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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 Service Industry 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.
Azeem Akhtar
CTO & Head of Design Team of BT Global Services
An articulate, highly driven and infectiously enthusiastic professional currently serving as the CTO on one of the BT’s largest outsource contracts. Technically and commercially adept with a proven track record of complex solution sales in the most challenging commercial environments globally. A finally astute problem solver with a high degree of commercial acumen focused on delivering bottom-line benefit. Very experienced in formulating market entry strategies, commercial analysis, writing business cases, and contract negotiation. A genuine team player that inspires through thought leadership, challenging the status quo and empowering team members. Multi-lingual and adept at using strong interpersonal skills to develop trusting relationships to drive business benefit. Undertakes a voluntary non-executive director role as Chairman of Active Essex.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Kim Gasson
FFA & FFAvr Product Owner and CTO, Supply Chain of BT Global Services
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Vassilis Pandis
CTO of Logidot
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About Logidot: Logidot is a plug-and-play and high-performance indoor location intelligence platform for warehousing and factory automation.
George Goodyer
CTO of Skyscanner
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About Skyscanner: Skyscanner operates as a trips meta-search engine company.
Jason Peter Whitfield
Interim Chief Technology Officer of Thames Water
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About Thames Water: Thames Water Utilities Limited is a U.K.-based water and sewerage company that provides clean and take away waste water.
Julien Deray
Co-Founder & CTO of Mespo
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About Mespo: Mespo is an independent platform that manages money across all of the accounts.
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.
Prashant Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of Cardinality
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About Cardinality: Cardinality’s innovative new analytics platform has been designed from the ground up with the primary focus on the Telco market.
Dimitris Athanasiou
Co-Founder and CTO of Neurofenix
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About Neurofenix: Neurofenix is aiming to make rehabilitation more autonomous, enjoyable and accessible to stroke victims.
Neil Tocher
Co-Founder, CEO, CTO of NCTech
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About NCTech: NCTech is a big data and analytics provider. Pioneering edge-to-cloud big data capture & provision with ML/AI for Google, government & AEC
Gerry Sweeney
CEO, CTO & Founder of Hornbill
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About Hornbill: Hornbill is an innovator in business collaboration applications that help teams create content, share ideas.
Peter McClelland
CTO of CIQUAL
Peter joined Ciqual in 2016 with responsibility for product architecture and development. Peter brings deep experience of both start-up and corporate software product environments, with particular focus on large scale streaming and BI solutions for telecom. For over 20 years Peter has run his own software companies designing and selling innovative products and consulting services, taking several companies from product concept to repeat sales. With broad experience of designing and delivering solutions to many sectors, including telecom, media and manufacturing, Peter brings a strong product focus to Ciqual.
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About CIQUAL: CIQUAL offers Session Insight, a system that delivers a real-time, dynamic view of mobile broadband service and user experience.
Mark Raymond
Chief Technology Officer of Tantalum Corporation
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About Tantalum Corporation: Tantalum Corporation is a company within the Connected Car and Telematics industry.
Dale Knight
CTO and Co-Founder of One Utility Bill
Dale Knight is the Co-Founder and CTO at One Utility Bill.
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About One Utility Bill: One Utility Bill offers a simple way to pay anyone’s bills.
Tim Shields
Chief Technology Officer of Money Dashboard
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About Money Dashboard: Money Dashboard is an online personal financial management service allowing users to view their online financial accounts.
Tim Shields
Chief Technology Officer of Money Dashboard
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About Money Dashboard: Money Dashboard is an online personal financial management service allowing users to view their online financial accounts.
Arnaud Baali
CTO of Blow
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About Blow: Blow is an online platform that provides its users with a range of beauty services.
Ignat Thorovsky
Co-founder, CTO of Poptop
CTO of Poptop Entertainment Booking Platform.
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About Poptop: Poptop is a global entertainment booking service provider.
Andre Kashiwara
CTO – Co-Founder of FitCat
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About FitCat: FitCat is an app, a device and a community that keeps your cat in top condition
Andre Kashiwara
CTO – Co-Founder of FitCat
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About FitCat: FitCat is an app, a device and a community that keeps your cat in top condition
