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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 Software 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.
Richard Potter
CTO of Microsoft
Richard Potter advises business leaders around the world on a range of digital transformation challenges. However, it’s the building of innovative enterprises that is his real passion. In his day job Richard works with Microsoft’s customers giving them clarity and confidence about their digital journeys, helping them turn their aspirations into transformational business results. He is a renowned keynote speaker and event facilitator with an energising and engaging style. He lives in the UK but travels extensively, shamelessly collecting and telling stories everywhere he goes.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
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Tarek Elabbady
Chief Technology Officer of Microsoft
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Stephen Barr
Central Government CTO of Microsoft
Steve Barr has 30 years experience in business and IT enterprise environments, within both the public and private sector. He has a diverse background covering a broad range of roles including business strategy and enterprise architecture, business management, programme delivery, leading large teams and consultancy. He has extensive experience in initiating and defining innovative solutions based on business needs and delivering enterprise-wide strategic solutions in large accounts. As a strategic leader within Microsoft, Steve has worked with CxOs across Government and the private sector, driving innovation around new technologies such as AI, Blockchain, cloud and mobile, whilst also covering security concerns. He is a member of the Government’s All Party Parliamentary Groups for AI and Blockchain and is often a speaker on innovation, technology driven business outcomes, Cybersecurity and how organisation can transform to the new ‘cloud world’.
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About Microsoft: Microsoft is a software corporation that develops, manufactures, licenses, supports, and sells a range of software products and services.
Ben Stopford
Lead Technologist, Office of the CTO of Confluent
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About Confluent: Confluent offers a streaming platform based on Apache Kafka that enables companies to easily access data as real-time streams.
Bhaskar Khemchandani
CTO of Uplatz
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About : Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Michele Riccardo Esposito
Co-Founder & CTO of Candu
Michele Riccardo Esposito is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Candu.
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About Candu: Candu is a product experience platform for software teams who want to design, refine, and personalize their application’s user interface.
Joe Lyske
Chief Technology Officer of Triller
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About Triller: Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
Jason Chown
CTO of vTime Limited
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About vTime Limited: vTime is a virtual reality software company that develops apps and cloud-based solutions that redefine virtual engagement and communication.
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.
Steve Lane
Chief Technology Officer of The Access Group
Steve has nearly 25 years’ experience in the software industry. He most recently worked with Achilles, where he was responsible for setting strategy and delivering SaaS platforms through global product development and technology teams. Prior to this, he held board and senior level positions with Experian Decision Analytics, Fair Isaac and Financial Objects.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Pruthvikar Reddy
Co-founder & CTO of Carv
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About Carv: Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach.
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
Joe Baguley
Vice President and Chief Technology Officer, EMEA of VMware
Joe Baguley is VMware’s Vice President and Chief Technology Officer for EMEA. He joined VMware in July 2011 and helps develop and communicate VMware’s strategy and vision with customers and partners, using his wealth of experience to help organisations reduce costs and better support users and business needs. As part of VMware’s Office of the CTO and its representative in EMEA, Joe assists VMware’s customers in understanding how to use today’s advances in technology to deliver real business impact as well as working with them to inform VMware’s R&D processes. Joe is a recognised leader within the European technical community and is considered one of the world’s most influential IT global leaders, currently positioned 26th on Tenfold’s global list of the top 79 Chief Technology Officers. He has played a key role in CloudCamp and other events, communicating how cloud technology fits into the broader IT landscape. He is a regular commentator on BBC World News, last appearing in January 2018 talking about edge computing with Aaron Heslehurst on Talking Business. In addition, Joe is also on several advisory boards at the European Commission and ETSI and is a founding committee member of the Data Centre Specialist Group at the British Computer Society which helped shape the European Code of Conduct for Data Centres.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Tommy Armstrong
Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office of VMware
Tommy Armstrong is the Senior Director of Mobile Products & CTO Office at VMware.
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About VMware: VMware is a software company providing cloud and virtualization services that powers complex digital infrastructure.
Gavin Ray
CTO of Digime
Gavin joined ip.access in june 2011. He spend the first 5 years of his career with AT&T in the UK Business Services group followed by five years in Cisco via its acquisition of Stratacom where he held a range of technology leadership positions in Service Provider networking and OSS systems. Recently he has worked as VP Products & Marketing in Telsis a leading messaging vendor and previously he was a partner at New York VC fund MeyerDuffy Ventures and followed with a number of years as a strategic technology advisor to a range of small/mid-size VC funded companies. He holds BSc(Hons) Telcommunications and PhD in network optimisation.
