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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 London based CTO’ operating in the Health Care 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.
Gavin Ray
CTO of Digime
Gavin joined ip.access in june 2011. He spend the first 5 years of his career with AT&T in the UK Business Services group followed by five years in Cisco via its acquisition of Stratacom where he held a range of technology leadership positions in Service Provider networking and OSS systems. Recently he has worked as VP Products & Marketing in Telsis a leading messaging vendor and previously he was a partner at New York VC fund MeyerDuffy Ventures and followed with a number of years as a strategic technology advisor to a range of small/mid-size VC funded companies. He holds BSc(Hons) Telcommunications and PhD in network optimisation.
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About Digime, ip.access: Digi.me allows consumers to gather their personal data and share it with businesses in a mutually beneficial value exchange.
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Gwen Le Calvez
Co-Founder & CTO of Birdie
Gwen Le Calvez is the Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Birdie.
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About Birdie: Birdie is a digital caretech company focused on elderly care at home.
Robert Weekly
Co-Founder & CTO of MysteryVibe
Robert Weekly Co-Founder & CTO at MysteryVibe.
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About MysteryVibe: Award Winning Sexual Health Products. Deeply researched, anatomically designed, doctor-endorsed products to make intimacy easy.
Tom Livesey
Co-Founder & CTO of Thriva
Tom Livesey is the CTO and co-founder of Thriva. Prior to co-founding Thriva, Tom served as a contract software engineer at Newspaper Club and as a CTO at Droplet Online Limited.
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About Thriva: Thriva offers a personalized at-home finger-prick blood test which enables individuals to easily track and improve health.
Oliver Brookes
Chief Technology Officer of MedicSpot
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About MedicSpot: MedicSpot gives patients convenient and quick access to healthcare using the latest advancements in telemedicine
Will Monk
Founder & CTO of PetsApp
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About PetsApp: PetsApp provides an app-based client engagement platform for veterinary clinics, enabling them to better engage with pet owners.
Vicky Smalley
CTO of FundamentalVR
Vicky Smalley has extensive experience working with AI and a passion for big data, working at companies including Sony, Climax, Kuato Studios and If You Can. She started her career specializing in Artificial Intelligence for PC and Console titles and in 2011 took a change in direction, switching platform to mobile and focusing on the educational sector. She is a strong technical lead with a history of managing teams who can deliver complex products to ambitious timescales while maintaining high production values. She is passionate about using cutting edge VR and haptic technology to deliver immersive training that will improve surgical outcomes.
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About Fundamental Surgery, FundamentalVR: FundamentalVR delivers VR haptic ‘flight simulators’ for surgery creating a safe, measurable & repeatable space to refine to refine skills.
Giles Williams
Co-founder & CTO of Urban
Giles Williams is the Co-Founder and CTO of Urban. He bringing experience across all development disciplines, he leads the technical architecture and engineering for the business, as it scales rapidly across the globe. As with all engineers, the need to stretch out after a long day at a desk means his favorite massage treatment is Thai Yoga.
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About Urban: Urban is an online wellness appointment platform for booking in-person and online treatments.
Anuj Saboo
CTO & Founder of Healum
Anuj is responsible for the company’s technology vision and team. He believes in the power of Artificial Intelligence to assist healthcare professionals in supporting and understanding their patients. He has 15 years of deep experience in technology sector from working in AI, mobile, social gaming, e-commerce, payments, digital health and network infrastructure. He is experienced in building scalable technology platforms and managing high quality engineering teams. He holds MSc in Computer Science and MSc in Embedded Systems & Robotics from University of Essex.
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About Healum: Healum provides connected software and apps to improve self-management for patients with long term conditions.
Sven Mischkewitz
CTO & Co-Founder of ThinkSono
Sven is an award-winning software engineer from Hasso-Plattner-Institute, Germany. Before joining Entrepreneur First, he worked on annotation tools for brain cells on projects for the Max-Planck-Institute for Brain Research. He focused on the field of Human-Computer-Interaction during his studies.
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About ThinkSono: Cutting edge AI ultrasound software for detection of blood clots (DVT)
Adrien Desjardins
CTO of Echopoint Medical
Adrien has a PhD from Harvard and the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT). in Biomedical Engineering and Biophysics with a specific focus on cardiovascular devices, fibre optic sensing, and optical coherence tomography. After his PhD, he led technical developments in an internal venture at Philips Research (Netherlands) to develop devices with integrated optical sensors and brought this technology from benchtop prototypes to in vivo human studies. In addition to his responsibilities at Echopoint Medical, he is a Full Professor at UCL where he leads the interventional devices group with a vision to develop novel methods for performing physiological measurements and imaging with minimally invasive devices. He has over 52 patent applications and granted patents.
