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 Marketing 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.
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.
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David Abensour
CTO of Fospha Marketing
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About Fospha Marketing: The Direct to Consumer Growth Platform
Brad Wright
Chief Technology Officer of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Dominic Shine
Chief Technology Officer of Dentsu Aegis Network
Dominic is responsible for strategic direction, innovation, delivery and integration of the group’s technology and data assets covering client-facing products, business platforms, infrastructure and cyber security. He joined the group in 2017 from News Corp where, as Global CIO, he delivered a major transformation of technology capabilities to enable growth of digital product revenues, modernisation of platforms and processes across all business functions, and a major reduction in operating costs. Previously, as Group CIO of the events division of Reed Elsevier, he led a global transformation of platforms and products to enable the launch of new digital products across 500 events in 30 countries. He started his career in the finance sector where he spent 15 years in international digital and technology leadership roles working for leading companies in investment banking, asset management and insurance.
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About Dentsu Aegis Network: Dentsu Aegis Network is the first digitally native network that specializes in media, digital and creative communications services.
Rian Liebenberg
CTO of Kobalt
CTO Kobalt Music.
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About Kobalt: Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Richard Thompson
CTO of Kobalt
Richard Thompson is the chief technology officer of [Kobalt](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/kobalt-music-group), a technology company that offers an alternative to the traditional music business model. He participates in various industry initiatives and forums, and is a DDEX board member. Before Kobalt, Thompson worked for Oracle in their consulting, development, and media divisions. From 1996 to 1999, he attended The University of Manchester for higher educational purposes.
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About Kobalt: Kobalt is a music services company that offers alternative to traditional music business models.
Alistair Russell
Co-Founder/CTO of tray.io
Alistair Russell is the co-founder and CTO of Tray.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Anthony Welgemoed
Founder and CTO of Ziflow
Anthony Welgemoed is Founder and CTO at Ziflow Prior to co-founding Ziflow, Anthony was co-founder and CTO of ProofHQ, the industry’s leading online proofing solution. At ProofHQ, Anthony built a world-class development team responsible for the market’s most scalable, resilient and secure online review and approval solution. At the time of ProofHQ’s acquisition by Workfront, ProofHQ was used by thousands of companies across the world every day, producing tens of millions of proofs per year. Prior to ProofHQ, Anthony was Director of Product Management at Mtivity, where he helped develop a sophisticated marketing process automation platform for agencies and brands.
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About Ziflow, Ziflow: Ziflow is a SaaS company that builds smart tools for creative production teams.
Nick Reffitt
Co-Founder & CTO of Tapdaq
Nick has been coding since a young age. He picked up programming aged 12, and started consulting a year later. He met Ted at a similar time, and they both hacked on various projects over the years. Nick is in charge of all the technical aspects to Tapdaq. CS grad from University of Kent.
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About Tapdaq: Tapdaq helps mobile developers to maximise their revenue with unbiased ad mediation, and retain their most valuable users.
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
Dr Marc Fletcher
CTO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Natalia Mila
Chief Technology Officer of Upstream
Natalia joined Upstream in 2008 as a senior software engineer. She has worked in several roles within the company, as a team leader and later on as chief architect and head of engineering, leading the design and implementation of Upstream’s mobile commerce platform. She is now the company CTO, responsible for its technical product, engineering and infrastructure functions. She has more than 17 years of work experience in enterprise software, in companies such as Intracom and Intralot S.A. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master’s degree in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems, from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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About Upstream: Upstream is leading the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets.
Tim Boughton
CTO & Co-founder of Mention Me
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About Mention Me: Harness the exponential power of your brand fans
Toby Doig
CTO of Captify
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About Captify: Captify offers a search retargeting service that enables advertisers to focus on users to match their desired audience with inventory.
Sachin Deshpande
Chief Technology Officer of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
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
Cabell de Marcellus
Co-Founder & CTO of Dianomi
Cabell, Co-Founder and CTO, is responsible for the strategic development of dianomi’s platform, he coded the original HA/LAMP architecture. He also represents dianomi in North America presenting to advertisers and publishers. Prior to founding dianomi, Cabell was Head of Software Development and Equity Services at Interactive Investor where his software was a vital part of the $1BN flotation.
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About Buckingham Gate Chartered Financial Planners, Dianomi: Dianomi is a global leader in content marketing.
Pearl Arbenser-Simmonds
CTO of Agily
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About Agily: Agily is a collaborative and team goal management app improving organisational alignment, business agility and competitiveness.
