science degree with honors in Computer Forensics and is currently working toward a Master’s Degree in Business Administration. He has developed and delivered training for a Master of Science program in Computer Security and Forensics, has recently contributed to a book covering evidence preservation as well as published several industry-recognized white papers.
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About Nuix: Nuix software pinpoints the critical information organizations need to anticipate, detect, and act on cybersecurity, risk.
Hugo Rodger-Brown
Co-Founder & CTO of YunoJuno
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About YunoJuno: Online platform connecting freelancers and clients in the creative and technology 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.
Fraser Hardy
CTO of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Fraser Hardy is Founder & CTO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Ian Pridham
Co-Founder & CTO of Openplay
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About Openplay: OpenPlay is an online platform that allows any sports facility to take online bookings, payments and manage their customers.
Alistair Jackman
CTO of Letyano
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Alistair Jackman
CTO of Letyano
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Stuart Cochran
CTO of BridgeU
Stuart is Chief Technology Officer at Huddle and is responsible for overall product design and direction, technology and infrastructure strategy, and technical operations. He has over 20 years’ experience in both start-up and large, public enterprise software companies. Stuart has a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics and a MSc in Computing and Computer Modelling of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Prashant Majmudar
Founder & CTO of Growth Intelligence
Prash spent six years as an engineer at BAE Systems Detica, where he oversaw the delivery of sensor and electro-optic surveillance systems for the Ministry of Defence. He is a proponent and advocate of the use of full stack data science, machine-learning and predictive lead generation. He co-authored GrowthIntel and NIESR’s 2013 report on the UK digital economy and is well versed in Python and Natural Language Processing. – See more at: http://growthintel.com/about-us/#sthash.1CIDS80S.dpuf
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Alberto Pasqualotto
Chief Technology Officer of Spixii
Alberto Pasqualotto brings huge experience in machine learning, high-performance computing for large scalable applications, advanced information security and databases architecture, as well as a passion for compliance and data protection. Prior to Spixii, Alberto worked as a tech consultant for Italian and Swiss banks and founded other companies. Alberto is an Oracle database expert and holds a BSc and MSc with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Milano.
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About Spixii: Accelerate digitalisation of insurance processes with Spixii Conversational Process Automation (CPA) platform
Mario Menti
CTO & Co-founder of Ally Chatbot
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
Paul King
CTO of The Bot Platform
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About : Empowering people to build a better employee experience using bots, digital assistants and automation tools.
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.
Gianluca Angelici
CTO of Adgistics
Entrepreneur and expert of marketing related technologies. MSc in computer engineering, specialised in Artificial Intelligence applied to Web data. I’m particularly interested in how technologies impact and change organisations. Investigating about it I wrote the book “The Liquid Corporation”. I’m currently CTO and Board Member of Adgistics.
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About Adgistics: Adgistics is a specialist Digital Asset Management solutions provider for world-class brands.
Louis French
CTO of Hypha Knowledge Integration
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About Hypha Knowledge Integration, Viadynamics: Hypha is a new Innovation Intelligence Platform that unifies people, knowledge, data, insights and strategy to drive growth.
Paul White
CTO of Wirefast
Paul White is the CTO at Wirefast.
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About Wirefast: Wirefast is a provider of a cloud-based, enterprise messaging services.
