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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 Education 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.
Paul Egan
Chief Incubation Officer & Chief Technology Officer of Founders Factory
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About Founders Factory: Founders Factory is a global corporate-backed venture studio and accelerator.
Bhaskar Khemchandani
CTO of Uplatz
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About : Uplatz is UK-based leading global training provider with a huge portfolio of courses on cutting-edge technologies, software, cloud and data.
Alec Sammon
CTO of Blue Duck Education
Alec Sammon is the CTO of Blue Duck Education (Mangahigh).
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About Blue Duck Education: Blue Duck Education is the holding company behind Mangahigh.com which develops and publishes maths games for 11 to16 year-old students.
Chris Evans
Chief Technology Officer of Drops
Currently CTO @ Drops. A reliable, resilient and proactive technologist taking a catalystic approach to building product. Proven track record of scaling and supporting cross-functional engineering teams from the ground up. Plans, executes and nurtures any technical project. Supported a variety of companies at differing stages, assisting in VC, PE, crowdfunding and angel investment sourcing including expectation management.
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About Drops: Drops is a game-based language learning application.
Sam Stagg
CTO of Third Space Learning
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About Third Space Learning: Third Space aims to help every student access great quality online tuition to help them succeed in, and love, their learning
Joe Simms
Chief Technology Officer of Uptime App
Joe Simms is the Chief Technology Officer at Uptime App.
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About Uptime App: Uptime App: Thousands of 5-minute Knowledge Hacks from the world’s best books, courses and documentaries, for free.
Daniel Engelke
CTO of BibliU
Chief Technology Officer with a history of working in the e-learning industry. Skilled in Javascript, Python, C++ and Management. Has a Bachelor of Science and Bachelor of Engineering with majors in Electrical and Electronics Engineering, Physics and Applied Maths from the University of Western Australia.
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About BibliU: An EdTech innovator, BibliU’s platform enables colleges and universities with digital content management, automation, and analytics.
Kimeshan Naidoo
Co-Founder and CTO of Unibuddy
Kimeshan Naidoo is CTO & Co-Founder at Unibuddy.
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About Unibuddy: Unibuddy helping universities and students to attract, engage and convert prospects through peer interactions.
Tomos Evans
Chief Technology Officer of Framework
Tomos Evans is the founding CTO of Framework. He attended University of Oxford in 2003.
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About Edplus, Framework: Framework is the world’s first on-demand business school especially made for startupland
Dave Porter
Chief Technology Officer of Tutorful
Dave Porter is the Chief Technology Officer at Tutorful.
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About Tutorful: Tutorful is an online education company.
Daniel Zohar
CTO of Memrise
Daniel Zohar serves as Chief Technology Officer of Memrise.Daniel Zohar helps ensure Memrise works flawlessly on all platforms, and coordinates all of technical efforts. Aside from a glittering career founding and growing startups, he is a keen heavy metal guitarist and an expert at moving large objects at or near the earth’s surface.
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About Memrise: Memrise is a language learning platform available in iOS, android, and web.
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.
Gyan Chawdhary
Founder & CTO of Codebashing
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About Codebashing: Codebashing | Train, Refresh and Validate your development teams’ Application Security knowledge using our cloud-based e-learning platform.
Ashish Kumar
Co-Founder & CTO of HowNow
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About HowNow: HowNow is a London-based EdTech startup that connects experts and learners by offering interactive video lessons.
Bill Walker
CTO of QA Ltd
Bill has 25 years’ experience in the IT industry, having started his career in software development and consulting with Deloitte. He manages the company’s relationships with its major vendors and partners, including Microsoft, Oracle, VMware, Amazon, Red Hat and Citrix. He sits on advisory boards for many of them and has served three years on Microsoft’s advisory council in Seattle. He is responsible for leading innovation to ensure that QA is at the forefront of technology that helps customers get the most from their investment in training. Bill was a director of Xpertise where he was responsible for growing the business in the technical, project management, service management and soft skills areas. He has a degree in Computer Science, is a chartered engineer and a BCS Certified IT Professional.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Manuel Apilongo
CTO of Springpod
Manuel Apilongo currently works as Chief Technology Officer at Springpod.
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About Springpod: Springpod is an early careers attraction, engagement and recruitment technology that helps young people discover their futures.
