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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the News 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.
Matthew Postgate
Chief Technology and Product Officer of BBC
As Chief Technology Officer, Matthew Postgate is responsible for the corporation’s Technology & Systems. In addition, Matthew is a director of Youview Ltd; a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, C4, Channel Five, BT, Talk Talk and Arqiva that is developing a next-generation hybrid television platform. Prior to his current role within the organisation Matthew was Controller, Research & Development. He was part of the management team that launched BBC iPlayer and was in charge of BBC mobile where he was responsible for building the corporation’s world leading mobile services. Before joining the BBC, Matthew worked as a telecommunication consultant, was the director of an internet infrastructure start-up and worked at a digital strategy agency for clients including the Royal Mail, BT, Lloyds TSB, Visa and Qinetiq.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
John Kundert
CTO of Financial Times
John Kundert is CTO of Financial Times Ltd. He continues to drive for excellence based on principles of purpose, ownership, empowerment, belonging and culture. Alongside this, he is has a passion for data having spent most of career in this space. In his previous FT role as director of platforms, he was instrumental in establishing the FT’s data platform, which forms the backbone of an award-winning set of data capabilities.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
Heather Utech
CTO of DMG Media
Heather Utech is CTO at DMG Media.
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About DMG Media: DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Kevin Li Ying
Chief Technology Officer of Future
Kevin Li Ying serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Future plc.
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About Future: Future creates high-quality multi-media products which reach their audiences online, on mobile and in print.
Morgan Sowden
Co-Founder & CTO of paydesk
Currently a product-focused CTO at Lendinvest, a VC backed fin-tech disruptor in the mortgage-lending space. Formerly the CTO at the Octopus Group, where I co-founded and built octopuslabs.com, octopuschoice.com and octopuscash.com; built the Octopus digital design team from scratch, as well as their product and (distributed) engineering teams; and initiated the group transformation from waterfall to agile. I am also co-founder and CTO of paydesk.co, a B2B media platform with 6000+ journalists in 165+ countries. Prior to Paydesk, I was interim CEO and CTO of birthdayalarm.com, a very profitable online greeting card site with 55+ million active members. I’ve also been: Entrepreneur in Residence at Monkey Inferno, a San Francisco based startup accelerator; a serial entrepreneur, having co-founded (and sold) two other web businesses, including an early social network (2003); and a board member / NED. Mostly though, I am DJ and love Techno. Search for me on Mixcloud.
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About Facebook AI, paydesk: On-demand workforce platform disrupting the recruitment industry one sector at a time. Starting with media and doing it with payments
Yulun Song
CTO of China Unicom
Song is a software engineer scientist. He obtained his PhD from School of Compute Science, University of Glasgow in 2015. Now he serves for China Unicom Corp., as the CTO of China Unicom Big Data LTD. His interests lie on the field of applying software engineering theory into data science implementation, especially mining Telecom data value in terms of understanding people’s livelihood, economy, etc. He was awarded Excellent CTO of the Year 2017 by China Software Industry Association. He was awarded Big data domain expert of China Data Center for Food & Drug ADM Nistration in 2018. He is also active in data science academic and performs as the member of Expert of Big Data Industry Committee, registered in the Ministry of Industry and Information Technology of P.R.C. He holds CMMI certificate of Data Management Maturity (DMM) Model.
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About China Unicom: China Unicom is a company that provides broadband communications and information services.
Stephen Carl
CTO of Sliide
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About Emu Analytics, Sliide: Mobile technology company that work with MNO, MVNO and OEM partners globally to increase engagement, drive revenue, and decrease churn.
Peter Docherty
Founder & CTO of ThinkAnalytics
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About ThinkAnalytics: ThinkAnalytics provides and deploys real-time personalized content recommendation search engines to the markets.
Usman Saeed
CTO/Lead Web Developer of Angels Media
An Angels veteran, Usman first joined the company back in early 2007. As Lead Web Developer, it is his job to build websites and make sure everything works properly – a job he performs admirably! He has an MSC in Software Engineering from Queen Mary University of London and a BSC (Hons) In Computing from Staffordshire University. If it’s tips on web development you’re after, Usman is your man. Outside of the office he enjoys spending time with family and friends, travelling and watching cricket. Nice scenery, ice cream, mangoes, summer, friendly people and playing tennis are likely to get a big thumbs up from Usman, but he’s not a fan of delays, horror films, shouting or liars.
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About Angels Media: Angels Media is a marketing & public relations agency working in the property and finance spheres.
Diego Gullo
Co-founder CTO of NEWSENSE
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About NEWSENSE: We monitor, analyse and compare the sentiment of news on your company and competitors to better protect and manage your reputation online.
Leonidas Apostolidis
Co-founder CTO of NEWSENSE
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About NEWSENSE: We monitor, analyse and compare the sentiment of news on your company and competitors to better protect and manage your reputation online.
Surjit Bhachu
CTO of loomi.ai
Technical architect with over 16 years of experience delivering complex solutions at global brands like Tesco, Oracle, Vodafone, Toshiba and O2
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About loomi.ai: Loomi is an Intelligent Assistant platform for organising and prioritising user’s connected world.
Vassilis Dontas
CTO of Feedespy
Vassilis Dontas has worked in a variety of private companies having the role of the manager of the IT team. Six years ago he founded SoftBOT Ltd and co-founded Feedespy. He is the CTO of Feedespy and together with his team in SoftBOT they developed Feedespy’s website and captured the whole idea of easy-to-read and easy-to-use service. He identified opportunities and risks in delivering Feedespy’s services as a web-based company, including identification of competitive services, opportunities for innovation and assessment of marketplace obstacles and technical hurdles to the Feedespy’s success. He identified technology trends and evaluated appropriate technology platforms for delivering the Feedespy.com website. Also, he suggested the future evolution of Feedespy.com and identified as well as prioritized initiatives by setting timetables for the development and deployment of all of Feedespy’s web-based services.
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About Feedespy, SoftBot: Feedespy offers the opportunity to its members to receive news which are tailored to their interests.
Ignat Thorovsky
CTO and Co-Founder of Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform
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About Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform: Poptop helps event planners find and book entertainment professionals quickly, easily and safely.
Stephan Meier
CTO of Screenburn
Stephan is the CTO of Screenburn, and together with a team of developers works on making our product great.
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About Screenburn: Screenburn is a Facebook VoD platform enabling the sale of film and TV from a Facebook page.
