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 Advertising Platforms 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.
Francesco Petruzzelli
Chief Technology Officer of Bidstack
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About Bidstack, WhaleSlide: Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.
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.
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.
Aaron McKee
CTO of Blis
Aaron McKee is a seasoned technology executive with a history of building products at the intersection of big data and machine learning.With 25 years of professional experience in the technology sector, and almost a decade as an executive, he’s helped companies, teams, and products across every stage of maturity and across a range of industries.He helped break web server performance records at Intel and launched the first modern local search product at Ask.com. As CTO of Struq, a performance advertising technology company later acquired by Quantcast, he was one of the first to bring a deep use of machine learning to dynamic content personalization and programmatic advertising. Aaron has also served as CTO of both Skimlinks and Job Today, both sector-leading consumer and business-facing marketplace companies. Outside of work, Aaron spends as much free time as possible with his family – a wife and two young sons – traveling, eating, and generally being a nerd. He graduated with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley with a dual degree in Computer Science and Psychology and has split his career across both Silicon Valley and Europe.
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About Blis: Blis is the leading privacy-first, location-powered programmatic advertising partner.
Dom Marmont
CTO & Co-Founder of FIXR
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About FIXR: FIXR is a leading ticketing and event management platform built for fans and organisers.
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.
Paul Maidment
Co-founder & CTO of ZeniAd
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About ZeniAd: We deliver interactive advertising experiences to virtual reality content.
