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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 InsurTech 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.
Guy Farley
Co-Founder and CTO of Bought By Many
Guy is the author of the first-generation technology used by Bought by Many. He now steers the tech ship in the right direction. Outside the office, he’s a devoted father of two and is looking forward to sharing his passion for sailing, climbing and skiing with his kids once they’re old enough.
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About Bought By Many: Bought By Many is a pet InsurTech company that provides insurance products and a streamlined customer experience.
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Vinod Singh
CTO of Concirrus
Vinod leads our technology team including product delivery and development. He has more than 15 years of experience in architecture, design, development, testing and implementation of large distributed applications, spending time at both Google and Amazon.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
David Goate
CTO of Marshmallow
David Goaté is Co Founder & CTO at Marshmallow.
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About Marshmallow: Marshmallow is a full-stack insurance carrier driven by technology.
Alex Harin
Chief Technology Officer of Wrisk
With an MSc in Applied Mathematics from Moscow University and a PhD in Maths from the University of Natal, it’s safe to say that Alex knows how to wrangle large data sets with ease…which is particularly handy if your business is all about turning tables of data points into personal insights (but is extremely handy in a pub quiz too).
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About Wrisk: Wrisk offers a customizable platform that enables businesses to create mobile-first insurance experiences for their customers.
Alberto Romero
Co-Founder & CTO of Humn.ai
Alberto Romero is the Co-Founder and CTO at HUMN.ai.
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About Humn.ai: Humn.ai develops an insurance platform that delivers risk-adjusted insurance pricing in real time for commercial vehicle fleets.
Callum Rimmer
Co-Founder & CTO of By Miles
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About By Miles: By Miles is reinventing car insurance – pay an annual cost to cover your car while it’s parked, then pay by the miles you drive each month.
Vincent Audoire
Co-Founder, CTO of Feather
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About Feather: Popsure specializes in giving personalized insurance advice.
Pawel Terpilowski
CTO – Co-Founder of Bequest
Pawel Terpilowski is the Co-Founder and CTO of Bequest.
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About Bequest: We’re building an advanced way for millions of people to protect themselves and their loved ones.
Aeneas Wiener
Co-Founder & CTO of Cytora
Aeneas draws on 10+ years of technical experience developing bespoke cloud-driven web applications. He holds masters degrees in Theoretical Physics and Computational Science from Imperial College London. His widely published postgraduate work focused on optical materials used for chemical sensing and invisibility cloaking. In 2011 Aeneas co-founded the Hermes Academy, an innovative nonprofit organisation backed by the Royal Society of Chemistry.
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About Cytora: Cytora is a configurable platform that enables commercial insurers to create digital workflows by digitising, evaluating and routing risks.
Ben Allen
Co-founder and CTO of Laka
Ben Allen is the Co-Founder and CTO at Laka.
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About Laka: Laka is building the leading Green Mobility insurer globally
Greg Smyth
Co-founder & CTO of Urban Jungle
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About Urban Jungle: Urban Jungle provides an insurance technology to help young people get cheaper, better home insurance.
Sam Hopkins
CTO/Co-Founder of Tapoly on demand insurance
Having been involved in the software engineering industry for over 20 years, within both start-ups and established companies, Sam’s professional experience covers finance, file systems, databases, kernel programming, websites, encryption, UI, and 3D graphics. Sam designs systems with the future in mind, keeping things simple yet flexible so they can be adapted to follow the evolution of the business they support. His knowledge, skills and vision help create the Tapoly you see today.
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About Tapoly on demand insurance: On demand insurance for freelancers, contractors and SMEs, and everyone else in the sharing economy and the gig economy.
Filipe Moura
CTO of EHAB
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About EHAB: Our weather intelligence platform helps construction companies identify, avoid, mitgate and transfer weather risk.
Artur Kisiolek
CTO of Artificial Labs
Artur Kisiolek is the CTO at Artificial Labs.
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About Artificial Labs, Wthr.in: We’re making insurance frictionless. We collaborate with leading insurers, using technology to save time, money and increase sales.
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.
Alberto Pasqualotto
Chief Technology Officer of Spixii
Alberto Pasqualotto brings huge experience in machine learning, high-performance computing for large scalable applications, advanced information security and databases architecture, as well as a passion for compliance and data protection. Prior to Spixii, Alberto worked as a tech consultant for Italian and Swiss banks and founded other companies. Alberto is an Oracle database expert and holds a BSc and MSc with distinction in Computer Science from the University of Milano.
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About Spixii: Accelerate digitalisation of insurance processes with Spixii Conversational Process Automation (CPA) platform
Chris Alba Hamilton
CTO of Blocksure
Chris has almost two decades of experience in software engineering roles, a decade of which was spent in IT leadership. His background spans investment banking, start-ups and payments technology.
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About Blocksure: Blocksure transforms the intermediated insurance industry, delivering benefits across the whole value chain with blockchain based platform