Andy Skipper
CTO Coach and Founder of CTO Craft
Consultant CTO to online businesses around Europe; founding CTO with Made.com, a designer furniture retailer launched in March 2010 under Pro Founders and Jaina Capital among others. Responsible for technology and partner selection, business process modelling, team building and resource strategy, production infrastructure design. Executive-level technical manager, with a hands-on development and testing background. Having operated as a CTO for a number of high growth startups since 2006, he’s built and managed several successful agile teams of PHP, Python, Java and .Net developers and testers, including internationally distributed teams. A certified Scrum Product Owner, he specialises in implementing agile practices which provide means of constant improvement within the development and operations teams, and a culture of improved transparency with the rest of the business.
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About CTO Craft, Saccade Consulting: Learning experiences, coaching and peer mentoring network for CTOs and engineering managers
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.
Somesh Selvachandran
Co-Founder & CTO of Magpie Education
Somesh built electronic trading systems for Morgan Stanley, before leaving to co-found Innovate My Curriculum and Talking Circles. He enjoys pouring his passion for computing into projects to help teachers in the classroom and get more kids coding.
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About Magpie Education: Magpie Education is Creating curriculum tools for teachers to inspire the next generation of STEM Innovators.
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.
Patrick Verdon
Co-Founder & CTO of Tutorfair
Patrick is a serial entrepreneur based in Cambridge, UK and is currently the CEO of Youreko, a cleantech start-up he founded which provides consumer friendly energy efficiency information for household electricals. Prior to Youreko, Patrick was the CTO of ZYB, the networking and mobile backup site, sold to Vodafone in 2008 for 31.5M euro.
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About Tutorfair, Youreko, ZYB: Tutorfair is a marketplace for tutors that makes great tutors available to all
Maksim Kraev
CTO of Codio
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About Codio: The evidence-based learning platform for Computer Science & tech skills education.
Tom Percival
CTO of toucanBox
Tom Percival currently serves toucanBox as the CTO. Prior to joining toucanBox, Tom spent eight years with the Graze as the co-founder and CTO.
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About toucanBox: ToucanBox delivers packages of educational and inspirational activities that are suitable for children.
Brian Carroll
CTO of MusicGurus
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About MusicGurus: MusicGurus is an online learning company that helps anyone learn music from the world’s top artists.
Stuart Cochran
CTO of BridgeU
Stuart is Chief Technology Officer at Huddle and is responsible for overall product design and direction, technology and infrastructure strategy, and technical operations. He has over 20 years’ experience in both start-up and large, public enterprise software companies. Stuart has a BSc (Hons) in Theoretical Physics and a MSc in Computing and Computer Modelling of Optoelectronic Devices and Systems.
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About BridgeU: BridgeU provides a market leading guidance platform that connects universities with international schools in 130 countries.
Timothy Omer
CTO of Changing Health
Senior Technology Manager with a 14+ year career spanning Digital Media and Consultancy, experienced in design and execution of ERP, Business Processes, Revenue, Delivery, Support and IT Operation Systems. Working with people, systems and processes to lead and deliver efficient and flexible Agile solutions. A Type 1 Diabetic for over 20 years he has been frustrated with the lack access and progress of technology to help him manage this data-intensive condition and frustrated that he has to rely on one of the most unreliable processors of this data – himself. Working with the #WeAreNotWaiting community of citizen hackers to build an Artificial Pancreas mobile app to help reduce the burden of capturing data, lower costs and producing suggestions on adjustments to his medication. With the aim to provide a fully automated, portable, data-rich Closed Loop system.
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About Changing Health: Changing Health provides personalised, digital behaviour change programmes for Type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and weight management.
Mike Lehan
Chief Technology Officer of StuRents.com
Engineering my life! Into tech & local community, a young entrepreneur, & Christian. Love new music, tea, ale, & motorbiking.
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About StuRents.com: StuRents.com is a student property portal offering a database of student accommodation advertised by landlords and letting agents.
Imdad Ahad
Co-founder & CTO of Scoodle
Imdad Ahad is a Co-founder & CTO at Scoodle.
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About Scoodle: Scoodle is connects students with teachers.
Klaas Ardinois
CTO of Macademia
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About Macademia: Macademia is an award-winning global EdTech company providing educational programming and games for children.
Matteo Avalle
Co-Founder & CTO of Fluentify
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About Fluentify: Fluentify connects language learners with carefully selected native speakers around the world trough 30-minutes individual live sessions.
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
Omair Vaiyani
Founder & CTO of Synap
Omair is a medical student and experienced web developer. He founded Synap and Livelocum and has worked on several health and education technology projects around Europe.
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About Synap: Synap is online education platform using AI to revolutionise learning.