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About Digime, ip.access: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
Peter Day
Chief Technology Officer of Quantcast
After gaining a PhD in machine learning (and a brief career in academia) Peter spent 12 years working in the financial markets in a variety of roles in the quantitative finance sphere, including low latency pricing, portfolio analytics (xVA) and culminating in being responsible for Equity Derivatives Risk and Pricing technology globally for UBS. More recently Peter has left the financial markets to rediscover his roots in Machine Learning and is currently the UK Engineering Director for Quantcast – a leading ad-tech firm that uses Machine Learning to target advertising in real time.
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About Quantcast: Quantcast helps create a more personalized digital world.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
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.
Jamie Hutton
Chief Technology Officer of Quantexa
Jamie is a global authority on financial crime detection solutions and architectures, having spent over 11 years assisting major banks, insurers and product companies in harnessing technology and data in the fight against crime. Jamie took early responsibility in shaping the direction of the Detica NetReveal product and its unique capabilities. He then went on to be the key driving force behind the EMEA/AP product direction for the SAS financial crime platform. Today he continues to assist global banks with massive data architectures for financial crime.
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Ian McShane
Field CTO of Arctic Wolf
Ian McShane is the Field Chief Technology Officer of Arctic Wolf. Ian has over 20 years experience in cybersecurity and operational IT, with humble beginnings in a tech support call center and live-fire experience leading sysadmin teams for large multi-national organizations. As a former Gartner analyst, Ian has advised the largest and fastest growing technology companies in the world as well as tens of thousands of organizations world-wide. He is well known as a trusted advisor and popular commentator in our industry, and prior to joining Arctic Wolf Ian also spent time in various product leadership end executive roles at Symantec, Endgame, Elastic, and CrowdStrike.
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About Arctic Wolf: Arctic Wolf helps companies end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service.
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.
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.
Rusty Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO of SharpCloud Software
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About SharpCloud Software: Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
Rob Otto
Senior Regional Solutions Architect and Field CTO for EMEA Region of Ping Identity
Rob is a Senior Technical Architect for Ping Identity in the UK and also the EMEA representative to the Ping Identity CTO Office. Rob holds a BSc (Computer Science) degree from Pretoria University and has 20 years experience in identity and access management. He has worked on complex implementation projects in the UK, USA, Europe and South Africa. His current area of focus is on applying industry standards like OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 to enable businesses to interoperate and securely expose data and API’s. He has worked widely within the burgeoning PSD2/OpenBanking ecosystem across Europe and is specifically focused on using Mobile Applications to deliver elegant Strong Customer Authentication solutions within financial services and other verticals.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
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.
Ivan Lian
CTO of Grip
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
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.
Zachary Williamson
Co-Founder and CTO of Aztec Protocol
Zachary Williamson is Co-Founder & CTO at CreditMint.
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About Aztec Protocol, CreditMint: Aztec develops an ethereum trading protocol that enables private transactions across the public blockchain.
Mark Cheverton
CTO of Redgate Software
After two decades in the business, the Internet continues to fascinate me with its potential for disruptive innovation. I thrive on the challenge of launching new products and companies, putting my own startup experience and broad range of skills to good use. I’m always looking for new challenges and to work with people with big ideas who believe they can change the world. Specialties: Internet technologies; mobile; online gaming; cloud computing; enterprise architecture; scalability; government; SaaS; PaaS; innovation; start-ups; Internet of Things
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
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.
Pablo Prieto Barja
CTO and Co-Founder of Lifebit
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About Lifebit: Lifebit CloudOS is the intelligent genomics platform that is the industry standard for unified, secure research over distributed big data.
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
Tomas Halgas
Founder and CTO of Stealth
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About Sphere (Acquired by Twitter), Stealth: Making AEC software talk to each other in real-time.
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Steve Homan
Chief Technology Officer of Metapack
Steve is the CIO at MetaPack. His role is to oversee technology across MetaPack, including the engineering and operations of MetaPack’s cloud-based delivery management platform. Steve joined MetaPack in 2018 from a financial services organisation, where he was Digital Transformation Director. Prior to that he spent five years as CIO at Daily Mail Group managing the company’s technology transformation, enabling it to adopt a more customer-centric business strategy. He was also CIO at Fitness First, responsible for all aspects of technology in the group, as well as playing a major role in the evolution of the operations and transformation of the customer experience. Steve holds a BSc in Computing.
