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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 CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
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Jason du Preez
CEO, Co-founder of Privitar
As Chief Executive Officer and co-founder, Jason is responsible for Privitar’s vision, strategy, culture and funding. He is passionate about the benefits of data to society and Privitar’s vision of building a centre of excellence around privacy engineering products. He is a serial entrepreneur who brings proven start-up and enterprise software experience to the business. Prior to founding Privitar he held global leadership roles across technology and data management at Thomson Reuters. Before that he co-founded and led the growth of data management software company, m35, up to a successful exit through sale to Thomson. Jason has a Bachelor of Business Science degree from the University of Cape Town.
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About Privitar: Privitar offers a data privacy platform that protect their customers’ sensitive personal data and to deliver comprehensive data privacy.
Paul Hunter
Chief of Staff to CEO of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Andrew Martin
CEO of ControlPlane
Andrew is a co-founder at https://control-plane.io. He has a strong test-first engineering ethos gained architecting and deploying high-traffic web applications. Proficient in systems development, testing, and maintenance, he is comfortable profiling and securing every tier of a bare metal or cloud native application, and has battle-hardened experience delivering containerised solutions to enterprise clients.
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About ControlPlane: Cloud native consultancy, securing Kubernetes from supply-chain and runtime attacks with a zero trust, continuous security approach.
Kabir Barday
Founder, CEO of OneTrust
Barday is Fellow of Information Privacy, a Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP/US, CIPP/E, CIPM, CIPT), and Chief Executive Officer of OneTrust. Barday oversees all aspects of OneTrust’s product development, operations, and sales, and is the driving force behind the company’s international expansion. Prior to OneTrust, Barday served as Director of Product Management at AirWatch, which was acquired by VMware in 2014 for $1.54B. At AirWatch, Barday received the HPE-IAPP’s Most Innovative Privacy Technology Award after launching the Privacy First program.
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About CookiePro, OneTrust: OneTrust helps companies manage privacy, security, and governance requirements in a regulatory environment that constantly changes.
Jamie Akhtar
Co-founder, CEO of CyberSmart
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About CyberSmart: An automated end-to-end cyber security compliance platform that helps SMB’s.
Jesus Rosano
Divisional CEO, Global Cash Solutions of G4S
Jesus joined G4S in March 2014 as Regional Business Development SVP to lead the implementation of new commercial structures and processes through G4S Latin America. In 2015 his responsibilities expanded to Chief Operations Officer adding to his commercial role the responsibility to implement restructures and efficiency programs in operations across the Latin American businesses including Cash, Manned Services and Technology businesses. Jesus was appointed Group Strategy and Commercial Director in January 2016. Jesus joined G4S from DHL, a logistics B2B global company, where he held various line, functional and regional roles in different markets in Latin America and North America over 11 years period. Before DHL Jesus worked in strategy consulting and investment banking with projects in diverse industries. Jesus holds a bachelor’s degree in Engineering and Administration from ITESM University, Mexico.
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About G4S: G4S is an international security solutions group, focused on BPO sectors where security and safety risks are considered a strategic threat.
Owen Hall
CEO of Heliocor
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About Heliocor, Heliocor: Heliocor is a regulatory technology company.We are building a global anti fraud ecosystem based on our Robolitics and Dokstor SaaS products.
Oz Alashe
CEO & Founder of CybSafe
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About CybSafe, Royal United Services Institute, SPRITE+: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Tim Sadler
Co-Founder & CEO of Tessian
Tim is the CEO and co-founder of CheckRecipient, a next generation email security platform which uses machine learning to predict when emails are being sent to the wrong people. Some of the world’s largest organisations across the financial and legal sectors are using CheckRecipient and in the past 6 months the company has been crowned “Best Security Startup” by WIRED, “Best Machine Intelligence Startup” by Legal Geek and “Best Startup – Gold Category” by Info Security Products Guide. Tim was recently listed as one of Forbes “30 Under 30” in European Technology for 2017.
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Eldar Tuvey
Co-Founder & CEO of Wandera
Eldar is the Co-Founder and CEO of Wandera where is responsible for driving the company’s strategic direction and growth. Prior to co-founding Wandera, Eldar co-founded and served as CEO of ScanSafe. Eldar started his career at Goldman Sachs and completed his MBA at INSEAD.
