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 Consumer 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.
Tom Rogers
CTO of Farewill
Tom Rogers opened the doors to 101 Restaurant, Bar & Grill in March 2004, and has since then been serving modern English cuisine to the village of Stockton Heath, Warrington and the wider Cheshire area. From their exclusive upstairs venue Tom and his team deliver fresh food & beverages in an eclectic atmosphere that brings intimacy and liveliness in equal measures to the whole dining experience. We are the ONLY venue in Stockton Heath to offer live music every Thursday, Friday, Saturday & Sunday, with a cocktail bar buzzing throughout the week.
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About Farewill: Farewill is a provider of an all-in-one financial and legal services platform used to deal with all paperwork after death.
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.
Dennis Curry
Executive Director and Deputy CTO, Technology Fellow of Konica Minolta
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About Konica Minolta: Konica Minolta is an Innovative Company and continues to create inspiring products and services in the field of imaging.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Michael Robinson
CTO of Snupps
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About Snupps: Snupps helps people organize, share and discover the stuff they own and value.
Simon Kirk
Chief Technology Officer of Marken
Simon Kirk joined Marken in 2010 as Marken’s Chief Technology Officer (CTO). With over 18 years of experience in technology systems and development, Simon’s knowledge and expertise have contributed to Marken’s leading, cloud-based IT solutions as well as the corporate IT infrastructure. At Marken, Simon is instrumental in programming, in-house application design, production and logistics. Simon is invested in Agile methods for technical leadership to simplify traditional IT approaches for his teams as well as clients. As such, he works closely with internal and external stakeholders to identify and deliver valuable outcomes and facilitate development teams to help them perform at their best. Simon graduated from one of the United Kingdom’s leading universities, Royal Holloway, University of London with a Master of Science (MSci) in Physics.
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About Marken: Marken provides patient-centric supply chain organization in the life sciences industry.
Anders Hallsten
Co-Founder & CTO of Divido
Anders Hallsten is CTO and Co-Founder at Divido. Hallsten spent the last 10 years building e-commerce platforms for brands such as Hush Puppies and Fossil Watches.
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About Divido: Divido is a global white label consumer lending platform for financial institutions and multinational retailers.
Richard Taylor
CTO of Good Club
Richard Taylor is the CTO at Good Club.
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About Good Club: Good Club is a Zero Waste supermarket that offers different brands and sells groceries in reusable packaging.
Stefan Boronea
CTO & Co-Founder of Proportunity
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About Proportunity: Proportunity is a financial services organisation made possible by technology.
Tom Carter
CTO and Co-Founder of Ultraleap
Tom started exploring ultrasound technology during a study in the final year of his Master’s degree in Computer Science at the University of Bristol. He further developed the initial concept to form the basis of his PhD studies, during which time he published numerous papers and filed various patents. Recognising the technology’s commercial viability, Tom founded Ultrahaptics in November 2013. Ultrahaptics has developed a unique technology that enables users to receive tactile feedback without needing to wear or touch anything. The technology uses ultrasound to project sensations through the air and directly onto the user. Users can ‘feel’ touch-less buttons get feedback for mid-air gestures, or interact with virtual objects.
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About Ultraleap: Ultraleap is working to create the most remarkable connection between people and technology.
Tom Holder
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata)
Tom Holder is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Tapmydata.
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About Contactzilla, Personal Privacy Solutions (Tapmydata): Tap is a mobile app and new breed of CRM to help companies build a positive privacy dialogue with their customers.
Alan Flower
Senior Vice President – CTO EMEA & Global Head, Cloud Native Labs of HCL Technologies
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About HCL Technologies: HCL Technologies is a global IT services company, working with clients in the areas that impact and redefine the core of their businesses.
Jon Curnyn
Chief Technology Officer of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Keith Stenson
CTO Cloud Services of Switchee
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About Switchee: Data analytics and IoT business serving large social landlords
Mark Akerman
CTO of Oplo
Mark Akerman is the Chief Technology Officer at Oplo.
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About Oplo: Oplo is a direct lender platform that offers car finance, personal loans, and secured loan products.
Joe Barbour
Chief Technology Officer of Knoma
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About Knoma: Knoma offers a payment solution and marketplace for lifelong learning.
Philip Kunovski
CTO & Head of Research of KYMIRA Sport
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About KYMIRA Sport: KYMIRA Sport is developing a range of performance and recovery enhancing sportswear.
