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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 Legal 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.
Dan Selman
Co-founder and CTO of Clause
Dan Selman is the co-founder and CTO at Clause.
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About Clause: Clause is a digital contracting platform connecting agreements to trusted systems, verifying data, and accelerating actions.
Tom Rogers
CTO of Farewill
Tom Rogers opened the doors to 101 Restaurant, Bar & Grill in March 2004, and has since then been serving modern English cuisine to the village of Stockton Heath, Warrington and the wider Cheshire area. From their exclusive upstairs venue Tom and his team deliver fresh food & beverages in an eclectic atmosphere that brings intimacy and liveliness in equal measures to the whole dining experience. We are the ONLY venue in Stockton Heath to offer live music every Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, with a cocktail bar buzzing throughout the week.
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About Farewill: Farewill is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death.
Anthony Drogon
Founder & CTO of SeedLegals
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About SeedLegals: The simple way for companies to complete the legals needed to raise investment and distribute equity
Neil Murray
CTO and Co-Founder of Mimecast
Neil Murray is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services. Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service. Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s. Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Saviz Izadpanah
CTO / Director of HighQ
Saviz joined HighQ in 2005 as CTO, responsible for leading HighQ technology strategy, product management and product development. Prior to HighQ, Saviz was the global head of Debt Capital Markets IT at Deutsche Bank where he was responsible for the program management of multiple applications including Deutsche Bank’s online debt order capture system “dbbonds” for the global DCM sales teams. Prior to Deutsche Bank, Saviz was part of the lead web development team at Barclays Capital. Saviz holds a Bachelors of Engineering in Computer Science and Technology from Imperial College of London.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
Cyril Pluche
CTO of Vauban
Cyril Pluche is the CTO at Vauban.
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About Vauban: Vauban is the easiest way to pool & deploy capital to invest in private companies.
Ben Stoneham
Founder and CTO of Autologyx
Ben Stoneham is the Founder and CTO of Autologyx.
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About Autologyx: Autologyx is the next-generation Fabric Automation Platform for enterprise businesses.
Bruna Pellicci
Chief Technology Officer of Linklaters LLP
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About Linklaters LLP: Linklaters LLP is a multinational law firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom.
Dave Thorn
CTO of Scissero
Dave Thorn is the Chief Technology Officer at Scissero Ltd.
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About Scissero: Scissero is a cloud-based legal AI platform that can draft, mark, analyze, review contracts from human lawyers.
Matt Holland
CTO & Co-Founder of Seedata.io
Matt Holland is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Seedata.
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About EF Education First, Seedata.io: Seedata.io is a cybersecurity platform that helps companies mitigate data leak incidents and crime threats.
Chris O’Sullivan
Co-Founder and CTO of Lexoo
Chris has been developing websites and apps for more than 10 years – with companies such as Forward Partners, Aegis Media, and the BBC. He loves playing board games and drinking cocktails – ideally at the same time.
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About HitMeUp, Lexoo, What I want for Xmas: Lexoo is a lawyer comparison marketplace that helps businesses choose a lawyer with confidence.
Amar Bhogal
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of Konsolute Ltd
Amar Bhogal is the co-founder and CTO at Konsolute. He is a former software architect at Microsoft.
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About Konsolute Ltd, Konsolute R&D: Microsoft Gold Partner headquartered in London offering professional services and products for the Microsoft Cloud
Pete Jones
Chief Technology Officer of Ellis Whittam
Pete has an extensive background in technology planning, development, support and systems integration. Over the course of his career, Pete has worked in a number of high growth, rapid change environments including Network Manager at a Casino Group, IT analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank and Head of IT at two national Law firms. Pete joined Ellis Whittam from leading global insight agency Join the Dots, where he was Technology Director. As CTO, Pete is responsible for Ellis Whittam’s technology services, systems and infrastructure and he leads its IT and Digital strategy. He is MCSE, ITIL and PRINCE II certified and a member of the British Computer Society.
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About Ellis Whittam: Ellis Whittam is an Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety support for UK employers.
Pete Jones
Chief Technology Officer of Ellis Whittam
Pete has an extensive background in technology planning, development, support and systems integration. Over the course of his career, Pete has worked in a number of high growth, rapid change environments including Network Manager at a Casino Group, IT analyst at Chase Manhattan Bank and Head of IT at two national Law firms. Pete joined Ellis Whittam from leading global insight agency Join the Dots, where he was Technology Director. As CTO, Pete is responsible for Ellis Whittam’s technology services, systems and infrastructure and he leads its IT and Digital strategy. He is MCSE, ITIL and PRINCE II certified and a member of the British Computer Society.
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About Ellis Whittam: Ellis Whittam is an Employment Law, HR and Health & Safety support for UK employers.
Andrew Thompson
CTO of Orbital Witness
Andrew Thompson is the CTO at Orbital Witness.
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About Orbital Witness, Seedcamp: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
Krisztián Kerék
Founder & CTO of AUTTO
Kris is an experienced full-stack developer with an interest in document automation, web security, and e-commerce. With specialized frontend and backend development skills, Kris leads the tech team ensuring that the product is high-quality and user-friendly.
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About AUTTO: Autto is the simplified automation provider
Jon Topper
CTO/CEO of The Scale Factory
DevOps, Linux, cloud infrastructure and automation specialist.
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About The Scale Factory: DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy
Allen Morgan
Founder & CTO of Altien Limited
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About Altien Limited: Altien is a leader in the delivery of Matter Management solutions for legal departments and legal services organizations.
