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 United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Social Media Marketing 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.
Mark Smith
Group Chief Technology Officer of ITV
Mark joined ITV in 2011 as a member of the Technology Management team and was promoted into the CTO role in 2015, before taking on the Group CTO role in 2018. Prior to joining ITV Mark held senior Technology positions at the BBC, BBC Worldwide and Sky. Over the past 15 years Mark has specialised in digital transformation and has led the design, build and delivery of industry leading VOD platforms. Mark started his career as a software engineer at BT R&D.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Jacob Clarkson
CTO of Amigo Technology
Jacob Clarkson is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Amigo Technology. He’s a startup CTO with over 8 years of commercial experience architecting, developing and maintaining complex software systems in a variety of languages. Before joining Amigo, he worked in Java software development, predominantly working with J2EE stacks, JSF and Oracle databases. Working in relatively large scale national systems at various places (one of which being the NHS), he gained expertise in relational databases.
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About Amigo Technology: Amigo is a cloud-based marketing technology platform that turns marketing ideas into brilliant digital experiences.
Mark White
CTO of Codec
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About Codec: We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Tom Dunning
CTO of Documobi
Tom was a Development Consultant for some of the UK’s best agencies for a number of years. Described by some as a “forensic developer”, Tom excels at finding new benefits and business applications for the features planned for development, further extending the product offerings. His knowledge of high traffic systems and SOP ensures we’re ready for explosive growth.
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About Documobi: Documobi is a mobile solution that enables businesses to conduct personalized advertising campaigns.
Ron Perkins
Founder and CTO of zubbit.io
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About : zubbit.io Driving Traffic via Content. Don’t Just Share it, zubbit!
Ron Perkins
Founder and CTO of zubbit.io
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About : zubbit.io Driving Traffic via Content. Don’t Just Share it, zubbit!
Peter Richards
Co-Founder & CTO of Gleanin
Peter Richards is a Co-Founder & CTO at Glean.in.
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
