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 Computer 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.
Graeme Cox
CEO/CTO of Emteq
Graeme Cox has a degree in artificial intelligence, over 20 years experience in scaling product development teams, and has a track record of building profitable, high-growth technology businesses. He has founded and managed four technology businesses and has served as board member and advisor on several more across the range of software, hardware and services. A project and person manager with 20 years of continuous experience in the management of teams and individuals with project ownership, management and delivery of individual budgets up to $100 million.
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About Emteq: The world’s first emotion recognition and analysis platform in smart glasses
Thomas Mary
Founder & CTO of Maze
Thomas Mary is the Founder & CTO at Maze.
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About Maze: Rapid, remote testing for agile teams, from idea to launch
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.
Laurence Bargery
Co Founder & CTO of AccuRx
Laurence Bargery is a Co-founder & CTO at accuRx.
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About AccuRx: AccuRx is on a mission to bring patients and their healthcare teams together.
Niall Burns
Chief Technology Officer of Symphonic
Niall has led commercial software development projects for over 20 years within the finance, health, government, telecoms and oil industries. Prior to joining Symphonic during its proof of concept phase to design the product architecture, he was Technical Director for the design and delivery of an innovative patient safety solution for the health service market, working in collaboration with the NHS and leading pharmaceutical companies. Along with his technical expertise Niall brings a great passion for transforming technical ideas into commercially viable products.
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About Symphonic: Symphonic is the provider of Intelligent Authorization.
Boris Ploix
Co-founder and CTO of Calipsa
Boris has spent 4 years working with transport authorities in France and England where he worked closely with transport planners and intelligent transport systems teams. He has a Masters in Applied Mathematics from Imperial College London
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About Calipsa: Deep Learning powered video monitoring
Ryan Dunwoody
Co-Founder & CTO of Pi-Top
Ryan Dunwoody is a Co-Founder & CTO at Pi-Top.
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About Pi-Top: Pi-Top is a creative learning company and their mission is to inspire a generation of makers, fixers & problem solvers.
Chris Emery
Co-Founder & CTO of CloudNC
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About CloudNC: Creating autonomous manufacturing
Marc Sollars
Chief Technology Officer of Teneo
Marc is our chief evangelist and a Company Director. In his role as CTO, Marc has a passion for identifying next-generation technologies that are early to market and can be integrated into Teneo’s services portfolio. He also enjoys introducing these to our global customers.
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About Teneo: Teneo is the specialist integrator of next generation technology, offering the strongest mix of optimization solutions for networks.
Onoufrios Malikkides
Chief Technology Officer of Labstep
Onoufrios Malikkides is the Chief Technology Officer at Labstep.
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About Labstep: Labstep captures real time scientific process data to provide an internally shareable timeline of a lab’s activity.
Mostafa Afgani
Co-Founder and CTO of pureLiFi
Mostafa is a respected hardware and firmware engineer. A chief architect of VLC hardware platforms over the past three years, Mostafa holds three patents and has filed for two more in the VLC field. Prior to co-founding pureLiFi he developed sensitive signal anomaly detection hardware for Agilent and held a research position at DoCoMo labs, Munich, Germany. Mostafa has BSc and MSc degrees in electronics from Jacobs University, Bremen, Germany and a PhD in communications and signal processing from the University of Edinburgh.
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About pureLiFi: pureLiFi develops technology for communication networks that integrates data and lighting utility infrastructures.
Elnar Hajiyev
Co-Founder & CTO of Realeyes
Elnar stands at the heart of Realeyes’ core technology and IT architecture, driving the company’s emotions tracking vision. Elnar started coding at the age of 10 and built some of the first online shops in Azerbaijan. At 18, he created Azerbaijan’s first online beauty pageant, which got hundreds of thousands of hits, millions of TV viewers and extensive nationwide press coverage. He has also co-authored numerous academic publications, as well as been the recipient of several awards and prestigious scholarships. He went on to study for a fully-funded PhD in Computer Science at Oxford focused on database structures, which now form the essential foundation of our technology platform. During his PhD Elnar co-founded Semmle – working on big data analytics technology to provide business intelligence – and managed the company during its first few years before a fateful meeting with Mihkel led him to becoming one of the co-founders of Realeyes. He has built and now leads our Research & Development offices in Eastern Europe, and has been granted a US patent, with 6 more EU patents currently pending.
