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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 Mobile 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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Azeem Akhtar
CTO & Head of Design Team of BT Global Services
An articulate, highly driven and infectiously enthusiastic professional currently serving as the CTO on one of the BT’s largest outsource contracts. Technically and commercially adept with a proven track record of complex solution sales in the most challenging commercial environments globally. A finally astute problem solver with a high degree of commercial acumen focused on delivering bottom-line benefit. Very experienced in formulating market entry strategies, commercial analysis, writing business cases, and contract negotiation. A genuine team player that inspires through thought leadership, challenging the status quo and empowering team members. Multi-lingual and adept at using strong interpersonal skills to develop trusting relationships to drive business benefit. Undertakes a voluntary non-executive director role as Chairman of Active Essex.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Kim Gasson
FFA & FFAvr Product Owner and CTO, Supply Chain of BT Global Services
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Paddy Byers
CTO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Marc Woolward
CTO & CISO of vArmour
Marc has over 30 years of experience in mission critical infrastructure and software-defined networks. Marc joined vArmour as CTO in February, 2015. Prior to this role he was a Technology Fellow and the CTO for Networking and Telecommunications at Goldman Sachs. He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Group and as the founder and leader of the Security Working Group within the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Earlier in his career he managed infrastructure at Cantor Fitzgerald and Coutts & Co. Marc has a decade’s worth of experience architecting and implementing datacenter software automation, and private cloud architectures. Marc is currently British and Worldcup Masters Surfkayak Champion and has represented England at the international level for several years.
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About vArmour: VArmour offers data defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms.
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.
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.
Donovan Frew
Chief Technology Officer of Goodlord
Donavan brings to Goodlord over 20 years’ experience of building software and technology teams and has most recently occupied a similar role for six successful years at Secret Escapes. When he’s not busy improving the Goodlord platform, you can find him strutting his stuff on the dancefloor or watching one of his (many) favourite football teams.
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About Goodlord: Goodlord offers a cloud-based software to help estate agents, landlords, and tenants manage the rental process.
Ilias Kiourktsidis
CTO of Zebra Fuel
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About Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Chris Greeno
Chief Technology Officer of Cuvva
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About Cuvva: Radically better insurance, fit for the future.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
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.
Ciaran Fisher
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Software Engineer of InCrowd Sports
Ciaran Fisher is a Chief Technology Officer & Chief Software Engineer at InCrowd Sports.
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About InCrowd Sports: Incrowd builds sponsorship activation platforms to give fans an in-stadia experience.
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.
Brendan O’Reilly
CTO of O2
Brendan is Telefónica UK’s Chief Technology Officer, with over 15 years’ experience in Mobile Telecoms. Brendan has accountability for O2’s strategy, design, planning, test, delivery and operation of the entire mobile and fixed network, messaging and wifi supported by his team of more than 600 professional engineers. Brendan has held a number of senior roles in the Networks Leadership Team over the past seven years, with achievements including leading the development of O2’s network share partnership with Vodafone in June 2012. He is also experienced in detailed planning and delivery of radio and transmission networks. Delivering the best experience to O2’s customers is at the heart of how Brendan works and knows his people are key to achieve this. Brendan also has a strong focus on his people encouraging development and self-learning across all of Networks.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
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.
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.
Heather Utech
CTO of DMG Media
Heather Utech is CTO at DMG Media.
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About DMG Media: DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Kevin Li Ying
Chief Technology Officer of Future
Kevin Li Ying serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Future plc.
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About Future: Future creates high-quality multi-media products which reach their audiences online, on mobile and in print.
