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 Analytics 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.
Bhaskar Khemchandani
CTO of Uplatz
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About : Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
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.
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.
Jamie Hutton
Chief Technology Officer of Quantexa
Jamie is a global authority on financial crime detection solutions and architectures, having spent over 11 years assisting major banks, insurers and product companies in harnessing technology and data in the fight against crime. Jamie took early responsibility in shaping the direction of the Detica NetReveal product and its unique capabilities. He then went on to be the key driving force behind the EMEA/AP product direction for the SAS financial crime platform. Today he continues to assist global banks with massive data architectures for financial crime.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Sam Lowe
CTO of Streetbees
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About Streetbees: Streetbees is a human intelligence platform that collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior.
Rusty Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO of SharpCloud Software
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About SharpCloud Software: Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
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
David Kell
CTO and Co-founder of GYANA
David Kell is a scientist, technologist and nature lover. David has co-founded an ML startup before and was pursuing his PhD in AI in Oxford University when he ran into Joyeeta and her software prototype. Their combined vision of democratising access to data science is the powerful force behind Gyana. He is passionate about simplifying complexities. David is also a Math and Physics Olympiad winner and was a winner of the Gibbs Prize in Physics. He runs several CTO meetup groups and mentors women-in-tech related accelerator startups.
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About GYANA: No-code Data Analytics
Marco Van de Bergh
Founder & CTO of LoopMe
As LoopMe’s CTO, Marco oversees LoopMe’s product and technology development from the London office. Marco has worked in mobile advertising since 2006, as Director of Technology EMEA at Ad Infuse (sold to Velti) and Director of Products for Velti based in San Francisco. He worked in development & strategy for mobile services as Senior Business Analyst in Vodafone Group R&D Strategy.
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About LoopMe: LoopMe is focused on brand advertising, using AI, attribution, and analytics to deliver measurable outcomes.
Huss EL-Sheikh
CTO & Co-Founder of 9fin
Hussam EL-Sheikh is the CTO & Founder at 9fin.
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About 9fin: The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Artem Lazarev
Cofounder & CTO of Whalemap
Artem Lazarev is the Co-founder of Whalemap. He obtained a Bachelor of Science (BSc) degree in Physics at Imperial College London.
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About Whalemap: Whalemap is a blockchain analytics company that uses data science to deliver actionable trading insights by looking at big market players.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
George Wetz
CPO, CTO & Founding Member of Yumpingo
George Wetz is the Chief Technology Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Tim Glaser
Co-Founder & CTO of PostHog
Tim Glaser is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PostHog.
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About PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Viktoras Jucikas
CTO of Genus AI
Viktoras Jucikas is a Chairman at Genus AI, also he is a Founder and CTO at YPlan.
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About Genus AI: Genus AI is a Growth Platform for D2C brands, helping them acquire, engage and retain their customers
Emilian Siemsia
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of FriendlyScore
Emilian Siemsia is the founder and CTO of FriendlyScore, a platform which combines Machine Learning (AI) techniques, Web Application development and Mobile solutions to process alternative credit-scoring data. Emilian is a dynamic and driven technologist with a rare combination of business knowledge and deep technical expertise. He is passionate about start-ups and understands group dynamics and team building. Artificial intelligence, particularly semantic analysis are of special interest to him. For over 10 years he has held many software developer and technical leader roles. Prior to FriendlyScore he ran a software development house. Emilian was educated at Wroclaw University of Technology, he holds a Master of Science in Automation and Robotics.
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About FriendlyScore: Unlock the power of Open Banking. Simple access to bank APIs, enriched data and predictive analytics
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Michael Armitage
Chief Technology Officer of Derivitec
Michael comes to us with over 10 years of experience in various asset management roles within futures settlements, trading and private wealth management. With a background in Actuarial Science, he hit the ground running in his career when he automated his own job at JP Morgan AMSG and quickly progressed into a development role. He then went on to work at the hedge fund Bluecrest working with the Rates and RV trading desk to streamline their process for real-time reporting. As IT Director for Stanhope Capital, Michael was fundamental in the creation of an entire business workflow solution, including trading, reconciliation, reporting, billing and risk management applications in a micro-service architecture. He was also influential in brokering the deal to transfer himself and his software portfolio to BRT, a business process outsourcing and bespoke software solution provider for wealth managers, funds, private banks and trusts. Assuming the role of Chief Architect, he created a white label SAAS version of the solution which was then made available to the rest of BRT’s clients.
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About Derivitec: Derivitec is a cloud based risk analytics applications and software.
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.
David Edoja
Founder and CTO of Analytics Intelligence
David Edoja is the founder of Analytics Intelligence. He is a web analyst and entrepreneur, based in London. Previously, he worked at British Telecom and Omniture.
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About Analytics Intelligence: Palantir of Africa
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.
Keith Stenson
CTO Cloud Services of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Pieter Ennes
CTO of Energyworx
CEO & co-founder of Authentiq
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About Authentiq, Energyworx: Energyworx provides a SaaS-based platform for energy data management and energy intelligence solutions,
Prashant Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of Cardinality
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About Cardinality: Cardinality’s innovative new analytics platform has been designed from the ground up with the primary focus on the Telco market.
