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 Cloud Computing 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.
Garry Tait
Global Chief Technology Strategist of NetApp
A professional, forward-thinking, highly-talented and assured IT Executive, Garry has an exceptionally broad level of experience developed over many years of working in IT at the most senior levels within several key industry sectors. He is an innovative, adaptable, customer-focused and delivery centric leader with a proven track-record in implementing large-scale change and transformation throughout his career. Garry has successfully made the transition through a number of very different roles in differing geographies and industry-sectors throughout his career, he brings with him an exceptional level of drive, passion and enthusiasm which consistently delivers results. He has a strong track record of talent management, team-building and leading by example, demonstrates huge commitment and always exemplifies very strong personal values and ethics. Garry has been on the board of a number of internal and JV companies and has a strong history of working with regulators in most geographies.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
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Steve Lane
Chief Technology Officer of The Access Group
Steve has nearly 25 years’ experience in the software industry. He most recently worked with Achilles, where he was responsible for setting strategy and delivering SaaS platforms through global product development and technology teams. Prior to this, he held board and senior level positions with Experian Decision Analytics, Fair Isaac and Financial Objects.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Azeem Akhtar
CTO & Head of Design Team of BT Global Services
An articulate, highly driven and infectiously enthusiastic professional currently serving as the CTO on one of the BT’s largest outsource contracts. Technically and commercially adept with a proven track record of complex solution sales in the most challenging commercial environments globally. A finally astute problem solver with a high degree of commercial acumen focused on delivering bottom-line benefit. Very experienced in formulating market entry strategies, commercial analysis, writing business cases, and contract negotiation. A genuine team player that inspires through thought leadership, challenging the status quo and empowering team members. Multi-lingual and adept at using strong interpersonal skills to develop trusting relationships to drive business benefit. Undertakes a voluntary non-executive director role as Chairman of Active Essex.
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Kim Gasson
FFA & FFAvr Product Owner and CTO, Supply Chain of BT Global Services
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About BT Global Services: BT Global Services plc is a division of United Kingdom telecommunications operator BT Group.
Paddy Byers
CTO & Co-founder of Ably Realtime
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About Ably Realtime: Ably is the platform to power synchronized digital experiences in realtime.
Alex McMullan
CTO, International of Pure Storage
Alex began his career in software development after Bachelors and Masters Engineering degrees at Liverpool University, writing flight/test software at British Aerospace, CAD 3D modelling software at Parametric Technology and the RDBMS engine at CA for Ingres before moving into infrastructure design and implementation. Alex transitioned into professional services at Sun and VERITAS through a consulting partner with numerous assignments designing and implementing large scale UNIX and storage systems in financial services before joining UBS to manage the storage and distributed computing infrastructure. From UBS he moved to Barclays to run storage, database and data warehouse engineering and spent 6 years there before joining the Pure Storage team where he holds the role of EMEA CTO.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Gary Chandler
Chief Technology Officer of QiO Technologies
Gary joined QiO from Rolls-Royce, having spent 25 years developing real-time safety-critical control systems for aero-engines. As a keen strategist and innovator, Gary was a key leader in the adoption of ‘Lean Product Development’ and the ‘Internet of Things’ within Rolls-Royce, deeply engaging with the associated culture change. From both a Chief Engineer and a Functional Head perspective, Gary has loved working in teams that are delivering customer value with exciting technology products.
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About QiO Technologies: Advanced analytics and artificial intelligence software that enables increased operational efficiency, productivity, safety and new revenues
Alistair Russell
Co-Founder/CTO of tray.io
Alistair Russell is the co-founder and CTO of Tray.
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About tray.io: Tray.io provides a cloud-based software integration platform for automators.
Rashid Mansoor
CTO & Co-founder of Hadean
Engineer & complex systems scientist with entrepreneurial expertise building and scaling deep-tech startups. Rashid Mansoor is the Founder and CEO of MetaGravity.