George Wetz
CPO, CTO & Founding Member of Yumpingo
George Wetz is the Chief Technology Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Tom Godber
Co-Founder & CTO of Masabi
Tom is a Co-Founder of Masabi and a mobile programming expert with a passion for design and usability. Keenly aware of changing mobile trends in what is one the fastest moving consumer markets today, he defines the technical strategic goals and implementation plans that allow Masabi to best meet the needs of end users. Tom has spent almost ten years at Masabi building mobile applications, servers and frameworks, troubleshooting, and architected a gaming platform now processing millions of dollars per month. Prior to founding Masabi, Tom worked with Accenture and Trilogy Software in addition to founding MoMo Estonia. Tom has a master’s degree in Computer Science from Cambridge University.
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About Masabi, Masabi: Masabi is the global leader in transport mobile ticketing and payments.
Aaron McKee
CTO of Blis
Aaron McKee is a seasoned technology executive with a history of building products at the intersection of big data and machine learning.With 25 years of professional experience in the technology sector, and almost a decade as an executive, he’s helped companies, teams, and products across every stage of maturity and across a range of industries.He helped break web server performance records at Intel and launched the first modern local search product at Ask.com. As CTO of Struq, a performance advertising technology company later acquired by Quantcast, he was one of the first to bring a deep use of machine learning to dynamic content personalization and programmatic advertising. Aaron has also served as CTO of both Skimlinks and Job Today, both sector-leading consumer and business-facing marketplace companies. Outside of work, Aaron spends as much free time as possible with his family – a wife and two young sons – traveling, eating, and generally being a nerd. He graduated with distinction from the University of California, Berkeley with a dual degree in Computer Science and Psychology and has split his career across both Silicon Valley and Europe.
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About Blis: Blis is the leading privacy-first, location-powered programmatic advertising partner.
Dom Marmont
CTO & Co-Founder of FIXR
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About FIXR: FIXR is a leading ticketing and event management platform built for fans and organisers.
Natalia Mila
Chief Technology Officer of Upstream
Natalia joined Upstream in 2008 as a senior software engineer. She has worked in several roles within the company, as a team leader and later on as chief architect and head of engineering, leading the design and implementation of Upstream’s mobile commerce platform. She is now the company CTO, responsible for its technical product, engineering and infrastructure functions. She has more than 17 years of work experience in enterprise software, in companies such as Intracom and Intralot S.A. She holds a Bachelor’s degree in Computer Science from the National and Kapodistrian University of Athens, and a Master’s degree in Distributed and Multimedia Information Systems, from Heriot-Watt University, Edinburgh.
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About Upstream: Upstream is leading the mobile internet revolution in high growth markets.
Alex Sinclair
Chief Technology Officer of GSMA
Alex Sinclair is the Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at the GSMA. With more than 25 years in telecommunications in general and mobile in particular, Alex has worked for a number of companies in the UK, Germany and the US. In the early 1990’s, Alex was part of the project team that launched the T-Mobile D1 network in Germany. In 1995, Alex helped Syniverse to launch their GSM clearinghouse business. Prior to joining the GSMA, Alex was Director of Network Engineering at ICO (a Global Satellite venture). Alex has served as Chief Technology Officer of the GSMA since 2005.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Yulun Song
CTO of China Unicom
Song is a software engineer scientist. He obtained his PhD from School of Compute Science, University of Glasgow in 2015. Now he serves for China Unicom Corp., as the CTO of China Unicom Big Data LTD. His interests lie on the field of applying software engineering theory into data science implementation, especially mining Telecom data value in terms of understanding people’s livelihood, economy, etc. He was awarded Excellent CTO of the Year 2017 by China Software Industry Association. He was awarded Big data domain expert of China Data Center for Food & Drug ADM Nistration in 2018. He is also active in data science academic and performs as the member of Expert of Big Data Industry Committee, registered in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of P.R.C. He holds CMMI certificate of Data Management Maturity (DMM) Model.
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About China Unicom: China Unicom is a company that provides broadband communications and information services.
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.
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.
Onoufrios Malikkides
Chief Technology Officer of Labstep
Onoufrios Malikkides is the Chief Technology Officer at Labstep.
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About Labstep: Labstep captures real time scientific process data to provide an internally shareable timeline of a lab’s activity.
