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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Medical 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.
Chris Hancock
CTO & Founder of Creo Medical
Chris has over fifteen years experience creating and developing new medical device IP focused on the use of microwave and RF energy for therapeutic applications. In 2002 he founded MicroOncology Ltd (renamed Creo Medical Ltd in 2009) to develop his ideas relating to new cancer treatment systems using state of the art semiconductor device technology to generate high frequency microwave and millimetre wave energy, and novel energy delivery and measurement techniques to identify and controllably ablate cancerous tissue. He is currently the CTO and founder of Creo Medical Ltd and holds a personal Chair in the Medical Microwave Systems Research Group at Bangor University. Chris is a Fellow of the Institute of Physics, a Chartered Physicist , Fellow of the Institute of Engineering and Technology, a Chartered Engineer and a Senior Member of the IEEE. He is a named inventor and lead author on over 100 patents/patent applications and journal publications.
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About Creo Medical, Institute of Physics: Creo Medical is a developer of electrosurgical devices.
James Thomas
Chief Technology Officer of Wellcome Trust
James joined Wellcome in April 2016. He is responsible for leadership of our technology and digital services. Before Wellcome, James had an extensive career in the private and public sectors, delivering transformational change through technology and data. His career began in the oil and water industries, with BP and Veolia. He moved to global technology provider Oracle to develop and lead technology consulting services for clients, including banking, defence and manufacturing. He then moved into healthcare, with technology leadership roles in the NHS. This included eight years as a Director of UCL Hospitals, establishing UCL Partners, London NHS Procurement Partnership and the UCH Macmillan Cancer Centre. Following this, James became an Associate Partner at Atos Consulting, including working with Genomics England to review its Informatics and bioinformatics capabilities.
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About Wellcome Trust: Wellcome Trust is a medical research charity that funds research that aims to protect and improving human and animal health.
Stewart Whiting
Tech Co-Founder & CTO of Current Health
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About Current Health: We help healthcare reduce risk & cost by monitoring, managing and engaging patients at home.
Clive Buckberry
Chief Technology Officer of Quanta
Clive was part of the founding team that initially developed the concept of Quanta’s SC+ system and obtained initial venture funding. Previously, Clive worked for the BMW group with responsibility for the vehicle physics department. In 2001, he became an honorary professor within the Department of Engineering and Physics at Heriot-Watt University and in 2011 was elected a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering and a Fellow of the Institute of Physics. Most recently, in 2018, Clive was accepted as a committee member of the IEC standards setting body for dialysis systems (60601-2-16).
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About Quanta: Quanta develops an advanced haemodialysis systems for use in the home and clinic.
Artur Saudabayev
Co-Founder, CTO of Causaly
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About Causaly: Causaly is teaching computers to read all knowledge in Biomedicine
Oliver Brooks
CTO & Co-founder of MedicSpot
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About MedicSpot: MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine
Oliver Brookes
Chief Technology Officer of MedicSpot
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About MedicSpot: MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine
Vicky Smalley
CTO of FundamentalVR
Vicky Smalley has extensive experience working with AI and a passion for big data, working at companies including Sony, Climax, Kuato Studios and If You Can. She started her career specializing in Artificial Intelligence for PC and Console titles and in 2011 took a change in direction, switching platform to mobile and focusing on the educational sector. She is a strong technical lead with a history of managing teams who can deliver complex products to ambitious timescales while maintaining high production values. She is passionate about using cutting edge VR and haptic technology to deliver immersive training that will improve surgical outcomes.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Eric Greveson
CTO of Brainomix
Eric is the CTO of Brainomix. He received his 1st class M.Eng.in Engineering from Cambridge University, and has worked on a wide variety of computer vision projects. These include video processing and 3D graphics algorithms, real-time data capture software, parallel grid computing systems, and data visualization. He has extensive experience in software engineering, design, and programming with languages such as C++ and Python. At Brainomix, Eric works with the clinical and business teams to deliver the company’s state-of-the-art medical imaging software.
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About Brainomix: Brainomix specializes in the creation of AI-powered imaging biomarkers that enable precision medicine for better treatment decisions
Adrien Desjardins
CTO of Echopoint Medical
Adrien has a PhD from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics with a specific focus on cardiovascular devices, fibre optic sensing, and optical coherence tomography. After his PhD, he led technical developments in an internal venture at Philips Research (Netherlands) to develop devices with integrated optical sensors and brought this technology from benchtop prototypes to in vivo human studies. In addition to his responsibilities at Echopoint Medical, he is a Full Professor at UCL where he leads the interventional devices group with a vision to develop novel methods for performing physiological measurements and imaging with minimally invasive devices. He has over 52 patent applications and granted patents.
