At CTO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 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 Cologne based CTO’ operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a CTO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected].
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 Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Nazareno Avila
Co-founder & CTO of Mindcurv
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About Mindcurv: Mindcurv is a digital solutions provider that focuses on bringing value to customers across the entire life cycle of an implementation.
Henrik Basten
Founder & CTO of Weflow
Henrik Basten is the Founder and CTO at Weflow.
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About Exactag, Weflow: Weflow is a Salesforce productivity platform helps AEs save time, structure their day & win more deals.

Timo Derstappen
Co-Founder and CTO of Giant Swarm
Loves to create, hack, make. Linux user, sports addict, orchestrating my distributed, scalable life. Co-Founder at Giant Swarm.
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About Giant Swarm: Giant Swarm is to give everyone the power and freedom to build modern software that runs their world.

Phillip Ghadir
CTO and Board Member of innoQ
Phillip Ghadir has over 15 years of experience in the IT from various industries. His main interest is the design of software systems – in particular architectures for mission-critical, distributed systems. He is CTO and Board Member of innoQ and as such responsible for the cross-project organization innoQ. Phillip is a founding member of the personal iSAQB eV and is actively working on the design of the curriculum for the CPSA-F (Certified Professional for Software Architecture, Foundation Level) and the CPSA-A (Certified Professional for Software Architecture, Advanced Level) with. He speaks also regularly at industry conferences such as the JAX and has written numerous magazine articles.
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About innoQ: innoQ is an information technology consultancy that provides software architecture consulting, development, and training services.
Sarah Fluchs
CTO of admeritia
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About admeritia: admeritia offers tailored exactly to your actual security situation.
Mehrad Rafigh
CTO of FoodLoop
Mehrad-Rafigh is CTO at FoodLoop.
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About FoodLoop: FoodLoop enables the food retail industry to sell food products with a short remaining shelf-life by providing discount offers on them.

Thorsten Rood
Principal Architect, Regional Director, and CTO of Braincon
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About Braincon: Braincon engaging in the provision of powerful and secure application infrastructures and consideration of the modern workplace.