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.
Sachin Deshpande
Chief Technology Officer of Made by Fire
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About Made by Fire: We create digital products for our ambitious clients with a team of over 100 specialists.
Cristian Dan
Co-Founder and CTO of YAYZY
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About YAYZY: Yayzy is an application for carbon footprint calculator.
Stuart Fiske
CTO of Consult Hyperion
Stuart is a founding Director of Consult Hyperion. Prior to 1986 he was involved in the development of transaction processing systems and fault-tolerant command and control software. Stuart obtained a BA Honours degree in Physics and a PhD from the University of York. Stuart has specialised in the analysis of business requirements and the specification and verification of payment systems. He provides and oversees specialist consultancy to clients focussing on the design and deployment of innovative identity and payment methods based around the use of secure cryptographic devices. Stuart works with clients such as the global card schemes, banks and fixed and mobile telecommunications operators. His current interests include both contact and contactless payment cards, NFC-enabled phones, and the specification and verification of vendor products which form part of those schemes.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
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.
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.
Jack Pordi
Cofounder and CTO of Realm
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About Realm, TheCLUB.tv: Realm is an app for finding and hosting house parties with the aim of making socializing cheaper and more meaningful.
Troy Batley
Chief Technology Officer of Chorus Intelligence
Troy began his career as a software engineer in 1990 moving to Database and Systems Administration then to Project and Programme Management. He worked in the Banking and Finance industry in the 90’s before moving into Retail where he gained extensive experience managing digital technology transformation programmes for household name businesses such as Sainsbury’s and M&S. He has a passion for building, developing and leading successful high-performing technology teams.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Chris Murphy
Regional CTO, EMEA of Viavi Solutions
Chris has 15 years commercial experience in telecommunications covering network performance measurement, optimisation and SON, particularly in cellular RAN including LTE, UMTS, CDMA and WiMAX. His focus has been on the modelling, simulation and optimisation of next generation technologies to build a revenue stream early in the life cycle of each new generation of telecommunication systems. He has contributed to various industry and standardisation bodies including 3GPP and NGMN for optimisation and SON, and the WiMAX Forum. Prior to Viavi Solutions and Arieso, Chris worked for Motorola and NSN developing new technical capabilities for the service portfolio. Chris holds a degree in Mathematics and Computing and a Ph.D. in the calibration of oceanic remote sensing satellites for improved models of climate change. He has authored numerous journal and conference papers and has filed 10 patents.
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About Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
Chris Murphy
Regional CTO, EMEA of Viavi Solutions
Chris has 15 years commercial experience in telecommunications covering network performance measurement, optimisation and SON, particularly in cellular RAN including LTE, UMTS, CDMA and WiMAX. His focus has been on the modelling, simulation and optimisation of next generation technologies to build a revenue stream early in the life cycle of each new generation of telecommunication systems. He has contributed to various industry and standardisation bodies including 3GPP and NGMN for optimisation and SON, and the WiMAX Forum. Prior to Viavi Solutions and Arieso, Chris worked for Motorola and NSN developing new technical capabilities for the service portfolio. Chris holds a degree in Mathematics and Computing and a Ph.D. in the calibration of oceanic remote sensing satellites for improved models of climate change. He has authored numerous journal and conference papers and has filed 10 patents.
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About Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
Pearl Arbenser-Simmonds
CTO of Agily
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About Agily: Agily is a collaborative and team goal management app improving organisational alignment, business agility and competitiveness.
Phong Vu
Co-Founder & CTO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
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.
Justin Ashurst
Co-Founder, CTO & COO of AppInstitute
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About AppInstitute, Peckish: AppInstitute is a software developer of a digital framework for small businesses to create their own mobile applications.
Cameron Gordon
CTO and Co-Founder of OnePulse
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About OnePulse: OnePulse is a mobile app that connects people and businesses with opinions and reward them through PayPal.