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About Echopoint Medical: Echopoint Medical is a medtech company
Lindsay Edwards
Chief Technology Officer and President of Platform of Relation Therapeutics
Lindsay Edwards is the Chief Technology Officer and President of Platform of Relation Therapeutics.
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About GlaxoSmithKline, Relation Therapeutics: Relation Therapeutics engages in humanizing drug discovery and development.
Artem Stalpouski
Co-founder & CTO of Drfocused
Artem Stalpouski is the Co-founder & CTO @drfocused Bending rules across the borders.
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About Drfocused: Drfocused creates clinician-centred digital solutions improve the working lives of doctors.
Jordan Van Flute
Co-Founder & CTO of Inovus Medical
Jordan is is a psychology graduate from Cardiff University. His main roll is head of the design and manufacturing team, the area in which he is the most passionate. It is his original research into psychomotor testing and laparoscopic surgery, which provided the fundamental ideas for the first Pyxus laparoscopic simulator.
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About Inovus Medical: The perfect package for any general surgical trainees or residents.
Richard Flower
Chief Technology Officer of Thrive
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About Fuzzy Frog Ltd, Thrive: Thrive develops apps designed to prevent and treat different emotional and mental health difficulties.
Quentin Harmer
CTO of Endomag
Dr Harmer is a Chartered Engineer with more than 15 years’ experience in leading the development of advanced medical devices and drug-device combination products. He joined Endomag from Vectura Group plc where he served as Project Director responsible for the development of novel inhaler products. Before joining Vectura he was a Project Leader at Cambridge Consultants Ltd. He is an inventor on numerous patents that have been licensed in deals worth more than £40m. Quentin holds a PhD in Engineering Design and an MA in Engineering, both from the University of Cambridge.
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About Endomag: Endomag is a medical technology company devoted to improving breast cancer care through its magnetic sensing technologies.
Andrew Walker
Chief Technology Officer of Kind Consumer
Andrew Walker is the chief technology officer of Kind Consumer.
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About Kind Consumer: Kind Consumer is a healthcare research and development company focused on inhalation technologies.
Jane Osbourn
Co-Founder, Chief Scientific Officer & Chief Technology Officer of Alchemab Therapeutics
Jane Osbourn is the chairman at Mogrify.
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About Alchemab Therapeutics: Alchemab Therapeutics is developing natural protective antibodies designed to keep people free of hard-to-treat diseases.
Bruce Vernon
CTO of Calcivis
Bruce, with a Master’s degree in Immunology, has over 30 years’ experience within GLP and GMP licensed manufacturing facilities. As Operations Site Manager, he was previously responsible for all activities at Intercell’s cGMP vaccine manufacturing plant. Prior to this Bruce held a number of senior management positions within the Biopharmaceutical Industry including Global Head of Quality and Qualified Person for Intercell (where he established and implemented quality and compliance systems to meet FDA, EMA and other international regulatory requirements) and senior management posts at Excell Biotech Ltd., and Serologicals (now part of Millipore) specialist Biologics manufacturers of cGMP medicinal products and medical devices. Bruce is eligible to act as a Qualified Person under the permanent provisions of Directive 2001/82/EC and 2001/83/EC for both commercially licensed and investigational medicinal products.
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About Calcivis, ProFactor Pharma, VYVO BioSolutions: Calcivis is a biotech company that focuses on unmet needs in dentistry.
Stephen Dunniece
CTO & Founder of Cirdan
A founder of Cirdan, Stephen studied at Belfast Institute and the University of Ulster where he completed a MSc. in Electronics and Signal Processing. After working in the Physics Dept at QUB he joined Belfast start-up Andor Technology Ltd. For the next 7 years, he undertook all aspects of camera hardware design. In 1999, Stephen became Director of his own business, Audio Control Systems Ltd, involved in the design and installation of interactive equipment for the special needs sector.
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About Cirdan: Cirdan delivers solutions that enable rapid implementation of a robust and scalable digital pathology workflow into a laboratory.
Tim Oakes
CTO and Co-Founder of ViCentra
From a young age, Tim could usually be found surrounded by tools and prototypes, building his own boats and rigging elaborate zip lines in his garden. Now an award-winning design engineer, Tim has over seven years’ experience in the medical device field, working on projects as diverse as drug delivery platforms to laparoscopic surgical instruments. Having grown up with a father with Type 1 diabetes, Tim has first-hand knowledge of the challenges of trying to incorporate complex medical devices into daily life and is driven by a deep desire to create products that help make life easier.
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About ViCentra: ViCentra has developed an insulin pump for diabetes patients.
Fabian Campbell-West
CTO of Liopa
Fabian Campbell-West is is the CTO at Liopa.
