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 FinTech 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.
Vlad Yatsenko
Co-Founder & CTO of Revolut
Prior to co-founding Revolut, Vlad spent ten years building financial systems at tier one investment banks. Serving as CTO, Vlad has been at the forefront of Revolut’s award-winning technology, building a next generation banking experience.
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About Revolut: Revolut is a financial services company that specializes in mobile banking, card payments, money remittance, and foreign exchange.
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Matt Tuzzolo
CTO of Blockchain.com
Matt Tuzzolo is a CTO at Blockchain.
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About Blockchain.com: Blockchain.com is a platform that offers ways to buy, hold, and use cryptocurrency.
Paul Egan
Chief Incubation Officer & Chief Technology Officer of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Guy Farley
Co-Founder and CTO of Bought By Many
Guy is the author of the first-generation technology used by Bought by Many. He now steers the tech ship in the right direction. Outside the office, he’s a devoted father of two and is looking forward to sharing his passion for sailing, climbing and skiing with his kids once they’re old enough.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
Stephen Nundy
Partner & Chief Technology Officer of Lakestar
An experienced Technologist and Engineer with a passion for setting strategy and building commercial solutions for complex and ambitious businesses. Collected over 20 years of global experience, leading new technology innovation, building distributed, high-performance teams, driving significant client engagement, within dynamic and highly competitive businesses. Passionate focus on investing and building companies, and their teams, with hyper-growth solutions and technologies to match.
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About Lakestar: Lakestar is a venture capital firm investing in technology companies led by exceptional entrepreneurs.
James Harrison
Co-Founder & CTO of Genesis Global
James has over 20 years experience in senior technology, development & implementation roles for some of the worlds leading investment banks including Credit Suisse, Merrill Lynch, Bear Stearns, HSBC and vendors incl. Fidessa. During his career James has lived in New York, London, & Hong Kong. Prior to genesis global, James was regarded as one of the leaders in this field, managing global technical teams in supporting & delivering mission-critical, real-time systems for tier 1 global banking institutions needing their trading businesses to run near 24-7.
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About Genesis Global: Genesis Global is a low-code technology platform that helps financial institutions build new applications.
Ali Minaei
Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy
Ali is the Co-Founder and CTO of Gr4vy. who has more than 15 years’ experience in tech engineering, has been in payment for the past 8 years working at PayPal and Wonga prior to Yoyo. At Yoyo he is responsible for leading and scaling the Engineering team and building the next generation of Yoyo’s payment and loyalty platform.
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About Gr4vy: Gr4vy is a cloud payment orchestration platform that helps businesses manage their payment solutions
Jason Hill
Chief Technology Officer of Trading 212
Jason Hill is the Chief Technology Officer at Trading 212.
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About Trading 212: Trading 212 is a fintech company that provides free, smart apps to democratize the economic market.
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.
Hoos Badakhchani
CTO of Ziglu
Hoos Badakhchani is the Chief Technology Officer at Ziglu.
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About Ziglu: Ziglu provides a digital platform that enables customers to exchange fiat currency for cryptocurrency.
David Osojnik
Chief Technology Officer of Bitstamp
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About Bitstamp: Bitstamp allows companies and individuals from all around the world to buy and sell bitcoin, litecoin, ethereum, ripple, and bitcoin cash.
David Hoare
CTO and Co-founder of Codat
David Hoare is the CTO and Co-Founder at Codat.
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About Codat: Codat is an API platform that provides real-time connectivity to the financial software used by small businesses.
Ilia Zintchenko
Co-founder & CTO of Ntropy Network
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About Ntropy Network: Enabling products without data barriers.
Michael Ashford
Chief Technology Officer of Wealthify
Michael Ashford is the Chief Technology Officer at Wealthify.
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About Wealthify: Wealthify offers effortless, transparent, and affordable investing for everyone.
Portman Wills
Co-Founder & CTO of Wagestream
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About Wagestream: Wagestream is a financial services firm that allows employees to stream their earned wages into their accounts through an instant app.
Nick Stevenson
Chief Technology Officer of Growth Street
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About Growth Street: Growth Street is fast, flexible overdrafts for growing businesses.
Ryan Harkins
Co-Chief Technology Officer of Rentify
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About Rentify: Rentify is an online platform that helps individuals market and manage their properties.
