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 CFO’ operating in the Artificial Intelligence space. If you think a CFO’ 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.
Cristina Alba Ochoa
CFO of OakNorth
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About OakNorth: OakNorth is the creator of the ON Credit Intelligence Suite – proven cloud software that transforms commercial lending
Arvi Chana
CFO of Quantexa
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About Quantexa: Quantexa is a global data and analytics software company pioneering Contextual Decision Intelligence.
Chris Williams
Chief Financial and Commerical Officer (CFO) of RwHealth
Chris was the CEO of a fast-growing SaaS business in Health sector for 6 years, working on all aspects of development including: Sales, Product, Operations and Finance. Within this time, Chris reshaped the business, and finally managed the transaction processes to exit (initially IPO, then Trade sale). Chris has also worked as a Deloitte Partner, within the Corporate Finance – Technology & Media sector, including 7 years as National Head with deals ranging from £10m to £400m
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About RwHealth: RwHealth is a provider of healthcare ML and AI driven patient flow, predictive analytics and insights platform in the UK, US and AUZ.
Spyros Karageorgis
CFO of Eigen Technologies
Spyros Karageorgis is the CFO at Eigen Technologies.
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About Eigen Technologies: Eigen is a research-driven AI company specializing in NLP for businesses in finance, law, and professional services.
Sabrina Castiglione
Chief Financial Officer of Tessian
Sabrina joined Tessian (then CheckRecipient) in 2016 to run all operational and finance functions, including Finance, Legal, People, Talent, IT, Facilities & Information Security. An Imperial College alumnus holding a masters in Chemistry with a focus on physical and analytical chemistry. Sabrina’s professional background began in pensions actuarial and the institutional investment space, before joining Tessian. Sabrina’s personal focus is on creating systems and processes that work smarter and work pragmatically with the reality of hard-working individuals in a fast-paced environment.
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Jamie Thomas
Chief Financial Officer of Qubit
Jamie Thomas has been serving as Chief Financial Officer at Qubit.
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About Qubit: Qubit specializes in personalization at scale for e-commerce companies.
Nick Davies
CFO of Graphcore
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About emortal, Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Nick Bishop
CFO of Graphcore
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About Graphcore: Graphcore develops a microprocessor designed for AI and machine learning applications.
Edvar Heylen
CFO of HeyJobs
After spending almost a decade in investment banking covering the media and technology space both at Citigroup and Allen & Company, Edvar now leads ROLI’s finance and business analytics team. While he is not studying business models, new innovative technologies or history, he can be found on his bicycle exploring new roads.
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About HeyJobs: HeyJobs is a talent platform matching the world’s talent to opportunities.
Steffen Tjerrild
COO, CFO and Co-Founder of Synthesia
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About Synthesia: Synthesia is an AI video avatar platform that creates professional videos from a text in different languages.
Patrick Imbach
CFO of Callsign
As CFO at Callsign, Patrick is in charge of the Callsign’s financial strategy, financial operations, and financial and management reporting. Previously, Patrick built and led KPMG’s practice for fast growing technology businesses and innovative startups. He was a member of KPMG’s global Steering Committee for Innovative Startups and a member of KPMG’s TMT leadership team in the UK. Prior to this, Patrick has worked in multiple audit and finance roles in Germany, Japan and France with businesses across industries with a focus on Media, Telecommunications, and Technology companies.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Ijoma Maluza
CFO of Blue Prism
Ijoma Maluza is a Chartered Accountant and a Fellow of the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England & Wales. He has over 10 years of experience in the Technology sector and joined Blue Prism from ip.access Limited where he was Chief Financial Officer. Prior to joining ip.access Limited he served as Corporate Strategy and Corporate Development Director of Xchanging plc. Ijoma read Economics at Cambridge University.
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About Blue Prism: Blue Prism is an intelligent robotic process automation company that develops a digital workforce for enterprises.
Tom Sawyer
Chief Financial Officer of Cognetivity Neurosciences
Tom Sawyer is the Chief Financial Officer at Cognetivity Neurosciences.
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About Cognetivity Neurosciences: Cognetivity Neurosciences is a Platform technology for early, rapid and easy detection of dementia.
Fiona Talbot
Chief Financial Officer of Limitless
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About Limitless: The Limitless GigCX platform enables businesses to connect customers with qualified experts to solve customer service enquiries on-demand.
Jonathan Crossfield
CFO of Featurespace
Jonathan leads Featurespace’s finance team and is responsible for financial reporting and investor relations. He works closely with the commercial and operational teams around all aspects of internal analysis and business planning.Prior to joining Featurespace, Jonathan worked in strategic consultancy and equity research, including several years as a senior technology analyst with Bank of America Merrill Lynch. Jonathan studied Natural Sciences at the University of Cambridge and qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte.
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About Featurespace: Featurespace provides an adaptive behavioral analytics technology and automated deep behavioral networks for risk management.
