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 Digital Marketing 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.
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
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.
Toby Reid
Chief Technology Officer of Croud
Toby Reid is the Chief Technology Officer of Croud and Serpico. He is a former Chief Architect at TruRating and Technical Architect at NCC Group. Mr. Reid graduated from the University of Kent with a BS in Multimedia Technology & Design.
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Jacob Clarkson
CTO of Amigo Technology
Jacob Clarkson is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Amigo Technology. He’s a startup CTO with over 8 years of commercial experience architecting, developing and maintaining complex software systems in a variety of languages. Before joining Amigo, he worked in Java software development, predominantly working with J2EE stacks, JSF and Oracle databases. Working in relatively large scale national systems at various places (one of which being the NHS), he gained expertise in relational databases.
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About Amigo Technology: Amigo is a cloud-based marketing technology platform that turns marketing ideas into brilliant digital experiences.
Andy Fielder
Chief Technology Officer of BigHand
Andy Fielder was appointed as CTO in January 2013. Andy has over 26 years of experience leading development teams and developing software on numerous technical platforms. Andy is an agile advocate, coaching and mentoring teams to adopt the mind sets and practices that enable them to continuously deliver market leading products. Prior to BigHand Andy, was Head of Software Development at NetNames, an international role managing teams in Copenhagen, Cambridge and London. Before this Andy managed the Web and iSeries teams at Edexcel a Pearson company. At BigHand Andy is responsible for strategy, software development, product management, services and infrastructure enabling the delivery of world class technology. Andy is a Certified Scrum Master and has a BTEC National Diploma in Business and Finance from Harlow College.
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About BigChange, BigHand: BigHand develops voice productivity software solutions for legal, healthcare, property, and financial companies.
Simon Critchley
CTO of Avocet
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About Avocet: Avocet provides a demand-side platform for digital advertising with viewability, cross-device and class-leading optimization all built-in.
Mike Fenna
CTO of AVADO
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About AVADO: AVADO delivers transformative learning that helps businesses gain critical digital skills.
Andrew Lucas
CTO of Taggstar
Andy is a start-up veteran, having started a web hosting business during the late 1990′s. Post dot-com boom he moved to networks & operations, managing the European IP network for a global telco. In the last 5 years he has delivered software and managed engineering teams for three startups, working in Java, in the cloud, with big data and machine learning, across ad tech and now influence marketing. In his spare time he likes to drink coffee and cook experimental dishes
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About Taggstar: Real-time social proof message expert for enterprise eCommerce | Conversion uplift by up to 12% | Shop Direct, N Brown, TUI, Missguided use.
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
Marcus Lambert
Chief Technology Officer of Omobono
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About Omobono: Omobono is a creative and technology partner for business brands
James Wilberforce-Andrews
CTO co-founder of Tailored.to
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About Tailored.to: Tailored is a personal shopping assistant matching in-market prospects to advertisers. We power personalised marketing at scale.
Martin Paton
CTO, and Cloud & Platform Engineering leader of Kin and Carta
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About Kin and Carta: Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation business that advises, creates, and connects marketing and customer experience.
Ed Eliot
Founder & CTO of BrightLocal
Ed oversees technical operations. He built our first two tools and the basics of our admin panel. Ed brings 15 years of development experience to BrightLocal.
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About BrightLocal: Take the lead in local search.
Ashley Powell
CTO of Snizl Ltd
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About Snizl Ltd: Snizl is an app that allows business owners to post spontaneous, real-time deals, competitions & events; to interested local people.
