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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Sports 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.
Sanjeev Katwa
CTO/Head of Technology of Tottenham Hotspur
Sanjeev is the Head of Technology at Tottenham Hotspur Football Club. He is responsible for establishing the overarching technology vision for the organisation supporting the growth of fan and sponsor relationships, with operational responsibilities for IT, overseeing the delivery of New Stadium Technology, improving the club’s Business Applications and innovating with the club’s Media Infrastructure. Prior to joining Tottenham Hotspur, Sanjeev was the IT Director at City Football Group / Manchester City from 2010 – 2014, where he led the transformation of business systems, technology infrastructure and innovative technologies for the Etihad Stadium, the City Football Academy and the creation of the technology foundations for New York City Football Club and Melbourne City Football Club. He spent a total of 12 years in the Media & Entertainment industry with Sony BMG Music Entertainment and MTV Networks International where his roles focused on design and implementation of corporate technology. Sanjeev is married with two children, and enjoys most sports especially watching football and playing golf.
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About Tottenham Hotspur: Tottenham Hotspur is a professional football club in London, competing in the Premier League.
Ciaran Fisher
Chief Technology Officer & Chief Software Engineer of InCrowd Sports
Ciaran Fisher is a Chief Technology Officer & Chief Software Engineer at InCrowd Sports.
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About InCrowd Sports: Incrowd builds sponsorship activation platforms to give fans an in-stadia experience.
Justin Wong
Founder & CTO of Battlefy
Justin has been fiddling around with computers since the age of 7 – dialling up to the Internet to adventure in his favourite MUD or to hack away on his websites with PHP 2.0. Justin graduated from the University of British Columbia with a Cognitive Systems degree. Because he’s a big gamer and sports fan, he worked at Electronic Arts helping to create the sports video games that he loves to play himself. Now, combining his passion for gaming and web development, he’s looking forward to revolutionizing the eSports competitive gaming genre as the founder and CTO of Battlefy.
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About Battlefy: Battlefy is the simplest way to find and manage esports competitions.
Jon Milsom
Co-founder & CTO of Pitchero
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About Pitchero: Pitchero is software for club managers to use to enhance and track aspects of their business.
Chris Pointon
Co-founder & CTO of Racefully
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About Influence Network, Racefully: Enabling businesses to increase employee engagement and lower health costs through a compelling virtual team-based fitness solution.
Philip Kunovski
CTO & Head of Research of KYMIRA Sport
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About KYMIRA Sport: KYMIRA Sport is developing a range of performance and recovery enhancing sportswear.
Phong Vu
Co-Founder & CTO of Snaptivity
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About Snaptivity: Snaptivity is a stadium tech that drives fan engagement by capturing key moments of events using AI, IoT sensors, and robotic cams.
Nathan Flood
CTO and Co-Founder of ClubSpark
Nathan founded ClubSpark in 2012 alongside Dave. He provides the technical vision for the platform, overseeing its architecture and development while ensuring the team utilises the latest technology to continually enhance the product and its features. With over 20 years’ experience in technical development, Nathan has a passion for driving sports engagement and believes technology can play a key role in getting people more active.
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About ClubSpark: ClubSpark is an award-winning, market-leading sports booking and management SaaS platform.
Jonathan Russell
Chief Technology Officer of ClubSpark
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About ClubSpark: ClubSpark is an award-winning, market-leading sports booking and management SaaS platform.
Ian Pridham
Co-Founder & CTO of Openplay
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About Openplay: OpenPlay is an online platform that allows any sports facility to take online bookings, payments and manage their customers.
Jorj Ives
CTO of Bikmo
Jorj is The Code Guru here at Bikmo. Some say Jorj sees the world as a waterfall of glowing green text, other say he can bend trees away from his handlebars with the power of his mind (though we’re yet to see that one in practice). Godfather of Bikmo, Mountain Man, or Jorj Ives, whatever you want to call him, Jorj is The Code Guru here at Bikmo. Some say Jorj sees the world as a waterfall of glowing green text, other say he can bend trees away from his handlebars with the power of his mind (though we’re yet to see that one in practice). Up hill or down dale, Jorj can be found with a laptop in his pack, a mountain bike beneath him, and a Gransfors Bruks forest axe slung on his belt.
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About Bikmo: Bikmo provides simple, brilliant and inclusive bicycle insurance for road, MTB, triathlon and e-bike riders.
Rodrigo Menegazzo
CTO of Squawka
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About Squawka: Squawka is a digital media company focused on using stats & data viz to fuel content for fans
Martin Chamrad
Cofounder & CTO of Tribe Sports App
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About Tribe Sports App: Tribe Sports App is a Sports App that allows users to monitor their real-time scores, schedules, tables and commentary.
Pablo Fernandez De Luisa
CTO of Sportmate
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About Sportmate: Play sport with a click of a button. Marketplace for sports players and facilities.
Patrick McEvoy
CTO of QMTech
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About : QMTech runs the amateur sport management website, Clubhouse
Robert Watson
Chief Technology Officer of ShareThe
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About ShareThe: ShareThe are building the largest, most active and most valuable social network for football.