Edgars Kohs
Chief Technology Officer of Fly Now Pay Later
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About Fly Now Pay Later: Fly Now Pay Later is a fintech company that helps consumers split the cost of their travel in monthly installments.
William Montgomery
Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Thought Machine
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About Thought Machine: Thought Machine is a Fintech company that builds cloud-native technology to revolutionize core banking.
Jakub Fijolek
CTO & Co-Founder of Coinfirm
Jakub Fijolek is Co-Founder and CTO of Coinfirm. An innovative IT and security specialist, has been analyzing and developing around blockchain, cryptocurrencies and their applications since 2010; the former head of multi-algorithm virtual currency mining farms.
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About Coinfirm: Coinfirm is the global leader in regtech for digital currencies and the blockchain-based financial ecosystem.
Aditya Sarkar
Chief Technology Officer of Lean Technologies
Aditya Sarkar is Chief Technology Officer at Lean.
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About Lean Technologies: Lean Technologies is a FinTech startup that develops a platform to provide access to consumer financial data.
Yury Hushchyn
CTO of Capital.Com
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About Capital.Com: Capital.com is a high-growth, investment trading fintech group of companies empowering people to participate in financial markets.
Evan Tzanis
CTO of Credit-Vision
Evan has designed and built the original version of the Credit-Vision platform from the ground up and together with our senior technology advisor Ignacio Ybarra he is leading our technology development. Evan is a specialist in the design, implementation and delivery of large-scale projects. A member of MRC eMedlab, he and his team have been developing a shared computer cluster harnessing UK clinical and genomics data meant to underpin future medical research on rare diseases. He was also the Leading Software Engineer for re-factoring NIESR’s (National Institute of Economic and Social Research) global econometric model software NIGEM, a data analysis software used by major global institutions including the IMF, OECD, BoE and ECB. Evan holds a PhD in Computer Science from University College London, a Msc Degree from the University of Amsterdam and a Bsc/Msc degree from the Technical University of Athens.
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About Credit-Vision: Credit-Vision identifies, captures, aggregates and contextualises financial data for investors in corporate credit.
Vinod Singh
CTO of Concirrus
Vinod leads our technology team including product delivery and development. He has more than 15 years of experience in architecture, design, development, testing and implementation of large distributed applications, spending time at both Google and Amazon.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
David Goate
CTO of Marshmallow
David Goaté is Co Founder & CTO at Marshmallow.
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About Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Anthony Drogon
Founder & CTO of SeedLegals
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About SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Robert Howes
CTO & Board Advisor of Judopay
Rob co-founded Algomi to build on a strong technology background engineering sophisticated solutions to complex problems. Drawn to opportunities where technology can be used to challenge the status quo, Rob has spent many years successfully leading the delivery of ambitious Fixed Income solutions, including Credit List Trading at UBS and more recently a first of its kind anonymous crossing platform for bonds. Rob holds a M. Eng. in Information Systems Engineering from Imperial College.
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About Judopay, Judopay: Judopay is a mobile-first payments platform.
Mark Watson
CTO of Zepz
As Chief Technology Officer for WorldRemit, Mark leads the company’s technology team in developing and running world class technology. Mark has over 30 years’ experience in large companies and start-ups, several of which he co-founded and built from scratch. After working at IBM and Tivoli Systems, he co-founded Volantis Systems, an early pioneer of mobile Internet content delivery platforms. He served as the CTO and CEO there, until the company’s acquisition in 2011. In 2012 he took up the role of VP Engineering at Causata Inc., an innovative platform providing automated customer insights based on machine-learning and Big Data. In 2013, Causata was acquired by NICE Systems and Mark went on to co-found Skipjaq, a company which applies machine learning techniques to the field of cloud-based system performance and cost optimisation.
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About Zepz: Zepz is a money transfer service that helps migrants send money to their loved ones all over the world.
Steve Cook
Chief Technology Officer of Form3
Steve has architected and developed great products and managed dynamic technology teams in the financial services sector for over 20 years. He brings a broad range of experience in FinTech, having led key technology teams across banking (Lehman Brothers, Nomura, Gain Capital), and having launched several startups in the FinTech and cloud computing space. Steve previously lived and worked in Asia for 15 years, and has extensive experience in the Asian banking and capital markets environment. He also holds a degree in theoretical physics from Cambridge University. As the CTO of Form3, Steve is responsible for all aspects of technology, including product architecture, development, delivery and support of the Form3 Financial Cloud.