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About Echopoint Medical: Echopoint Medical is a medtech company
Joe McFadden
Chief Technology Officer of HealthUnlocked
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About HealthUnlocked: HealthUnlocked is a social network for health.
Dimitris Athanasiou
Co-Founder and CTO of Neurofenix
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About Neurofenix: Neurofenix is aiming to make rehabilitation more autonomous, enjoyable and accessible to stroke victims.
Ramiz Khan
CTO of Plumm
Ramiz brings almost 11+yrs of experience in software industry, of which involving designing, coding. He has expertise in working on Web-based Distributed Architecture. Currently, he works with Plumm Health as the Chief Technology Officer.
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About Futuristic5 IT Solutions, Plumm: Plumm offers 1:1 online therapy sessions and courses with certified and experienced mental health therapists globally.
Artem Stalpouski
Co-founder & CTO of Drfocused
Artem Stalpouski is the Co-founder & CTO @drfocused Bending rules across the borders.
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About Drfocused: Drfocused creates clinician-centred digital solutions improve the working lives of doctors.
Andrew Walker
Chief Technology Officer of Kind Consumer
Andrew Walker is the chief technology officer of Kind Consumer.
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About Kind Consumer: Kind Consumer is a healthcare research and development company focused on inhalation technologies.
Tobias Rijken
Co-Founder & CTO of Kheiron
Tobias Rijken is the co-founder and CTO of Kheiron.
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About Kheiron, Unfilled: We’re going where no-one has ever gone before. — We’re fighting cancer. — Lives are at stake.
Perran Pengelly
Founder and CTO of DrDoctor
Perran Pengelly is the Founder and CTO at DrDoctor.
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About DrDoctor: DrDoctor helps hospitals to deliver patient facing digital solutions.
Danny Ogen
Chief Technology Officer of Careology
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About Careology: Digital Cancer Care. Helping people living and dealing with cancer make the down days more manageable & the Up Days come more often.
Hisham Khalifa
CTO of Tabeo
CTO @ Tabeo
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About Tabeo: We simplify payments and contact management for healthcare specialists. Grow your business and keep patients happy.
David Brownlee
CTO of TrainAsONE
David Brownlee, our operations lead, built Formula1.com into the biggest independent racing website, has architected ticketing systems and ran operations for DreamWorks Feature Animations.
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About TrainAsONE: The award-winning AI running coach for runners of all abilities and goals.
David Brownlee
CTO of TrainAsONE
David Brownlee, our operations lead, built Formula1.com into the biggest independent racing website, has architected ticketing systems and ran operations for DreamWorks Feature Animations.
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About TrainAsONE: The award-winning AI running coach for runners of all abilities and goals.
Ioannis Chronakis
Head of Software, CTO of DEONTICS
Ioannis holds an MB:BS (MD) from the Medical School of University of Patras, Greece, where he also completed his internship. Shortly after he switched focus to software engineering. From 1999 to 2001 he acted as a technical director and software developer in a successful start-up Internet Service Provider (General Satellite Applications for the Internet, Patras). Between 2001 and 2002 he worked as senior software developer in a photo news agency (Reporter ltd, Athens) where he designed and implemented software and infrastructure for Internet based digital image collection, storage and distribution. In 2003 he worked as a team leader/software engineer in Hellenic Technology of Robotics (Athens) where he has developed the kernel, collision detection, virtual force field generator and communications modules for the Environment Dynamics Simulator project outsourced by European Space Agency (ESTEC dept) and used for ground testing and programming of two of the robotic arms deployed in the International Space Station. In 2005 he assumed the role of the technical manager in the same company for the commercial exploitation of space telemetry and control technology for ground systems (ANEMO project). Since 2006 he has been working with Prof John Fox (Advanced Computation Laboratory in Cancer Research UK initially, University of Oxford engineering department subsequently) as a senior medical software developer mainly developing the Tallis/PROforma decision support technology and applications for cardiovascular and oncology diseases. Ioannis is a Deontics Founder.
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About DEONTICS: Deontics was set up to commercialise Clinical Quality and Clinical Decision Support Technologies
Gareth Jones
CTO of Jupiter Diagnostics
Gareth was previously the Assistant Director and Head and Science Chair of the Biology and Medicine College, Synchrotron Radiation Department at the STFC Daresbury Laboratory. Since 2006, he has created and advised on novel diagnostic technologies for 10 UK firms. He is a named inventor on 13 patents and has over 70 papers published including in Nature.