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About Snappli, Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
Andrew Bud
Founder and CEO of iProov
Andrew Bud is Founder and CEO of iProov, the UK-based provider of online authentication based on face verification, whose patented One Time Biometric technology delivers uniquely strong resilience to spoofs, replays and hacking. iProov has been recognised, adopted and supported by UK Government agencies and has won numerous prizes from global corporations, and its remote KYC solution has received regulatory recognition. Andrew is also Global Chair of the Mobile Ecosystem Forum, an international industry association serving the whole mobile value chain. He was formerly CEO and Executive Chairman of mBlox Inc., the world’s largest provider of enterprise-to-consumer text messaging services worldwide, which he founded in 2000 and on whose Board he served until its sale in 2016. Until 1998 he was SVP Marketing for Azlan, Cisco’s largest distributor in Europe. In 1994 he was member of the leadership team founding Italian mobile operator Omnitel Pronto Italia (now Vodafone Italia). Named in 2009 as one of the top 40 telecoms executives worldwide, he is a Fellow of the IET and has a first class degree in Engineering from the University of Cambridge.
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About iProov, Mobile Ecosystem Forum, The Media Institute: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Ajay Patel
Founder & CEO of HighQ
Ajay Patel As Founder of HighQ, Ajay continues to deliver on his vision of enabling a new, modern, highly efficient and ‘best in class’ secure platform of collaborative engagement and transaction for security, compliance and regulatory minded enterprises. As Chief Executive Officer, he leads the company growth strategy, product direction and senior management team. Ajay graduated with a first-class degree in Computer Science and Mathematics from Manchester University and later completed a Master’s degree in Information Systems at LSE. He qualified as a chartered accountant at PwC in London and later occupied roles in leading investment banks Merrill Lynch and Morgan Stanley. After spending several years in the City, he realised the corporate environment didn’t fulfil his creative, professional or personal ambitions and subsequently started HighQ.The idea was simple: to create a dynamic, fun and successful company that puts its employees and clients at the centre of everything it does.
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About HighQ: HighQ empowers leading law firms and corporate legal teams to transform the way they work and deliver legal services.
James Popper
CEO of Amberbox Gunshot Detection
Founder at Sinclair Fire.
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About Amberbox Gunshot Detection: Detect Gunshots | Inform Law Enforcement | Empower First Responders
John Michael
CEO & Founder of iStorage
With 32 years within the Data Storage Industry, John Michael has been running successful innovative businesses throughout his working life. With John’s extensive knowledge and experience within the industry, he recognised early on that data was becoming a precious commodity. John’s vision of creating secure solutions to protect sensitive data led him to develop a range of ground-breaking industry leading products, consisting of USB Flash, Hard Disk and Solid-State Drives, which have been certified to the highest government accreditations!
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About iStorage: iStorage is the trusted global leader of PIN authenticated, hardware encrypted data storage devices.
John Robert Blamire
Chief Executive Officer of Falanx Group Ltd
John is a former officer in the British Army, having served in Northern Ireland, Iraq, Cyprus, Canada, USA and the Falkland Islands, gaining a wealth of operational experience. In 2001 he created a strategic-level intelligence unit within a high-risk area of Iraq, leading over 60 highly-qualified intelligence personnel. After leaving the Army he co-founded Praetorian Protection Ltd, a company providing specialist security services to clients in Africa. He holds a degree in Law and Business.
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About Falanx Group Ltd, Falanx Group Ltd: Falanx Group Ltd is a provider of various security and intelligence services to blue chip and government clients worldwide.
Richard H Harris
Group CEO, Founder of Ensygnia
Richard is known as a hands-on, technology entrepreneur with a track record of building and transforming early-stage technology companies such as Ensygnia, Swivel Secure, Mobix, SAVortex, Clearswift and Tumbleweed. As Chief Executive and a founder of Ensygnia, Richard conceptualised and patented a visual alternative to NFC called Onescan. Ensygnia’s Onescan platform enables a consumer to go from looking to buying in under 10s from first contact – including new customers! At the Mobile World Congress over 1500 industry leaders voted Onescan as one of top 3 the innovations most likely to have the greatest impact on the mobile industry over the next ten years! Ensygnia beat tough competition from AirWatch, CloudX, Metrical and SpatialBuzz to win the Mobile Industry Awards 2014: Best Use of Software. In his spare time, he enjoys Ceroc & Scuba, is a campaigner for the rights of vulnerable adults and mental health issues when possible working with Zacchaeus 2000 Trust and Mental Health Research UK as well as mentoring Nicholas Fearn a young man with Asperger’s. Also enjoys mucking around with molten glass, composing music, painting and digital art.
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About Ensygnia: Ensygnia delivers integration Platform as a Service for large payment companies and corporations deploying omnichannel solutions
Sanford Dickert
Founder / CEO of OWLR Technologies
Sanford Dickert is a product technologist focusing on bring new technology-based products to market. In his varied career, Sanford has held numerous senior positions in Product Development, Marketing, and Technology. When describing Sanford, descriptions include Product Expeditor, a transformative CTO and/or Market-sensitive Technologist — primarily working with promising start-up, leading venture funds and Fortune 500 firms to take on high-beta projects or accelerate positive change within their organizations through the effective use of technology, performance metrics and product development/marketing techniques.
