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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 United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Privacy 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.
Gavin Ray
CTO of Digime
Gavin joined ip.access in june 2011. He spend the first 5 years of his career with AT&T in the UK Business Services group followed by five years in Cisco via its acquisition of Stratacom where he held a range of technology leadership positions in Service Provider networking and OSS systems. Recently he has worked as VP Products & Marketing in Telsis a leading messaging vendor and previously he was a partner at New York VC fund MeyerDuffy Ventures and followed with a number of years as a strategic technology advisor to a range of small/mid-size VC funded companies. He holds BSc(Hons) Telcommunications and PhD in network optimisation.
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About Digime, ip.access: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Zachary Williamson
Co-Founder and CTO of Aztec Protocol
Zachary Williamson is Co-Founder & CTO at CreditMint.
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About Aztec Protocol, CreditMint: Aztec develops an ethereum trading protocol that enables private transactions across the public blockchain.
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Benjamin van Enckevort
Co-founder and CTO of Metomic
Cofounder & CTO at Metomic.
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About Metomic: Metomic is a data privacy software that provides the privacy-by-design infrastructure of the internet.
Tom Holder
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata)
Tom Holder is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Tapmydata.
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About Contactzilla, Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata): Tap is a mobile app and new breed of CRM to help companies build a positive privacy dialogue with their customers.
Michael Huth
Chief Technology Officer of Xayn
Michael Huth is CTO of XAIN AG and a Professor of Computer Science at Imperial College London. He is a Diplom-Mathematiker (TU Darmstadt, Germany) and obtained his Ph.D. in 1991 (Tulane University of Louisiana, USA). His research focuses on cybersecurity (notably the interplay of trust, security, risk, and economics), as well as security and privacy in machine learning. Michael served as the technical lead of the Harnessing Economic Value theme at PETRAS IoT Cybersecurity Research Hub in the UK. Professor Huth is an active research and product advisor within London’s cybersecurity startup scene.
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About Xayn: Xayn builds Web Search as it should be.
JP Jones
CTO of Top10VPN
JP is Co-Founder and EVP Technology at Student.com, the world’s leading marketplace for international student accommodation. JP has worked with co-founder Shak on and off for the past 14 years building various tech companies and met Founder and CEO Luke Nolan along the way in Shanghai in 2006. Witnessing Luke’s passion and vision for the business, as well as the enormous opportunity to scale the marketplace, JP joined the business in 2014 and is in charge of the company’s technology solutions, while also advising on platform strategy and acting as a soundboard for Shak and Luke. After getting his first computer at age 3, JP was hooked and subsequently made computers, and everything tech-related, a part of his DNA. As a member of the founding team and CTO at VoucherCodes.co.uk, JP has a proven track record of scaling companies for the international market, along with heading up the R&D department at The Search Works, one of Europe’s leading search marketing technology companies.
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About Top10VPN: Top10VPN.com is a leading VPN (Virtual Private Network) review website. We provide unbiased reviews and advice about VPN services.
Rich Hale
Chief Technology Officer of ActiveNav
Rich served a full career in the Royal Air Force and became passionate about information governance and content valuation when he took on the RAF’s global information management and governance program. He focuses on pioneering technologies and practical approaches that enable organizations to discover, value and take control of their information estate.
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About ActiveNav: ActiveNav is the data privacy and governance software provider and innovator of DMaaS (Data Mapping as a Service.)
Kartik Venkatesh
Chief Technology Officer of Trunomi
Kartik is a multi-stack architect, and is well-versed in both open stack and Microsoft stack. He has been architecting and building web scale, secure, distributed systems and data solutions for 9+ years. Before Trunomi, Kartik was the Chief Architect for DLA, leading development of a Netflix competitor OTT solution for Latin America, featuring advanced machine learning and big data techniques. Prior to that Kartik led development and technology for several large scale products spanning multiple industries, including Gates Foundation, Starbucks, RedBull, Fox, AT&T and Sony. Kartik started his career at Microsoft straight out of high school, after being discovered for his programming aptitude. Microsoft sponsored his education at University of Washington, where he completed a B.S. in Computer Sciences.
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About Trunomi: Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
Sonal Rattan
CTO of eXate
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About eXate: eXate unlocks the value of production data by allowing you to share it safely, because data privacy is at the heart of everything we do.
