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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 United Kingdom based CTO’ operating in the Hospitality 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.
Jason Torres
Co-Founder & CTO of Slerp
Jason Torres is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer at Slerp.
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About Slerp: Slerp is an e-commerce platform for the hospitality industry.
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.
Ben Dixon
Co-Founder & CTO of Sona
Ben is a senior developer focused on web application development. He primarily creates Ruby on Rails and Android applications. He also has experience in front-end development in both Backbone and Angular JS as well as infrastructure management with Chef and Docker. He’s the author of Reliably Deploying Rails Applications (http://www.deployingrailsbook.com/) which covers how to deploy medium-sized Rails Applications in an easy, scalable fashion, and spoke at Railsconf 2014 on this topic. He also spoke at Railsconf 2015 on how Docker can be tightly integrated with Rails to do far more interesting things than just deployment. He is currently CTO of Sona, the unified frontend for the frontline workforce.
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About Sona: Sona is the employee app for tomorrow’s workforce.
Sam Graham
CTO of Hitlist
Sam Graham is a software engineer at TripScout and the CTO at Hitlist.
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About Hitlist: Hitlist is a travel app platform that serves up bargain-priced flights and travels deals.
Sam Graham
CTO of Hitlist
Sam Graham is a software engineer at TripScout and the CTO at Hitlist.
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About Hitlist: Hitlist is a travel app platform that serves up bargain-priced flights and travels deals.
Tom Taylor
Co-Founder and CTO of Breakroom
Tom Taylor is the co-founder and CTO at Poplar.
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About Breakroom: Breakroom is a crowdsourced data platform for hourly and shift workers.
James Powell
CTO & Co-Founder of Sellar
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About Sellar, Waffle: Sellar is the new trade ordering experience for breweries selling beer directly to trade customers.
Rajat Dhawan
Global Chief Technology Officer of Soho House
Rajat Dhawan is the Global Chief Technology Officer at Soho House.
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About London School of Economics and Political Science (LSE), Soho House: Soho House is a private members’ club for people in the creative industries.
Matthew Samonek
Chief Technology Officer of Kleek
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About Kleek: Kleek offers access to high-end venues, clubs and events.
Simon Haynes
CTO of Kitchen Cut
Simon has spent the last 18 years leading design and technical development teams within large blue chip organisations such as KPMG before starting and growing his own businesses in 2004. At Kitchen CUT he is responsible for leading the technical development team and overseeing a number of functions within the business, including user experience, system planning and architectural development, system integrations, as well as brand and overall design. Simon is one of the founding members of Kitchen CUT and is committed to delivering market-leading software solutions to the hospitality industry, in line with Kitchen CUT’s commercial growth plans.
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About Kitchen Cut: Kitchen CUT is a unique online software solution for F&B professionals, helping you to manage your kitchen operations more efficiently.
Adrian Negoita
CTO and Co-Founder of BotsAndUs
Adrian Negoita is a CTO and Co-Founder at BotsAndUs. He is an experienced software test engineer who is motivated by building high-quality products and sharing his knowledge to support the wider adoption of robotics.
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About BotsAndUs: BotsAndUs is a data-driven robotics and AI company that provides full-stack robot systems for dynamic spaces.
Rich Turnbull
Co-Founder & CTO of HotelFlex
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About HotelFlex: An award winning, VC backed hospitality tech startup, transforming the way hotels manage and sell their inventory
David Quinlan
CTO of MeetingRooms.com
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About MeetingRooms.com: Global marketplace for meeting rooms.