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About Metapack: Metapack provides delivery management solutions that enable online retailers to increase user engagement and sales conversions.
Alex McMullan
CTO, International of Pure Storage
Alex began his career in software development after Bachelors and Masters Engineering degrees at Liverpool University, writing flight/test software at British Aerospace, CAD 3D modelling software at Parametric Technology and the RDBMS engine at CA for Ingres before moving into infrastructure design and implementation. Alex transitioned into professional services at Sun and VERITAS through a consulting partner with numerous assignments designing and implementing large scale UNIX and storage systems in financial services before joining UBS to manage the storage and distributed computing infrastructure. From UBS he moved to Barclays to run storage, database and data warehouse engineering and spent 6 years there before joining the Pure Storage team where he holds the role of EMEA CTO.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
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.
Klaus Michael Vogelberg
Group Chief Technology Officer of Sage Group
Klaus-Michael Vogelberg was R&D Director and partner of the German KHK Software group, acquired by Sage in 1997. In 2000 he joined the Group team to assist Sage operating companies and the Board on software architecture and technology strategy. Between 2004 and 2007 Klaus-Michael acted as R&D Director for Sage UK and Ireland, before taking up his current post of Group Chief Technology Officer.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
Christian Reilly
Vice President and CTO, Workspace Services of Citrix Systems
Christian Reilly is Vice President & CTO at Citrix, responsible for technology strategy and platform engineering for Workspace Services. Prior to joining Citrix, Christian held leadership positions at US-based engineering and construction firm Bechtel, where he was most recently responsible for the strategic planning, enterprise architecture and innovation program within the corporate Information Systems & Technology group. In addition to expertise in technology strategy, systems design, commercial evaluation, implementation and operation of complex environments, Christian also previously oversaw commercial and technical vendor management of key global accounts for Bechtel including Citrix, Cisco, HP, Juniper, Oracle and Microsoft. Christian is a native of Manchester, England and studied business & computing at the University of Central Lancashire, England.
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About Citrix Systems: Citrix offers a unified platform to secure, manage, and monitor diverse technologies in complex cloud environments.
Sridhar Rajagopalan
Co-founder & CTO of StepZen
Sridhar leads Engineering at StepZen. Sridhar was a senior Site Reliability Engineer (SRE) at Google, combining software and systems engineering skills to help build and run large-scale, massively distributed systems. Before that, he was a senior engineer and architect at Apigee and served for two decades as a member of technical staff and architect at IBM.
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About StepZen: StepZen helps developers build concise, flexible GraphQL faster. Whether backends are REST, databases, or GraphQL, teams can be up and running, delivering flexible APIs in days, not weeks or months.
Xav Kearney
Co-founder, CPO & CTO of Otta
Xav graduated from Imperial College with a Masters in Electronic and Electrical Engineering, and specialised in Machine Learning. During his studies, he joined Nested as a Data Scientist for 3 months, and then returned a year later to work as a Software Engineer for 6 months.
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About Otta: Otta is the recruitment platform that recruits man power in technology sector.
Ilkka Turunen
Field CTO of Sonatype
Ilkka Turunen is the Field CTO at Sonatype, working at Sonatype in europe. His background is in software and systems engineering, acting as an architect for several commercial projects. He’s helped define everything from the software design to webscale infrastructure architectures and regularly works with companies across the world to understand and improve their software supply chain and continuous delivery pipelines.
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About Sonatype, Sonatype: Sonatype is the developer-friendly full-spectrum software supply chain management platform helps organizations and software developers.
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.
Thomas Mary
Founder & CTO of Maze
Thomas Mary is the Founder & CTO at Maze.
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About Maze: Rapid, remote testing for agile teams, from idea to launch
Dominique Guinard
Co-Founder & CTO of EVRYTHNG
Dominique Guinard is a co-founder and the chief technology officer of EVRYTHNG, the Internet of Things Smart Products Platform that connects any consumer product to the Web, and manages real-time data to drive applications. He is also a co-founder of WebofThings.org. Prior to that, he worked at MIT Auto-ID Labs, SAP, Auto-ID Labs Zurich, and Sun Microsystems. Guinard holds bachelor’s and master’s degrees in computer science. Later on, he obtained a PhD from ETH Zurich. He was listed 5th amongst the top 100 IoT thinkers by Postscapes. Early in 2012, his PhD research was granted the ETH Medal.