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About Jupiter Diagnostics: Jupiter Diagnostics has developed a diagnostic platform
Josh Simpson
CTO & Co-founder of The Medic App
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About The Medic App: The Medic App gives you the ability to schedule medication reminders and track your adherence.
Josh Simpson
CTO & Co-founder of The Medic App
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About The Medic App: The Medic App gives you the ability to schedule medication reminders and track your adherence.
Timothy Omer
CTO of Changing Health
Senior Technology Manager with a 14+ year career spanning Digital Media and Consultancy, experienced in design and execution of ERP, Business Processes, Revenue, Delivery, Support and IT Operation Systems. Working with people, systems and processes to lead and deliver efficient and flexible Agile solutions. A Type 1 Diabetic for over 20 years he has been frustrated with the lack access and progress of technology to help him manage this data-intensive condition and frustrated that he has to rely on one of the most unreliable processors of this data – himself. Working with the #WeAreNotWaiting community of citizen hackers to build an Artificial Pancreas mobile app to help reduce the burden of capturing data, lower costs and producing suggestions on adjustments to his medication. With the aim to provide a fully automated, portable, data-rich Closed Loop system.
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About Changing Health: Changing Health provides personalised, digital behaviour change programmes for Type 2 diabetes, pre-diabetes, and weight management.
Dr Glenn Atter
Chief Technology Officer of Springbox Ltd
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About Brain in Hand, Oxford Molecular Group, Springbox Ltd: Personalised Meal Delivery. Team of 15 and £500m RRR.
Simon Lee
Chief Technology Officer of goEvo
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About goEvo: goEvo helps users lose excess weight and keep it off without dieting, by changing the way we think and feel about food and our bodies.
Peter Rogers
Co-Founder & CTO of See What I Mean
Peter is a senior computing tutor at Goldsmiths College, University of London and is the lead developer of the SWiM app. Peter also works as a designer and programmer. His recent projects have included social and speculative design in the sphere of citizen participation and mobile location aware services.
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About Goldsmiths, University of London, See What I Mean: See What I Mean is a speech to image communication tool that translates words into pictures.
Ben Holland
Co-founder and CTO of Antiverse
Ben Holland is the Co-founder and CTO at Antiverse.
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About Antiverse: Engineering the future of drug discovery
Henric Larsson
Co-Founder and CTO of Dashl
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About Dashl: A digital hair and beauty booking platform.
Ivaylo Yosifov
Co-Founder and CTO of FindMeCure
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About FindMeCure: FindMeCure helps anyone to easily find future treatments and apply for participation in studies within a few clicks.
Mike Mace
CTO and Co-Founder of Gripable
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About Gripable: Gripable is develops simple digital therapy tools, combining them with mobile games, motivating physically impaired patients.
Jeremie Charlet
CTO & Co-Founder of Trackener
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About Trackener: Trackener is revolutionising the equine care with data and technology.
Paul Fotheringham
Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints
Paul Fotheringham is Founder & Chief Technology Officer of 3D LifePrints UK Ltd.
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About 3D LifePrints: 3D LifePrints is the leading provider of Medical 3D Printing products and services with a unique in-hospital embedded model
Joel Douglas
CTO of Loon Medical
Prior to Loon, Mr. Douglas was Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Engineered Carbon Solutions (ECS) – a company that commercialized a hybrid pellet for the stove market. Prior to ECS, he co-founded Simplified Energy Solutions (SES) and was CTO of Mystic Technology Partners which merged with SES. SES has launched Solar Thermal Applications, SafeShip Li-ion batteries and has growing sales in the public sector market. Before that, Mr. Douglas founded two medical device companies: Amira Medical, developer of the first alternative site glucose meter, and Sterling Medications, developer of a series of insulin delivery devices. He has also assisted the development of HDH Technologies for SaniChek products sold by Simoniz. Mr. Douglas earned his B.S. in Civil Engineering from UConn and an M.S. in Computer and Information Science from the University of New Haven. He was honored by the UConn School of Engineering in 2005 when he was inducted into the Academy of Distinguished Engineers. He has 95 granted US patents and has written 29 FDA 510(k) clearances.
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About Loon Medical: Loon Medical specializes in the fields of healthcare, medical, and medical device.
Christopher Scollo
Acting CTO of MyHealthPal
Former CTO at ciao.com, tech advisor, author and angel investor.
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About MyHealthPal: My Health Pal is a powerful digital companion that enables people with long-term health conditions.
Alex Johnson
Co-Founder & Chief Technology Officer of Pixcelldata
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About Pixcelldata: Pixcelldata is a leading innovator of software solutions for the digital pathology domain.