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About Form3: Form3 is a cloud native payments-as-a-service platform that designs, builds, and runs the technology that powers the future of payments.
Ashwind G. Soonarane
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of DMALINK
Ashwind Soonarane is an institutional electronic foreign exchange specialist drawing from his multi-displinary management and technical expertise to formulate and implement strategic plans aimed towards generating competitive advantage for sustainable growth. Ashwind holds an MSc in Finance, MBA and a Bachelor of Engineering (with Honours) degree. He is a a certified technical analyst of the Society of Technical Analysts, UK.
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About DMALINK: DMALINK is a data-centric trading and RegTech platform for professional Foreign Exchange traders globally.
Cyril Pluche
CTO of Vauban
Cyril Pluche is the CTO at Vauban.
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About Vauban: Vauban is the easiest way to pool & deploy capital to invest in private companies.
Anders Hallsten
Co-Founder & CTO of Divido
Anders Hallsten is CTO and Co-Founder at Divido. Hallsten spent the last 10 years building e-commerce platforms for brands such as Hush Puppies and Fossil Watches.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Richard Brown
Chief Technology Officer of R3
Richard is the Chief Technology Officer at R3 and is one of the world’s leading authorities on distributed ledger systems and architectures. Previously, Richard was the Executive Architect for Banking and Financial Markets industry innovation at IBM UK. His previous roles with the company, for whom he worked for almost fifteen years, included Lead Account Architect for a global Investment Banking client and a consultant for IBM software products. Richard is a Chartered Engineer, holds an MBA with distinction from Warwick Business School and a first-class degree in Mathematics from Trinity College, Cambridge.
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About R3: R3 is a financial innovation firm dedicated to the design and deployment of DLT to build the new operating system for financial services.
Samuel Heather
VP, Chief Technology Officer of KodyPay
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About KodyPay: Revolutionising in-person payments to grow your business with a trustworthy and innovative solution.
Hector Wilkerson
Chief Technology Officer of LATOKEN
Hector Wilkerson is the Chief Technology Officer at LATOKEN.
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About LATOKEN: LATOKEN is the leading platform for multi-asset tokenization and cryptocurrency exchange.
Huss EL-Sheikh
CTO & Co-Founder of 9fin
Hussam EL-Sheikh is the CTO & Founder at 9fin.
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About 9fin: The leading data, news and predictive analytics platform for debt capital markets
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Tuomas Hietanen
Co-Founder and CTO of Fund Ourselves
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About Fund Ourselves: Short-term credit from the people to the people.
Paul McWilliams
Co-Founder & CTO of Yedup Limited
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About Yedup Limited: Yedup develops real-time, continually adaptive AI technology for high value, ultra-low latency capital markets applications.
Andre Elias
Co-Founder & CTO of FIDEL API
Design, Engineering & AI.
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About FIDEL API: Fidel API is a global financial infrastructure platform, providing tools to build powerful, real-time products on top of payment cards.
George Dunning
CTO & Co Founder of Bud
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About Bud: Bud is a financial network combining APIs & data to create a new species of connected experiences.
Simon Needham
CTO of Tradeteq
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About Tradeteq: The global hub for trade finance distribution
Alex Harin
Chief Technology Officer of Wrisk
With an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Moscow University and a PhD in Maths from the University of Natal, it’s safe to say that Alex knows how to wrangle large data sets with ease…which is particularly handy if your business is all about turning tables of data points into personal insights (but is extremely handy in a pub quiz too).
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Ricardo Brizido
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Stake
Ricardo Brizido is the Co-Founder and CTO at Stake.
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About Stake: Stake Properties is a digital real estate investment platform.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Klaus Thorup
Chief Technology Officer of ClearScore
Klaus is a deep technology expert having worked for some of the biggest names in gaming. He’s the heart of our engineering.
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About ClearScore: ClearScore is a financial technology company that provides credit scoring services and a marketplace.
Gaurav Rana
Chief Technology Officer of BABB
Gaurav is an experienced CTO and an industry veteran in the blockchain space with a history of working with distributed systems and financial services at scale. He has contributed to dozens of pivotal projects and seminal literature, and invented pioneering technology in the industry since 2010. Gaurav is a techstars alum, and ex CTO of startups Everledger and Atlas.
