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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 Social 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.
Joe Lyske
Chief Technology Officer of Triller
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About Triller: Triller is an AI-powered music video app that enables anyone to make professional videos, effortlessly.
Matthew Postgate
Chief Technology and Product Officer of BBC
As Chief Technology Officer, Matthew Postgate is responsible for the corporation’s Technology & Systems. In addition, Matthew is a director of Youview Ltd; a joint venture between the BBC, ITV, C4, Channel Five, BT, Talk Talk and Arqiva that is developing a next-generation hybrid television platform. Prior to his current role within the organisation Matthew was Controller, Research & Development. He was part of the management team that launched BBC iPlayer and was in charge of BBC mobile where he was responsible for building the corporation’s world leading mobile services. Before joining the BBC, Matthew worked as a telecommunication consultant, was the director of an internet infrastructure start-up and worked at a digital strategy agency for clients including the Royal Mail, BT, Lloyds TSB, Visa and Qinetiq.
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About BBC: BBC is a large-scale broadcasting corporation that offers content to inform, educate, and entertain people.
John Kundert
CTO of Financial Times
John Kundert is CTO of Financial Times Ltd. He continues to drive for excellence based on principles of purpose, ownership, empowerment, belonging and culture. Alongside this, he is has a passion for data having spent most of career in this space. In his previous FT role as director of platforms, he was instrumental in establishing the FT’s data platform, which forms the backbone of an award-winning set of data capabilities.
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About Financial Times: Financial Times is a business news organization providing essential news, comments, data, and analysis for the global business community.
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
Mark Smith
Group Chief Technology Officer of ITV
Mark joined ITV in 2011 as a member of the Technology Management team and was promoted into the CTO role in 2015, before taking on the Group CTO role in 2018. Prior to joining ITV Mark held senior Technology positions at the BBC, BBC Worldwide and Sky. Over the past 15 years Mark has specialised in digital transformation and has led the design, build and delivery of industry leading VOD platforms. Mark started his career as a software engineer at BT R&D.
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About ITV: ITV is an integrated producer broadcaster, operating the largest commercial family of channels in the UK.
Peter Maude
CTO & co-founder of Crisp Thinking
Peter Maude serves as Chief Technology Officer of Crisp Thinking Ltd. Peter Maude oversees the entire product development and architecture for all Crisp solutions. As an experienced senior technologist with expertise in systems integration, security, advanced web technologies, CRM and mobile applications, Peter Maude ensures solutions are perfectly suited to its partner’s requirements. This experience coupled with his understanding of the latest technology environments including Microsoft.net, Windows Vista and Symbian means he is perfectly positioned to make sure Crisp’s core technology meets the ever changing requirements of end-users and partner ISP’s.
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About Crisp Thinking: Crisp is the leading provider of social media brand safety and crisis monitoring services.
Kostas Melas
CTO of FanCircles
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About FanCircles: Reach followers and fans through your own fan club platform built for music artists, YouTubers, television shows and celebrities
Tony Shearer
CTO of ckbk
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About ckbk: ckbk is the ultimate digital subscription service for cooks.
Dr Marc Fletcher
CTO of Echobox
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About Echobox: Echobox is the leading content automation platform
Alex Sinclair
Chief Technology Officer of GSMA
Alex Sinclair is the Chief Strategy and Technology Officer at the GSMA. With more than 25 years in telecommunications in general and mobile in particular, Alex has worked for a number of companies in the UK, Germany and the US. In the early 1990’s, Alex was part of the project team that launched the T-Mobile D1 network in Germany. In 1995, Alex helped Syniverse to launch their GSM clearinghouse business. Prior to joining the GSMA, Alex was Director of Network Engineering at ICO (a Global Satellite venture). Alex has served as Chief Technology Officer of the GSMA since 2005.
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About GSMA: The GSMA is a trade group that represents network operators using GSM technology for their networks.
Luke Saunders
Co-Founder and CTO of AmaZix
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About AmaZix: AmaZix is the full-service consultancy for blockchain businesses.
Philip Clegg
CTO of MirrorWeb
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About MirrorWeb: We archive thousands of websites a year, hundreds of social media accounts, and index billions of documents.
Jack Pordi
Cofounder and CTO of Realm
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About Realm, TheCLUB.tv: Realm is an app for finding and hosting house parties with the aim of making socializing cheaper and more meaningful.
