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 Business Intelligence 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.
Rusty Johnson
Co-Founder & CTO of SharpCloud Software
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About SharpCloud Software: Data visualization software that transforms business data into engaging visual stories, helping you make smarter strategic decisions.
Paul Felby
Chief Technology Officer of Adthena
Paul is a supremely talented software engineer and architect and has built a career for major names such as the Logica Space and Defence Division and Live Nation Entertainment / Ticketmaster, as well as spending time in the US teaching gifted children programming and electronics. Now our Chief Technology Officer and Product Director, Paul is responsible for the research and innovation at Adthena, delivering even better results for our clients, and the Architecture and development to ensure the quality of our data and application. With a first class degree in Computer Science with Robotics and Intelligent Machines, Paul was also winner of the Wind River Systems Award – given to the final year BSc Computer Science student who obtains the highest degree mark.
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About Adthena: Adthena is a competitive intelligence solution for search marketers.
Luca Grulla
CTO of Signal AI
An entrepreneurial Technology Leader, experienced in leading product and technology teams from idea to delivery and monetization. Strategic thinker, core member of the Leadership Team, actively involved in company strategy and value creation. Member of the Core Technology team behind the £200M exit of uSwitch.com in 2015.
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About Signal AI: Transforming decision making for business leaders through augmented AI
Chris Goddard
CTO of G-Research
Chris Goddard is the Chief Technology Officer at G-Research.
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About G-Research: G-Research is a research and technology company that specializes in Quantitative Research and IT Infrastructure.
George Wetz
CPO, CTO & Founding Member of Yumpingo
George Wetz is the Chief Technology Officer at Yumpingo.
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About Yumpingo: Yumpingo is an internet company that specializes in customer engagement and analytics platforms designed for the Hospitality Industry.
Ed Thompson
Co-Founder & CTO of Matillion
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About Matillion: Matillion is an integration platform for cloud data warehouses.
Pravin Paratey
Co-founder and CTO of Kaizan
12+ years building high performing engineering teams and executing crucial products for companies during key growth stages.
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About Kaizan, Kantan: The AI assistant that amplifies your abilities at work – Stop writing notes, updates and reports – Get your AI to do it.
Atul Sharma
CTO of Peak
Atul Sharma is a Co-Founder and the Chief Technology Officer at Peak.
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About Peak: Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services.
David Edoja
Founder and CTO of Analytics Intelligence
David Edoja is the founder of Analytics Intelligence. He is a web analyst and entrepreneur, based in London. Previously, he worked at British Telecom and Omniture.
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About Analytics Intelligence: Palantir of Africa
Dael Williamson
European CTO (Data & AI) | Global Data Technology Lead of Avanade
Technology leader, innovation architect and data scientist. Global Chief Architect of BEYONDigital (by HCL Technologies). We are a global digital and data consultancy specialising in design thinking, experience design, innovation, technology strategy, process digitisation and big data predictive analytics. Co-founder and Chief Strategy & Data Officer of ThinkLab.AI. A machine learning algorithm marketplace offering clients artificial intelligence solutions to deliver game-changing insights from data. Dael also serves on the Advisory Board for FitSprint as Product, Technology & Data Advisor. Vast experience working for and with start-ups as a technology specialist. Passion for data science developed while in academia, producing theoretical protein models and experimental protein structures. Master’s degree (First Class); several degrees and publications.
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About Avanade, ThinkLab.ai: Avanade provides innovative digital and cloud services, business solutions and design-led experiences on the Microsoft ecosystem.
Mark Ssentongo
CTO of Rainbirdsoft Limited
Mark is in charge of business and technology decisions at Rainbirdsoft.
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About Rainbirdsoft Limited: Rainbirdsoft Limited focuses on business intelligence and data analytics solutions with cloud and hybrid software development services.
Isambard Poulson
CTO of Huq Industries
Founder of Huq Industries.
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About Huq Industries: Huq is building the world’s largest consumer research network, helping businesses understand their offline markets with digital precision.
Moin Maniar
CTO of Appsumer
Moin Maniar joined Appsumer as CTO in 2016.
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About Appsumer: Appsumer automates user acquisition & performance marketing dashboards, reports & insights
Adrian Karl
CTO & Co-Founder of Inspection2
Adrian has over 20 years’ experience working within the mobile telecommunications and Internet industry. Adrian joined Sky-Futures in 2014 to lead the delivery of a technology roadmap for Expanse® that aims to maximise the value and impact of the data captured by drones. Adrian has been involved in both the design and delivery of a wide range of high tech and business applications that have technology at the core. He now applies this experience and expertise to ensure Inspection² stay at the leading edge of AI technology with our software and sensor solutions.
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About Inspection2: Automate industrial asset management & inspection with Inspection2 an AI-powered asset management, data analytics and reporting software
Will Cavendish
CTO / CSO of Tradefox
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About Tradefox: The leading business intelligence & trading platform for the global trade of scrap & recyclable commodities.
Prashant Majmudar
Founder & CTO of Growth Intelligence
Prash spent six years as an engineer at BAE Systems Detica, where he oversaw the delivery of sensor and electro-optic surveillance systems for the Ministry of Defence. He is a proponent and advocate of the use of full stack data science, machine-learning and predictive lead generation. He co-authored GrowthIntel and NIESR’s 2013 report on the UK digital economy and is well versed in Python and Natural Language Processing. – See more at: http://growthintel.com/about-us/#sthash.1CIDS80S.dpuf
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About Growth Intelligence: Growth Intelligence is a UK technology company offering a software-as-a-service product to B2B corporations.
Jon Beer
CTO and Co-Founder of Zapnito
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About Zapnito: Zapnito is the SaaS online community platform for intelligence-driven organizations.
Yan Zhang
Co-Founder and CTO of Kuan Intelligence
Yan Zhang is Co-Founder and CTO at Kuan Intelligence.
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About Kuan Intelligence: Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
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.