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About BABB: BABB is a world bank for the micro-economy: a global marketplace for human innovation, financial autonomy and wealth creation.
Michael Hancock
CTO of Fluidly
Michael has over 15 years’ technical experience delivering large scale e-commerce and finance projects for the likes of Tesco, Auto Trader, London Stock Exchange and most of the major banks. He has spent the last 5 years working in RegTech and FinTech startups and most recently was CTO for digital payments company Judopay. Whilst there he designed and delivered a market leading fraud product, saw the payments volume increase 15x and built a world class team of 20+ engineers. Michael has a passion for using technology to help solve real world problems and is bringing a wealth of experience in scaling platforms and processes to the Fluidly team.
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About Fluidly: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Jonathan Lister
CTO of PensionBee
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About PensionBee: PensionBee: the clever way to find and combine all your old pension plans in one good-value, online plan Capital at risk.
Nick Towers
CTO & Head of Engineering of Gro
Nick Towers is the CTO and Head of Engineering at Gro.
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About Gro: Gro develops protocols or autonomous programs designed for a simple and friendly DeFi experience.
Joao Martins
CTO of Yapily
Joao Martins is the Chief Technology Officer at Yapily.
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About Yapily: Yapily offers API-based software to enable innovative products to connect to banks.
Josh Moont
CTO of WeSwap
Josh is the CTO of WeSwap.com the world’s first person to person currency exchange for travellers.During a career spanning more than 12 years in the IT field Josh has been instrumental in many major web projects. His career began in a small web design agency where Josh designed and developed a large range of multi-platform sites. He liaised with companies ranging in size from small firms to fortune 500 businesses, culminating in an award-winning e-commerce site for Kangol. Moving on to become a senior web-developer for Dial-a-Phone Josh played a key role in the launch of the ‘3’ online shop and developing the leading strategy for future direction of their website. Since leaving Dial-a-Phone in 2006 Josh has continued to build upon his skills, developing many more cutting-edge web sites including a bespoke content management system for Your Golf Travel amongst others. Josh brings with him a wealth of knowledge in the IT sector and web technologies.
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About WeSwap: WeSwap is a mobile application that allows users to swap different types of currency with others.
Dominic Kwok
Co-founder and CTO of Heron Data
Dominic Kwok is the Co-Founder and CTO at Heron Data.
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About Heron Data: We categorise and label bank transaction data.
David Scott Turner
Co-Founder and CTO of Imburse
David’s long background in and strong passion for disruptive technology makes him the right person to lead our technical development and vision as CTO of IMburse. David deploys his extensive startup and advisory experience, coupled with his strong leadership, innovative thinking and strong technical background into the role; all essential to lead the technical development off IMburse. It is no surprise that with someone like David in your corner the product will be amazing.
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About Imburse: Imburse is a cloud-based payments integration platform.
Emilian Siemsia
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of FriendlyScore
Emilian Siemsia is the founder and CTO of FriendlyScore, a platform which combines Machine Learning (AI) techniques, Web Application development and Mobile solutions to process alternative credit-scoring data. Emilian is a dynamic and driven technologist with a rare combination of business knowledge and deep technical expertise. He is passionate about start-ups and understands group dynamics and team building. Artificial intelligence, particularly semantic analysis are of special interest to him. For over 10 years he has held many software developer and technical leader roles. Prior to FriendlyScore he ran a software development house. Emilian was educated at Wroclaw University of Technology, he holds a Master of Science in Automation and Robotics.
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About FriendlyScore: Unlock the power of Open Banking. Simple access to bank APIs, enriched data and predictive analytics
Mark Durrand
CTO of TotallyMoney
Mark has a long track record of delivering innovative software solutions in cutting edge development environments. He was director of IT at uSwitch.com, helping re-invent the brand following its acquisition by Forward Group. Prior to that he managed the web development team at Visa Europe. During his career Mark has developed a keen interest in Agile and Lean approaches to software development and has spoken at many conferences on his experiences.
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About TotallyMoney: TotallyMoney puts customers right at the center of their credit data, helping them make smarter financial decisions.
Murat Abur
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade
Co-Founder & CTO of Suade.
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About Suade: Suade’s is bridging the financial regulatory gap through modern technology, designed to prevent the next financial crisis.
