Best Startup
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 Printing 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.
Richard Orme
Group Chief Technology Officer of Photobox
Richard joined Metapack in 2012 and is responsible for MetaPack’s Technology delivery and strategy. Prior to joining MetaPack he worked in the US logistics software industry developing market leading solutions with UPS, FedEx and Pitney Bowes. He has also worked in the UK Telecomms industry on volume and availability systems for the UK’s largest fibre optic network at ntl (now Virgin Media). He has over twenty years of software development and delivery experience working in a range of technologies with a strong focus on highly available logistics platforms and data integration.
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About ComplyAdvantage, Photobox: PhotoBox is Europe’s leading community for sharing, printing and personal publishing with over 30 million members.
Heather Utech
CTO of DMG Media
Heather Utech is CTO at DMG Media.
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About DMG Media: DMG media is a consumer media company engaged in print and online newspaper publishing.
Daniel Thomas
Co-Founder & CTO of Gravity Sketch
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About Gravity Sketch: Gravity Sketch is a VR-based design and collaboration platform that allows distributed teams to create, share, and build in 3D.
Tom Cohen
CTO & Co-Founder of Popsa
Tom Cohen joined Popsa as Co-Founder & CTO in 2016.
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About Popsa: Popsa is a machine learning startup that automatically designs, makes, and delivers personalized physical products.
Joel Chippindale
CTO of UNMADE
Joel Chippindale is the chief technology officer at Unmade Ltd.
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About UNMADE: Unmade provides customizable design through industrial manufacturing.
Chris Hunt
CTO & Founder of Pireta
Chris worked at the National Physical Laboratory where he headed up a multidisciplinary team of scientists looking at material problems in electronics interconnects. Much of this work has been done in collaboration with industry and he is chair of the UK IMAPS committee. In the role of advancing metrology, he has developed test methods and standards. He currently chairs the relevant IEC committee and travels the world giving invited international papers. He identified an interconnect solution for textiles and is one of the two inventors for a patent pending technology for making textiles conductive, as well as the founder of Pireta. Chris is a Chartered Physicist, and has a BSc from the Institute of Physics, and a PhD from Surrey University.
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About GEN3, Pireta: Pireta technology enables the integration of Smart Textiles into wide range of sectors.
Niall Haslam
CTO of Axial3D
Niall Haslam i8s CTO at Axial3D.
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About Axial3D: Axial3D is 3D printing anatomical models for the healthcare industry.
Josh Kopecek
CTO of SwarmBuild
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About ECHOES, SwarmBuild: SwarmBuild is an online marketplace for designs and digital fabrication, including 3D printing, CNC and laser cutting.
