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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 Data Storage 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.
Garry Tait
Global Chief Technology Strategist of NetApp
A professional, forward-thinking, highly-talented and assured IT Executive, Garry has an exceptionally broad level of experience developed over many years of working in IT at the most senior levels within several key industry sectors. He is an innovative, adaptable, customer-focused and delivery centric leader with a proven track-record in implementing large-scale change and transformation throughout his career. Garry has successfully made the transition through a number of very different roles in differing geographies and industry-sectors throughout his career, he brings with him an exceptional level of drive, passion and enthusiasm which consistently delivers results. He has a strong track record of talent management, team-building and leading by example, demonstrates huge commitment and always exemplifies very strong personal values and ethics. Garry has been on the board of a number of internal and JV companies and has a strong history of working with regulators in most geographies.
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About NetApp: NetApp is a hybrid cloud data services company .
Alex McMullan
CTO, International of Pure Storage
Alex began his career in software development after Bachelors and Masters Engineering degrees at Liverpool University, writing flight/test software at British Aerospace, CAD 3D modelling software at Parametric Technology and the RDBMS engine at CA for Ingres before moving into infrastructure design and implementation. Alex transitioned into professional services at Sun and VERITAS through a consulting partner with numerous assignments designing and implementing large scale UNIX and storage systems in financial services before joining UBS to manage the storage and distributed computing infrastructure. From UBS he moved to Barclays to run storage, database and data warehouse engineering and spent 6 years there before joining the Pure Storage team where he holds the role of EMEA CTO.
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About Pure Storage: Pure Storage is an all-flash enterprise storage company that enables broad deployment of flash in data centers.
Steve Costigan
Field CTO EMEA of Zadara Storage
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About Zadara Storage: Zadara Storage offers enterprise-class storage as a service for private and public clouds.
Neil Stevenson
CTO Hazelcast Platform of Hazelcast
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About Hazelcast: Hazelcast is a real-time, intelligent application platform that enables enterprises to capture value otherwise missed.
Alex Chircop
Founder, CEO and CTO of Ondat
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About : Ondat supports your freedom with industry-leading levels of data performance, resilience, security, and scale.
David Trossell
CEO / CTO of Bridgeworks Ltd
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About Bridgeworks Ltd: Bridgeworks’ Accelerates datay even encrtpted/compressed flow up to 40Gb/s across WAN without changing or modifing the data.
