Experienced technology leaders

Rational Partners is composed of seasoned, experienced technology and product leaders. With decades of shared experience, and the backing of the wider team, there's no challenge too complex or project too ambitious for us to tackle.
Hybrid
Whether your team is all remote, hybrid or on site, we recognise the need to be flexible. In person time allows us to build human relationships.
Pragmatic
Technology challenges have infinite ways to be solved. We bring a pragmatic approach, ensuring that your team doesn't use trends or over-engineer solutions.
Forward thinking
From AI to cloud, we bring the latest development practices to your business, ensuring you are future-proofing your team as well as gaining a competitive advantage.

Our team

Founding Partner

Rob Elkin

Rob is a CTO and product expert with over 20 years experience in the startup and technology industry. He led the UK technology teams for Just Eat, before moving on to CTO at the language learning startup Busuu.
Founding Partner

Roja Buck

Roja is an award winning CTO and advisor. He brings decades of hands-on technology experience from architecting trading platforms to building and running teams of over 100 in hyper-growth startups.
Managing Partner - Insights

Greg Schroeder

Greg is a hands-on technologist, co-founder and CTO for both public and venture-backed US companies with multiple exits. He has been a founder and leader of small private startups as well as 200+ teams in publicly listed entities.
Partner

Alan Hughes

Alan is an experienced hands-on technology leader, architect, delivery consultant, and developer. He has led the build-out of digital platforms and services for large financial services enterprises including Old Mutual (Insurance, South Africa), Jio (Banking, India), and Greensill Capital in the UK.
Partner

Chris Brooke

Chris is an experienced technical leader with an extensive background growing high performance product and technology teams. He has experience on both sides of the fund raising table, conducting technical due diligence on behalf of venture capital and private equity clients, as well as raising Series A,B and C rounds while a CTO.
Partner

Fergus Doyle

Fergus is an outcome-oriented CTO with a focus on Data, Product and Healthcare. Startups have raised over $100m in early stage funding with Fergus' direct involvement. He has a proven track record of taking complex products to market and building lean, high-performing teams to deliver tangible business value.
Partner - Product

Ryan Crabbe

Ryan has nearly two decades of product experience, working with teams in fast paced startup environments, across both digital and physical landscapes. His background in B2B SaaS, eCommerce and mobile ensures he has a deep understanding of customer behaviour, product strategy and execution.