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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 Automotive 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.
Jonathan Howell
Chief Technology Officer of Cazoo
Jonathan Howell is the chief technology officer at Cazoo.
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About Cazoo, Unbiased: Cazoo is an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars.
David Santoro
CTO / Co-Founder of Carwow
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About Carwow: Carwow is a company that helps efficiently connect car buyers to car dealers.
John Fogelin
CTO & Security Officer of AppyWay
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About AppyWay: AppyWay is a kerbside management & technology firm enabling intelligent mobility for cities.
Ilias Kiourktsidis
CTO of Zebra Fuel
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About Zebra Fuel: Zebra Fuel is a mobile fuel delivery service that delivers fuel into a vehicle directly at a preferred delivery time.
Sandy Gataora
CTO of Sunamp
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About Sunamp: Sunamp is a company that provides industrial and residential heat battery storage systems.
James Brown
CTO and Board Member of CloudMade
James Brown, CloudMade’s CTO, has been working in the field of telecommunications, geo-spatial data, database/ERP and retail industries for over 25 years. Jim has spent most of this time on creating new products and building/running technical groups and consulting practices. Jim has great experience working with a mix of large corporates (places like Kmart, Oracle and EDS) and startups/smaller technology organizations (places like Symbian, Sonopia, and SurfKitchen). He has been keeping his hands on technically around database, technical architecture and app development.
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About CloudMade: CloudMade delivers excitement through simplicity to automotive OEMs and Tier 1s
Tim Woolmer
CTO and Founder of YASA
Tim developed the unique YASA motor topology as part of his DPhil at the University of Oxford. Tim now works as the CTO at YASA motors, with responsibility for the technical development of the YASA motor. Tim completed a general Engineering degree at Oxford University from 2000-2004.
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About YASA: Yasa develops and manufactures electric motors and generators of high power and high torque density electric.
Carl Lightfoot
Director and CTO of MotorDocs
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About CarVue, MotorDocs: MotorDocs provides digital document management software products and solutions for the automotive industry.
Raunaq Bose
CTO, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Limor Schweitzer
Founder and CTO of MOV.AI
Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal, loves all things technical, has been granted some 15 patents, accumulated 25 years experience in IT, Telecom, web and robotics, and rarely ever worked for a company he didn’t own. Seasoned technologist entrepreneur with a passion to create startups that engage talented teams in transforming ideas into products and mind share. Born in the UK, lived in Italy, USA, Israel and currently in Portugal. Israeli Army-Intelligence, studied Physics, filed lots of patents and raised quite a bit of venture capital. Specialties Creating startups. Software development and distribution, IT services, Telecom software marketing, Internet Security, Computer Networks. Internet of Things, E-Commerce and making humanoid robots run.
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About BIND 4.0 Open Innovation and Acceleration Program, MOV.AI, RoboSavvy: We provide robotic developers with enterprise grade ROS development & run time environment (Robotics engine platform).
Ian Redmond
Chief Technology Officer of Ceres Holographics
Dr. Ian Redmond has 27 years experience in research and industry, as a technologist and manager. Most of his experience has involved applications of holography following a PhD in Holographic Optical Elements (HOEs) from Heriot –Watt University, Edinburgh. He was co-founder of US-based consumer electronics company DataPlay, whose products won overall Best of Show at CES in 2001. Before returning to Scotland to found Ceres Imaging Ltd., he spent four years at the core of world-leading holographic data storage company InPhase Technologies, a spin-out from Bell Labs. There he led the holographic optical drive product development effort, pushing the development of the highest performance photopolymer media to date. This material was subsequently licensed to Bayer MaterialScience (Now Covestro), forming the foundations of the high-performance film developed under a joint development agreement (JDA) for Ceres, and now in production. His combination of knowledge in all aspects of holography, optics and photopolymer chemistry, at practical and theoretical levels is unmatched in the field. Dr Redmond remains at the heart of the company development advancing the core technology and defining customer solutions based on Ceres advanced capabilities.
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About Ceres Holographics: Ceres Holographics is enabling next-generation transparent AR displays with innovative holographic technology.
Marc Roberts
Chief Technology Office of Hiyacar
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About Hiyacar, Neutron Creations: Hiyacar is a UK peer to peer car sharing platform.
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.
Jonathon Valentine
Founder and CTO of ThingCo
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About ThingCo: Telematics, Cars, IoT, SaaS, Insurance, ADAS, Intelligent voice,Automotive
Charlie Barker
CTO of Blue Motor Finance
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About Blue Motor Finance: Blue is one of the UK’s premier consumer motor finance companies, lending over £750m to over 80,000 customers.
Dr Chris Dudfield
Chief Technology Officer of Intelligent Energy
Chris is responsible for directing and delivering the Group’s platform development road map from the point of research through to business division application. Prior to this role, Chris has held the positions of Director of Operations, Director of Programmes and Director of Technology at Intelligent Energy. Chris has worked continuously in the field of fuel cell technology since 1990 and has extensive practical experience in fuel cell stack, fuel processing and fuel cell systems technology. Chris holds chartered chemist (C. Chem.) and chartered scientist (C. Sci) status. He is also an appointed member of the Royal Society of Chemistry (MRSC).
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About Intelligent Energy: Intelligent Energy is a clean power systems company offering fuel cell and hydrogen generation technologies.
Kartik Venkatesh
Chief Technology Officer of Trunomi
Kartik is a multi-stack architect, and is well-versed in both open stack and Microsoft stack. He has been architecting and building web scale, secure, distributed systems and data solutions for 9+ years. Before Trunomi, Kartik was the Chief Architect for DLA, leading development of a Netflix competitor OTT solution for Latin America, featuring advanced machine learning and big data techniques. Prior to that Kartik led development and technology for several large scale products spanning multiple industries, including Gates Foundation, Starbucks, RedBull, Fox, AT&T and Sony. Kartik started his career at Microsoft straight out of high school, after being discovered for his programming aptitude. Microsoft sponsored his education at University of Washington, where he completed a B.S. in Computer Sciences.
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About Trunomi: Enterprise Privacy Platform allowing companies to meet all regulatory requirements for global Data Privacy Regulations
Chris Hilton
Chief Technology Officer of Protean Electric
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About Protean Electric: Protean Electric is a global automotive technology firm.
Ben Kingsbury
Founder and CTO of MicroTech Ceramics Ltd.
Ben has 8 years of experience in the fabrication of ceramic membranes and substrates for a wide range of applications and has published and presented extensively in these fields. He has been a research consultant to several major industrial partners to develop and commercialise novel ceramic products for automotive catalysis. This expertise matches perfectly with the product development stage that SSL is at, by bringing on board a unique set of skills and the analytical perspective of a PhD Engineering degree. Ben is advising mainly on membrane manufacturing methods and membrane microstructure expertise, for added value in the different application settings of the technology.
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About MicroTech Ceramics Ltd.: MicroTech Ceramics Ltd. develops novel ceramic substrates for the automotive emissions control market.
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.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Alexey Gusev
Co-founder & CTO of GreenRide Sharing Limited
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About GreenRide Sharing Limited: GreenRide is a UK based startup developing a ride sharing mobile application within the sharing economy.
Michael McDonald
Chief Technology Officer of Thula Solutions
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About Thula Solutions, Ziva Robotics: Thula Solutions specializes in sustainable solutions for life in the bush.
