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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 Accounting 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.
Steve Lane
Chief Technology Officer of The Access Group
Steve has nearly 25 years’ experience in the software industry. He most recently worked with Achilles, where he was responsible for setting strategy and delivering SaaS platforms through global product development and technology teams. Prior to this, he held board and senior level positions with Experian Decision Analytics, Fair Isaac and Financial Objects.
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About The Access Group: The Access Group is a software consultancy and developer company that provides fully integrated business management software.
Michael Hancock
CTO of Fluidly
Michael has over 15 years’ technical experience delivering large scale e-commerce and finance projects for the likes of Tesco, Auto Trader, London Stock Exchange and most of the major banks. He has spent the last 5 years working in RegTech and FinTech startups and most recently was CTO for digital payments company Judopay. Whilst there he designed and delivered a market leading fraud product, saw the payments volume increase 15x and built a world class team of 20+ engineers. Michael has a passion for using technology to help solve real world problems and is bringing a wealth of experience in scaling platforms and processes to the Fluidly team.
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About Fluidly: Fluidly is fundamentally rethinking the way businesses plan and manage cashflow, using data science, accounting domain expertise.
Mike Moate
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Countingup
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About Countingup: The one that does your books. Countingup is the UK’s #1 banking & accounting app. Dead easy. Super fast. Self sorting.
Olly Headey
CTO of FreeAgent
Olly is a co-founder and CTO of FreeAgent, a leading UK-based SaaS accounting platform which was acquired in 2018 by the Royal Bank of Scotland Group. Having worked in software development roles since the mid-90s, Olly has experience across a wide variety of industries, from video games to radio stations to hedge funds. Since co-founding FreeAgent in 2007, Olly has helped scale the company and its culture to 200 employees and over 85,000 customers. He is passionate about startups, technology and building customer-delighting products. He is also a director and board member of CodeClan, Scotland’s award-winning digital skills academy.
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About FreeAgent: FreeAgent provides online accounting and money management software for small businesses and freelancers.
Andrew Easter
CTO of Claimer
Andrew Easter serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Claimer.
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About Claimer: Quick and simple R&D tax relief claims for UK startups
Rudolph Graan
Founder & CTO of Expend
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About Expend: Expend is the expense management and company spending platform.
Stuart Kemp
Co-Founder and CTO of Reducer
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About Reducer: Reducer empowers businesses by giving them the information needed to make smart buying decisions.
Phil Murphy
CTO & Founder of Senta
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About Senta: Senta is a cloud platform that’s powering up accountants and bookkeepers around the world.