Julian Bowden
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of InvestCloud
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About InvestCloud: InvestCloud is a global company specializing in digital platforms that enable the development of financial solutions.
Nicholas Pennington
CTO of SETL
Nicholas Pennington is a CTO at SETL.
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About SETL: SETL is a technology company that focuses on blockchain settlements and 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.
Ben Smith
Co Founder, Partner & CTO of InReach Ventures
Ben Smith is a Co-Founder and Technology Partner at InReach Ventures. He is a former UK Engineering Director at Yammer / Microsoft. Prior to that, Ben Smith served as the Head of Technology at Top10 and Chief Technology Officer at MetaBroadcast. He is building a technology platform to transform traditional Venture Capital.
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About InReach Ventures: The AI powered VC focused on early-stage European startups
Mike Raath
CTO of Thunes
Mike Raath is the CTO at Thunes.
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About Thunes: Thunes offers a global cross-border payment network for seamless transfer of funds to 100 countries in 60 currencies.
Konstantinos Faliagkas
Co-founder & CTO of Wealthyhood
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About Daedalus investment Platform, Wealthyhood: The first DIY wealth-building app for long-term investors.
Yoel Marson
CTO of BondAval
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About BondAval, Improded: BondAval is a digital platform for B2B credit security to replace bank guarantees and traditional collateral-based instruments.
Emanuele Blanco
Chief Technology Officer of Moneyfarm
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About Moneyfarm: Moneyfarm is a digital wealth manager that offers online financial advisory and investment services.
Peter Ingram
Chief Technology Officer of Hastee
Peter Ingram is the CTO at Hastee.
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About Fixxa, Hastee: Hastee is a mobile application that allows workers to receive a portion of their earned pay immediately.
Ronen Benchetrit
Chief Technology Officer of Zopa
Ronen is responsible for leading Zopa’s technology team and driving the overall technology strategy to support business growth. He has more than two decades of software development and management experience in start-ups, as well as large private and public companies in various sectors. Before joining Zopa in 2016, Ronen was CTO for leading online gaming operator PokerStars.
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About Zopa: Zopa offers peer-to-peer loans with low rates, flexible terms, and no early repayment fees.
Mike Moate
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
John Davies
CTO & co-founder of Velo Payments
CTO and co-founder of Velo Payments & Incept5 Previously CTO and co-founder of C24, founded in 2000, sold to Iona Technologies (on NASDAQ) in 2007 (which was then sold to Progress Software 2008). C24 bought back from Progress Software in 2011 and sold to Gresham Technologies (on UK Stock Exchange) in Oct 2016. C24’s product was payments integration technology for investment banks, predominately SWIFT, Fedwire, SEPA, ISO 20022, BOJNet etc. and used by the majority of the worlds largest banks as customers. C24’s [patent-pending] “binary Java” technology-enabled Vodafone to handle over a million messages per second; John was the inventor. John is also CTO of Incept5, leaders in innovation and the team behind Visa Checkout and the BBC’s new iPlayer. John was also designed and ran FX trading technology at Paribas, head of technology consulting in BNP Paribas and global head of architecture at JP Morgan, also an interim chief architect at several startups. John has co-authored 5 Java and architecture books and is a regular speaker at technical and financial services conferences.
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About Incept5, Velo Payments: Velo Payments is the global smart data network for business disbursements.
Makis Saridis
CTO of Loyalize
Makis has an extensive track record in retail and technology. He is currently the Lead Systems Architect at ASOS, having previously been the Solutions and Innovations Director at Oracle. Before Oracle, Makis worked for some of the world’s largest retailers, including LVMH, M&S Group and Sainsbury’s to build out their IT solutions.
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About Loyalize: Loyalize is a white label payment, loyalty and customer engagement platform
Ritesh Tendulkar
CTO, Co-founder of Modulr
Ritesh Tendulkar is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Modulr.
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About Modulr: Modulr is a fintech company that provides Payments as a Service API for digital businesses.
Dave Tonge
Chief Technology Officer of Moneyhub
Dave is the CTO of Moneyhub, developing an intelligent financial data and payments platform. He is involved in standards work across the OpenID Foundation, IETF, ISO and Open Banking UK – with a particular interest in security profiles and “decoupled” authorisation flows. He is a co-chair of the Financial API Working Group at the OpenID Foundation.