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About Hadean, MetaGravity: Deploy Cloud Native Applications Simply and Securely
Steve Costigan
Field CTO EMEA of Zadara Storage
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About Zadara Storage: Zadara Storage offers enterprise-class storage as a service for private and public clouds.
Alex Metaxas
Co-Founder and CTO of Cloud Maker
Alex Metaxas is Co-Founder and CTO at Cloud Maker
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About Cloud Maker: Cloud Maker is a Visual DevOps platform that enables organisations to easily design and build scalable cloud solutions.
Lee James
CTO of Rackspace
Lee James is responsible for helping Rackspace’s customers maximise their cloud investments across people, process and technology, as well developing new products and services. As the Chief Technical Officer EMEA Lee’s experienced in developing and delivering industry-leading cloud, analytics and SAP services for global organisations. He’s also previously been awarded for innovation after building BP’s first multi-cloud platform. In a prior role at Betfair, Lee was responsible delivering a DevOps-driven platform that performed more transactions than all the European stock markets each day. He particularly enjoys leading on global cloud transformations, advanced analytics platforms and cloud-inspired organisational transformation which delivers significant business value to customers.
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About Rackspace: Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Lee James
CTO of Rackspace
Lee James is responsible for helping Rackspace’s customers maximise their cloud investments across people, process and technology, as well developing new products and services. As the Chief Technical Officer EMEA Lee’s experienced in developing and delivering industry-leading cloud, analytics and SAP services for global organisations. He’s also previously been awarded for innovation after building BP’s first multi-cloud platform. In a prior role at Betfair, Lee was responsible delivering a DevOps-driven platform that performed more transactions than all the European stock markets each day. He particularly enjoys leading on global cloud transformations, advanced analytics platforms and cloud-inspired organisational transformation which delivers significant business value to customers.
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About Rackspace: Rackspace provides hybrid cloud-based services that enable businesses to run their workload in a public or private cloud.
Radouane Oudrhiri
Chief Technology Officer of Eagle Genomics
Radouane has an extensive experience in leading world-class software and data-intensive system developments in different industries from Telecom to Healthcare, Nuclear, Automotive, Financials. Radouane is Lean/Six Sigma Master Black Belt with speciality in high-tech, IT and Software engineering and he is recognised as the leader and early adaptor of Lean/Six Sigma and DFSS to IT and Software. He is a fellow of the Royal Statistical Society (RSS) and member of the ISO Technical Committee (TC69: Applications of Statistical methods) where he is co-author of the Lean & Six Sigma Standard (ISO 18404) as well as the new standard under development (Design for Six Sigma). He is also part of the newly formed international Group on Big Data (nominated by BSI as the UK representative/expert). Radouane has also been Chair of the working group on Measurement Systems for Automated Processes/Systems within the ISPE (International Society for Pharmaceutical Engineering).
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About Eagle Genomics: Eagle Genomics is a enterprise software solutions company to enable the management, orchestration and exploitation of life sciences data.
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.
Seb Matthews
Chief Technology Architect (Defence & National Security) of Fujitsu
Seb Matthews is the CEO at ProvisionPoint
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About AdeoPoint, Fujitsu, ProvisionPoint: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
Ian Bradbury
CTO – Financial Services, UK and Ireland of Fujitsu
Ian Bradbury, Chief Technology Officer for Financial Services in Fujitsu and a Fujitsu Distinguished Engineer – Ian delivers thought-leadership into business-led transformational engagements in the areas of agile working, digital workplace, customer and colleague journeys, cloud adoption, AI and Intelligent Automation, Open Banking and DLT (blockchain).
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About Fujitsu: Fujitsu is a information & communications technology equipment and services firm providing IT & IT infrastructure and other services.
Neil Stevenson
CTO Hazelcast Platform of Hazelcast
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About Hazelcast: Hazelcast is a real-time, intelligent application platform that enables enterprises to capture value otherwise missed.
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
Amar Bhogal
Co-founder & Chief Technology Officer of Konsolute Ltd
Amar Bhogal is the co-founder and CTO at Konsolute. He is a former software architect at Microsoft.
