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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 Events 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.
Brad Wright
Chief Technology Officer of Pollen
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About Pollen: Pollen builds, curates, and delivers the best travel experiences.
Ivan Lian
CTO of Grip
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About Grip: Grip is a market engagement platform used by event organizers to create virtual and live event experiences.
Kostas Melas
CTO of FanCircles
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About FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
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.
Dom Marmont
CTO & Co-Founder of FIXR
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About FIXR: FIXR is a leading ticketing and event management platform built for fans and organisers.
Jack Pordi
Cofounder and CTO of Realm
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About Realm, TheCLUB.tv: Realm is an app for finding and hosting house parties with the aim of making socializing cheaper and more meaningful.
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.
Matthew Samonek
Chief Technology Officer of Kleek
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About Kleek: Kleek offers access to high-end venues, clubs and events.
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Adam Pluta
Co-Founder & CTO and Lead Software Developer of ExpoCart
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About ExpoCart: ExpoCart is home to the biggest range of products and services for events.
Steve Smith
CTO & CPO of Wildgoose
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About Airbyte, Wildgoose: Wildgoose is to bring people together through tech to share experiences that are fun, purposeful and make work and life more memorable.
Peter J Bentley
CTO and Co-founder of Kazoova
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About Braintree Ltd, Kazoova: Marketplace for quirky activities
Dylan Beattie
CTO of Skills Matter
Dylan wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He’s been building data-driven web applications since the late 1990s, and has worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s the CTO at Skills Matter in London, he’s a Microsoft MVP, and he’s a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, where he’s spoken about topics from continuous delivery and Conway’s Law to the history of the web, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he’s not wrangling code, Dylan plays guitar and writes songs.
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About Skills Matter: Skills Matter is a global community of 100,000+ members from 126 countries interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring & improving each other.
Stephen Worn
CTO & Managing Director of DatacenterDynamics
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Peter Richards
Co-Founder & CTO of Gleanin
Peter Richards is a Co-Founder & CTO at Glean.in.
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
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.
Matthew Brocklehurst
CTO of AWOL
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About AWOL: Event Photo Sharing Platform – Sponsored and Paid photo sharing at Mass Participation Sports events.
Matthew Brocklehurst
CTO of AWOL
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About AWOL: Event Photo Sharing Platform – Sponsored and Paid photo sharing at Mass Participation Sports events.
