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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 Transportation 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.
Stefan Friederichs
Co-Founder & CTO of Leaf Logistics
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About Leaf Logistics: Leaf Logistics connects shippers, providers, and partners to bring financial market efficiency to the transportation marketplace.
George Goodyer
CTO of Skyscanner
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About Skyscanner: Skyscanner operates as a trips meta-search engine company.
Simon Brewerton
CTO of Aurrigo
Bsc. (Cybernetics Control systems Engineering Mathematics) MIET, TUV Certified Functional Safety Professional. 28 years automotive electronics experience at Rover Group, Siemens (Detroit) Infineon Technologies.
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About Aurrigo: Aurrigo’s self-driving pods offers mobility within urban areas, shopping malls, airports, university campuses, and other areas.
Stephen Mason
Co-Founder & CTO of Splyt
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About Splyt: Splyt is a B2B mobility marketplace that connects institutional supply and demand for ground-based transport.
Muammar Al-Shedivat
CTO of UvU
Ex CTO of Celly.AI, current CTO of UvU
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About UvU: UvU is a ride-sharing platform which provides safe kids delivery service with best-fit size vehicles
Olly Cox
CTO of ICM Hub
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About ICM Hub: AI-powered customer service for airlines (Techstars ’17)
Olly Cox
CTO of ICM Hub
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About ICM Hub: AI-powered customer service for airlines (Techstars ’17)
Alistair Foster
CTO of Impression Technologies
Alistair is a Chartered Mechanical Engineer who has most recently held design analysis and work management roles in the rocket propulsion and nuclear energy sectors. Prior to this, he worked on the original HFQ concepts and is a named inventor on HFQ related patents He holds a PhD from The University of Birmingham and is a member of the IMechE Worcester area committee
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About Impression Technologies, Impression Technologies: Impression Technologies is leading the path towards lightweighting solutions in automotive, aerospace and consumer product sectors.
Tristan Cool
Chief Technology Officer of Aura Innovation
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About Aura Innovation: Aura Innovation is a Augmented Reality Head-Up Display for commercial vehicles and the autonomous future.
Alexander Browne
CTO of SKOOT
Past experience includes Senior IT Leadership, Business & IT Strategy, leading large scale architectural initiatives, and driving innovation programmes. Conducted & consulted on all aspects of technology strategy & implementation; direction, leading global architectural change, multi-vendor programme management, organisational design & implementation, business case generation, business impact assessments, roadmap creation, high-level design, detailed designs, audits, development & operations.
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About SKOOT: SKOOT is a platform for Climate Change helping businesses, communities and individuals to IDENTIFY, OFFSET & AVOID their CO2 footprints.
Kiran Pande
CTO Function of Heathrow Airport Holdings
Kiran Pande is a known name in the retail, hospitality, gaming and banking industry in the UK for his contribution to strategic direction provided in the journey of data warehousing to advanced analytics and from regulatory reporting to better data governance. He has worked as Head of BI for Whitbread as well as Ladbrokes and has also served for US corporates like GE, Ford in key initiatives in this space.
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About Heathrow Airport Holdings: Heathrow is the UK’s gateway to the world.
Jared Hawkins
CTO & CO – Founder of Circulation
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About Circulation, Harvard Medical School: Circulation is the pioneer in on-demand non-emergency healthcare transportation.
Dennis Sandmark
CTO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Dennis has six years experience as a full-stack software engineer working for global companies such as Spotify, Sky and McKinsey.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Rob Noble
CTO of Arrive
Robert Noble CTO and co-founder at Arrive.
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About Arrive, UK Home Office: The only Taxi app where you can choose your driver… D’you want the cheapest, quickest or highest-rated driver?
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Stephen Kenny
CTO of PostTag Group Ltd
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About Invest & Fund, PostTag Group Ltd: PostTag are the UK’s leading address validation and location precision company – helping drivers deliver more, in less time.
