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 Human Resources 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.
Michael Paterson
Co-Founder & CTO of Beamery
Michael Paterson joined Beamery as Co-Founder and CTO in 2015.
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About Beamery: Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people.
Klaus Michael Vogelberg
Group Chief Technology Officer of Sage Group
Klaus-Michael Vogelberg was R&D Director and partner of the German KHK Software group, acquired by Sage in 1997. In 2000 he joined the Group team to assist Sage operating companies and the Board on software architecture and technology strategy. Between 2004 and 2007 Klaus-Michael acted as R&D Director for Sage UK and Ireland, before taking up his current post of Group Chief Technology Officer.
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About Sage Group: Sage Group provides small and medium sized company business management software and services.
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.
Olivier Lomenie
Co-founder & CTO of Emolument
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About Carlsberg Group, Emolument, MyShowcase, ReachX, Techtopus: Emolument is a crowdsourced talent intelligence platform.
Mac Dziedziela
CEO/CTO and Co-Founder of Screenable
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About Delta Heed, Screenable: Screenable is a smart video interview platform designed for recruiters to streamline applicant screenings.
Mircea Danila Dumitrescu
Founder and CTO of StatusToday
Before StatusToday, Mircea established himself as a highly technical enterprise architect and adviser. He lead innovations focused on system security and IT scale such as at Just-Eat and Kurt Geiger for millions of users. Mircea is an established technical leader in large scale cloud infrastructure.
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About StatusToday: StatusToday is an AI that gives people analytics to drive organizational change.
Anne Neatham
Commercial Director – Office of the CTO of Ocado Technology
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About Ocado Technology: Ocado Technology designs and builds the platform that powers online-only grocery retailer.
Vivek Doraiswamy
Co-Founder / CTO of MeVitae
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About MeVitae: Deep tech company helping companies find talent smarter, faster and fairer without unconscious or algorithmic bias.
Rotem Hayoun-Meidav
Co-Founder & CTO of Vault Platform
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About Vault Platform: Vault Platform is the next generation of misconduct reporting for employees.
Steve Smith
CTO & Head of Engineering and Intelligence of ProFinda
CTO/Head of Engineering and Intelligence
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About ProFinda: ProFinda is a digital platform that intelligently organizes people around work by matching skills to relevant projects and bids.
David Wilson
Co-Founder & CTO of One Model
David Wilson is Co-Founder & CTO at OneModel.
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About One Model: One Model, a talent analytics accelerator, enables HR departments measure the productivity and efficiency of their workforce.
Abdul Hummaida
CTO of Concentra
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About Concentra: Concentra is a UK-based business consulting and technology services company, serving clients across a number of economic sectors.
Chris Jackson
Chief Technology Officer of Thomas International
Having joined Thomas International in 2018 as Chief Technical Officer (CTO), Chris Jackson is responsible for driving Thomas’ technology, implementing a technical vision that will deliver the next generation of user-friendly, scalable and innovative digital talent solutions. Chris is a commercial and technical leader, who was previously at Pearson, one of the world’s leading educational and publishing conglomerates, where he spearheaded its drive to become a cloud-based digital company. During this time, he successfully deployed new digital native platforms to support wholesale consolidation and modernisation of the product portfolio.
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About Thomas International: Thomas International is a provider of psychometric assessment solutions with a focus on small to medium-sized businesses.
Stuart Prestedge
CTO & Co-founder of Workteam
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About Workteam: Provider of HR employee management SaaS offering
Alastair Brown
Chief Technology Officer of BrightHR
Alastair Brown is Chief Technological Officer at BrightHR Alastair is responsible for driving forward BrightHR’s expansion plans and the management of the businesses technological needs. Alastair’s career has always been delivery focused and he has extensive experience in transforming businesses through technological and process change. Before joining BrightHR, Alastair worked as a director of delivery for an international hotel bookings site. He also worked as a leader for a global accountancy software business, which supported millions of entrepreneurs across 23 countries. An enthusiastic and motivated professional with twenty seven years experience in Information Technology. From a very strong technical background with delivery focussed experience across many business sectors. • A proven successful influencer of stakeholders at all levels. • Strong leadership and motivation skills, leading by example. • Ability to understand business needs and the strategy required to deliver a coherent information solution to them. • Articulate and able to communicate clearly and concisely at many levels in organisations. • Enthusiasm for demonstrating business value from pragmatic implementation of IT strategy. • Extensive experience of business transformation through technology and process change. • Highly developed analysis and problem solving skills demonstrated through a background in technical delivery. • Many years experience of delivering very large and complicated IT projects and programmes, with a reputation for guaranteed delivery to the highest quality. • A clear understanding of risk management approach and impact analysis. • A strong will to succeed and desire to deliver on promises and lots of energy for success. Specialties: Performance, integration, project rescue, delivery
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About BrightHR: BrightHR is a human resource software and support service for small business owners.
Andrew Bowley
CTO of Smart Apprentices
As Chief Technology Officer Andy Bowley heads up our technical team, having previously run a fast paced technology business unit for a global brand, Andy has built his team handpicked from the best of breed. At Smart Apprentices we have an experienced and mature development team, many of whom are experts in their field and are often asked to speak and blog at technology forums. Outside of work Andy enjoys Tough Mudder, Wolf Running and Half Marathons.
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About Smart Apprentices: Smart Apprentices is an award winning, innovative suite of technologies platforms purposely designed for approved training providers.
Andrew Whitfield
CTO & Co-founder of inPRO
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About inPRO: Jobs and talent via trusted networks with integrated mentorship, skill and career development services.
Dan Bosman
CTO of B.I. Group
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About B.I. Group: The Business Intelligence Group is a professional human resource consulting firm, having rich professional experience in the area of Human
Kit Barker
Chief Technology Officer of MyHRToolkit
Kit Barker has had a long association with Myhrtoolkit, becoming Technical Director in 2014. Kit’s background is in developing successful Software as a Service platforms, with a strong focus on infrastructure and application security. As well as his own hands-on programming with native PHP and frameworks such as Laravel, Lumen and Zend, he leads the development team in innovation and extending the myhrtoolkit application.
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About MyHRToolkit: MyHRToolkit is an HR software package specifically designed for small and medium sized (SME) businesses.
Myke Crosby
CTO of Exxecta
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About Exxecta: The exclusive active sourcing platform for the recruitment of Senior Female Executives
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.