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About Konsolute Ltd, Konsolute R&D: Microsoft Gold Partner headquartered in London offering professional services and products for the Microsoft Cloud
Adam Billyard
Co-Founder & CTO of Polystream
Having been in the industry since the dawn of time (well at least 1981) Adam has a wealth of experience and expertise in realtime graphics development that has led to the creation of some of the most successful game franchises seen in the last 20 years. As a Co-Founder of Criterion, in 1992 Adam oversaw the development of Renderware; one of the most successful 3D rendering engines subsequently instrumental to some of the largest game franchises of the last few years. Following Criterion’s acquisition by EA, Adam became VP and CTO at EATech until leaving in 2008 to pursue new challenges. Having founded Lightup software, Adam delivered the highly successful LightUp Analytics for energy efficient building design. With all this it shouldn’t be a surprise that Adam is a named inventor on 10 patents and counting.
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About Elektraglide, Polystream: Building the 3D internet // Powering a new era of instantly scalable, cloud native, metaverse experiences
Andy Jeffries
CTO and Co-founder of Civo
Andy Jeffries is an Advisory Board Member at DevNetwork. Prior to that, he was the CTO and Co-Founder of CIvo.
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About Civo: Cloud hosting specialists running the the world’s first Kubernetes service powered by Rancher Lab’s K3s.
Domhnall Murphy
CTO of GoConqr
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About GoConqr: GoConqr is a free online learning platform where you can create, share and discover learning resources.
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
Alex Heneveld
Co-Founder & CTO of Cloudsoft Corporation
Alex brings twenty years experience designing software solutions in the enterprise, start-up, and academic sectors. Alex was with Enigmatec Corporation where he led the development of what is now the Monterey® Middleware Platform™. He founded PocketWatch Systems, commercialising results from his doctoral research. Alex holds a PhD (Informatics) and an MSc (Cognitive Science) from the University of Edinburgh and an AB (Mathematics) from Princeton University.
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About Cloudsoft Corporation: Cloudsoft develop powerful automation software, enabling customers in industries like banking, finance, energy and defence to orchestrate and govern services across complex hybrid IT environments.
Fraser Hardy
CTO of Qudini – Retail Choreography
Fraser Hardy is Founder & CTO at Qudini.
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About Qudini – Retail Choreography: Retail Choreography solutions to transforming customer experience, operations and data for retailers and banks.
Martin Paton
CTO, and Cloud & Platform Engineering leader of Kin and Carta
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About Kin and Carta: Kin + Carta is a global digital transformation business that advises, creates, and connects marketing and customer experience.
David Barker
Founder & CTO of 4D Data Centres
David B. is the Founder & CTO at 4D Data Centres.
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About 4D Data Centres, techUK: Cloud, Connectivity and Colocation, with data centres in Sussex, Surrey, Kent & London.
Paul King
CTO of The Bot Platform
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About : Empowering people to build a better employee experience using bots, digital assistants and automation tools.
Chris Morris
CTO & Co-Founder of Atlas Cloud
Chris Morris is a CTO & Co-Founder at Atlas Cloud.
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About Atlas Cloud: Atlas Cloud are a leading provider of cloud IT services based in Newcastle.
Mohamed Bakeer
CTO of Converge Technology Specialists
Mohamed Bakeer is the CTO at Converge Technology Specialists. Prior to joining Converge, Mohamed served as a CTO at LIMA. He holds a bachelor’s degree in civil engineering from Cairo University.
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About Converge Technology Specialists: Converge Technology Specialists is a specialist provider of hosted and managed IT services through private cloud.
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
Jon Topper
CTO/CEO of The Scale Factory
DevOps, Linux, cloud infrastructure and automation specialist.
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About The Scale Factory: DevOps & Cloud Infrastructure Consultancy
Tony Richards
CTO of Securestorm
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About : Securestorm – The Expert Advisers on Cloud and Cyber Security