Toby Reid
Chief Technology Officer of Croud
Toby Reid is the Chief Technology Officer of Croud and Serpico. He is a former Chief Architect at TruRating and Technical Architect at NCC Group. Mr. Reid graduated from the University of Kent with a BS in Multimedia Technology & Design.
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About Croud: Croud is a digital marketing agency that provides services including SEO, PPC, content, programmatic, paid social, and analytics
Jacob Clarkson
CTO of Amigo Technology
Jacob Clarkson is Chief Technical Officer (CTO) at Amigo Technology. He’s a startup CTO with over 8 years of commercial experience architecting, developing and maintaining complex software systems in a variety of languages. Before joining Amigo, he worked in Java software development, predominantly working with J2EE stacks, JSF and Oracle databases. Working in relatively large scale national systems at various places (one of which being the NHS), he gained expertise in relational databases.
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About Amigo Technology: Amigo is a cloud-based marketing technology platform that turns marketing ideas into brilliant digital experiences.
Adam McGrath
Chief Technology Officer of Glow Digital Media
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About Glow Digital Media: Glow Machine is an ad tech platform for creating, improving and understanding Facebook and Twitter Ad campaigns.
Adam McGrath
Chief Technology Officer of Glow Digital Media
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About Glow Digital Media: Glow Machine is an ad tech platform for creating, improving and understanding Facebook and Twitter Ad campaigns.
Andrei Mihu
Co-Founder & CTO of Heroic Labs
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About Heroic Labs: Heroic Labs builds social infrastructure for games and apps.
Jon Mitchell
CTO of Hive Marketing Cloud
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About : Hive Intelligence is an agile marketing platform that offers marketing software and services.
Mark White
CTO of Codec
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About Codec: We help brands to discover and tap in to the pockets of culture that drive growth. Powered by award-winning AI.
Franck Ndame
CTO of XPO
CTO @ XPO
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About XPO: We pay creator invoices, crazy fast.
Danny Shisler
CTO of Crowdmix
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About Crowdmix: Connecting the world through music. The app where bands, fans and brands collide.
Duncan Cowan
Co-Founder & CTO of Howbout
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About Howbout: The social planning app that combines events, group chats and calendar sharing to make organising plans simple.
Andrew Lucas
CTO of Taggstar
Andy is a start-up veteran, having started a web hosting business during the late 1990′s. Post dot-com boom he moved to networks & operations, managing the European IP network for a global telco. In the last 5 years he has delivered software and managed engineering teams for three startups, working in Java, in the cloud, with big data and machine learning, across ad tech and now influence marketing. In his spare time he likes to drink coffee and cook experimental dishes
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About Taggstar: Real-time social proof message expert for enterprise eCommerce | Conversion uplift by up to 12% | Shop Direct, N Brown, TUI, Missguided use.
Todd Mansill
Chief Technology Officer of yourfeed
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About yourfeed: yourfeed is an online platform that connects people to relevant opportunities via their real life skills!
Jonathan del Strother
CTO of Audioboom
Jonathan del Strother is CTO at AudioBoo.
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About Audioboom: Audioboom is a podcasting distribution platform.
Mykhailo Loginov
Co-founder & CTO of Vimma
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About Vimma: The OS for the Creator Economy
Quinlan Morake
CTO of Make it Social
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About Make it Social, Make it Social: Make it Social, the Social Booking Technology.
Marc Harris
Chief Technology Officer of CrowdControlHQ
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About CrowdControlHQ, Howsy: CrowdControlHQ is the social media platform to engage your audience, manage your activity, and analyse your performance.
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Tim Whiting
CTO of Waggle-It
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About Waggle-It: Waggle-It is an anonymous location based social polling app that allows users to crowdsource everyday dilemmas
Fabrice Gagneux
Group CTO of Digitalbox
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About Digitalbox, Interscroller: Digitalbox have created a ‘push media’ publishing model able to deliver large, high quality audiences in a brand-safe environment.
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.
Rob Herridge
CTO and Co-Founder of Social360 Ltd
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About Social360 Ltd: Social360 Ltd operates a social media monitoring and analysis platform for corporate communications and public affairs.
Tom Dunning
CTO of Documobi
Tom was a Development Consultant for some of the UK’s best agencies for a number of years. Described by some as a “forensic developer”, Tom excels at finding new benefits and business applications for the features planned for development, further extending the product offerings. His knowledge of high traffic systems and SOP ensures we’re ready for explosive growth.