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About Moneyhub: Moneyhub is a data and payments fintech that provides open banking, open finance, and open data solutions.
Simon Morley
Chief Technology Officer of Vaultoro
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About Vaultoro: Vaultoro is a financial technology company specialized in digital assets and commodities trading.
Akeel Ahmed
Co-Founder & CTO of intelliflo Ltd
Akeel cofounded Intelliflo, along with Nick Eatock, in 2004 after completing the successful sale of a touch-screen business. Entrepreneurial and technically savvy, Akeel works on new propositions and is heavily involved in the technology platform. Outside work most of his time is spent with his wife and children.
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About i4C Technology, intelliflo Ltd: intelliflo provides SaaS-based solutions for the financial services sector.
Mark Akerman
CTO of Oplo
Mark Akerman is the Chief Technology Officer at Oplo.
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About Oplo: Oplo is a direct lender platform that offers car finance, personal loans, and secured loan products.
Ian Fuller
CTO & Cofounder of Freetrade
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About Freetrade: Freetrade is a challenger stockbroker that offers free share trading in mobile phones.
Guy Evans
CTO of Koyo
Experienced hands-on CTO/VP Engineering
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About Koyo: Koyo uses machine learning to serve customers with competitively priced credit
Antonio Marino
Co-Founder & CTO of Emma
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About Emma: Emma is a financial app advocate that helps users avoid overdrafts, find wasteful subscriptions, and allows users control of their finances.
Toby O’Rourke
CTO of FundApps
Toby is the CTO at FundApps. With over 15 years’ experience in software engineering, Toby has led agile teams and most recently designed consumer facing, high volume, transactional systems for the online cash gaming industry. His spare time seems to be spent crashing mountain bikes, coaching kids rugby or operating dad’s taxi.
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About FundApps: We help investment managers harness the power of community and technology to automate regulatory compliance.
Julien Deray
Co-Founder & CTO of Mespo
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About Mespo: Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
Mitch Ebdon
CTO of essDOCS
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About essDOCS: essDOCS enables paperless trade; focusing on digitizing paper-heavy shipping, trade and logistic processes.
Derek Ewing
CTO of KITE EDGE LTD
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About : Customisable Search Platform for Asset Managers/Banks
Mark Hornsby
CTO of Trustology
Mark is a dedicated technologist with extensive industry experience in top tier investment banks. In his most recent role, Mark was recognised as a Distinguished Engineer in his Senior Innovation Engineer role, where he was responsible for examining emerging technology and its possible applications within Royal Bank of Scotland. Previously, Mark was head of Counterparty Credit Risk Technology at RBS. Prior to working at RBS, Mark was a Credit Risk developer at UBS, and OTC Derivatives developer at Deutsche Bank.
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About Trustology: Trustology is building a custody platform to safeguard your crypto assets.
Joe Barbour
Chief Technology Officer of Knoma
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Gabriele Cacciola
CTO of Ocyan
Gabriele has engineering in his DNA: focused and visionary about tech. His experience as Big Data in the Fintech space with ClearScore (since they were a small startup to the worldwide scale it is now) followed many years spent in high tech startups and corporates. When is not busy directing Ocyan’s tech work, he works along with AWS to present his Big Data serverless platforms and support other startups in this journey.
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About Ocyan: Financial marketplace for European Expats
Daniel Howard
CTO of SimbaPay
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About SimbaPay: SimbaPay is a B2B SaaS for banks in Africa that enables their customers to send money abroad using mobile money or e-banking.
Nick Buller
Chief Technology Officer of ThinCats
Nick’s entrepreneurial spirit, developed at the helm of several London based start-ups, is coupled with a direct appreciation of how investment in technology can transform businesses. This has driven him to ThinCats, where he is able to use this first-hand experience to help facilitate the funding of UK SMEs. Nick is responsible for overseeing technological advancement at ThinCats; spearheading innovation, building infrastructure, maximising security and promoting development across the business. He has vast experience in finance and technology; having spent over 10 years at Barclays at Director level, he has held CTO positions at a number of other London-based technology firms, as well as CTO for ESF Capital.
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About ThinCats: ThinCats is an alternative finance provider dedicated to funding growing and ambitious mid-sized SMEs across the UK.
