Best Startup
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 Logistics 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.
Jan Riethmayer
Chief Technology Officer of Zencargo
CTO at Zencargo. CTO at various startups, Berliner, software developer, systems architect, project manager, product manager, recruiter, reliability engineer, data scientist.
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About Zencargo: Zencargo is a logistics company that simplifies global trade by offering digital freight services to help businesses thrive.
Simon Kirk
Chief Technology Officer of Marken
Simon Kirk joined Marken in 2010 as Marken’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With over 18 years of experience in technology systems and development, Simon’s knowledge and expertise have contributed to Marken’s leading, cloud-based IT solutions as well as the corporate IT infrastructure. At Marken, Simon is instrumental in programming, in-house application design, production and logistics. Simon is invested in Agile methods for technical leadership to simplify traditional IT approaches for his teams as well as clients. As such, he works closely with internal and external stakeholders to identify and deliver valuable outcomes and facilitate development teams to help them perform at their best. Simon graduated from one of the United Kingdom’s leading universities, Royal Holloway, University of London with a Master of Science (MSci) in Physics.
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About Marken: Marken provides patient-centric supply chain organization in the life sciences industry.
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.
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Nisarg Mehta
CTO & Co-founder of Vector.ai
Nisarg Mehta is the CTO and Co-founder at Vector.ai.
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About Vector.ai: Remove the roadblocks to amazing freight forwarding operations
Mitch Ebdon
CTO of essDOCS
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About essDOCS: essDOCS enables paperless trade; focusing on digitizing paper-heavy shipping, trade and logistic processes.
Krzysztof Worsa
CTO & Co-Founder of Gophr
Co-Founder, CTO, Board Member at Gophr.
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About Gophr: We build technology for the same-day courier community that creates industry-leading delivery experiences
Limor Schweitzer
Founder and CTO of MOV.AI
Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal, loves all things technical, has been granted some 15 patents, accumulated 25 years experience in IT, Telecom, web and robotics, and rarely ever worked for a company he didn’t own. Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics, filed lots of patents and raised quite a bit of venture capital. Specialties Creating startups. Software development and distribution, IT services, Telecom software marketing, Internet Security, Computer Networks. Internet of Things, E-Commerce and making humanoid robots run.
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About BIND 4.0 Open Innovation and Acceleration Program, MOV.AI, RoboSavvy: We provide robotic developers with enterprise grade ROS development & run time environment (Robotics engine platform).
Charles Lee
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kontainers
Charles Lee is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Kontainers.
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About Kontainers: Kontainers is as Enterprise SAAS Provider providing e-commerce capabilities to Freight Forwarders and Shipping Lines
Alex Christodoulou
Co-Founder and CTO of Weengs
Alex Christodoulou is the Co-founder & CTO at [Weengs](http://www.weengs.co.uk), where he leads the tech team while taking care of how the vision of the company is reflected on the product. Serial entrepreneur with a background in software engineering, algorithms and long experience in web/mobile developing. His major academic research was a study on hybrid Artificial Intelligence systems, merging neural networks with heuristic rules in decision making systems. Also founder of [Locish](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/locish), a real-time Q&A app operating in NYC and SF.
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Phil Smith
Co-Founder and CTO of ReBOUND Returns
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About ReBOUND Returns: ReBOUND Returns is a global returns management platform.
Ben Kingsbury
Founder and CTO of MicroTech Ceramics Ltd.
Ben has 8 years of experience in the fabrication of ceramic membranes and substrates for a wide range of applications and has published and presented extensively in these fields. He has been a research consultant to several major industrial partners to develop and commercialise novel ceramic products for automotive catalysis. This expertise matches perfectly with the product development stage that SSL is at, by bringing on board a unique set of skills and the analytical perspective of a PhD Engineering degree. Ben is advising mainly on membrane manufacturing methods and membrane microstructure expertise, for added value in the different application settings of the technology.
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About MicroTech Ceramics Ltd.: MicroTech Ceramics Ltd. develops novel ceramic substrates for the automotive emissions control market.
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Melvin Artemas
Chief Technology Officer of Localz
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About Localz, Medipass Solutions: Localz is the leading provider of Day of Service software.
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.
Gareth Brett
Chief Technology Officer of Highview Power
Gareth Brett is the chief technology officer of Highview Power.
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About Highview Power: Manufacture Of Electricity Distribution And Control Apparatus
