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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 CIO’ operating in the Retail space. If you think a CIO’ 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.
Andrew Porter
Chief Information Officer of Brightpearl
Andrew’s technology career spans over 20 years, in market leading investment banks, most recently at CIO level. Responsibilities have ranged from running targeted, business critical programmes, to managing a technology organisation of 500+ staff across 5 major locations. Functional areas covered, include; high volume, highly available, transaction processing systems, as well as process automation, workflow and client facing technologies. Andrew started his career as a graduate programmer, after completing an MSc in Information Technology and still likes to occasionally write code, to ensure he retains a deep understanding of what it takes to develop quality software.
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About Brightpearl, Serisys: Brightpearl is the omnichannel retail management system that puts your orders, inventory, financials, POS and CRM in one place.
Tom Tang
CIO of Argos
Tom is a technology leader with a penchant for technology strategy and an eye for execution. At Sainsbury’s-Argos he is responsible for the software development, testing and platform engineering organisations. Tom has a wealth of experience leading global technology teams, delivering technical platforms that vary from warehousing to checkout. Always mindful of emerging technologies, he is passionate about about technologies that can positively impact the customer and business. Tom has a degree in computer science and a MBA.
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About Argos: Argos is a British online retail store that offers a range of consumer products in the U.K. and Ireland.
Martin Rose
General Counsel, Chief Information Security Officer & Company Secretary of Glory Global Solutions
Martin is an international lawyer managing the Legal, Intellectual Property, Data Protection & Security and Insurance & Risk Teams within Glory Global Solutions. Martin has an extensive background in international acquisitions and in negotiating significant product sales and service orders with large multi-national and blue-chip clients, private and state-owned banks as well as multi-national retailers and suppliers. He has worked at several leading international law firms and held a number of senior legal positions within global private equity portfolio companies, prior to joining the organisation in early 2008. Passionate and energetic, Martin brings a wealth of international experience to legal, compliance and governance matters within the company.
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About Glory Global Solutions: Glory Global Solutions is a pioneer in the development and manufacture of money handling machines and systems.
Matt Grest
CIO of The Very Group
Matt Grest is the CIO at The Very Group.
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About The Very Group: The Very Group is an integrated digital retailer and financial services provider.
Doug Gardner
Chief Information Officer of Flying Tiger Copenhagen
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About Flying Tiger Copenhagen: Flying Tiger Copenhagen is design store offering a quirky, ever-changing selection of own-designed products at surprisingly affordable.
Steven Cooke
Co-founder and CIO of Tagsmart
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About Tagsmart: Tagsmart offers an all-round complete art authentication solutions, designed for artists, collectors and sellers of art.