Matthew Samonek
Chief Technology Officer of Kleek
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About Kleek: Kleek offers access to high-end venues, clubs and events.
Gavin Lilley
Chief Technology officer of Zapaygo
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About Media Maison, UK Ministry of Justice, Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
Bryn Jones
CTO of Three
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About Three: Three is a British telecommunications and internet service provider.
James Eggleston
Chief Technology Officer of appScatter
James is responsible for the delivery of appScatter’s flagship technology – the distribution, performance, tracking and intelligence platform. Prior to appScatter James worked in the mobile gaming industry delivering global technology solutions for international brands.
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About Airnow, appScatter: AppScatter is a B2B SaaS platform that distributes, manages, and monitors mobile apps across multiple app stores worldwide.
Subhash Muchala
CTO of Dynamify
PhD, University of Oxford
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
Stephen Carl
CTO of Sliide
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About Emu Analytics, Sliide: Mobile technology company that work with MNO, MVNO and OEM partners globally to increase engagement, drive revenue, and decrease churn.
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Connell Gauld
Co-Founder and CTO of Zappar
As Zappar’s CTO, Connell oversees the ZapWorks team (Zappar’s AR/VR/MR creation software) as well as being responsible for all the cloud infrastructure and the core functionality of the Zappar app (which can also be embedded into third-party apps). Connell met Zappar Co-Founder Dr Simon Taylor whilst they were both studying engineering at the University of Cambridge. They founded Zappar, along with Caspar Thykier, 8 years ago and have seen it grow into one of the leading AR platforms with $3.75M in funding, 50 staff, and four offices around the world.
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About Zappar: Zappar is a clever little app that can see and recognise images and objects in the world around us.
Isambard Poulson
CTO of Huq Industries
Founder of Huq Industries.
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About Huq Industries: Huq is building the world’s largest consumer research network, helping businesses understand their offline markets with digital precision.
Jamie Sutherland
CTO of Mallzee
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About Mallzee: Mallzee is a B2C clothing retail app and a B2B data suite for clothing retailers to improve margins and make smarter buying decisions
Graham Dean
Chief Technology Officer of RealityMine
Graham’s role is to ensure that RealityMine’s technology strategy meets the business needs. Graham was the first engineer to join the company in 2012, and helped build some of the first apps and server code. He now leads the R&D efforts to ensure RealityMine remains the technology leader in the industry. Graham notes, “We have to work fast at RealityMine to keep pace with the ever changing mobile and technology landscape. But this helps keep skills sharp, gives variety to the work, and ultimately keeps things interesting and challenging.”
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About RealityMine: RealityMine is a tech leader in high quality passive research, enabling clients to reveal unique insights from real life consumer behaviour.
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Dinesh Acharya
Co-Founder and CTO of Solution Rock
Dinesh Acharya is the Co-Founder and CTO of Formyoula.com and Solution Rock Technologies.
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About Solution Rock: Solution Rock specializes in Salesforce CRM implementations and Force.com application developments.
Moin Maniar
CTO of Appsumer
Moin Maniar joined Appsumer as CTO in 2016.
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Jonathan del Strother
CTO of Audioboom
Jonathan del Strother is CTO at AudioBoo.
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About Audioboom: Audioboom is a podcasting distribution platform.
Richard Hamnett
Co-Founder and CTO of ResponseTap
Richard Hamnett is the co-founder and CTO of ResponseTap.
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About ResponseTap: ResponseTap Call Intelligence takes call tracking to another level, amplifying the depth of data across the end-to-end customer journey.
Robertas Sadovskis
Chief Technology Officer of Barbora Polska
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About Barbora Polska: Barbora Polska is a company that provides online shopping for fresh food and household chemicals to be delivered at good quality
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.
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Danny Ogen
Chief Technology Officer of Careology
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About Careology: Digital Cancer Care. Helping people living and dealing with cancer make the down days more manageable & the Up Days come more often.
