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 Reading based CTO’ operating in the Financial Services 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.
Ed Addario
Chief Technology Officer of Currencycloud
Ed has been passionate about technology from the moment he laid eyes on his first computer, and has since built up over 25 years’ experience in leading innovative international organisations across the financial services, telecoms and retail sectors. He joined Currencycloud from a position as Global Head of Architecture and Integration at banking software giant Misys, and he has also held director level roles at Monitise, ACS and OpenBet. Ed leads Currencycloud’s team of over 45 technologists, and is the driving force behind the next generation API at the heart of the business. He plays a key role in developing the world-class services Currencycloud provides, and is determined to maintain the company’s strong reputation within the new digital economy.
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About Currencycloud: Currencycloud specializes in a fully cloud-based platform for B2B cross-border payments.
Tom Reay
CTO of Flux Systems
Experienced Java developer with the drive to learn new technologies and languages quickly. Always playing an active part in improving the quality of a code base as well as finding better processes and practises, for example being an advocate of continuous delivery.
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About Flux Systems: Flux Systems develops software platform that keeps a track of payment receipts by automatically linking them to payment cards.
Piers Lawson
Chief Technology Officer of Dynamic Planner
Piers Lawson is Chief Technology Officer at Dynamic Planner. He is responsible for the software architecture and the infrastructure on which the Dynamic Planner system runs. Piers has more than 25 years’ industry experience having previously worked for GEC Marconi Electronic Systems, Sony Broadcast & Professional and CSC. He has a bachelor’s degree and a master’s in electrical electronic engineering from the University of Bradford. He is a registered European Engineer and a Chartered Engineer with the IET (Institution of Engineering & Technology).
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About Dynamic Planner: Dynamic Planner is used to risk profiling and asset allocation process.
Jianbo Mao
Founder & CTO of ebpSource
As Chief Technical Officer, co-founder Jianbo has been responsible for overseeing many of the world’s leading and most successful e-billing reference application deployments across the financial services, payments, telecoms, government, utility and outsourcing sectors. Formerly Director of Technical Client Services at CheckFree, Jianbo has also held senior technical roles with Tandem Computers, Compaq and Rubus Consultancy. Jianbo holds an MSc in Computing from North Eastern University, China.
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About ebpSource: ebpSource is the most experienced team in the international electronic billing and payment industry.
Jianbo Mao
Founder & CTO of ebpSource
As Chief Technical Officer, co-founder Jianbo has been responsible for overseeing many of the world’s leading and most successful e-billing reference application deployments across the financial services, payments, telecoms, government, utility and outsourcing sectors. Formerly Director of Technical Client Services at CheckFree, Jianbo has also held senior technical roles with Tandem Computers, Compaq and Rubus Consultancy. Jianbo holds an MSc in Computing from North Eastern University, China.
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About ebpSource: ebpSource is the most experienced team in the international electronic billing and payment industry.