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About Realeyes: Measuring Human Response At The Speed & Scale Of AI
Jaime Lomeli-R.
Co-Founder & CTO of Aura Vision
Co-Founder and CTO at Aura Vision Labs
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About Aura Vision: Aura Vision enables brick-and-mortar retailers to positively influence shopper journeys with cutting-edge computer vision.
Sven Mischkewitz
CTO & Co-Founder of ThinkSono
Sven is an award-winning software engineer from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany. Before joining Entrepreneur First, he worked on annotation tools for brain cells on projects for the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research. He focused on the field of Human-Computer-Interaction during his studies.
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About ThinkSono: Cutting edge AI ultrasound software for detection of blood clots (DVT)
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.
Raunaq Bose
CTO, Co-Founder of Humanising Autonomy
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About Humanising Autonomy: Humanising Autonomy is building the global standard for human machine interactions.
Stephen Dodson
CTO/Founder of Prelert
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About Prelert: Prelert provides incident management tools that automatically isolate the causality of application interruptions in real time.
Subhash Muchala
CTO of Dynamify
PhD, University of Oxford
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About Dynamify: Dynamify is an all-in-one platform using technology, data, and AI to enhance service delivery and margin.
Marko Djukic
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Ingenii
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About : Ingenii is a data engineering platform that provides access to a growing library of data engineering tools and templates.
Sridar Dhandapani
CTO of Hoxton Analytics
Chief Technology Officer at Spirable. CTO and Engineering Manager with deep experience leading engineering innovation for high-growth organisations.
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About Hoxton Analytics, Spirable: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
William Thomas
Co-Founder and CTO of Hoxton Analytics
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About Hoxton Analytics: Cloud computer vision software to digitise and automate processes in physical spaces.
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.
Matthew Eric Bassett
CTO of PRODA
Matthew Eric has 15 years of experience in delivering commercial software, with a strong focus on solving data science problems. He headed up the film industry’s first data science group at Universal Pictures. Under his leadership, the team successfully increased box office revenues and cut costs for several films, and expanded to television and home entertainment. He went on to found Gower Street Analytics, offering a suite of software simulating product release strategies in response to audience viewing habits to help studios make data-driven commercial decisions. Matthew Eric holds an MSci in Mathematics and Theoretical Physics, and a PhD in Number Theory. He serves as an advisor on several academic and governmental boards on strategy and research for big data and machine learning.
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About PRODA, Sneffel: PRODA is focuses on solving core data processing pain points in real estate.
Ian Budden
Chief Technology Officer of Elucidat
I create great software, that people love to use. Recently I have been bootstrapping Elucidat, which is an amazing new software startup that is solving the challenges e-learning authoring teams are experiencing – particularly around how to increase productivity and how to create learning content that works on any device. (laptop, tablet, mobile). Elucidat was born out of the frustrations that ambitious e-learning agencies experience when using desktop-based authoring software built for individuals. At Elucidat I look after product development, making sure that Elucidat is as good as it can be, and that we are helping users to get the most out of it. Before starting up Elucidat, I ran an award winning digital agency in London for 12 years – creating the first mobile handheld interactive tours of Tate Modern (that won a BAFTA for technical innovation), the Louvre, the Pompidou centre and the British Museum, guiding visitors around the collections and giving a deeper understanding of the works. I believe in creating ambitious software that above all is enjoyable and intuitive to use, and becomes a critical and empowering tool for the user. I’m very excited about Elucidat and seeing what the future holds. If you think your team might benefit – do let me know.
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About Elucidat: Elucidat is better way to author online and mobile learning. Reduce your production costs and delight your learners
James Heath
Co-founder & CTO of OneUp Sales
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About OneUp Sales: OneUp Sales is a sales team management & motivation platform built to transform the way we run sales teams forever.