Javad Zahir
CTO of MINT
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About MINT, MYNTELLIGENCE LIMITED: MINT is a tool that allows marketers to manage their entire media spend across all AdTech platforms through a single interface.
Cameron Gordon
CTO and Co-Founder of OnePulse
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About OnePulse: OnePulse is a mobile app that connects people and businesses with opinions and reward them through PayPal.
Tom Kirkpatrick
Chief Technology Officer of Fullcube
Tom is responsible for the product development roadmap of fullcube’s proprietary subscription management and integration platform. Prior to fullcube, Tom co-founded SystemSeed, and built a global reputation as an evangelist and leader in the open source community.
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About Fullcube, SystemSeed: Fullcube is a platform integrating and automating the “subscription economy.”
Simon Critchley
CTO of Avocet
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About Avocet: Avocet provides a demand-side platform for digital advertising with viewability, cross-device and class-leading optimization all built-in.
Mark White
CTO of Codec
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About Codec: We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
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.
Mike Fenna
CTO of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Michal Martyniak
Co-Founder & CTO of Reebee
Michal Martyniak is the Co-Founder and CTO at Reebee.
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About Reebee: Reebee is the simplest way to browse your flyers. FEATURES INCLUDE: – Current Flyers – An up to date section illustrating deals you can
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Paul Inman
Co-Founder and CTO of Maybe*
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About Maybe*: Maybe*. The platform that connects the online, offline and social retail journey.
Paul Inman
Co-Founder and CTO of Maybe*
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About Maybe*: Maybe*. The platform that connects the online, offline and social retail journey.
Andrew Lucas
CTO of Taggstar
Andy is a start-up veteran, having started a web hosting business during the late 1990′s. Post dot-com boom he moved to networks & operations, managing the European IP network for a global telco. In the last 5 years he has delivered software and managed engineering teams for three startups, working in Java, in the cloud, with big data and machine learning, across ad tech and now influence marketing. In his spare time he likes to drink coffee and cook experimental dishes
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About Taggstar: Real-time social proof message expert for enterprise eCommerce | Conversion uplift by up to 12% | Shop Direct, N Brown, TUI, Missguided use.
Moin Maniar
CTO of Appsumer
Moin Maniar joined Appsumer as CTO in 2016.
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Todd Mansill
Chief Technology Officer of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
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.
Marcus Lambert
Chief Technology Officer of Omobono
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About Omobono: Omobono is a creative and technology partner for business brands
Andrew Martin
Founder and CTO of Inkpact
Andrew Martin is the founder and CTO of Inkpact. He previously served as the head of product at Sideways 6. Andrew earned his bachelor’s degree from the University of Portsmouth.
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About Inkpact: Deliver handwritten personalised notes and gifts to the people who make your business great
James Wilberforce-Andrews
CTO co-founder of Tailored.to
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About Tailored.to: Tailored is a personal shopping assistant matching in-market prospects to advertisers. We power personalised marketing at scale.
Ed Eliot
Founder & CTO of BrightLocal
Ed oversees technical operations. He built our first two tools and the basics of our admin panel. Ed brings 15 years of development experience to BrightLocal.
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About BrightLocal: Take the lead in local search.
Lukas Dirzys
Founder and CTO of Creative AI
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About Creative AI: Creative AI gives every business, big or small, the power of a dedicated marketing team.
Joel Hopwood
Chief Technology Officer of Shopper Media Group
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About Shopper Media Group: Shopper Media Group specializes in commerce marketing activation, connecting retailers and brands with shoppers at the point of purchase.
Satinder Ubhi
Chief Technology Officer of TXTImpact
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About TXTImpact: TXTImpact is a New York-based SMS Text Marketing and Business text messaging service provider.
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.
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.
Paul Ingles
CTO of RVU
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About RVU, Uswitch: RVU empowering consumers to make more confident home services and financial decisions.
Chris Poel
CTO of Sportolutions
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About Sportolutions, Sportolutions: Ticketing and Marketing Automation Solutions
Paul Maidment
Co-founder & CTO of ZeniAd
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About ZeniAd: We deliver interactive advertising experiences to virtual reality content.
Jérôme Charvet
Chief Technology Officer of Sportskred
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About DH: Digital Hosting, Sportskred: Sportskred: helping brands, athletes and agents achieve more together.
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
Roland Geroczky
CTO of Adplanky, Inc.
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About Adplanky, Inc.: Adplanky is marketing planning SaaS for small and medium-sized companies
