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 Hardware 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.
Pruthvikar Reddy
Co-founder & CTO of Carv
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About Carv: Carv is the first wearable dedicated to skiing that speaks to you as you ski, serving as a digital ski coach.
Paul Walton
Founder/CTO of Boundary
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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About Boundary, Oodls, Prodsight, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
Mark Cheverton
CTO of Redgate Software
After two decades in the business, the Internet continues to fascinate me with its potential for disruptive innovation. I thrive on the challenge of launching new products and companies, putting my own startup experience and broad range of skills to good use. I’m always looking for new challenges and to work with people with big ideas who believe they can change the world. Specialties: Internet technologies; mobile; online gaming; cloud computing; enterprise architecture; scalability; government; SaaS; PaaS; innovation; start-ups; Internet of Things
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About Redgate Software: Redgate is the leading provider of software for professionals working on the Microsoft data platform.
Dave Locke
Field CTO EMEA of World Wide Technology
Dave Locke is WWT’s EMEA Field CTO responsible for driving innovative solutions across WWT’s customer base; supporting businesses to modernise their IT, adopt new technologies and drive digital transformation programs.
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About World Wide Technology: World Wide Technology is a systems integrator, provides information technology and supply chain solutions.
Brendan O’Reilly
CTO of O2
Brendan is Telefónica UK’s Chief Technology Officer, with over 15 years’ experience in Mobile Telecoms. Brendan has accountability for O2’s strategy, design, planning, test, delivery and operation of the entire mobile and fixed network, messaging and wifi supported by his team of more than 600 professional engineers. Brendan has held a number of senior roles in the Networks Leadership Team over the past seven years, with achievements including leading the development of O2’s network share partnership with Vodafone in June 2012. He is also experienced in detailed planning and delivery of radio and transmission networks. Delivering the best experience to O2’s customers is at the heart of how Brendan works and knows his people are key to achieve this. Brendan also has a strong focus on his people encouraging development and self-learning across all of Networks.
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About O2: O2 provides services such as non-voice services, including text, media messaging, games, music, and video, as well as data connections.
Chris Mulley
Principal Architect, CTO Group of ZTE
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About ZTE: ZTE provides telecommunications equipment and network solutions.
Tommy Bjorkberg
Snr. Director – CTO Group of ZTE
Tommy is currently a Snr. Director within the CTO Group at ZTE Corporation focusing on 5G. Tommy has 20 years experience in the Telecommunications industry and has held senior positions covering Technology, Innovation, Operation, Strategy and Planning on both vendor and operator sides. Tommy joined Ericsson in 1997 and after a 15 years career where he worked in numerous countries all over the globe holding a number of positions such as SI Director, Head of Next Generation Networks and Head Of Solutions, in 2012 he joined Telefónica UK in as Head of Network Strategy & Programs just as Telefónica UK got ready to embarked on its 4G journey. In 2015 he once again moved back to the vendor side taking up a position as Director within ZTE’s CTO Group and he is now focusing on 5G and how we build the bridge between the networks of today and tomorrow. Tommy has a very keen interested in new technology and spectrum related matters and have advised operators and regulators in various markets on wireless technology network strategy, spectrum valuation, spectrum policy and the future demand for spectrum. Tommy is an experiences advisor to private equity and have been involved in numerous Telco M&A activities on both buy and sell side.
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About ZTE: ZTE provides telecommunications equipment and network solutions.
Chris Murphy
Regional CTO, EMEA of Viavi Solutions
Chris has 15 years commercial experience in telecommunications covering network performance measurement, optimisation and SON, particularly in cellular RAN including LTE, UMTS, CDMA and WiMAX. His focus has been on the modelling, simulation and optimisation of next generation technologies to build a revenue stream early in the life cycle of each new generation of telecommunication systems. He has contributed to various industry and standardisation bodies including 3GPP and NGMN for optimisation and SON, and the WiMAX Forum. Prior to Viavi Solutions and Arieso, Chris worked for Motorola and NSN developing new technical capabilities for the service portfolio. Chris holds a degree in Mathematics and Computing and a Ph.D. in the calibration of oceanic remote sensing satellites for improved models of climate change. He has authored numerous journal and conference papers and has filed 10 patents.
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About Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
Chris Murphy
Regional CTO, EMEA of Viavi Solutions
Chris has 15 years commercial experience in telecommunications covering network performance measurement, optimisation and SON, particularly in cellular RAN including LTE, UMTS, CDMA and WiMAX. His focus has been on the modelling, simulation and optimisation of next generation technologies to build a revenue stream early in the life cycle of each new generation of telecommunication systems. He has contributed to various industry and standardisation bodies including 3GPP and NGMN for optimisation and SON, and the WiMAX Forum. Prior to Viavi Solutions and Arieso, Chris worked for Motorola and NSN developing new technical capabilities for the service portfolio. Chris holds a degree in Mathematics and Computing and a Ph.D. in the calibration of oceanic remote sensing satellites for improved models of climate change. He has authored numerous journal and conference papers and has filed 10 patents.
