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 Information Services 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.
Stefano Maestri
Chief Technology Officer of Processing Division, Markit of IHS Markit
Stefano Maestri is the Chief Technology Officer of [Markit](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/markit#/entity), a financial information services company that helps businesses improve operational efficiency and meet regulatory requirements. Previously, he was an associate director at [Barclays Investment Bank](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/barclays-capital). Prior to Barclays Investment Bank, Maestri worked as a development manager at [Euronext.LIFFE](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/euronext-liffe#/entity).
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About IHS Markit: IHS provides information and analysis to support the decision-making process of businesses and governments in regards to various industries.
John Bryant
Chief Technology Officer of Options Technology
John Bryant was named Options CTO in November 2012 having first joined the company in mid-2008 as Head of Technology for Europe, where he oversaw the development of the European Momentum and Velocity low-latency market data product portfolios in addition to managing the company’s European data centre expansion program. John has a wealth of experience in capital markets technologies including trading, market data, data applications and straight-through processing. He holds a joint bachelor’s degree in French and Spanish from Liverpool University, holds a certification from the ITIL Foundation, and is a Prince II Practitioner.
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About Options Technology: Options is a global leader in financial technology managed services and IT infrastructure products.
Vinod Singh
CTO of Concirrus
Vinod leads our technology team including product delivery and development. He has more than 15 years of experience in architecture, design, development, testing and implementation of large distributed applications, spending time at both Google and Amazon.
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About Concirrus: Concirrus support digital transformation of the specialty insurance industry using the latest developments in technology.
David Eastaugh
Chief Technology Officer of Trunarrative
David has over 15 year’s experience developing applications in the identity and fraud environment. Dave has a proven track record leading high performance agile teams, delivering innovative software solutions and has experience of designing and delivering applications that meet the highest security standards. He is a real hands on CTO involved in the full software delivery life cycle.
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About Trunarrative: Trunarrative is a risk and financial crime management platform that offers fraud prevention, identity, and compliance solutions.
Dominic Forrest
CTO of iProov
Dominic is responsible for the design and development of iProov’s cloud-based infrastructure. Prior to taking up his role with iProov, Dominic was the Senior Vice President of Engineering at mBlox Inc., where he managed a team of fifty developers over three continents, responsible for developing and scaling the platform so that it could seamlessly run over 6 billion transactions per year. Prior to mBlox, Dominic had over fifteen years’ experience in a number of senior roles within UK Telcos and ISPs. This included the responsibly for the Architecture and design of voice, transmission and IP networks for NTL, followed by the launch and growth of the company‘s broadband service to over 2 million customers.
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About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Aaron Asaro
CTO of Kopernio
Aaron Asaro is the CTO of Kopernio.
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About Kopernio: Kopernio is a free web-based software that enables access to academic journal articles.
Rob Lamb
Client Principal and CTO of Dell Technologies
Rob Lamb is a Client Principal in Dell Technologies Global Transformation Office and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the UK and Ireland. His role is to bring industry expertise and transformation experience, helping customers achieve key business outcomes in times of change. Taking a business centric perspective as a trusted advisor; counseling them on how they can accelerate their IT transformation, while balancing the need for consistent delivery to ensure the desired business outcomes are achieved. Prior to joining Dell EMC Rob was head of infrastructure & CTO in EMEA for a large multi-national, delivering IT services to over 16000 users in 69 locations across 44 countries. He has particular expertise in leadership of major IT transformation programmes, including cloud, data centre consolidation, outsourcing and helping drive the cultural change associated with such major change initiatives. Away from work Rob is a keen yachtsman and is a Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Yachtmaster Instructor and Cruising Instructor Trainer.
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About Dell Technologies: Dell Technologies provides essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future.
Benjamin van Enckevort
Co-founder and CTO of Metomic
Cofounder & CTO at Metomic.
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About Metomic: Metomic is a data privacy software that provides the privacy-by-design infrastructure of the internet.
Craig Johnston
CTO & Co-Founder of ENOUGH
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About ENOUGH, Swedish Biomimetics 3000: ENOUGH is a foodtech startup producing protein through fermenting fungi using renewable feedstocks.
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.
Jonathan Whiteside
CTO and Co-Founder of Building Blocks
Jonathan Whiteside is the managing director for design and technology at Dept.
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About Building Blocks: Building Blocks helps global companies solve complex problems using digital technologies.
Mitul Sudra
Co-Founder & CTO of OpenWrks
A key figure at the very earliest stages of Open Banking’s inception, Mitul is transforming the vision for Open Banking into real value. Mitul’s team create the technology that powers everything OpenWrks does.
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About OpenWrks: OpenWrks is an Information Technology Company.