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About Blockchain Research Institute, EVRYTHNG, Webofthings.org: EVRYTHNG develops an IoT platform for consumer product brands, articulating data with real-time insights for billions of things.
Ian Pattison
International CTO of Mavenir
As International CTO of Mavenir, Ian is responsible for developing and communicating Mavenir’s technology and product strategy in the EMEA and APAC markets. Ian has more than thirty years experience in mobile, telecommunciations and high availability distributed systems. Prior to joining Mavenir, he was the CTO of 724 Solutions before becoming Chief Architect at Mobixell Networks. Having started his career developing signalling stacks for the 5ESS at AT&T/Phillips, Ian went on to be a member of Tandem’s High Performance Research Center (HPRC). Ian holds an Honors Degree in Computer Science from Heriot-Watt University and multiple patents.
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About Mavenir: Mavenir is an end-to-end network software provider, redefining network transformation and economics for CSPs.
Saviz Izadpanah
CTO / Director of HighQ
Saviz joined HighQ in 2005 as CTO, responsible for leading HighQ technology strategy, product management and product development. Prior to HighQ, Saviz was the global head of Debt Capital Markets IT at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for the program management of multiple applications including Deutsche Bank’s online debt order capture system “dbbonds” for the global DCM sales teams. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Saviz was part of the lead web development team at Barclays Capital. Saviz holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Imperial College of London.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Aaron Asaro
CTO of Kopernio
Aaron Asaro is the CTO of Kopernio.
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About Kopernio: Kopernio is a free web-based software that enables access to academic journal articles.
Luca Grulla
CTO of Signal AI
An entrepreneurial Technology Leader, experienced in leading product and technology teams from idea to delivery and monetization. Strategic thinker, core member of the Leadership Team, actively involved in company strategy and value creation. Member of the Core Technology team behind the £200M exit of uSwitch.com in 2015.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Stefan Friederichs
Co-Founder & CTO of Leaf Logistics
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About Leaf Logistics: Leaf Logistics connects shippers, providers, and partners to bring financial market efficiency to the transportation marketplace.
Dave Locke
Field CTO EMEA of World Wide Technology
Dave Locke is WWT’s EMEA Field CTO responsible for driving innovative solutions across WWT’s customer base; supporting businesses to modernise their IT, adopt new technologies and drive digital transformation programs.
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About World Wide Technology: World Wide Technology is a systems integrator, provides information technology and supply chain solutions.
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Oliver Norton
Chief Technology Officer of WRLD
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About WRLD: A 3D cloud-based platform of real-world environments to create digital twins.
Mark Christie
Chief Technology Officer & Founder of Piksel
As Chief Technology Officer, Mark Christie is responsible for Piksel Group’s client solutions including product strategy, innovation, and management, solution deployment, research and development, and global network infrastructure. Mark joined Piksel Group in April 2011, after the acquisition of IP video solutions provider ioko, where he was CEO and co-founder, growing the company over fifteen years from a UK-based business with two employees to an international business with 350 staff and operations worldwide. In addition to leading ioko’s management team and overseeing its client accounts, business development, and operational support organization, Mark built the managed service infrastructure to support tier-one customers like ITV, Channel 4, the BBC, and AT&T. He holds a Masters degree in Electronic Systems Engineering from the University of York.
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About Piksel: Piksel designs, builds, develops and manages successful video solutions.
Gary Chandler
Chief Technology Officer of QiO Technologies
Gary joined QiO from Rolls-Royce, having spent 25 years developing real-time safety-critical control systems for aero-engines. As a keen strategist and innovator, Gary was a key leader in the adoption of ‘Lean Product Development’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ within Rolls-Royce, deeply engaging with the associated culture change. From both a Chief Engineer and a Functional Head perspective, Gary has loved working in teams that are delivering customer value with exciting technology products.