Gabriele Cacciola
CTO of Ocyan
Gabriele has engineering in his DNA: focused and visionary about tech. His experience as Big Data in the Fintech space with ClearScore (since they were a small startup to the worldwide scale it is now) followed many years spent in high tech startups and corporates. When is not busy directing Ocyan’s tech work, he works along with AWS to present his Big Data serverless platforms and support other startups in this journey.
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About Ocyan: Financial marketplace for European Expats
Gavin Love
Chief Technology Officer of MyBuilder
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About MyBuilder: MyBuilder connects consumers, builders, and tradesmen and offers a platform that promotes high quality work.
Panagiotis Tsarouchis
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Duel
Panagiotis ‘Naio’ Tsarouchis is an award winning designer and developer with prolific experience in entrepreneurship having founded design and technology education startups including Consider Magazine, Art In Progress and Treesix. Naio is Duel’s Co-Founder, CTO and expert in both complex computer science and user-centric design, having built Duel from a UGC platform into a fully-featured Brand Advocacy suite. As a fellow Co-Founder of Daredevil Project gaming studio, he has a deep, technical understanding of how gaming virology, authentic brands and customer behaviour intersect on a platform level. When not working, you’ll probably find him rescuing art in Bristol, adding to his impressive rum collection and rocking his synth.
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About Duel: Brand Advocacy Platform that enables purpose-led brands to drive organic growth & retention through word-of-mouth & advocacy
Keith Roberts
CTO & COO of SquadLocker
Keith has spent the past 20 years working in various areas of technology; areas of focus have been product development, network operations, and information security. Most of Keith’s career has been spent working with technology startups, but has experience working in financial services, communications, and healthcare IT. When Keith isn’t building the ‘next best thing’ he can be found playing with his kids, coaching one of their teams, or enjoying one of Rhode Island’s beaches or hiking trails.
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About SquadLocker: SquadLocker customizes team gear and apparel, on time and to the highest quality standard.
Toby de Havilland
Chief Technology Officer of Wollit
Toby de Havilland is the Chief Technology Officer at Wollit.
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About shoply, Wollit: The UK’s most powerful financial membership
Alistair Jackman
CTO of Letyano
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Alistair Jackman
CTO of Letyano
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About Letyano: Letyano is incentive driven feedback
Peter Hudson
Chief Technology Officer of Sepura
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About Sepura: Sepura is a global leader in the design, manufacture and supply of digital radio products
Amy Boyd
CTO of CityMunch
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About CityMunch: CityMunch brings together restaurants and consumers, tackling under-utilised capacity at off-peak times and reducing the cost of eating-out.
James Pursaill
Co-Founder & CTO of Plend
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About Plend: Building a better way to borrow, where people are no longer held back by their credit history
Arnaud Baali
CTO of Blow
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About Blow: Blow is an online platform that provides its users with a range of beauty services.
Matthew Bramble
Chief Technology Officer of Altec Lansing
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About Altec Lansing: Altec Lansing designs, manufactures, markets, and supports advanced audio solutions for PCs and related technologies.
Rodrigo Menegazzo
CTO of Squawka
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About Squawka: Squawka is a digital media company focused on using stats & data viz to fuel content for fans
Peter O’Connor
Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Verdel Instruments
Peter O’Connor has a PhD in 1995 from Cornell University under the mentorship of Prof. Fred W. McLafferty. 2-Year postdoc at the FOM Institute for Atomic and Molecular Physics in Amsterdam. 2-year scientist position at IonSpec, a small FTICR mass spectrometry start-up company in Irvine, CA. 10 years developing his academic career at the Boston University School of Medicine, in Boston, Massachusetts. 10 years as a full professor of mass spectrometry at the University of Warwick. PBO has spent 28 years of his career working on instrumentation research in FTICR mass spectrometry.
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About Verdel Instruments: Verdel Instruments has developed new two-dimensional mass spectrometry (2DMS) technology.
Paulo Martins
CTO of VONCRANK
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About VONCRANK: VONCRANK is a revolutionary cycling app that allows its users to book a mobile bicycle mechanic from their phone in just 4 easy steps.
Andre Kashiwara
CTO – Co-Founder of FitCat
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About FitCat: FitCat is an app, a device and a community that keeps your cat in top condition
Andre Kashiwara
CTO – Co-Founder of FitCat
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About FitCat: FitCat is an app, a device and a community that keeps your cat in top condition