Suezann Holmes
CFO of techspert.io
Suezann holds an MA in International Relations, an MBA in Finance and a BPA. As former CFO for Moo.com and with experience working for Virgin Media and other commercially known companies, Suezann brings a skill set well versed in profit improvement, cost reduction, mergers, divestitures, acquisitions and budgets. Suezann enjoys cycling in her spare time and takes every opportunity to go sightseeing in London.
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About ScaleXP, techspert.io: techspert.io is an AI-driven technology for identifying and sourcing specialist expertise, globally.
Tim Perks
CFO of cloud.IQ
Tim joined NewVoiceMedia as CFO in Dec 2010. He has a wealth of experience in CFO roles in the technology sector, taking Baltimore Technologies from a fledgling AIM Company to a FTSE 100 company in 3 years, delivering a $200M trade sale at Staffware Plc (a BPM software company) and as CFO of Redstone Telecom plc, a network-based provider of ICT solutions and end-to-end managed services.
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About cloud.IQ: cloud.IQ is an AI and machine learning based automated conversion rate optimisation platform for e-commerce businesses.
Charlie Rowan
CFO of Realeyes
Charlie is Realeyes’ CFO based in London. He joins from Runpath, a Fintech company, which he saw through to successful sale to Experian. Charlie has experience in fundraising, debt restructuring and M&A. Prior to Runpath, he worked in early stage Venture Capital house Spark Ventures, gaining experience on the other side of the fundraising fence.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Ted Hailey
CFO of SafeToNet
Ted Hailey adds up and takes away. He is in finance. In 1990 he joined Fibernet as CFO and grew the company into a FTSE 250 listed telecoms company operating in 4 countries. Responsible for the IPO of Fibernet on AIM in 1996 and then the main listing in 1998. He is also quite old and quite grey.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
William Harris
CFO of Senseye
William Harris is a Chartered Accountant with over 30 years’ experience of working in publicly quoted and private companies in the Technology, Media and Telecoms (TMT) sector. He has been working with Senseye since its formation.
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About Senseye: Senseye is a cloud-based software for predictive maintenance.
Anna Fraser-Harris
CFO of Didimo
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About Blow, Didimo: Didimo is the world’s leading platform for the automated generation of high-fidelity, user-based digital human avatars.
Bradley Shore
Chief Financial Officer of Wiserfunding
Brad Shore is the Chief Financial Officer at Wiserfunding.
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About Secrutiny, Wiserfunding: AI-backed platform to assess the Credit Risk of SMEs
Brian Southward
CFO of Symphony Ventures
Brian is a chartered accountant with a history in commercial leadership with British Airways and American Express amongst others. Brian spent the last 10 years working with SMEs at Board level within high growth, turnaround and disruptive business models and gaining significant experience of building international businesses from the ground up – including his own successful data analytics start-up. Recently the focus has been commercial innovation, fundraising and M&A including ‘buy and builds’ and exits – both trade and IPOs. During this period, Brian has spent several years working with companies looking to drive digital transformation in their own verticals.
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About Symphony Ventures: Symphony is a professional services firm passionate about creating value for the world’s leading organizations.
Bill Fleming
CFO of Ultromics
Bill’s career spans over 25 years in a broad range of finance positions. Holding a law degree from Cambridge University and as a qualified ACMA, Bill has accumulated international FD/CFO experience in small venture-backed companies, large blue chips and the bio-tech arena. Bill served as European Finance Director for Visible Genetics, a pioneering company in the field of nucleic acid diagnostics, subsequently holding senior finance positions for Bayer Healthcare in Europe and the USA. Bill played a leading role in securing investment for Oxford University spinout Oxitec and in its successful acquisition by Intrexon Corporation. Joining Ultromics in February 2018, Bill brings with him extensive experience in life sciences and technology sectors and holds a non-executive directorship at the leading life sciences network, OBN.
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About Ultromics: Ultromics clinicians and engineers working together to set new standards for world-class cardiovascular diagnostic tools.
Cinthia Danove
CFO of Akoni Hub
Cinthia started her career in financial services and feels passionate about start-ups and SMEs. She has significant experience working with businesses in the mid-market space – from analysing opportunities at a VC fund, to the role of Head of Finance for regional SMEs, as well as hands-on mentoring of entrepreneurs at Endeavor. Cinthia has been involved from different perspectives and at various stages of high-growth firms, and feels strongly about providing value-added services to businesses that are the bedrock of the economy. Cinthia is an Economist, and holds a CFA and MBA from London Business School.
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About Akoni Hub: Akoni provides simple cash management tools for individuals and SMEs.
James Serjeant
COO & CFO of ContactEngine
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About ContactEngine: ContactEngine is a proactive Conversational AI technology that automates conversations between corporates and their customers
Ryan Styles
CFO of Napier AI
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About Napier AI: Napier AI develops an intelligent compliance platform for AML and trade compliance.
Shane McCourt
CFO & Co-founder of Sensum
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About Sensum: Empathic AI for smart mobility, places and people
Andrew Court
Group CFO of Iyuno-SDI
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About Iyuno-SDI, TV Genius: Iyuno-SDI Group is the media and entertainment industry’s leading localization service provider
