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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 CFO’ operating in the Machine Learning space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Chris Williams
Chief Financial and Commerical Officer (CFO) of RwHealth
Chris was the CEO of a fast-growing SaaS business in Health sector for 6 years, working on all aspects of development including: Sales, Product, Operations and Finance. Within this time, Chris reshaped the business, and finally managed the transaction processes to exit (initially IPO, then Trade sale). Chris has also worked as a Deloitte Partner, within the Corporate Finance – Technology & Media sector, including 7 years as National Head with deals ranging from £10m to £400m
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Will Richards
Chief Financial Officer of Adthena
Will graduated from the University of Oxford with a BA in Physiological Sciences before joining KPMG’s Middle-Markets team as an Audit Associate. Here he worked with dozens of clients across all verticals and business models. After qualifying as an ACA chartered accountant with ICAEW, Will entered the start-up world to gain first-hand experience of running a small business. Most recently working as the Commercial Finance lead at a Facebook PMD that was struggling. Joining the management team, he worked with venture capitalists to create a rescue package before steering the company to a successful sale to a competitor. Will joined Adthena as our interim Financial Controller and soon realised he had a strong, mutual affinity with our business. He became our permanent VP of Finance and has driven us through successful Series A and follow-on fundraising, attracting multiple venture capital offers before settling on a outstanding deal with Mel Morris, the renowned Candy Crush entrepreneur and owner of Derby County FC. Since Will joined the business Adthena has achieved a 5x increase in valuation, while tripling the size of the business.”
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About Adthena: Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
Spyros Karageorgis
CFO of Eigen Technologies
Spyros Karageorgis is the CFO at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Sabrina Castiglione
Chief Financial Officer of Tessian
Sabrina joined Tessian (then CheckRecipient) in 2016 to run all operational and finance functions, including Finance, Legal, People, Talent, IT, Facilities & Information Security. An Imperial College alumnus holding a masters in Chemistry with a focus on physical and analytical chemistry. Sabrina’s professional background began in pensions actuarial and the institutional investment space, before joining Tessian. Sabrina’s personal focus is on creating systems and processes that work smarter and work pragmatically with the reality of hard-working individuals in a fast-paced environment.
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Nick Davies
CFO of Graphcore
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About emortal, Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Nick Bishop
CFO of Graphcore
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About Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Patrick Imbach
CFO of Callsign
As CFO at Callsign, Patrick is in charge of the Callsign’s financial strategy, financial operations, and financial and management reporting. Previously, Patrick built and led KPMG’s practice for fast growing technology businesses and innovative startups. He was a member of KPMG’s global Steering Committee for Innovative Startups and a member of KPMG’s TMT leadership team in the UK. Prior to this, Patrick has worked in multiple audit and finance roles in Germany, Japan and France with businesses across industries with a focus on Media, Telecommunications, and Technology companies.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Jonathan Crossfield
CFO of Featurespace
Jonathan leads Featurespace’s finance team and is responsible for financial reporting and investor relations. He works closely with the commercial and operational teams around all aspects of internal analysis and business planning.Prior to joining Featurespace, Jonathan worked in strategic consultancy and equity research, including several years as a senior technology analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Tim Perks
CFO of cloud.IQ
Tim joined NewVoiceMedia as CFO in Dec 2010. He has a wealth of experience in CFO roles in the technology sector, taking Baltimore Technologies from a fledgling AIM Company to a FTSE 100 company in 3 years, delivering a $200M trade sale at Staffware Plc (a BPM software company) and as CFO of Redstone Telecom plc, a network-based provider of ICT solutions and end-to-end managed services.
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About cloud.IQ: cloud.IQ is an AI and machine learning based automated conversion rate optimisation platform for e-commerce businesses.
Charlie Rowan
CFO of Realeyes
Charlie is Realeyes’ CFO based in London. He joins from Runpath, a Fintech company, which he saw through to successful sale to Experian. Charlie has experience in fundraising, debt restructuring and M&A. Prior to Runpath, he worked in early stage Venture Capital house Spark Ventures, gaining experience on the other side of the fundraising fence.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Daniel Hogan
CFO & Co-Founder of Ember
A Deloitte-trained, fully qualified Chartered Accountant, Daniel has been working in the finance systems space for the last 3 years where he has become increasingly frustrated with the industry’s lack of synergy, automation and ease of use.
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About Ember: Ember is a software platform to automate the accounting process for SMEs.
William Harris
CFO of Senseye
William Harris is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience of working in publicly quoted and private companies in the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) sector. He has been working with Senseye since its formation.
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About Senseye: Senseye is a cloud-based software for predictive maintenance.
James Serjeant
COO & CFO of ContactEngine
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About ContactEngine: ContactEngine is a proactive Conversational AI technology that automates conversations between corporates and their customers
Ryan Styles
CFO of Napier AI
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About Napier AI: Napier AI develops an intelligent compliance platform for AML and trade compliance.
Richard Hateley
CFO & Company Secretary of PeerIndex
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About PeerIndex: Social influence analytics platform