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About Documobi: Documobi is a mobile solution that enables businesses to conduct personalized advertising campaigns.
Callam Poynter
CTO & Co-Founder of Zentry
CTO & Co-Founder at Zentry
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About Zentry: Zentry is a photo/video sharing mobile application and ticketing service that allows users to create collaborative albums with your friends.
Lukas Dirzys
Founder and CTO of Creative AI
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About Creative AI: Creative AI gives every business, big or small, the power of a dedicated marketing team.
Ron Perkins
Founder and CTO of zubbit.io
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About : zubbit.io Driving Traffic via Content. Don’t Just Share it, zubbit!
Ron Perkins
Founder and CTO of zubbit.io
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About : zubbit.io Driving Traffic via Content. Don’t Just Share it, zubbit!
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
Peter J Bentley
CTO and Co-founder of Kazoova
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About Braintree Ltd, Kazoova: Marketplace for quirky activities
Peter Rogers
Co-Founder & CTO of See What I Mean
Peter is a senior computing tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is the lead developer of the SWiM app. Peter also works as a designer and programmer. His recent projects have included social and speculative design in the sphere of citizen participation and mobile location aware services.
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About Goldsmiths, University of London, See What I Mean: See What I Mean is a speech to image communication tool that translates words into pictures.
Mark Pynen
Chief Technology Officer of Copronet
Mark is responsible for realizing Copronet’s website and digital development vision. He has over nineteen years of practical experience in the technology industry and has worked on numerous technical projects with high profile organisations in both the private and public sector, including FTSE 100 and Fortune 500 companies. Technology agnostic, Mark uses a diverse range of technologies across popular software stacks to deliver projects including CMS builds, e-commerce projects, cloud based projects, bespoke development and providing technical strategy on digital projects.
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About Copronet: Corponet is the network & toolbox that’s just for construction and property.
Dan Saltmer
Chief Technology Officer of Gnatta
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About Gnatta: Gnatta allows businesses of all sizes to listen and engage with their customers on an individual basis via one single interface.
Surjit Bhachu
CTO of loomi.ai
Technical architect with over 16 years of experience delivering complex solutions at global brands like Tesco, Oracle, Vodafone, Toshiba and O2
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About loomi.ai: Loomi is an Intelligent Assistant platform for organising and prioritising user’s connected world.
Stephen Worn
CTO & Managing Director of DatacenterDynamics
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About DatacenterDynamics: DatacenterDynamics is a full service B2B information provider tailored to professionals that design, build, and operate data centers.
Peter Richards
Co-Founder & CTO of Gleanin
Peter Richards is a Co-Founder & CTO at Glean.in.
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About Gleanin: Gleanin help event organisers leverage the social web.
Freddie Witherden
CTO of newsflo
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About newsflo: Media monitoring shouldn’t be a chore. With newsflo, it’s easy to keep track of coverage at all levels of your institution.
Anthony Steed
CTO of animal systems
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About animal systems, Chirp: Making things to make things with
Davide Coppola
CTO of padpeep
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About padpeep: Browse through homes in your neighbourhood.
Miles Cook
CTO of Blurrt
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About Blurrt, CookieOnline Ltd: Blurrt is a social analytics & content software platform allows users to collect, listen, showcase, anaylse and engage with social audience.
David Tait
CTO of ThinkLiberté
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About ThinkLiberté: ThinkLiberté is a social news service – always be informed
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
Steven Newson
CTO of Cahootsy Limited
15 years developing technology platforms for trading, finance and security sectors including CHP, Lloyds Bank, Lombard, Textron, Barclays and RBS. Specialties: Technical and Integration Architecture, Software Development in Java for J2EE and Ruby On Rails.
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About Cahootsy Limited: Cahootsy connects like-minded enthusiasts to share opinions, offers and best buys.
Ivan Brewis
CTO of URBER
A technologist who enjoys finding the myriad of meanings contained within data.
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About URBER: URBER is a city blogging platform
Ivan Brewis
CTO of URBER
A technologist who enjoys finding the myriad of meanings contained within data.
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About URBER: URBER is a city blogging platform
Robert Watson
Chief Technology Officer of ShareThe
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About ShareThe: ShareThe are building the largest, most active and most valuable social network for football.