Adam Jennings
Co-Founder, CTO of AppSecTest
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About AppSecTest: AppSecTest has developed the ASAnalyzer technology
Nabil Freeman
Co-founder and CTO of LeSalon Beauty
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About LeSalon Beauty: LeSalon is delivering a branded, consistent and high-quality at-home beauty service.
Toby Green
CTO of Yoller
Toby is an accomplished full stack developer specialising in cross-platform mobile applications. Having previously founded his own tech startup, he is hugely experienced in building exceptional teams. Toby is a massive foodie!
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About Yoller: Yoller gets people to meet in real life, really quickly – even if your friends don’t have the app.
Stuart Timms
Founder and CTO of Covatic
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About Covatic, Delestrade: Covatic is the use of mobile based algorithms to bring smart personalisation to apps.
Chris Watts
CTO / Co-Founder of NumberEight
Chris is the co-founder and CTO of NumberEight, a London-based AI company that detects user context from smartphone sensors and uses it to build audiences of behaviourally similar users. He is an ex-IBMer, where he researched air pollution sensors and has multiple patents to his name. He holds computer science degrees from Southampton and Cambridge and brings the know-how to achieve the theory of context detection in the real world.
Chris’ team has since produced patent-pending inventions, including efficient techniques for smartphones to process high-frequency data without significant battery impact, the ability to make personal devices work together to adapt to context and mood, and the process of defining groups of people with similar interests using anonymised sensor data.
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About NumberEight: NumberEight solves mobile addressability at scale by giving new life to untapped 1st party data. The company empowers app developers, ad partners, and advertisers to explore the power of mobex (mobile context) to connect with their users in a relevant, impactful, and most importantly, a private way. They do this through our best-in-class mobile AI software, which predicts the live context of a user (e.g. running, commuting) from sensors present in the device, and then packages them neatly into ID-less behavioural audiences (e.g. joggers, frequent shoppers). All computation happens on-device, thus producing a privacy-by-design solution that guarantees a higher regulatory immunity.
Alexander Browne
CTO of SKOOT
Past experience includes Senior IT Leadership, Business & IT Strategy, leading large scale architectural initiatives, and driving innovation programmes. Conducted & consulted on all aspects of technology strategy & implementation; direction, leading global architectural change, multi-vendor programme management, organisational design & implementation, business case generation, business impact assessments, roadmap creation, high-level design, detailed designs, audits, development & operations.
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About SKOOT: SKOOT is a platform for Climate Change helping businesses, communities and individuals to IDENTIFY, OFFSET & AVOID their CO2 footprints.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
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.
Anwar Almojarkesh
CEO/CTO & Founder of Braci
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About Braci: Braci is a sound recognition application that analyzes unusual sound from the environment and alerts its users.
Mike Wharton
Founder & CTO of Waracle
Mike founded Waracle and has unrivalled experience helping large customers architect, resource and develop their complex digital strategies. Mike also happens to be our head geek and overall tech enthusiast, if you’ve a spare few hours he’d love nothing more than to discuss in detail emerging car technology, especially electric vehicles, , sustainable energy, smart assisted homes and IoT.
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About Waracle: Waracle define, design & deliver mobile, web and emerging tech applications that make customers and patients lives better.
Callam Poynter
CTO & Co-Founder of Zentry
CTO & Co-Founder at Zentry
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About Zentry: Zentry is a photo/video sharing mobile application and ticketing service that allows users to create collaborative albums with your friends.
Imdad Ahad
Co-founder & CTO of Scoodle
Imdad Ahad is a Co-founder & CTO at Scoodle.
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About Scoodle: Scoodle is connects students with teachers.
Ryan Townsend
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Shift Commerce
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About Shift Commerce: Shift Commerce delivers a next-generation, API-centric, SaaS-based Digital Retail Platform.
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.
