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 Oxford based CTO’ operating in the Software 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.
Tomas Halgas
Founder and CTO of Stealth
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About Sphere (Acquired by Twitter), Stealth: Making AEC software talk to each other in real-time.
Gary Chandler
Chief Technology Officer of QiO Technologies
Gary joined QiO from Rolls-Royce, having spent 25 years developing real-time safety-critical control systems for aero-engines. As a keen strategist and innovator, Gary was a key leader in the adoption of ‘Lean Product Development’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ within Rolls-Royce, deeply engaging with the associated culture change. From both a Chief Engineer and a Functional Head perspective, Gary has loved working in teams that are delivering customer value with exciting technology products.
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About QiO Technologies: Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence software that enables increased operational efficiency, productivity, safety and new revenues
Andy Forkgen
CTO & UK Director of GlobalizeMe
Andy co-founded the Digital division of GlobalizeMe in 2009 and oversees all technological business within the company including our partnership with AWS. He is also the Managing Director of the UK office in Oxfordshire where he is based. Andy’s background is primarily technical; prior to joining GlobalizeMe, he spent 5 years within the technology arm of the Inner London Magistrates’ Courts Service, 6 years team leading the online development team at The Daily Telegraph and served in various other technology and consulting roles in between. In his spare time Andy is a keen runner having completed the 2017 London Marathon, is the founder and manager of a Pan-Disability children’s football team, enjoys skiing and at weekends is often found being a loyal servant and driver to his wife, three children and Labrador.
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About GlobalizeMe: GlobalizeMe is a one-stop provider of digital development, content creation and international business support services.
Bangdao Chen
Chief Technology Officer of OxCEPT
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About OxCEPT: OxCEPT is an Oxford University spin-out company which has developed the ‘World’s Most Secure’ way to transmit data.
Bangdao Chen
Chief Technology Officer of OxCEPT
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About OxCEPT: OxCEPT is an Oxford University spin-out company which has developed the ‘World’s Most Secure’ way to transmit data.
Marterrious McClain
CTO and Co-Founder of SecondKeys
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About SecondKeys: SecondKeys is a property management software that empowers apartments to take full control of their maintenance, accounting and admin tasks.
Adam Worthington
Co-founder – CTO of Ethos Technology
Adam is a business focused technologist who has spent the last couple of decades helping organisations solve problems through the use of technology. He’s currently the CTO of Ethos Technology, the go-to value-added distributor for next-gen infrastructure solutions.
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About Ethos Technology: Ethos Technology is a Value added distributor who delivers next generation technologies.
Sarah Surrall
CTO of Oxehealth
Sarah Surrall is the CTO at Oxehealth.
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About Oxehealth: SaaS workflow solution gives carers and custodians more time for hands on care where and when it’s needed most.
Benoit Alvarez
CTO of Volume
Benoit started his career working for the International Radio Astronomy Centre in France, building software with scientists who were studying Saturn. He then joined Thales Armament, working on on-board software for missile guidance systems. After 15 years of conceptualizing and building enterprise solutions, Benoit retrained in AI (studying under Professor Andrew Ng) and successfully achieved AI certifications from Stanford University and Coursera. As Volume moved toward AI-powered conversational platforms, Benoit conceptualized two key products: Volume’s advanced AI-powered conversational platform and QBox. The latter was the first of its kind and is a patent-pending technologies tool, recognized by Gartner as a chatbot corpus-management and training tool.
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About Volume: Leading the way in Conversational AI.
Matthew Robson
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Perspectum
Matt Robson is Perspectum’s Chief Technical Officer (CTO), co-founder and company director. He is responsible for overseeing development and implementation of our image acquisition and image analysis pipelines. Matt has over 25 years of experience working with MRI initially through his PhD at Cambridge in “Automated Analysis of MRI Images” that followed from a Natural Science (Physics and Theoretical Physics) also in Cambridge. He followed this with Research positions at Yale University and industrial roles with GEC, Surrey Medical Systems, Picker International and Marconi Medical before returning to academia with Oxford University where he pioneered the technologies that underpin Perspectum’s products.
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About Perspectum: Healthcare, Medical Technology, SaaS
Matteo Cantarelli
CTO / Co-founder of MetaCell
CTO / Co-founder at MetaCell
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About MetaCell, OpenWorm: Software for Neuroscience
Manveer Mangat
Chief Technology Officer of Sesui – Cloud Communications
Manveer Mangat: For over a decade, Manveer’s built his reputation as an expert in voice communications innovation and design. With a track record in network operations, security management, product development, technical support and partner management, these days Manveer can design his way around the most complex client problems. With two young sons, Manveer’s problem solving at home is no less complicated or rewarding.
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About Sesui – Cloud Communications: Sesui the bright British innovators and creators of award winning call management software.
Peter Schrammel
Co-founder & CTO of Diffblue
Peter is CTO and co-founder of Diffblue. He has significant experience as a software project lead in the embedded systems industry and a strong track record in program analysis. Prior to Diffblue he was an Assistant Professor of Computer Science at the University of Sussex.
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About Diffblue: An Oxford spin-out using AI to write code, starting with Java unit test suites that catch errors earlier and faster in a DevOps pipeline.
Damien Frost
Co-founder & CTO of Brill Power
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About Brill Power: Brill Power is a clean-tech platform that develops cutting-edge battery management technology.
Benjamin Huston
CTO of Loopa
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About Loopa: Private community communication and collaboration platform
Christopher Hockley
Co-Founder and CTO of Cocoasoft
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About Cocoasoft, Wave Marketing: Cocoasoft is a software development firm that has developed and maintains a third party email application for the iPhone.