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About Viavi Solutions: Viavi software and hardware platforms and instruments deliver end-to-end visibility across physical, virtual and hybrid networks.
John Rudin
Founder, CTO, and COO of Folium Optics
John studied Engineering at Durham University, and Optics at Reading University. After working as a product design engineer he joined Hewlett Packard and helped found their UK based displays research group. In 2013 he and Steve Kitson set up Folium Optics to further the commercialisation of colourful, low power plastic displays.
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About Folium Optics: Folium Optics was founded in November 2013 by Steve Kitson and John Rudin.
Ray McConnell
Founder/CTO of Blu Wireless
Ray brings over 25 years of experience with high performance, low power parallel processor technology. Starting his career with INMOS, he went on to found his first in a series of startups, Division plc, 20 years ago. At his second startup, Ray architected a multi-threaded graphics GP-GPU processor and has developed low-power, scaled heterogeneous maths accelerator SoCs and large imaging supercomputers. He has extensive knowledge of heterogeneous acceleration, compilers and software architectures and their applicability to the ‘difficult’ processing challenges in gigabit signal processing. He brings a broad range entrepreneurial startup experience, taking Division, PixelFusion and Clearspeed to IPO. Ray has 26 US and UK patents granted or filed and holds a computer science and cybernetics degree from the University of Kent.
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About Blu Wireless: Blu Wireless Technology is a silicon IP company developing wireless technology with a faster transmission rate.
Peter Husemeyer
Co-Founder & CTO of Sportable
Peter Husemeyer is a Co-Founder and serves as a Chief Technology Officer at Sportable.
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About Sportable: Sportable is a sports data company that changes the game for teams and audiences.
Bryn Jones
CTO of Three
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About Three: Three is a British telecommunications and internet service provider.
Steffan Donal
CTO of LIV
Steffan Donal is the CTO at LIV.
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About LIV: LIV creates technology to share Virtual Reality experiences.
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
Paul Moorhead
CTO and Founder of Kraydel
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About Kraydel: Kraydel addresses social isolation and maintains independence through TV-video calling and an IoT platform for sensors.
Andrew Lovatt
Chief Technology Officer of Blacktrace Ltd
Andrew Lovatt currently serves Blacktrace Holdings as a chief technology officer. Prior to joining Blacktrace Holdings, Andrew spent three years with the Dolomite Microfluidics as chief technology officer.
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About Blacktrace Ltd: Blacktrace Ltd is a technology company specializing in biology, nanomaterial sciences, chemistry, and microfluidics.
Mark Rendle
Founder & CTO of oort Inc
Mark is the founder and CTO of Oort Corporation, a new company building cloud-based software for people who build cloud-based software. Oort’s first product, Zudio, a Windows Azure Storage toolkit, is currently in public preview and will be fully launching in April 2013. Mark has been a Windows Azure Development MVP for three years. In his spare time, Mark work’s on the Simple.Data not-an-ORM and Simple.Web projects, and wanders the world speaking at conferences and user groups. Or he just geeks out learning new programming languages and frameworks; in 2013 he’s working a lot with TypeScript and AngularJS.
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About oort Inc: OORT designs and manufactures hardware and software solutions which enable customers to turn their home or office into a smart one.
Bogdan Ionut Gheorghe
CTO of Myneral Labs
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About Myneral Labs: Myneral.me offers an all-encompassing platform for the metal and mining sector .
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Justin Sperling
CTO of SpeakerMatch
Justin Sperling is an alumnus of The University of Texas at Austin and has been with SpeakerMatch since 2011. Justin makes sure that everything runs smoothly… constantly creating enhancements, perfecting new features, and tinkering with new tools to ensure a user-friendly experience for speakers, event planners and others who use our website.
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About SpeakerMatch: SpeakerMatch is the world’s largest speakers bureau.
Tarquin Dunn
CTO & Director of Carbon Cloud
With over 30 years experience in the IT industry, with an in-depth technical background, Tarquin has held a variety of senior positions within a partner and reseller environment covering CTO, Technical Director, Technical Consulting, Large Outsourced/Managed Services, Service Desk & Senior Management. Tarquin started Carbon Cloud in order to bring all the Enterprise-grade benefits of Cloud Computing to the wider market and also validates new technical products and vendor solutions.
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About Carbon Cloud, Education IT: Cloud Consultancy, Azure, AWS, Google, IT Support, Service Desk, Infrastructure, Storage, Virtualization, Networking, Security, Repair, AV
Will Harwood
CTO & co-founder of Silicon:SAFE
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About Silicon:SAFE: Silicon:SAFE develops impenetrable network storage solutions in hardware that prevent bulk theft of sensitive data.
Josh Kopecek
CTO of SwarmBuild
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About ECHOES, SwarmBuild: SwarmBuild is an online marketplace for designs and digital fabrication, including 3D printing, CNC and laser cutting.