Bruce Ramsay
Founder & CTO of Cyan Forensics
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About Cyan Forensics: Cyan Forensics sells software to help police, social media, and cloud providers find & block harmful content from pedophiles and terrorists.
Stan Karpenko
Co-Founder & CTO of GiveVision
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About GiveVision: GiveVision is a high tech low vision aids enhancing the remaining sight of partially sighted people.
Richard Bailey
CTO/Development Director of Boldon James Ltd
Joining Boldon James in 1987 as a Software Developer Richard learnt the business from the ground up. A veteran in Software engineering, Richard drives product strategy and delivery of our Microsoft based messaging and data classification ranges.
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About Boldon James Ltd: Boldon James is a leader in data classification and secure messaging solutions.
Robert Taylor
Co-Founder & CTO of Salesorder.com
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About Salesorder.com: Salesorder is an inventory and order management software for distributors, wholesalers, and ecommerce.
Gareth Howells
Co-founder & CTO of Metrarc
Metrarc’s co-founder and CTO Professor Gareth Howells holds the chair of Secure Electronic Systems at the University of Kent. He has been involved in research relating to cybersecurity, biometrics, secure communications and identity management for over 25 years and has published over 200 papers in the technical literature. He has been responsible for the design of a generalised document security system and the development of techniques for the direct generation of encryption keys from device characteristics.
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About Metrarc: Metrarc is a University spin out based in Cambridge with research and development labs at the Universities of Essex and Kent.
Andrew Bowley
CTO of Smart Apprentices
As Chief Technology Officer Andy Bowley heads up our technical team, having previously run a fast paced technology business unit for a global brand, Andy has built his team handpicked from the best of breed. At Smart Apprentices we have an experienced and mature development team, many of whom are experts in their field and are often asked to speak and blog at technology forums. Outside of work Andy enjoys Tough Mudder, Wolf Running and Half Marathons.
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About Smart Apprentices: Smart Apprentices is an award winning, innovative suite of technologies platforms purposely designed for approved training providers.
Guillaume Lebedel
CTO & co-founder of Upper.ai
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About Upper.ai, Yieldify: Upper.ai seamlessly merges simplicity and power by learning about relationships and patterns in your data sources.
Neil Stewart
Founder & CTO of Metaforic
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About Metaforic: Metaforic provides security software with a built-in framework that resists attacks from malware, bots, hackers and other attempts.
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
Jakub Pietrzak
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of SKY ENGINE
Jakub Pietrzak is the Chief Technology Officer and Founder at Sky Engine.
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About SKY ENGINE: Evolutionary AI Platform for the Deep Learning in Virtual Reality with Synthetic Data for any Computer Vision applications
Will Thomas
Chief Technology Officer & Product Manager of AMX Solutions
IT developer with 15 years experience. Will oversees the delivery of user-friendly development, the technology know-how to make people’s demands happen i.e. make the system look and feel intuitive to each group of users that join, and perform to a high technical standard.
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About AMX Solutions: AMX Solutions specialized in enterprise asset management software solutions spanning a wide range of market sectors.
Will Thomas
Chief Technology Officer & Product Manager of AMX Solutions
IT developer with 15 years experience. Will oversees the delivery of user-friendly development, the technology know-how to make people’s demands happen i.e. make the system look and feel intuitive to each group of users that join, and perform to a high technical standard.
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About AMX Solutions: AMX Solutions specialized in enterprise asset management software solutions spanning a wide range of market sectors.
Neil Edwards
CTO of Synaptix
Neil is among the foremost experts in Wi-Fi technology in Europe. He provides the technical leadership for our engineering team, and regularly works directly with customers to help them solve the most difficult technical problems. An experienced engineer with a hands-on approach, Neil will regularly work on-site with our technical team to tackle unusual or particularly difficult problems. He is the creator of STORM, our unique in-house engineering management tool, which underpins our high levels of service to customers. Neil likes to unwind by taking to the roads on his motorbike.
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About Synaptix: Synaptix leaders in the provision of technical services to public WiFi network operators.