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About Liopa: Liopa’s LipRead deciphers speech from lip movements. It uses AI and deep learning for automated lip reading.
Arkadiusz Klemenko
Co-founder, CTO & Tech Leader of Solvemed Group
Experienced Business Objects Developer with a demonstrated history of working in the hospital & health care industry. Skilled in Change Control, Clinical Data Management, Databases, Data Warehousing, and Microsoft Reporting Service. Strong information technology professional with a Master of Science in Engineering (MSE) focused in Computer Software Engineering from Technical University of Szczecin.
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About Solvemed Group: Revolutionising neurology diagnostics and drug discovery with the power of Artificial Intelligence.
Gareth Jones
CTO of Jupiter Diagnostics
Gareth was previously the Assistant Director and Head and Science Chair of the Biology and Medicine College, Synchrotron Radiation Department at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Since 2006, he has created and advised on novel diagnostic technologies for 10 UK firms. He is a named inventor on 13 patents and has over 70 papers published including in Nature.
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About Jupiter Diagnostics: Jupiter Diagnostics has developed a diagnostic platform
Sarah Surrall
CTO of Oxehealth
Sarah Surrall is the CTO at Oxehealth.
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About Oxehealth: SaaS workflow solution gives carers and custodians more time for hands on care where and when it’s needed most.
Matthew Robson
Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Perspectum
Matt Robson is Perspectum’s Chief Technical Officer (CTO), co-founder and company director. He is responsible for overseeing development and implementation of our image acquisition and image analysis pipelines. Matt has over 25 years of experience working with MRI initially through his PhD at Cambridge in “Automated Analysis of MRI Images” that followed from a Natural Science (Physics and Theoretical Physics) also in Cambridge. He followed this with Research positions at Yale University and industrial roles with GEC, Surrey Medical Systems, Picker International and Marconi Medical before returning to academia with Oxford University where he pioneered the technologies that underpin Perspectum’s products.
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About Perspectum: Healthcare, Medical Technology, SaaS
Raghu Raj Singh Thakur
Founder & CTO of Re-Vana Therapeutics
Raghu Raj Singh Thakur is the Founder & CTO at Re-Vana Therapeutics.
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About Re-Vana Therapeutics: Re-Vana Therapeutics is a ocular pharmaceuticals & drug delivery company.
Ivaylo Yosifov
Co-Founder and CTO of FindMeCure
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About FindMeCure: FindMeCure helps anyone to easily find future treatments and apply for participation in studies within a few clicks.
Gustavo Cerda
CTO of Swift Molecular Diagnostics
Gustavo completed his PhD at the University of Cambridge in the field of molecular biology. He then went on to do a successful Post-doc also at the University of Cambridge. Using his knowledge of molecular biology, he discovered a revolutionary method of detecting DNA. He now works full time for Swift Molecular Diagnostics.
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About Swift Molecular Diagnostics: Swift Molecular Diagnostics is developing a rapid, easy-to-use, cost effective genetic “yes or no” test.
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.
David Williams
CTO of Acea Health
David joins Flynotes with almost a decade of technical experience. Most recently, he was Technical Lead at Entrpreneur First where he built their platform and selected and mentored technical entrepreneurs for their programme. He was also an early employee at SwiftKey where he worked in helping scale the company to acquisition in 2016. David has a proven track record in building and delivering scalable solutions for a international markets and holds a degree in mathematics from the University of Cambridge.
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About Acea Health: Acea Health is the developer of the digital dental and medical consent platform Flynotes.
Gareth Wakefield
CTO of Xerion Healthcare
Gareth Wakefield joined Xerion Healthcare as Chief Technical Officer in 2013.
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About Xerion Healthcare: Xerion Healthcare is the technology commercialization company of University of Oxford.
Mel Vinton
Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder of Inotec AMD
Mel Vinton is a Chief Technology Officer & Co-Founder at Inotec AMD.
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About Inotec AMD: Inotec AMD is a medical device company.
Niall Haslam
CTO of Axial3D
Niall Haslam i8s CTO at Axial3D.
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About Axial3D: Axial3D is 3D printing anatomical models for the healthcare industry.
Christopher Scollo
Acting CTO of MyHealthPal
Former CTO at ciao.com, tech advisor, author and angel investor.
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About MyHealthPal: My Health Pal is a powerful digital companion that enables people with long-term health conditions.
Justin Buckland
CTO of LEX Diagnostics
Justin Buckland is the Chief Technology Officer of LEX Diagnostics.
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About LEX Diagnostics: LEX Diagnostics is a medical device company that specializes in molecular diagnostics for primary care.
Alex Johnson
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Pixcelldata
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About Pixcelldata: Pixcelldata is a leading innovator of software solutions for the digital pathology domain.
