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 Web Development 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.
Andy Forkgen
CTO & UK Director of GlobalizeMe
Andy co-founded the Digital division of GlobalizeMe in 2009 and oversees all technological business within the company including our partnership with AWS. He is also the Managing Director of the UK office in Oxfordshire where he is based. Andy’s background is primarily technical; prior to joining GlobalizeMe, he spent 5 years within the technology arm of the Inner London Magistrates’ Courts Service, 6 years team leading the online development team at The Daily Telegraph and served in various other technology and consulting roles in between. In his spare time Andy is a keen runner having completed the 2017 London Marathon, is the founder and manager of a Pan-Disability children’s football team, enjoys skiing and at weekends is often found being a loyal servant and driver to his wife, three children and Labrador.
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About GlobalizeMe: GlobalizeMe is a one-stop provider of digital development, content creation and international business support services.
Andrew Kuzmych
Co-Founder and CTO of TechMagic
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About TechMagic: Top JavaScript and Serverless developers
Artur Kisiolek
CTO of Artificial Labs
Artur Kisiolek is the CTO at Artificial Labs.
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About Artificial Labs, Wthr.in: We’re making insurance frictionless. We collaborate with leading insurers, using technology to save time, money and increase sales.
Mike Wharton
Founder & CTO of Waracle
Mike founded Waracle and has unrivalled experience helping large customers architect, resource and develop their complex digital strategies. Mike also happens to be our head geek and overall tech enthusiast, if you’ve a spare few hours he’d love nothing more than to discuss in detail emerging car technology, especially electric vehicles, , sustainable energy, smart assisted homes and IoT.
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About Waracle: Waracle define, design & deliver mobile, web and emerging tech applications that make customers and patients lives better.
Dylan Beattie
CTO of Skills Matter
Dylan wrote his first web page in 1992 and never looked back. He’s been building data-driven web applications since the late 1990s, and has worked on everything from tiny standalone websites to complex distributed systems. He’s the CTO at Skills Matter in London, he’s a Microsoft MVP, and he’s a regular speaker at conferences and user groups, where he’s spoken about topics from continuous delivery and Conway’s Law to the history of the web, federated authentication and hypermedia APIs. When he’s not wrangling code, Dylan plays guitar and writes songs.
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About Skills Matter: Skills Matter is a global community of 100,000+ members from 126 countries interacting, sharing knowledge, inspiring & improving each other.
Andrew White
CTO of Unboxed
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About Unboxed: The largest Ruby on Rails development agency in London and Cape Town
Brian Fuchs
Co-Founder & CTO of The Mobile Collective
Brian Fuchs is a Co-Founder & CTO at The Mobile Collective.
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About The Mobile Collective: The Mobile Collective brings people together to work on exciting new mobile and web projects. We believe in the power of collaboration.
Martin McKeaveney
Co-Founder & CTO of Budibase
Martin McKeaveney is the Co-Founder and CTO at Budibase.
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About Budibase: Budibase is an open-source web app builder, designed for speed and customization.
Daniel Atherton
CTO of Play
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About Play: Play design and build products that help individuals make great decisions and build positive behaviours.