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About QiO Technologies: Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence software that enables increased operational efficiency, productivity, safety and new revenues
David Kell
CTO and Co-founder of GYANA
David Kell is a scientist, technologist and nature lover. David has co-founded an ML startup before and was pursuing his PhD in AI in Oxford University when he ran into Joyeeta and her software prototype. Their combined vision of democratising access to data science is the powerful force behind Gyana. He is passionate about simplifying complexities. David is also a Math and Physics Olympiad winner and was a winner of the Gibbs Prize in Physics. He runs several CTO meetup groups and mentors women-in-tech related accelerator startups.
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About GYANA: No-code Data Analytics
Philip Clifton
CTO of Wonde
CTO & Co-Founder at Wonde.
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About Wonde: Wonde provides third party applications access to secure school data.
Alistair Russell
Co-Founder/CTO of tray.io
Alistair Russell is the co-founder and CTO of Tray.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Ben Stoneham
Founder and CTO of Autologyx
Ben Stoneham is the Founder and CTO of Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Tsung-Hsien Wen
CTO of PolyAI
Tsung-Hsien Wen is co-founder and CTO at Poly AI.
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About PolyAI: PolyAI develops a machine learning platform for conversational artificial intelligence.
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Laurence Bargery
Co Founder & CTO of AccuRx
Laurence Bargery is a Co-founder & CTO at accuRx.
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About AccuRx: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
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.
Benjamin van Enckevort
Co-founder and CTO of Metomic
Cofounder & CTO at Metomic.
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About Metomic: Metomic is a data privacy software that provides the privacy-by-design infrastructure of the internet.
David Moss
Co Founder, CTO of Blue Prism
David Moss co-founder and CTO of Blue Prism Limited. David Moss co-founded Blue Prism in 2001 and is the chief software architect behind the Blue Prism software product. Prior to Blue Prism, Dave spent five years working for Lynx Financial Systems as a Senior Software Designer, providing packaged and bespoke solutions to major names in Financial Services such as Barclays Bank, Nationwide Building Society, and Transamerica Commercial Finance. Dave holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from Leeds University.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Chris Goddard
CTO of G-Research
Chris Goddard is the Chief Technology Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
Maksim Sipos
CTO of causaLens
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About causaLens: CausaLens is a casual AI software company that develops intelligent machines.
Anthony Welgemoed
Founder and CTO of Ziflow
Anthony Welgemoed is Founder and CTO at Ziflow Prior to co-founding Ziflow, Anthony was co-founder and CTO of ProofHQ, the industry’s leading online proofing solution. At ProofHQ, Anthony built a world-class development team responsible for the market’s most scalable, resilient and secure online review and approval solution. At the time of ProofHQ’s acquisition by Workfront, ProofHQ was used by thousands of companies across the world every day, producing tens of millions of proofs per year. Prior to ProofHQ, Anthony was Director of Product Management at Mtivity, where he helped develop a sophisticated marketing process automation platform for agencies and brands.
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About Ziflow, Ziflow: Ziflow is a SaaS company that builds smart tools for creative production teams.
Niall Burns
Chief Technology Officer of Symphonic
Niall has led commercial software development projects for over 20 years within the finance, health, government, telecoms and oil industries. Prior to joining Symphonic during its proof of concept phase to design the product architecture, he was Technical Director for the design and delivery of an innovative patient safety solution for the health service market, working in collaboration with the NHS and leading pharmaceutical companies. Along with his technical expertise Niall brings a great passion for transforming technical ideas into commercially viable products.
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About Symphonic: Symphonic is the provider of Intelligent Authorization.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Chris Scott
CTO of Zephr
Chris Scott serves as chief technology officer at Blaize.io, a mass scale decision engine for subscription experiences.
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About Zephr: Zephr is a technology platform for media companies to grow their subscription revenue.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Raphael Holca-Lamarre
Co-Founder & CTO of Mimica Automation
Raphael Holca-Lamarre is Co-Founder & CTO at Mimica.ai. Raphael completed a PhD at the intersection of neuroscience and machine learning, developing brain-inspired learning algorithms for deep neural networks.
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About Mimica Automation: Mimica watches you work and learns to automate your most repetitive tasks.
Matt Painter
CTO of import.io
Matt is the brains behind the powerful functionality in the import.io tool. His innovative ideas have helped import.io create a tool that allows anyone to tap into the huge potential of data on the web. Matt’s primary responsibility is to oversee the technical strategy and product roadmap of the company. As CTO, he is dedicated to building a team of world-class engineers to keep import.io at the forefront of the industry. Prior to co-founding import.io, Matt was a consultant for Sapient and worked as Senior Engineer and Product Architect for Yahoo.
