Rorie Devine, Betfair CTO
Position: 26 Last year: Not ranked
Why? Running one of the world's most resilient internet platforms
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Rorie Devine is responsible for the IT infrastructure for the online betting and gaming exchange Betfair, one of the UK's fastest growing and most innovative companies.
Betfair takes the traditional middleman out of the equation and allows punters to lay and place bets directly with each other.
The platform behind this is one of the fastest and most resilient on the internet today, processing more than five million transactions a day and more than 300 bets a second - easily outdoing City institutions and stock exchanges.
Scalability, security and availability - Betfair processes 99.9 per cent of bets in less than one second - are the key challenges for Devine and his team of more than 200 engineers.
Devine joined Betfair in 2003 on the back of a career that includes spells consulting on trading-floor systems in investment banking, with more than 20 major financial institutions. He has also held a variety of leadership roles in internet start-up businesses.
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