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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Robotics 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.
David Moss
Co Founder, CTO of Blue Prism
David Moss co-founder and CTO of Blue Prism Limited. David Moss co-founded Blue Prism in 2001 and is the chief software architect behind the Blue Prism software product. Prior to Blue Prism, Dave spent five years working for Lynx Financial Systems as a Senior Software Designer, providing packaged and bespoke solutions to major names in Financial Services such as Barclays Bank, Nationwide Building Society, and Transamerica Commercial Finance. Dave holds a BSc (Hons) in Mathematics from Leeds University.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Marc Sollars
Chief Technology Officer of Teneo
Marc is our chief evangelist and a Company Director. In his role as CTO, Marc has a passion for identifying next-generation technologies that are early to market and can be integrated into Teneo’s services portfolio. He also enjoys introducing these to our global customers.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Chris Hewertson
Principal | CIO | CTO | Board Advisory of Freeman Clarke
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About Freeman Clarke: Freeman Clarke creates, manages, and executes technological strategies and solutions to help one’s company grow.
John Rogers
Fractional CIO/CTO/IT Director of Freeman Clarke
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About Freeman Clarke, OPP Ltd: Freeman Clarke creates, manages, and executes technological strategies and solutions to help one’s company grow.
John Rudin
Founder, CTO, and COO of Folium Optics
John studied Engineering at Durham University, and Optics at Reading University. After working as a product design engineer he joined Hewlett Packard and helped found their UK based displays research group. In 2013 he and Steve Kitson set up Folium Optics to further the commercialisation of colourful, low power plastic displays.
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About Folium Optics: Folium Optics was founded in November 2013 by Steve Kitson and John Rudin.
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).
Craig Bloodworth
CTO of The Information Lab
Craig first discovered the power of Tableau through constant frustration with data report authoring using classic spreadsheet applications. Since buying his own copy of Tableau, Craig has never looked back, joining The Information Lab in 2011 and helping people install, understand, and create exciting visualizations with Tableau. Outside of Tableau, Craig lives in York with his partner and their three-year-old daughter. Being a local food enthusiast you’re sure to find him browsing a North Yorkshire farmers’ market in search of seasonal, local produce.
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About The Data School, The Information Lab: The Information Lab is a team of passionate Tableau software professionals.
Kevin Lind
Co-Founder and CTO of Perceptual Robotics
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About Perceptual Robotics: Perceptual Robotics is creating intelligent automation to make wind turbine and other infrastructure inspection simple and fast
Somesh Selvachandran
Co-Founder & CTO of Magpie Education
Somesh built electronic trading systems for Morgan Stanley, before leaving to co-found Innovate My Curriculum and Talking Circles. He enjoys pouring his passion for computing into projects to help teachers in the classroom and get more kids coding.
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About Magpie Education: Magpie Education is Creating curriculum tools for teachers to inspire the next generation of STEM Innovators.
Jon Pretty
CTO of Scala Technology
Jon has been having fun riding the bleeding edge of Scala for over a decade, and he’s not done yet. While he’s not travelling the world attending Scala conferences, or organizing his own (Scala World), Jon spends his time working on the open-source Rapture libraries and Typelevel Scala.
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About Scala Technology: Scala Technology was founded to provide consultancy to businesses of all sizes at different stages of adoption of the Scala programming.
Tim Lukins
Co-Founder & CTO of Machines With Vision
A software professional with a background in AI and computer vision focused on combining engineering and research excellence to create amazing technology.
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About Machines With Vision: Transforming the maintenance of linear infrastructure using millimetre-accurate mapping.
Charlie Pickering
Chief Technology Officer of Causeway Technologies
Charlie Pickering is the Chief Technology Officer at Causeway Technologies.
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About Causeway Technologies: Causeway Technologies is a provider of software solutions to the construction industry.
Adrian Negoita
CTO and Co-Founder of BotsAndUs
Adrian Negoita is a CTO and Co-Founder at BotsAndUs. He is an experienced software test engineer who is motivated by building high-quality products and sharing his knowledge to support the wider adoption of robotics.
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About BotsAndUs: BotsAndUs is a data-driven robotics and AI company that provides full-stack robot systems for dynamic spaces.
Garry Haywood
CEO/CTO & Founder of Kinicho
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About Kinicho: making it easier to create and distribute spatial audio
Riccardo Ferretti
Co-Founder and CTO of Momentumworks Inc
Riccardo Ferretti is the co-founder at Momentumworks.
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About Momentumworks Inc: Design x Code x Physics
Steve Harris
CTO of Aistemos
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About : Aistemos was established to provide IP business intelligence.
Jakub Pietrzak
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of SKY ENGINE
Jakub Pietrzak is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
Peter Baba
Founder/CTO of RecruitBubble
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About RecruitBubble: Recruit Bubble is a Specialist Recruitment Software solution that helps recruiters businesses grow faster and run more efficiently.
