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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 Asset Management 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.
Rajiv Mathur
CTO of Chainvine
Dr Rajiv Mathur is the co-founder chief technologist at Chainvine – Blockchain/DLT technology company headquartered in the UK. Dr Mathur has 20 years of extensive industry and academic research experience with numerous years in technology leadership roles both in the UK and internationally with some of the best known companies in the world such as Vodafone, Telefonica, Lloyds Banking Group, HSBC, Nationwide Building Society etc. His experience in the industry has been in technology architecture, fraud detection and security of payments, digital transformation and agile delivery. In addition to his work in the industry, Dr Mathur also comes from an academic research background with his last academic position at Distributed Systems Engineering Research Group within the Computer Science Department at Imperial College London. Dr Mathur has a PhD in Mobile Communications Architecture from University of Strathclyde in Glasgow, UK.
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
Michael Ashford
Chief Technology Officer of Wealthify
Michael Ashford is the Chief Technology Officer at Wealthify.
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About Wealthify: Wealthify offers effortless, transparent, and affordable investing for everyone.
Anj Latif
Co-Founder and CTO of British Pearl
Anj Latif is one of the founders of British Pearl and is the Chief Technical Officer. He is responsible for the design, implementation and administration of the entire IT infrastructure, including information security. Anj is a highly motivated and ambitious professional with extensive experience in IT management and networking and two decades’ experience in the SME sector. He has worked with companies in retail, legal, manufacturing, finance and health using technologies from Cisco, WatchGuard, Citrix, VMware and Microsoft. He has a BSc (Hons) in Software Engineering from Oxford Brookes University.
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About British Pearl: British Pearl is an online property investment platform facilitating share and loan-based investment in UK property.
Riccardo De Leo
CTO of CoVi Analytics
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About CoVi Analytics: Productivity solutions for regulated firms, reducing compliance effort & freeing staff to focus on business.
Paul Lambert
Chief Technology Officer of xAssets
Paul is a founding member of the xAssets team and brings a wealth of technical, financial and business experience to the company. He is responsible for the overall technical direction and business strategy of xAssets. Before xAssets was formed Paul was involved in high profile change and emergency fix projects for a number of large enterprises in London including Cable and Wireless, Lloyds Bank, IBM Lotus and Pershing/DLJ. He also worked as an independent consultant to various management teams, providing strategic software consulting and implementations to allow rapidly growing companies to flourish. Paul’s deep understanding of asset management, business development, software development, networking, accounting and finance has enabled xAssets to grow both its business and its product suite to become the market leading asset management software company. Paul is now taking xAssets to a new level of capabilities with some great innovations and market firsts to be released later this year. Paul holds an honours degree in Chemistry from Imperial College, London, is an Associate of the Royal College of Science, and carries current Microsoft Certifications in .NET, Software Asset Management (SAM), Sql Server and Windows Architecture.
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About xAssets: xAssets provides secure and scalable asset management software solutions, covering IT asset management and fixed asset management.
Katie Nykanen
CTO of Adstream
Katie is the 2019 winner of Women in IT’s CTO of the Year award recognising the work her team have done transforming Adstream internally into a leading player in the Adtech space optimising Cloud, Devops Practices, CI:CD and the latest Tech. She is passionate about getting the best from People and Technology to produce products which deliver real value to Businesses across Industries. Taking pride in a deep business and technical knowledge she believes leading a successful team is down to being a great role model, advocating flexibility and actively encouraging growth and development across the team.
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About Adstream: Adstream is an advertising content management and cross-media distribution technology platform. Changing the way advertisers track content.
George Matau
CTO of Opinsta
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About Opinsta: Opinsta is a single platform to manage defect reporting (QA), health and safety checks, Inspections, 3rd party maintenance and more.
Chris David
CTO of Harris Pye
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About Harris Pye: Harris Pye The Harris Pye Engineering Group is a rapidly expanding global organisation.
