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 Manchester based CTO’ operating in the Information Technology 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.
Jonathan Whiteside
CTO and Co-Founder of Building Blocks
Jonathan Whiteside is the managing director for design and technology at Dept.
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About Building Blocks: Building Blocks helps global companies solve complex problems using digital technologies.
Jon Stokes
CTO of CultureAI
Jon Stokes is a CTO at CultureAI.
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About CultureAI: CultureAI enables clients to orchestrate personalised security awareness, behaviour and culture programmes.
Michael Jervis
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet
Michael Jervis is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Andy Still
CTO of Netacea
As the Chief Technology Officer, Andy provides the technical direction for Intechnica’s products and services as well providing consultancy and thought leadership to clients. The author of several books on performance and application development, Andy continues to pioneer digital performance for online systems.
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About Intechnica, Netacea: Smarter Bot Management using Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning. A sophisticated approach for sophisticated threats.
Neil Lathwood
Chief Technology Officer of UKFast
Neil Lathwood is the CTO at UKFast. With more than 20 years’ experience leading technical teams and growing hosting infrastructure, Neil now heads up UKFast’s DevOps department, linking the research and development team with the technical division. Having run and grown teams in Linux, data centres and networks, Neil was the natural choice to step into DevOps leadership role. This role centres on growing a team that cements hardware and software across the business, connecting the day-to-day business of supporting our clients with the delivery of new products and features to help them grow. As a Linux sysadmin at heart, Neil contributes to a number of open source projects in his spare time.
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About UKFast: UKFast is a dedicated host and server company.
Mohamed Bakeer
CTO of Converge Technology Specialists
Mohamed Bakeer is the CTO at Converge Technology Specialists. Prior to joining Converge, Mohamed served as a CTO at LIMA. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Cairo University.
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About Converge Technology Specialists: Converge Technology Specialists is a specialist provider of hosted and managed IT services through private cloud.
Peter Baba
Founder/CTO of RecruitBubble
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About RecruitBubble: Recruit Bubble is a Specialist Recruitment Software solution that helps recruiters businesses grow faster and run more efficiently.