Paolo Ursino
CTO of VentureFounders
Paolo joined VentureFounders as CTO in 2018 and is in charge of all the technical aspects as well as the nFiniti platform. He is passionate about technology and its potential to transform their lives through disciplines such as IoT, AI, Cloud systems, analytics and Big Data. Paolo has more than 20 years experience in a wide range of technologies, including robotics, cellular communication, IoT and B2B and B2C cloud platforms, and has worked for large corporates, such as Samsung and Broadcom, as well as having been co-founder of two startups.
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About VentureFounders: VentureFounders is an investment platform providing HNW client base with access to highly-curated and structured investment opportunities.
Ernesto Jiménez
CTO of topi
Ernesto Jiménez is the chief technology officer of Topi.
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About Slackline, topi: Topi is a fintech company that offers digital payment solutions for business sellers and buyers.
Vincent Hus
Co Founder, CTO of Flymble
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About Flymble: Flymble is a next generation travel platform that offers instant travel financing. Book flights for just 1/10th upfront and spread the cost.
Jonathan Senior
CTO of OpenGamma
Jon is Chief Technology Officer at OpenGamma. He leads the technology strategies that drive our modern approach to cloud-based services. In this role he has transformed our technology stack, from the inception of Strata, our award-winning market risk foundations, to our highly secure, scalable hosted services architecture. Prior to OpenGamma, Jon was a developer on the Credit Derivatives desk at KBC Financial Products. He also worked on trading systems for the Equity Derivatives and Asian Warrants businesses, as well as Peel Hunt’s Equities business (then part of KBC).
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About OpenGamma: OpenGamma is the analytics company dedicated to reducing the costs of trading derivatives.
Richard Bastin
CTO of Cashplus
Richard is passionate about Technology. Really passionate. No obstacle is too big to overcome and all requirements have a solution. He blends his exceptional tech savvy, knowledge of standards and frameworks, with strong team leadership skills and real business acumen to deliver a highly effective development strategy and process that fulfils both the needs of the business and our customers. Richard has over 20 years IT experience across a variety of industries and has a strong track record of building teams of dedicated software engineers to design and deliver innovative products for customers. He has enviable experience of delivering Platform as a Service (PaaS) solutions. Prior to joining The Currency Cloud, Richard had a variety of roles in technology including being the CTO at Digital Look providing real time stock market data solutions for various stockbrokers, media organisations and banks including HSBC and Barclays. Richard has also been Head of Platform Operations at Venda, delivering high availability and high transactional volume for over 100 eCommerce customers including Tesco, Wickes, Republic and many others.
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About Cashplus: Cashplus is a digital challenger to UK banks and has served more than 1.6m customers since launching in 2005
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Greg Smyth
Co-founder & CTO of Urban Jungle
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About Urban Jungle: Urban Jungle provides an insurance technology to help young people get cheaper, better home insurance.
Matthew Wardle
CTO & Co-Founder of Kasko
CTO and Co-Founder of Kasko
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About Kasko: Kasko is an insurance distribution network that allows you to quickly and easily integrate insurance products into a site, service, or app.
Bartosz Alksnin
CTO, Co-Founder of flatfair
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About flatfair: Secure your rental with flatfair’s flexible solutions
Morné Van Dalen
CTO of Liberis
CTO of Liberis Group.
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About Liberis: Liberis provides access to simple, flexible, and fair finance for small businesses.
Miguel Castro
CTO & Co-Founder of Telleroo
CTO & Co-Founder at Telleroo.
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About Telleroo: Telleroo is one unified way for accountants & bookkeepers to make payments on behalf of clients
Christophe Monget
CTO and Founder of MatchPlace Limited
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About MatchPlace Limited: New generation Fintech platform. Integrating Financial Services solutions, bridging the gap between Financial Institutions and SMEs
Oliver Bayes-Shelton
CTO of CoInvestor
Oliver Bayes-Shelton is the CTO at BYOB.
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About BYOB, CoInvestor, Loan Optics: Alternative asset investment platform connecting advisers and investors with premium tax-efficient, capital growth and yield investments
Simon White
Co-founder & CTO of Rebank
Simon White is the co-founder and CTO of Rebank. Prior to joining Rebank, he worked at Soreto Limited as the head of technology/lead developer. Simon has held positions at Fincluster Ltd, Thales Australia, and Unisys Australia.
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About Rebank: The single source of truth for startup finances
