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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 Cloud Infrastructure 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.
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.
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.
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.
Alex Metaxas
Co-Founder and CTO of Cloud Maker
Alex Metaxas is Co-Founder and CTO at Cloud Maker
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About Cloud Maker: Cloud Maker is a Visual DevOps platform that enables organisations to easily design and build scalable cloud solutions.
Lee James
CTO of Rackspace
Lee James is responsible for helping Rackspace’s customers maximise their cloud investments across people, process and technology, as well developing new products and services. As the Chief Technical Officer EMEA Lee’s experienced in developing and delivering industry-leading cloud, analytics and SAP services for global organisations. He’s also previously been awarded for innovation after building BP’s first multi-cloud platform. In a prior role at Betfair, Lee was responsible delivering a DevOps-driven platform that performed more transactions than all the European stock markets each day. He particularly enjoys leading on global cloud transformations, advanced analytics platforms and cloud-inspired organisational transformation which delivers significant business value to customers.
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About Rackspace: Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Lee James
CTO of Rackspace
Lee James is responsible for helping Rackspace’s customers maximise their cloud investments across people, process and technology, as well developing new products and services. As the Chief Technical Officer EMEA Lee’s experienced in developing and delivering industry-leading cloud, analytics and SAP services for global organisations. He’s also previously been awarded for innovation after building BP’s first multi-cloud platform. In a prior role at Betfair, Lee was responsible delivering a DevOps-driven platform that performed more transactions than all the European stock markets each day. He particularly enjoys leading on global cloud transformations, advanced analytics platforms and cloud-inspired organisational transformation which delivers significant business value to customers.
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About Rackspace: Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Seb Matthews
Chief Technology Architect (Defence & National Security) of Fujitsu
Seb Matthews is the CEO at ProvisionPoint
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About AdeoPoint, Fujitsu, ProvisionPoint: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
Ian Bradbury
CTO – Financial Services, UK and Ireland of Fujitsu
Ian Bradbury, Chief Technology Officer for Financial Services in Fujitsu and a Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer – Ian delivers thought-leadership into business-led transformational engagements in the areas of agile working, digital workplace, customer and colleague journeys, cloud adoption, AI and Intelligent Automation, Open Banking and DLT (blockchain).
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About Fujitsu: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
Andy Jeffries
CTO and Co-founder of Civo
Andy Jeffries is an Advisory Board Member at DevNetwork. Prior to that, he was the CTO and Co-Founder of CIvo.
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About Civo: Cloud hosting specialists running the the world’s first Kubernetes service powered by Rancher Lab’s K3s.
Michael Jervis
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet
Michael Jervis is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of FourNet.
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About FourNet: FourNet is a cloud and managed communications service company providing cloud, collaboration, and contact center solutions.
Garth Berry
CTO of Scafld
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About Scafld: Helping acquire and convert customers with clever ways to create and deliver engaging customer journeys.
David Trossell
CEO / CTO of Bridgeworks Ltd
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About Bridgeworks Ltd: Bridgeworks’ Accelerates datay even encrtpted/compressed flow up to 40Gb/s across WAN without changing or modifing the data.
