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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 Video Games 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.
Francesco Petruzzelli
Chief Technology Officer of Bidstack
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About Bidstack, WhaleSlide: Bidstack empowers brands to place advertising into spaces that sit naturally within video games.
Sylvain Cornillon
CTO of Bossa Studios
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About Bossa Studios: Bossa Studios is a games developer and publisher, creators of BAFTA-winning Monstermind, Surgeon Simulator and Worlds Adrift.
Justin Wong
Founder & CTO of Battlefy
Justin has been fiddling around with computers since the age of 7 – dialling up to the Internet to adventure in his favourite MUD or to hack away on his websites with PHP 2.0. Justin graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Cognitive Systems degree. Because he’s a big gamer and sports fan, he worked at Electronic Arts helping to create the sports video games that he loves to play himself. Now, combining his passion for gaming and web development, he’s looking forward to revolutionizing the eSports competitive gaming genre as the founder and CTO of Battlefy.
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About Battlefy: Battlefy is the simplest way to find and manage esports competitions.
Sam Davies
CTO of Razeware
Sam is the CTO of Razeware, the company behind the popular training site raywenderlich.com. He spends his time building the site, creating tutorial videos and doing battle with the internet.
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About Razeware: Razeware is an independent application development studio that publishes games.
Klaas Ardinois
CTO of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Rachel Gawley
CTO & Co-Founder of AppAttic Ltd
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About AppAttic Ltd, AppAttic Ltd: AppAttic’s games engage users for positive behaviour change and provide data for research, potentially saving the health economy billions.
Danny Goodayle
CTO of Just a Pixel
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About Just a Pixel: Just a Pixel is a Video game development company based in Brighton, UK. Own-IP development, collaborative works and work-for-hire.
Jose Maria Peña
CTO & Co-Founder of Lurtis Rules
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About Lurtis Rules: A cloud service that produces complete 3D scenarios out of user constraints
David Eves
CTO of amBX
David Eves is a CTO at amBX.
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About amBX: amBX is a software company engaged in the development of lighting control technologies.
Gary Leach
CTO of 22cans
Gary Leach is the CTO at 22cans.
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About 22cans: 22cans is a game development company focused on the development of multi-platform and mobile video games.