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About import.io: import.io offers a Web Data Integration solution that provides global businesses with high-quality, scalable data from the web.
Vlad Ilyushchenko
Co-founder / CTO of QuestDB
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About QuestDB: QuestDB is an open-source SQL database designed to process time-series data, faster.
Emanuel Lainas
Tech Co-Founder & CTO of F6S
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About F6S: F6S is the world’s largest platform for founders.
Dave Ettle
Co-Founder & CTO of Zynstra
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About Zynstra: Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge.
Dave Thorn
CTO of Scissero
Dave Thorn is the Chief Technology Officer at Scissero Ltd.
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About Scissero: Scissero is a cloud-based legal AI platform that can draft, mark, analyze, review contracts from human lawyers.
Tim Glaser
Co-Founder & CTO of PostHog
Tim Glaser is a Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at PostHog.
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About PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Ed Thompson
Co-Founder & CTO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Nikita Korotaev
Co-Founder & CTO of RELAYTO Document Experience Platform
Nikita Korotaev joined RELAYTO/ Document Experience as Co-Founder & CTO in 2017.
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About Glocal Partners, RELAYTO Document Experience Platform: RELAYTO helps B2B marketers generate more leads & sales by turning static documents into interactive presentations & webpages
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.
Eric Greveson
CTO of Brainomix
Eric is the CTO of Brainomix. He received his 1st class M.Eng.in Engineering from Cambridge University, and has worked on a wide variety of computer vision projects. These include video processing and 3D graphics algorithms, real-time data capture software, parallel grid computing systems, and data visualization. He has extensive experience in software engineering, design, and programming with languages such as C++ and Python. At Brainomix, Eric works with the clinical and business teams to deliver the company’s state-of-the-art medical imaging software.
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About Brainomix: Brainomix specializes in the creation of AI-powered imaging biomarkers that enable precision medicine for better treatment decisions
Brian Remmington
Chief Technology Officer of Alfresco
Brian Remmington is the Chief Technology Officer at Alfresco.
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About Alfresco: Alfresco is an enterprise open-source software company that automates content centric processes for digital business.
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
Thomas Parrott
CTO of Infinity
Tom has been at Infinity since the beginning, and leads a team of over 20 developers.
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About Infinity: Infinity is a call tracking and hosted PBX service provider.
Jonny Brankin
CTO of Smartzer
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About Smartzer: Smartzer makes videos and live streams interactive & shoppable on e-commerce, video ads and social.
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.
Tom Carter
CTO and Co-Founder of Ultraleap
Tom started exploring ultrasound technology during a study in the final year of his Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He further developed the initial concept to form the basis of his PhD studies, during which time he published numerous papers and filed various patents. Recognising the technology’s commercial viability, Tom founded Ultrahaptics in November 2013. Ultrahaptics has developed a unique technology that enables users to receive tactile feedback without needing to wear or touch anything. The technology uses ultrasound to project sensations through the air and directly onto the user. Users can ‘feel’ touch-less buttons get feedback for mid-air gestures, or interact with virtual objects.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
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.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Henk Muller
CTO of XMOS
Henk used to be a Reader at the University of Bristol prior to joining XMOS. At Bristol he was involved in research and teaching of Computer Architecture, Compilers, Ubiquitous Computing, and Wearable computing. Prior to that, they worked at the University of Amsterdam, with a secondment at Philips Research Labs where he participated in the construction of a massively parallel Object-Oriented machine. He holds a doctorate of the University of Amsterdam, specialising in Computer Architecture.
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About XMOS: A deep tech company at the leading edge of the AIoT, putting intelligence, connectivity & enhanced computation at the core of smart products
Steve Costigan
Field CTO EMEA of Zadara Storage
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About Zadara Storage: Zadara Storage offers enterprise-class storage as a service for private and public clouds.
Daniel Zohar
CTO of Memrise
Daniel Zohar serves as Chief Technology Officer of Memrise.Daniel Zohar helps ensure Memrise works flawlessly on all platforms, and coordinates all of technical efforts. Aside from a glittering career founding and growing startups, he is a keen heavy metal guitarist and an expert at moving large objects at or near the earth’s surface.
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About Memrise: Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web.
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.
