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 Credit 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.
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Klaus Thorup
Chief Technology Officer of ClearScore
Klaus is a deep technology expert having worked for some of the biggest names in gaming. He’s the heart of our engineering.
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About ClearScore: ClearScore is a financial technology company that provides credit scoring services and a marketplace.
Mark Durrand
CTO of TotallyMoney
Mark has a long track record of delivering innovative software solutions in cutting edge development environments. He was director of IT at uSwitch.com, helping re-invent the brand following its acquisition by Forward Group. Prior to that he managed the web development team at Visa Europe. During his career Mark has developed a keen interest in Agile and Lean approaches to software development and has spoken at many conferences on his experiences.
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About TotallyMoney: TotallyMoney puts customers right at the center of their credit data, helping them make smarter financial decisions.
Joe Barbour
Chief Technology Officer of Knoma
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Sherif Fawzy
CTO of MoneyFellows
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About MoneyFellows: MoneyFellows is a collaborative money management and lending platform digitizing ROSCAs offering users competitive financial solutions.
Richard Bastin
CTO of Cashplus
Richard is passionate about Technology. Really passionate. No obstacle is too big to overcome and all requirements have a solution. He blends his exceptional tech savvy, knowledge of standards and frameworks, with strong team leadership skills and real business acumen to deliver a highly effective development strategy and process that fulfils both the needs of the business and our customers. Richard has over 20 years IT experience across a variety of industries and has a strong track record of building teams of dedicated software engineers to design and deliver innovative products for customers. He has enviable experience of delivering Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Prior to joining The Currency Cloud, Richard had a variety of roles in technology including being the CTO at Digital Look providing real time stock market data solutions for various stockbrokers, media organisations and banks including HSBC and Barclays. Richard has also been Head of Platform Operations at Venda, delivering high availability and high transactional volume for over 100 eCommerce customers including Tesco, Wickes, Republic and many others.
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About Cashplus: Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
Rudolph Graan
Founder & CTO of Expend
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Aidan Hamade
Chief Technology Officer of WiseAlpha
Aidan spent 6 years working as a development manager and solutions architect building custom applications for multinationals including HSBC, Deutsche Bank and ANZ. In 2012 he founded a digital agency, Guerilla Software with Andrew Barrett working alongside Google Ideas and Shine Group designing and creating web based platforms using simple and intuitive solutions focusing on modern web patterns. Aidan studied Mathematics with Artificial Intelligence and graduated from The University of Edinburgh in 2002.
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About WiseAlpha: WiseAlpha is the UK’s leading digital bond market giving investors access to the world of corporate bonds.
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.
