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 CEO’ operating in the Software Engineering space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Elona Mortimer-Zhika
Chief Executive Officer of IRIS Software Group
Elona is CFO at IRIS, bringing 15 years of business leadership, operational change and profit growth experience. Before joining IRIS, Elona spent seven years in senior leadership roles across both Operational and Commercial Finance at Xura, a PE backed leading digital communications services provider. Her most recent role was Senior Vice President and Chief of Staff, in charge of key strategic projects and operational initiatives. Prior to that, Elona spent more than eight years at Arthur Andersen and then Deloitte, leading high profile audit, advisory and corporate finance engagements across a portfolio of listed and PE backed businesses. Her combined experience at Xura, Deloitte and Arthur Andersen supports IRIS – and our customers – to lead the way in HMRC’s digital first strategy. Elona graduated with a First Class Honours Degree in Accounting and Economics and is a Fellow Chartered Accountant.
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About IRIS Software Group: IRIS Software Group is a UK-based enterprise software provider.
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Bo Jing
CEO of ONI
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About ONI: ONI is a pioneer of super-resolution microscopy, making this advanced technology accessible to new generations of researchers.
Stephen Rapoport
Investor, Advisor to CEO of Sigma Labs XYZ
Stephen is the founder of Pact, the fresh coffee delivery startup he launched as a way to marry his two biggest passions; coffee and entrepreneurship. Rapoport previously built and sold the apartment-sharing site Crashpadder to Airbnb.
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About Sigma Labs XYZ: Sigma Labs XYZ provides high-performance software and data engineers.
James Hawkins
Co-Founder / CEO of PostHog
James Hawkins is a Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at PostHog.
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About Hiberly, PostHog: PostHog provides a platform for open-source product analytics to helps software teams understand user behavior.
Steve Cliffe
CEO & President of Ultraleap
Steve has 30 years of experience in the technology industry encompassing significant exposure to global markets, senior management positions and commercial roles. He joined Ultrahaptics from Plessey Semiconductor, where he was Business Development Director. Prior to that role, he was CEO at Provision and Xintronix. He also brings extensive commercial experience to the role from previous appointments. He was VP of Sales and Marketing at eoSemi and Sales Director at Dialog Semiconductor.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Robert Tezescu
CEO & Founder of Antares Code Studio
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About Antares Code Studio, Xtraordinary Ltd: Custom software services, including web and mobile application development.
Armen Poghosyan
Founder, CEO of Actable AI
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About Actable AI: Actable AI helps you to analyze your data with powerful Causal AI and ML – without coding.
Dobromir Todorov
CEO | Chief Cloud Officer & Co-founder of HeleCloud
Dob Todorov, CEO & Chief Cloud Officer, has co-founded and led many start-ups in the technology and financial services industries. With solutions architecture, security and systems engineering experience at organisations including HP, Accenture, Visa, BT Global Services and International Network Services (INS), he was subsequently employed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as CTO for Public Sector in EMEA, and Principal Architect for Security & Compliance in EMEA. He has supported clients as diverse as central and local government, large internationals and emerging start-ups in their design and implementation of cloud solutions following AWS best practice. Dob is passionate about the opportunities for business advantage coming from technology innovation and strategic digital disruption.
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About HeleCloud: HeleCloud provides strategic technology consultancy, engineering and managed cloud services on the AWS Platform
Majed Chaaraoui
Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer of Insurami
Majed Chaaraoui and Arnor K. Davidsson founded Insurami in 2018, since which Majed has been serving as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About Entrepreneur First, Insurami: Insurami offers a deposit guarantee platform for commercial real estate
Robert Sams
Founder & CEO of clearmatics
Robert Sams Founded Clearmatics Technologies. and serves as its Chief Executive Officer.
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About clearmatics: Designing protocols and build platforms for decentralised Financial Market Infrastructure (dFMI).
Alexander Malin
CEO of Forty Seven
Founder of Forty Seven
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About Forty Seven: Forty Seven is a software consulting and development company providing IT outsourcing services.
Franck Zeitoun
Co-Founder & CEO of Lendery
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About Lendery: Lendery is offers a set of technology tools to institutional investors in alternative lending
James Baldwin
CEO, Founder & Partner of Unai
James Baldwin was the managing director at ERN.
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About Unai: Software Development and Data Science
Neciah Dorh
Co-Founder and CEO of FluoretiQ
Neciah Dorh is a Co-Founder and serves as the Chief Executive Officer at FluoretiQ.
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About FluoretiQ: FluoretiQ is a medical device company designing simple and effective bacterial detection systems for rapid diagnosis of infection.
Rick Brownlow
CEO of Geektastic
CEO at Geektastic
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About Geektastic, Geektastic: Profiling and Technical Testing platform for anyone hiring software engineers. Speeding up time to hire, reduce stress on in house devs.
Peter Aron Zentai
Chief Architect and Co-Founder & CEO of JayStack Technologies
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About JayStack Technologies: JayStack Technologies is a software program development company that specializes in computer software, enterprise mobile development.
Richard Stobart
CEO & Founder of Unboxed
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About Unboxed: The largest Ruby on Rails development agency in London and Cape Town
Nizar Romdan
CEO & Co-founder of Virtual Arts Ltd.
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About Virtual Arts Ltd.: We are building a leading state of the art Augmented, Virtual and Mixed Reality Technology and interactive content company.
Miiro Juuso
Founder, CEO of Releaseworks
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About Releaseworks: Releaseworks is a healthcare cloud engineering, information security governance and engineering support service partner.
Jonathan O’Keeffe
Founder & CEO of Machine Medicine Technologies
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About Machine Medicine Technologies: Machine Medicine are building an operating system for neuromodulation and other forms of precision neurotherapeutics.
Markus Kantonen
CEO, founder of Stormcharge Limited
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About Stormcharge Limited: Stormcharge provides the autonomous vehicles market with the safest, most scalable and most cost effective command and control environments.
Robin Matthews
CEO of Kanso
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About Kanso: A no-nonsense software design & engineering company. We help ambitious people build innovative digital products
