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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 Training 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.
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Bill Walker
CTO of QA Ltd
Bill has 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, having started his career in software development and consulting with Deloitte. He manages the company’s relationships with its major vendors and partners, including Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Amazon, Red Hat and Citrix. He sits on advisory boards for many of them and has served three years on Microsoft’s advisory council in Seattle. He is responsible for leading innovation to ensure that QA is at the forefront of technology that helps customers get the most from their investment in training. Bill was a director of Xpertise where he was responsible for growing the business in the technical, project management, service management and soft skills areas. He has a degree in Computer Science, is a chartered engineer and a BCS Certified IT Professional.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
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.
Mike Fenna
CTO of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Huw Bristow
Chief Technology Officer of Altia-ABM
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About Altia-ABM: Altia-ABM is a software company that develops specialist, excellent software to help investigators.
Todd Mansill
Chief Technology Officer of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
Patrick Verdon
Co-Founder & CTO of Tutorfair
Patrick is a serial entrepreneur based in Cambridge, UK and is currently the CEO of Youreko, a cleantech start-up he founded which provides consumer friendly energy efficiency information for household electricals. Prior to Youreko, Patrick was the CTO of ZYB, the networking and mobile backup site, sold to Vodafone in 2008 for 31.5M euro.
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About Tutorfair, Youreko, ZYB: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
James Hooker
Co-Founder and CTO of Hack The Box
James Hooker is a self taught Engineer, who through necessity and intrigue became active within the field of Information Security. He went on to join the Hack The Box as a user, yet ended up joining the team in order to progress the platform and ensure high quality self driven training experiences are made available to the community.
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About Hack The Box: Hack The Box provides a training platform and community designed for advancing skills in penetration testing and cybersecurity.
Benoit Alvarez
CTO of Volume
Benoit started his career working for the International Radio Astronomy Centre in France, building software with scientists who were studying Saturn. He then joined Thales Armament, working on on-board software for missile guidance systems. After 15 years of conceptualizing and building enterprise solutions, Benoit retrained in AI (studying under Professor Andrew Ng) and successfully achieved AI certifications from Stanford University and Coursera. As Volume moved toward AI-powered conversational platforms, Benoit conceptualized two key products: Volume’s advanced AI-powered conversational platform and QBox. The latter was the first of its kind and is a patent-pending technologies tool, recognized by Gartner as a chatbot corpus-management and training tool.
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About Volume: Leading the way in Conversational AI.
Dylan Beattie
CTO of Skills Matter
Dylan wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He’s been building data-driven web applications since the late 1990s, and has worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s the CTO at Skills Matter in London, he’s a Microsoft MVP, and he’s a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, where he’s spoken about topics from continuous delivery and Conway’s Law to the history of the web, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he’s not wrangling code, Dylan plays guitar and writes songs.
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About Skills Matter: Skills Matter is a global community of 100,000+ members from 126 countries interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring & improving each other.
Steve Mansell
Chief Technology Officer of V-Learning Solutions
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About V-Learning Solutions: V-Learning Solutions provides virtual learning solutions that are more effective than traditional training methods.
Andrew Bowley
CTO of Smart Apprentices
As Chief Technology Officer Andy Bowley heads up our technical team, having previously run a fast paced technology business unit for a global brand, Andy has built his team handpicked from the best of breed. At Smart Apprentices we have an experienced and mature development team, many of whom are experts in their field and are often asked to speak and blog at technology forums. Outside of work Andy enjoys Tough Mudder, Wolf Running and Half Marathons.
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About Smart Apprentices: Smart Apprentices is an award winning, innovative suite of technologies platforms purposely designed for approved training providers.
