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 Fashion 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.
Lucas McGregor
CTO of Lyst
Lucas McGregor is a SVP Engineering at Adconion Media Group.
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About Lyst: Lyst is a global fashion search platform that allows users to browse through thousands of online fashion stores.
Ben Phillips
CTO & Co-Founder of Thread
Ben is the co-founder of Thread.com and runs the development team there. Founded last year, Thread brings personal styling to everyone, and it’s free. Before Thread, Ben co-founded Playfire and scaled the site to over 1.5 million users. Ben also enjoys product and graphic design but leaves these things to the experts most of the time.
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About Thread: Thread operates as an online personal styling platform designed to help men find clothes.
Richard Orme
Group Chief Technology Officer of Photobox
Richard joined Metapack in 2012 and is responsible for MetaPack’s Technology delivery and strategy. Prior to joining MetaPack he worked in the US logistics software industry developing market leading solutions with UPS, FedEx and Pitney Bowes. He has also worked in the UK Telecomms industry on volume and availability systems for the UK’s largest fibre optic network at ntl (now Virgin Media). He has over twenty years of software development and delivery experience working in a range of technologies with a strong focus on highly available logistics platforms and data integration.
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About ComplyAdvantage, Photobox: PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
Mehdi Doghri
Co-Founder & CTO of Save Your Wardrobe
Entrepreneur, Investor, Advisor. Interested in the Fintech, Fashion Tech, Retail Tech and consumer mobile apps.
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About Save Your Wardrobe: FashionTech startup using AI to make Fashion more digital and sustainable
Walter Badillo
CTO of The Business of Fashion
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About The Business of Fashion, The Business of Fashion: The Business of Fashion is a online platform for the global fashion industry, offering content and tools to industry professionals.
Ben Jones
CTO of GfK
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About GfK: GfK is a market research institute in Germany.
Joel Chippindale
CTO of UNMADE
Joel Chippindale is the chief technology officer at Unmade Ltd.
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Anton Firth
Co-Founder & CTO of DyeRecycle
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About DyeRecycle: DyeRecycle develops an innovative dyeing fibers technology using recycled dye from textile waste.
Jamie Sutherland
CTO of Mallzee
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About Mallzee: Mallzee is a B2C clothing retail app and a B2B data suite for clothing retailers to improve margins and make smarter buying decisions
Chris Hunt
CTO & Founder of Pireta
Chris worked at the National Physical Laboratory where he headed up a multidisciplinary team of scientists looking at material problems in electronics interconnects. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with industry and he is chair of the UK IMAPS committee. In the role of advancing metrology, he has developed test methods and standards. He currently chairs the relevant IEC committee and travels the world giving invited international papers. He identified an interconnect solution for textiles and is one of the two inventors for a patent pending technology for making textiles conductive, as well as the founder of Pireta. Chris is a Chartered Physicist, and has a BSc from the Institute of Physics, and a PhD from Surrey University.
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About GEN3, Pireta: Pireta technology enables the integration of Smart Textiles into wide range of sectors.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Michael Groves
Chief Technology Officer of Mucho
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About Mucho: Mucho is a platform that brings together brands, retailers and content providers that share this passion.
Mike Kimberley
Chief Technology Officer of Rakuten Fits Me
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About Rakuten Fits Me: Fit Origin is the ultimate fit recommendation solution for eCommerce fashion retailers.
Mario Arena
DIRECTOR R&D – RTW & Accessories of Nanushka
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About Nanushka: Nanushka is an internationally recognized Hungarian women’s fashion label.
Victor Olatunya
CTO of AtHashtags
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About AtHashtags: Combined Online and real world Marketplace that allows vendors to sell and connect with consumers online and in multiple physical locations
Timothy Scully
CTO of Villoid
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About Villoid: Villoid offers a shopping app that enables shoppers to find and buy products from a range of brands, and share and follow fashion trends.
Henric Larsson
Co-Founder and CTO of Dashl
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About Dashl: A digital hair and beauty booking platform.
David Bishop
CTO and Founder of Love the Sales
David Bishop is the Founder and CTO at Love the Sales.
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About Love the Sales: Love the Sales takes the sales on many websites and puts them on one website.
Laurence Gillian
CTO of Gather & See
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About Gather & See: Bringing the best womens sustainable and ethical fashion online.
