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 Identity 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.
Rob Otto
Senior Regional Solutions Architect and Field CTO for EMEA Region of Ping Identity
Rob is a Senior Technical Architect for Ping Identity in the UK and also the EMEA representative to the Ping Identity CTO Office. Rob holds a BSc (Computer Science) degree from Pretoria University and has 20 years experience in identity and access management. He has worked on complex implementation projects in the UK, USA, Europe and South Africa. His current area of focus is on applying industry standards like OpenID Connect and OAuth 2.0 to enable businesses to interoperate and securely expose data and API’s. He has worked widely within the burgeoning PSD2/OpenBanking ecosystem across Europe and is specifically focused on using Mobile Applications to deliver elegant Strong Customer Authentication solutions within financial services and other verticals.
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
David Eastaugh
Chief Technology Officer of Trunarrative
David has over 15 year’s experience developing applications in the identity and fraud environment. Dave has a proven track record leading high performance agile teams, delivering innovative software solutions and has experience of designing and delivering applications that meet the highest security standards. He is a real hands on CTO involved in the full software delivery life cycle.
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About Trunarrative: Trunarrative is a risk and financial crime management platform that offers fraud prevention, identity, and compliance solutions.
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Alexander Gorelik
CoFounder,CTO & VP Product of Zamna
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About Zamna: Award-winning blockchain-powered data verification platform improving airport security while delivering a seamless passenger experience
Diego Gullo
Co-founder CTO of NEWSENSE
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About NEWSENSE: We monitor, analyse and compare the sentiment of news on your company and competitors to better protect and manage your reputation online.
Leonidas Apostolidis
Co-founder CTO of NEWSENSE
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About NEWSENSE: We monitor, analyse and compare the sentiment of news on your company and competitors to better protect and manage your reputation online.
Flávio Heleno
CTO & Co-founder of Veridu
Founder at Veridu.com
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About sorteia.eu, Veridu: Veridu offers a range of frictionless, consent-driven social identity solutions to reduce fraud in the global internet economy.
Thomas Olofsson
Chief Technology Officer of FYEO
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About FYEO, SEC-T: FYEO is an online threat monitoring and intelligence. mission to empower people to secure and take back control of their online security.