David Wilson
Co-Founder & CTO of One Model
David Wilson is Co-Founder & CTO at OneModel.
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About One Model: One Model, a talent analytics accelerator, enables HR departments measure the productivity and efficiency of their workforce.
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.
Mark Ssentongo
CTO of Rainbirdsoft Limited
Mark is in charge of business and technology decisions at Rainbirdsoft.
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About Rainbirdsoft Limited: Rainbirdsoft Limited focuses on business intelligence and data analytics solutions with cloud and hybrid software development services.
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.
Marius Cobzarenco
Co-Founder and CTO of re:infer
I believe artificial intelligence will improve most aspects of our lives in the next decade. AI is already “eating the world” today. In particular, I am interested in how emerging technologies such as deep learning can be used to build frictionless natural language interfaces. To this end I co-founded re:infer. I’m an old-fashioned hacker with strong understanding of machine learning and its proxy fields such as probability theory, statistical modelling, linear algebra and multivariate calculus. Academically, my interests are in probabilistic generative models of language.
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About re:infer: Re:infer is the Conversational Data Intelligence platform for the enterprise. Mine, monitor and automate service conversations.
Jonathan Senior
CTO of OpenGamma
Jon is Chief Technology Officer at OpenGamma. He leads the technology strategies that drive our modern approach to cloud-based services. In this role he has transformed our technology stack, from the inception of Strata, our award-winning market risk foundations, to our highly secure, scalable hosted services architecture. Prior to OpenGamma, Jon was a developer on the Credit Derivatives desk at KBC Financial Products. He also worked on trading systems for the Equity Derivatives and Asian Warrants businesses, as well as Peel Hunt’s Equities business (then part of KBC).
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About OpenGamma: OpenGamma is the analytics company dedicated to reducing the costs of trading derivatives.
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.
Isambard Poulson
CTO of Huq Industries
Founder of Huq Industries.
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About Huq Industries: Huq is building the world’s largest consumer research network, helping businesses understand their offline markets with digital precision.
Robin Houston
Co-founder and CTO of Flourish
Robin Houston is the Founder and CTO of Flourish.
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About Flourish: Flourish is a powerful and flexible platform for data visualization and storytelling.
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.
Panos Dimitriou
CTO & Founder of Encode
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About Encode: Enorasys Security Analytics enables continuous cyber situational awareness to address advanced persistent threats (APTs).
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
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.
Andreiko Kerdemelidis
CTO and Co-founder of Teragence
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About Teragence: Teragence delivers competitive network analytics as a service. We benchmark any mobile network, anywhere, any time – in real time
Adrian Karl
CTO & Co-Founder of Inspection2
Adrian has over 20 years’ experience working within the mobile telecommunications and Internet industry. Adrian joined Sky-Futures in 2014 to lead the delivery of a technology roadmap for Expanse® that aims to maximise the value and impact of the data captured by drones. Adrian has been involved in both the design and delivery of a wide range of high tech and business applications that have technology at the core. He now applies this experience and expertise to ensure Inspection² stay at the leading edge of AI technology with our software and sensor solutions.
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About Inspection2: Automate industrial asset management & inspection with Inspection2 an AI-powered asset management, data analytics and reporting software
Richard Wells
CTO of ThreatInformer
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About ThreatInformer: ThreatInformer provide advanced security metrics tailored for cyber insurance underwriters.
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.
Michael Arnaldi
CTO and Founder of CreditSCRIPT
Michael Arnaldi is CTO of CreditSCRIPT. He has been active in the fin-tech industry for the past 5 years and has a strong background on full-stack development in the field of scalable and highly available financial applications. His personal goal is to improve the financial industry and he is also co-founder and CTO of MyMonexEx a London-based Blockchain-focused platform. Michael is enrolled in Computer Science faculty, University of Pisa.
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About CreditSCRIPT, MATECHS: CreditSCRIPT is an alternative credit investment platform that helps professional investors assess loans and portfolios.
Diego Gullo
Co-founder CTO of NEWSENSE
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About NEWSENSE: We monitor, analyse and compare the sentiment of news on your company and competitors to better protect and manage your reputation online.
Leonidas Apostolidis
Co-founder CTO of NEWSENSE
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About NEWSENSE: We monitor, analyse and compare the sentiment of news on your company and competitors to better protect and manage your reputation online.
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
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.
Steve Harris
CTO of Aistemos
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About : Aistemos was established to provide IP business intelligence.
André Louçã
CTO of Warwick Analytics
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About Warwick Analytics: Warwick Analytics offers advanced predictive analytics and process automation.
Radek Dymacz
Co-founder/ CTO of Kazoup
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About Kazoup: Protect, identify and control access to sensitive information across Office 365, G Suite and more
Christoffer Torris Olsen
Founder / CTO of Mental Technologies
Christoffer Torris Olsen is the Senior Software Engineer at Lystable.
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
Christoffer Torris Olsen
Founder / CTO of Mental Technologies
Christoffer Torris Olsen is the Senior Software Engineer at Lystable.
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About Mental Technologies: Know the mind. Know the language. Know the data.