Peter McClelland
CTO of CIQUAL
Peter joined Ciqual in 2016 with responsibility for product architecture and development. Peter brings deep experience of both start-up and corporate software product environments, with particular focus on large scale streaming and BI solutions for telecom. For over 20 years Peter has run his own software companies designing and selling innovative products and consulting services, taking several companies from product concept to repeat sales. With broad experience of designing and delivering solutions to many sectors, including telecom, media and manufacturing, Peter brings a strong product focus to Ciqual.
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About CIQUAL: CIQUAL offers Session Insight, a system that delivers a real-time, dynamic view of mobile broadband service and user experience.
Kamran Yazdanjoo
CTO and Head of Global Products Development of Spire Payments
Kamran has over 25 years international experience in executive leadership positions within card payments. Before joining Spire, Kamran served on the Board of Directors of Cubic Transportation Systems Limited as Director of Open Payments. Prior to this, Kamran was the Vice President of Global R&D at VeriFone Inc. with responsibility for products and services. In this role he led a global organization across Asia, Europe and North America. He also served on the Board of Directors at VFI Pvt Ltd from 2003 to 2009 and had a lead role in a number of key business transformations at VeriFone. Kamran holds a BSC Honours degree in Mathematics and a post graduate Master of Science degree in Optimization and Computing.w
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About Spire Payments: Spire Payments is one of the fastest growing European POS solutions provider.
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Simon Lee
Chief Technology Officer of goEvo
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About goEvo: goEvo helps users lose excess weight and keep it off without dieting, by changing the way we think and feel about food and our bodies.
Mario Menti
CTO & Co-founder of Ally Chatbot
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About Ally Chatbot: Ally Chatbot is a civic and social organization that features a software platform that utilizes artificial intelligence.
Andrew Moss
CTO of Code Kingdoms
With an inexplicable knowledge of servers, the database and anything to do with ‘making stuff work’, Andrew is a key part in ensuring everything runs smoothly. Although he loves going on far-flung adventures to foreign countries and elaborate costume parties, it’s a wonder he’s ever allowed to leave the office for fear of ‘everything breaking again’.
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About Code Kingdoms: Code Kingdoms is an online platform which teaches kids how to code.
Melvin Artemas
Chief Technology Officer of Localz
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About Localz, Medipass Solutions: Localz is the leading provider of Day of Service software.
Rob Noble
CTO of Arrive
Robert Noble CTO and co-founder at Arrive.
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About Arrive, UK Home Office: The only Taxi app where you can choose your driver… D’you want the cheapest, quickest or highest-rated driver?
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.
Catherine Woolgar
Co-Founder/ CTO of SmartTrade App
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About SmartTrade App: Accept any card payment, organise your paperwork and run your business with a free application on your phone, SmartTrade App.
Hugh Nimmo-Smith
Co-founder and CTO of Onedox
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About Onedox, Onedox: Onedox is a free, secure service that enables UK consumers to take control of their household bills
Dan Williams
Co-Founder and CTO of Workshop
Dan Williams is the co-founder and CTO of Workshop Technology. Prior to co-founding Workshop, Dan served as an analyst at Metapraxis. Before that, he held positions for various companies including Intro, Team Bath Racing electric, Oxalis Group, and Sagentia.
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About Workshop: Workshop is a technology-driven company that creates tools for learning and teaching in partnership in educators and brands.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
George Matau
CTO of Opinsta
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About Opinsta: Opinsta is a single platform to manage defect reporting (QA), health and safety checks, Inspections, 3rd party maintenance and more.
Stein Fletcher
CTO of Musitude
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About Musitude: A web & app music learning/playing solution for non-musicians
Nicholas Graham
CTO of Kykloud
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About Kykloud: SaaS property and real estate asset management – capture the condition of your estate and plan future maintenance spend.
Anthony Stonham
CEO/CTO of Local Puzzle
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About Local Puzzle: Supporting independent merchants, rewarding shoppers’ loyalty, revitalising the high street