Samuel Colvin
CTO of TutorCruncher
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About TutorCruncher: TutorCruncher is a tutoring management software offering CRM, online payments, invoicing and timesheets, and more related features.
Andrew Moss
CTO of Code Kingdoms
With an inexplicable knowledge of servers, the database and anything to do with ‘making stuff work’, Andrew is a key part in ensuring everything runs smoothly. Although he loves going on far-flung adventures to foreign countries and elaborate costume parties, it’s a wonder he’s ever allowed to leave the office for fear of ‘everything breaking again’.
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About Code Kingdoms: Code Kingdoms is an online platform which teaches kids how to code.
Jamie Stuart
Director & CTO of Onebillion
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About Onebillion: At onebillion, develop apps to help educate children, wherever they are.
Shane Morgan
CTO / Director of Developing Experts
Shane has extensive experience as a web and application developer and is the Founding Director of CD2, a web and software company specialising in bespoke platform builds.
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About Developing Experts: Bridging the gap between education and industry through our online curriculum.
Dan Williams
Co-Founder and CTO of Workshop
Dan Williams is the co-founder and CTO of Workshop Technology. Prior to co-founding Workshop, Dan served as an analyst at Metapraxis. Before that, he held positions for various companies including Intro, Team Bath Racing electric, Oxalis Group, and Sagentia.
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About Workshop: Workshop is a technology-driven company that creates tools for learning and teaching in partnership in educators and brands.
Steve Mansell
Chief Technology Officer of V-Learning Solutions
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About V-Learning Solutions: V-Learning Solutions provides virtual learning solutions that are more effective than traditional training methods.
Sander Melnikov
CTO of Campusboard
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About Campusboard: Campusboard is an online marketplace for university campuses.
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.
Stein Fletcher
CTO of Musitude
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About Musitude: A web & app music learning/playing solution for non-musicians
Ernie Gray
Chief Technology Officer of LTS Education Systems
Ernie brings over 15 years of professional experience developing new media technology to the LTS team. He previously served as managing partner at Red Herring Innovation & Design, managing partner of Netlinks Inc. and has worked with hundreds of clients nationally as a new media business consultant, developer and systems analyst. Ernie serves LTS through product design, market strategy, project team management, development partnerships, systems analysis, application programming & new media marketing.
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About LTS Education Systems: LTS Education Systems is a online education provider.
Javaid Karim
Co-Founder and CTO of IslamicMarkets.com
Javaid is a veteran FinTech developer (with over 25 years experience), having held senior roles at BNP Paribas and Fidelity Investment, where he developed a Global Web Portal and Data distribution tool, which for the first time provided Fidelity the ability to distribute multi-billion pound funds through third parties.
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About IslamicMarkets.com: IslamicMarkets.com is a leading learning, financial intelligence and investing platform for the $4 trillion global Islamic economy.
Steve Hurcombe
CTO and Co-Founder of Enterprise Study
In 1983 Steve was described by the Guardian newspaper as a computer whizz-kid – and this is what a whizz-kid becomes when they grow up. He loves technology and grew up programming Dragon 32 and Sharp MZ-80K home computers, but of course eventually the PC reigned supreme. He later took up Bjarne Stroustroup’s C++ using the Zortech C++ compiler to write Windows 16 bit applications. All of this was a hobby until 2000 when it became the day job, and in 2002 Steve co-founded Enterprise Study. Now, moving with the times, Steve works with Internet technologies, ASP.Net 4.5 and the latest Javascript libraries to develop the numerous products that the company now boasts. Steve’s hobbies are DIY, being husband and a father to 3 young (and very excitable) children. Generally the (2nd from) last to be picked at sports, sport and the gym are definitely not his cup of tea!
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About Enterprise Study: Enterprise Study is a cloud-based system that offers learning and compliance management, and training administration services.
Andrew Whitfield
CTO & Co-founder of inPRO
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About inPRO: Jobs and talent via trusted networks with integrated mentorship, skill and career development services.
Nebojsa Joncic
COO & CTO of FLOOFL
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About FLOOFL: FLOOFL is a Oxford based Social Enterprise committed to provide free on-line learning for travel and tourism professionals and students
Nebojsa Joncic
COO & CTO of FLOOFL
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About FLOOFL: FLOOFL is a Oxford based Social Enterprise committed to provide free on-line learning for travel and tourism professionals and students
Mona Demaidi
CTO of M & M Innovators
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About M & M Innovators: M & M innovators is focusing on developing software and educational games to bring change in the existing IT industry.
