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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 Apps 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.
Yury Hushchyn
CTO of Capital.Com
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About Capital.Com: Capital.com is a high-growth, investment trading fintech group of companies empowering people to participate in financial markets.
Robert Howes
CTO & Board Advisor of Judopay
Rob co-founded Algomi to build on a strong technology background engineering sophisticated solutions to complex problems. Drawn to opportunities where technology can be used to challenge the status quo, Rob has spent many years successfully leading the delivery of ambitious Fixed Income solutions, including Credit List Trading at UBS and more recently a first of its kind anonymous crossing platform for bonds. Rob holds a M. Eng. in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College.
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About Judopay, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
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.
Ian Trayler
CTO of Mind Candy
Ian is charged with building an amazing engineering team, scalable infrastructure and DevOps culture that embraces change, growth, rapid iteration, experimentation and collaboration at scale. For over 20 years, he has worked in system operations in the online media industries, helping those businesses come up with solutions to all their tech challenges and needs.
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About Mind Candy: Moshi provides a sleep and mindfulness app for kids featuring melodic stories created to help kids drift off to sleep quickly.
Alex Harin
Chief Technology Officer of Wrisk
With an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Moscow University and a PhD in Maths from the University of Natal, it’s safe to say that Alex knows how to wrangle large data sets with ease…which is particularly handy if your business is all about turning tables of data points into personal insights (but is extremely handy in a pub quiz too).
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Heather Utech
CTO of DMG Media
Heather Utech is CTO at DMG Media.
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About DMG Media: DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
David Sutherland
CTO of Thursday
David Sutherland is Chief Technology Officer at Thursday.
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About BuyerPrice Inc., Thursday: Thursday is a dating app that wants to solve problems created by, well, too much time spent using dating apps.
Tom Godber
Co-Founder & CTO of Masabi
Tom is a Co-Founder of Masabi and a mobile programming expert with a passion for design and usability. Keenly aware of changing mobile trends in what is one the fastest moving consumer markets today, he defines the technical strategic goals and implementation plans that allow Masabi to best meet the needs of end users. Tom has spent almost ten years at Masabi building mobile applications, servers and frameworks, troubleshooting, and architected a gaming platform now processing millions of dollars per month. Prior to founding Masabi, Tom worked with Accenture and Trilogy Software in addition to founding MoMo Estonia. Tom has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
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About Masabi, Masabi: Masabi is the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and payments.
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
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.
Giles Williams
Co-founder & CTO of Urban
Giles Williams is the Co-Founder and CTO of Urban. He bringing experience across all development disciplines, he leads the technical architecture and engineering for the business, as it scales rapidly across the globe. As with all engineers, the need to stretch out after a long day at a desk means his favorite massage treatment is Thai Yoga.
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
James Powell
CTO & Co-Founder of Sellar
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About Sellar, Waffle: Sellar is the new trade ordering experience for breweries selling beer directly to trade customers.
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.
Philippe Levieux
CTO of Traces
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About infltr – for infinite filters, Traces: Traces lets you share digital messages anywhere in the world. To get messages, you have to be in the right place at the right time.
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.
Manuel Apilongo
CTO of Springpod
Manuel Apilongo currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Jiameng Gao
CTO and Co-founder of Papercup
Jiameng Gao is CTO and Co-founder at Papercup.ai. Jiameng has an MPhil in Machine Learning, Speech and Language Processing and an MEng in Information Engineering from the University of Cambridge. He was previously the first employee at Calipsa.
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About Papercup: Papercup translates videos using AI by generating voices that sound like the original speaker
Cristian Dan
Co-Founder and CTO of YAYZY
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About YAYZY: Yayzy is an application for carbon footprint calculator.
Antonio Marino
Co-Founder & CTO of Emma
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About Emma: Emma is a financial app advocate that helps users avoid overdrafts, find wasteful subscriptions, and allows users control of their finances.
