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 Shipping 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.
Jan Riethmayer
Chief Technology Officer of Zencargo
CTO at Zencargo. CTO at various startups, Berliner, software developer, systems architect, project manager, product manager, recruiter, reliability engineer, data scientist.
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About Zencargo: Zencargo is a logistics company that simplifies global trade by offering digital freight services to help businesses thrive.
Mitch Ebdon
CTO of essDOCS
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About essDOCS: essDOCS enables paperless trade; focusing on digitizing paper-heavy shipping, trade and logistic processes.
Charles Lee
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Kontainers
Charles Lee is the co-founder and chief technology officer of Kontainers.
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About Kontainers: Kontainers is as Enterprise SAAS Provider providing e-commerce capabilities to Freight Forwarders and Shipping Lines
Alex Christodoulou
Co-Founder and CTO of Weengs
Alex Christodoulou is the Co-founder & CTO at [Weengs](http://www.weengs.co.uk), where he leads the tech team while taking care of how the vision of the company is reflected on the product. Serial entrepreneur with a background in software engineering, algorithms and long experience in web/mobile developing. His major academic research was a study on hybrid Artificial Intelligence systems, merging neural networks with heuristic rules in decision making systems. Also founder of [Locish](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/locish), a real-time Q&A app operating in NYC and SF.
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About Weengs: Weengs provides all the logistics services people need to build and grow their e-commerce businesses.
Fabian Blaicher
CTO & Co-Founder of Shipamax
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About Shipamax: Shipamax provides seamless fleet and deals management for operators and brokers.
Dennis Sandmark
CTO and Co-Founder of CargoMate Technologies
Dennis has six years experience as a full-stack software engineer working for global companies such as Spotify, Sky and McKinsey.
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About CargoMate Technologies: CargoMate Technologies saves millions in fuel costs by helping container ships leave port early.
Matthew Travers
CTO of Hanhaa
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About Hanhaa: A full service MNO supplying private 4G/5G connectivity globally / A leader in supply chain analytics with our ParceLive platform.
Dave Williams
Group CTO of Ed.
Experienced CIO/CTO/CDO/CPO/Programme Director with end to end programme and business transformation experience in both B2C and B2B environments. Entrepreneurial by nature and used to working at Board level, with excellent business, transformation and IT skills, company start-up (including PE experience), accelerated company growth (up to 250% pa) and global corporate experience. An excellent track record in working with the business to create comparative advantage through innovative technology, building IT functions on greenfield sites or transforming and managing IT functions (up to 140 internal staff) supported by offshore resources, IT Strategy, solutions architecture, product owner, programme management, systems migration, software development (in house and 3rd party), digital, DevOps, SaaS, cloud, account & supplier management, contract and P&L experience up to £50M.
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About Ed.: Ed is an award winning, global insurance and reinsurance broker with offices in the world’s key regional and global insurance centres.