Simon Tindal
Chief Technology Officer of Smart Communications
Simon leads the product development, engineering, and customer support teams to drive continuous innovation across our product portfolio. Previously the head of Professional Services and Pre-Sales, Simon led the transition to our SaaS services offering. In this role, Simon and his team of industry-leading consultants built a reputation for implementing game-changing solutions across today’s most complex enterprise organizations. Simon brings 18 years’ experience in the software industry, having held several senior positions at Cincom Systems and Triangle Computer Services prior to joining Smart Communications in 2005.
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About Smart Communications: Smart Communications is a privately held company that provides cloud-enabled customer communications management services.
Gavin Lilley
Chief Technology officer of Zapaygo
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About Media Maison, UK Ministry of Justice, Zapaygo: Zapaygo provides a menu of goods or services and a pre-order and payment facility to consumers.
James Eggleston
Chief Technology Officer of appScatter
James is responsible for the delivery of appScatter’s flagship technology – the distribution, performance, tracking and intelligence platform. Prior to appScatter James worked in the mobile gaming industry delivering global technology solutions for international brands.
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About Airnow, appScatter: AppScatter is a B2B SaaS platform that distributes, manages, and monitors mobile apps across multiple app stores worldwide.
Tristram Norman
Co-Founder & CTO of Simprints
Tristram Norman, CTO and Co-Founder of Simprints. Tristram is a software engineer with an MSc with high honors from the University of London and professional certifications from MIT in Big Data. His software portfolio includes a complete systems portal with energy industry leader JDR Cables Inc. Tristram is a Forbes 30 under 30 Social Entrepreneur.
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About Simprints: Simprints is a nonprofit company building technology to increase effectiveness in how the world fights global poverty.
Mike Curtis
CTO & Co-founder of Multiply
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About Entrepreneur First, Multiply: Multiply provides independent financial advice service.
Andrew Thompson
CTO of Orbital Witness
Andrew Thompson is the CTO at Orbital Witness.
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About Orbital Witness, Seedcamp: A LegalTech-meets-PropTech startup replacing legacy legal due diligence in property transactions with a legal risk rating.
Tibor Barna
CTO of GoodBox
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About GoodBox, NextMenu: GoodBox is a fundraising-focused hardware and software tech start-up, primarily serving charities and the non-profit sectors.
Kelvin Clibbon
Chief Technology Officer of Ecrebo
Kelvin joined Ecrebo in February 2018 as Chief Technology Officer. He is an experienced and effective CTO with strong managerial, technical and commercial skills. Building on a first class academic background, Kelvin has an outstanding track record of delivering innovative leading-edge products, which have enjoyed significant market success. He has previously held senior roles at Lumeon, Powa Technologies and Neverfail Group.
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About Ecrebo: Ecrebo is a point of sale marketing platform.
Gareth Davies
CTO & Co-founder of CloudApps
Gareth is a founding member of CloudApps and is responsible for Product Development & Architecture, bringing with him a wealth of cloud computing platform knowledge to the role. Prior to joining CloudApps, Gareth was Chief Technical Architect at Astadia where he was responsible for helping clients to achieve success with the Force.com platform. During his tenure at Astadia he led numerous complex and highly successful cloud computing projects. Before joining Astadia, Gareth spent 7 years at Celerant where he was responsible for architecting the company’s enterprise. Gareth pioneered the early adoption of SaaS based technologies and led a team to create an integrated set of business applications based on these early cloud computing platforms. Prior to Celerant, Gareth spent several years developing his technical skills, using web and database technologies to create sophisticated business applications in a variety of roles. Gareth has a bachelor’s degree in Physics from the University of Sussex and a masters degree in Microwave Solid State Physics from the University of Portsmouth. Gareth is married and lives in Surrey, UK.
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About CloudApps: CloudApps increases sales performance by motivating more of your high-value, winning sales behaviours
Mark Williamson
Co-founder & CTO of Hanzo
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About Hanzo: Hanzo is the world leader in the legally defensible capture, preservation, and analysis of web content and eDiscovery.
Ole Moeller-Nilsson
CTO of Pivigo
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About Pivigo: Data is and will continue to change our lives. It is generated by us, for us and around us.
Nigel Ellis
NON-EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR of Synaptec
Nigel is a graduate mechanical and electrical engineer with 34 years in the energy industry with North of Scotland Hydro Electric Board (SSE). Nigel’s career has included conventional engineering roles through senior project and commercial development positions, energy trading and ultimately new technology investment and corporate venturing as the Technology Development Manager of SSE Venture Capital Limited. He now focuses on encouraging the development of disruptive technologies and new business models to address the need to provide new sustainable energy solutions. Nigel provides Synaptec with independent and specialist guidance on strategy and governance, drawing upon a wealth of experience in the energy industry.
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About Synaptec: Synaptec develops and deploys photonic sensing systems.
Richard Hoptroff
Founder & CTO of Hoptroff
Awarded a PhD in Physics by King’s College London for work in optical computing and artificial intelligence. A long track record of technological innovation in AI, Bluetooth and, most recently, time synchronisation. Currently working on developing hyper-accurate synchronised timestamping solutions for the financial services sector and beyond, based on a unique combination of grandmaster atomic clock engineering and proprietary software.