Julien Deray
Co-Founder & CTO of Mespo
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About Mespo: Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
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.
Daniel Howard
CTO of SimbaPay
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About SimbaPay: SimbaPay is a B2B SaaS for banks in Africa that enables their customers to send money abroad using mobile money or e-banking.
Adam McGrath
Chief Technology Officer of Glow Digital Media
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About Glow Digital Media: Glow Machine is an ad tech platform for creating, improving and understanding Facebook and Twitter Ad campaigns.
Adam McGrath
Chief Technology Officer of Glow Digital Media
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About Glow Digital Media: Glow Machine is an ad tech platform for creating, improving and understanding Facebook and Twitter Ad campaigns.
Andrei Mihu
Co-Founder & CTO of Heroic Labs
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About Heroic Labs: Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
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.
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.
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.
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Connell Gauld
Co-Founder and CTO of Zappar
As Zappar’s CTO, Connell oversees the ZapWorks team (Zappar’s AR/VR/MR creation software) as well as being responsible for all the cloud infrastructure and the core functionality of the Zappar app (which can also be embedded into third-party apps). Connell met Zappar Co-Founder Dr Simon Taylor whilst they were both studying engineering at the University of Cambridge. They founded Zappar, along with Caspar Thykier, 8 years ago and have seen it grow into one of the leading AR platforms with $3.75M in funding, 50 staff, and four offices around the world.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Danny Shisler
CTO of Crowdmix
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About Crowdmix: Connecting the world through music. The app where bands, fans and brands collide.
Andrew Craven
Founder & CTO of Homelyfe
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About Homelyfe: Homelyfe is an insurance app to make insurance simple.
Rafal Pastuszak
CTO of Storienteer
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About Storienteer, Typeform: Play and create augmented reality games on your smartphone
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Robertas Sadovskis
Chief Technology Officer of Barbora Polska
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About Barbora Polska: Barbora Polska is a company that provides online shopping for fresh food and household chemicals to be delivered at good quality
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Nabil Freeman
Co-founder and CTO of LeSalon Beauty
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About LeSalon Beauty: LeSalon is delivering a branded, consistent and high-quality at-home beauty service.
Toby Green
CTO of Yoller
Toby is an accomplished full stack developer specialising in cross-platform mobile applications. Having previously founded his own tech startup, he is hugely experienced in building exceptional teams. Toby is a massive foodie!
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About Yoller: Yoller gets people to meet in real life, really quickly – even if your friends don’t have the app.
Stuart Timms
Founder and CTO of Covatic
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About Covatic, Delestrade: Covatic is the use of mobile based algorithms to bring smart personalisation to apps.
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
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Josh Simpson
CTO & Co-founder of The Medic App
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About The Medic App: The Medic App gives you the ability to schedule medication reminders and track your adherence.
Josh Simpson
CTO & Co-founder of The Medic App
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About The Medic App: The Medic App gives you the ability to schedule medication reminders and track your adherence.
Timothy Omer
CTO of Changing Health
Senior Technology Manager with a 14+ year career spanning Digital Media and Consultancy, experienced in design and execution of ERP, Business Processes, Revenue, Delivery, Support and IT Operation Systems. Working with people, systems and processes to lead and deliver efficient and flexible Agile solutions. A Type 1 Diabetic for over 20 years he has been frustrated with the lack access and progress of technology to help him manage this data-intensive condition and frustrated that he has to rely on one of the most unreliable processors of this data – himself. Working with the #WeAreNotWaiting community of citizen hackers to build an Artificial Pancreas mobile app to help reduce the burden of capturing data, lower costs and producing suggestions on adjustments to his medication. With the aim to provide a fully automated, portable, data-rich Closed Loop system.
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About Changing Health: Changing Health provides personalised, digital behaviour change programmes for Type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and weight management.
Gavin Heavyside
CTO & Cofounder of COCO+
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About COCO+: COCO+ is a B2B travel management platform that enables companies to offset their carbon footprint by working with ClimateCare.
Klaas Ardinois
CTO of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
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
Avner Bluer
CTO of Vacationship
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About Vacationship: The only travel meeting app that connects locals and tourists for exciting vacation experiences.
Simon Lee
Chief Technology Officer of goEvo
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About goEvo: goEvo helps users lose excess weight and keep it off without dieting, by changing the way we think and feel about food and our bodies.
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.
Gustavo Couto
Co-Founder and CTO of SiteVue
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About SiteVue: SiteVue is a software platform that empowers construction managers to monitor their projects in real time
Catherine Woolgar
Co-Founder/ CTO of SmartTrade App
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About SmartTrade App: Accept any card payment, organise your paperwork and run your business with a free application on your phone, SmartTrade App.
Dan Williams
Co-Founder and CTO of Workshop
Dan Williams is the co-founder and CTO of Workshop Technology. Prior to co-founding Workshop, Dan served as an analyst at Metapraxis. Before that, he held positions for various companies including Intro, Team Bath Racing electric, Oxalis Group, and Sagentia.
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About Workshop: Workshop is a technology-driven company that creates tools for learning and teaching in partnership in educators and brands.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Henric Larsson
Co-Founder and CTO of Dashl
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About Dashl: A digital hair and beauty booking platform.
Stephen Kenny
CTO of PostTag Group Ltd
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About Invest & Fund, PostTag Group Ltd: PostTag are the UK’s leading address validation and location precision company – helping drivers deliver more, in less time.
Stein Fletcher
CTO of Musitude
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About Musitude: A web & app music learning/playing solution for non-musicians
Sargis Gevorkyan
Chief Technology Officer and Co-founder of Assembly Networking LTD
Sargis Gevorkyan is the CEO and co-founder of Assembly Networking. He holds a BSc and MSc in computer science.
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About Assembly Networking LTD: Apps as a Service company that builds custom, community focussed apps for universities, companies/organisations and associations.
Richard Davis
CTO of Colony
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About Colony: Colony is global video streaming platform connecting content owners to engaged audiences.
Anthony Steed
CTO of animal systems
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About animal systems, Chirp: Making things to make things with
Mike Rogers
CTO of EasySharePoint
Mike is considered the Alpha and Omega of all development, as his involvement at the beginning of each project is instrumental to the successful planning and execution at the end. Mike has deployed and upgraded every version of SharePoint since the early 2000s. Many of our clients consider Mike’s performance management skills to be mission critical to their SharePoint environments. Mike heads up the EasyShare development team, leading the design and build of product iterations based on the Microsoft O365 roadmap and suggestions from our client base.
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About EasySharePoint: EasySharePoint is a market leading digital workspace for Office 365, SharePoint 2013 and the first SharePoint 2016 release.
Martin Chamrad
Cofounder & CTO of Tribe Sports App
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About Tribe Sports App: Tribe Sports App is a Sports App that allows users to monitor their real-time scores, schedules, tables and commentary.
Alex Jefferies
CTO of Gigbloc
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About Gigbloc: Local live music discovery apps, building a platform to reinvent how live music events are organised
Andriy Marin
Co-founder, CTO of HIBOO HiApp
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About HIBOO HiApp: HIBOO HiApp is a messaging application that helps its users send replies without waiting for the other parties to finish their messages.
Pablo Fernandez De Luisa
CTO of Sportmate
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About Sportmate: Play sport with a click of a button. Marketplace for sports players and facilities.
Stephan Meier
CTO of Screenburn
Stephan is the CTO of Screenburn, and together with a team of developers works on making our product great.
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About Screenburn: Screenburn is a Facebook VoD platform enabling the sale of film and TV from a Facebook page.
Ben Harraway
Co-founder / CTO of Gourmet Pixel
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About Gourmet Pixel: Full-service, award-winning mobile software and app development studio