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About Hoptroff: We develop proprietary UTC time synchronisation solutions, combining AI with resilient and secure network technology.
Ian Bailey
CTO of telicent
Ian is a co-founder of Telicent, building open, standards-based technology for data sharing. Prior to Telicent, Ian was CTO at illumr, building customer-facing data science applications. Ian has a degree in mechanical engineering and a PhD in data mapping (ETL). He is a fellow of the British Computer Society (FBCS) and a fellow of the Institution of Engineering and Technology (FIET). His early career concentrated on legacy data migration and data model re-engineering. He first started working with formal ontologies in the mid-nineties, and has developed a number of ontology-based products as we as other apps around deep neural nets, clustering, market segmentation and geo analytics.
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About illumr, Model Futures, telicent: We enable organisations to flex, grow and transform without being held back by their IT
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Damon Hart-Davis
CTO & Co-Founder of Vestemi
Damon has a Masters in Computer Science with a focus on AI and 20 years of experience designing and optimising systems in the City. Previous start-ups included one of the UK’s first ISPs and a virtual credit company. He has also worked with DECC advising on energy efficiency from 2009.
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About Vestemi: Vestemi is a new technology product company with a social purpose.
Tom Cox
Chief Technology Officer of Akari
Tom Cox is Chief Technology Officer at Akari Solutions and Cloud Architect with previous experience working with Microsoft as a Technical Architect. Tom has built his knowledge to cover the core Microsoft suite including: The Microsoft Cloud Stack (Office 365 Suite), The Enterprise Mobility + Security Suite and Azure Platform. Tom has most recently been delivering Azure based architecture and deployment to global organisations, building out innovative solutions and best practice guidance for cloud implementations, including a mix of cloud ready deployment knowledge and referencing the Azure UK Government blueprint.
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About Akari: Akari, they strive to inspire change with inventive and creative technologies to further enable people’s experiences.
Mary Williamson
CTO and Head of Platform of Stratagem Technologies Ltd
CTO and Head of Platform at Stratagem Technologies Ltd.
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About Stratagem Technologies Ltd: Trading Sports Prediction Markets as an alternative asset class
Mary Williamson
CTO and Head of Platform of Stratagem Technologies Ltd
CTO and Head of Platform at Stratagem Technologies Ltd.
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About Stratagem Technologies Ltd: Trading Sports Prediction Markets as an alternative asset class
Andrew Mahood
Co-founder & CTO of Precursive
Co-founder & CTO at Precursive
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About Precursive: Customer onboarding, resource management and professional services automation native on Salesforce.
Yan Zhang
Co-Founder and CTO of Kuan Intelligence
Yan Zhang is Co-Founder and CTO at Kuan Intelligence.
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About Kuan Intelligence: Kuan Intelligence is a cross-border payment platform for E-Commerce backed by Blockchain Technology.
Andrés Martin-Lopez
CTO of Blokur
Before joining Blokur as CTO Andres headed an innovation team at Universal Music Group, developing several industry-leading platforms for data science, machine learning and repertoire-metadata. During his time at Universal Music Group he was also responsible for Universal’s synch licensing platform and Universal’s meta data API, which powers several streaming services. Before UMG, he worked as a software engineer at companies including Vodafone and Thales. Andrés holds a Masters in Advanced Computer Science from Manchester University.
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About Blokur: Blokur is a tech company that empowers Internet of Creators using blockchain technology.
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.
Siva Ganesamoorthy
CTO of Olocode
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About Olocode: Share your latest contact details with a simple code and always stay connected. Start using Olocode and never lose a contact.
Andrew Shishkin
CTO of GetSmart
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About GetSmart: GetSmart is software development company.
Dom O’Neill
Co-Founder and CTO of Buzzer Feedback
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About Buzzer Feedback: Buzzer is a customer feedback company which provides restaurant management with a high volume of private, specific and verified feedback
Jim Comerford
Co-Founder, Board Member & Chief Technology Officer of Traceall Global
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About Traceall Global: Traceall Global Limited operate and trade on an international scale, delivering state of the art web data management solutions for tracking.
Steve Harris
CTO of Aistemos
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About : Aistemos was established to provide IP business intelligence.
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
Paul Saxton
Chief Technology Officer of eBECS
Paul Saxton – responsible for the Microsoft Analytics Practice at eBECS. Paul founded the Analytics practice and focuses on ensuring we have the very best talent and offerings, combined with an engagement style which delivers value quickly. Paul has led the Analytics practice and its strategy for over 8 years and has helped many organisations with their data strategy.
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About eBECS: eBECS provides businesses with Microsoft business solutions that focus on ERP, CRM, data analytics, business intelligence, and more.