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About OWLR Technologies: User-friendly software which makes complex home security cameras easy-to-use, more intelligent and safer for all.
Serge Alleyne
Co-Founder & CEO of Shipfix
Serge Alleyne is a co-founder and CEO at Shipfix.
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About Nomao.com, Shipfix: Shipfix operates as a data and community platform that helps with the operational efficiency in the maritime industry.
James Hadley
CEO of Immersive Labs
James Hadley i the CEO of Immersive Labs.
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About Immersive Labs: Immersive Labs develops a platform that measures and improves cybersecurity skills across businesses.
Zia Hayat
Founder and CEO of Callsign
Zia is Chairman, CEO and founder of Callsign. With a PhD in Information Systems Security from the University of Southampton, he has served in various roles in the cybersecurity industry. From research engineer at BAE Systems to internet banking security architect at Lloyds Bank. Zia oversees the overall direction and strategy of the company while contributing to innovation and design of the service.
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
Ian Smith
Founder and CEO of Gospel Technology
Ian is an entrepreneur and a vastly experienced enterprise technology executive, having worked in various consulting and in-house roles within the sector over the last 20 years. Before founding Gospel Technology in 2016, Ian was the founder and CTO of Butterfly Software, a data analytics and migration software company acquired by IBM in September 2012. After which he took on a worldwide Vice President of Product Management role for IBM. Prior to Butterfly, Ian was involved in solving some of the largest and most complex infrastructure and data problems in enterprise business. He built HSBC’s enterprise infrastructure and worked for the likes of Dell, Deutsche Bank and Lloyds TSB Group. While gaining a wealth of experience working in enterprise business, Ian noticed a clear disconnect between how enterprise businesses use their data and how they collaborate. He founded Gospel Technology to help solve this issue and enforce the fundamentals of ethics in business through the ethical use of data. Ian holds a BSc Geology from University of Sheffield
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About Gospel Technology: Gospel Technology is an enterprise data security platform, providing inter-enterprise data for secure & ethical business collaboration.
Jessica Barker
Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cygenta
Jessica Barker is a leader in the human nature of cybersecurity. She has been named one of the top 20 most influential women in cybersecurity in the UK and in 2017 she was awarded as one of the UK’s Tech Women 50. She is Co-Founder and co-CEO of Cygenta, where she follows her passion of positively influencing cybersecurity awareness, behaviours and culture in organisations around the world. She is a popular keynote speaker and regularly shares her expertise in the media, for example on BBC News, Sky News, Channel 4 News and in Grazia magazine and the Sunday Times. She is the Chair of ClubCISO and a board member of BlackHat Executive Summit Europe and SANS Security Awareness Summit EU.
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About Cygenta: Cygenta support clients dealing with the multi-dimensional challenge of cyber-security.
Kristofer Mansson
CEO of Silobreaker
Kristofer entered the technology industry in 2000 when he took on the role of acting CEO for an early stage technology venture in Stockholm owned by OMX and the Boston Consulting Group. Before the millennium he spent 15 years in Financial Services as Vice-President at Salomon Brothers and Managing Director of AIG Financial Products, both in London. He holds a Master of Science degree in Economics and Business Administration from the Stockholm School of Economics.
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About Silobreaker: Silobreaker builds intelligence technology that makes sense of unstructured data on the web.
David Williams
Founder Chairman and CEO of Arqit Limited
David Williams is a Founder at Arqit company.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Muhammad Omar Khan
Co-Founder & CEO of SIRP
If there’s ever an issue, Omar is the man to fix it. Here at SIRP, he’s known as the master of solutions. Where others may grow frustrated in the face of a problem, Omar gets excited. He’s passionate about working through the complexities of any system, deciphering codes, identifying causes and effects, and pinpointing where things go wrong. After that, he uses his extreme technical skills to formulate ingenious solutions, ones that don’t merely patch things up, but provide ongoing, full-scale protection. Omar’s passion and skill has been cultivated for the past decade. He is a Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP) certification. Omar previously worked for for Cyber Internet Services (Pvt.) Ltd, as one of their brightest System Security Engineers. He works closely with Faiz on the Honeynet Project and PAKCON. He specializes in information security management and best practices, intrusion detection systems, firewalls, honeynets, vulnerability assessment and penetration testing. His programming experience is quite extensive, in C, C++, PHP, and C#. Omar is prized for his ability to direct diverse cyber security initiatives, provide in depth analysis of systems, and implement comprehensive solutions that meet the unique needs and goals of every business SIRP serve.
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About SIRP: Risk-Based Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) Platform
Enrico Faccioli
CEO & Co-Founder of Seedata.io
Enrico Faccioli is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Seedata.
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About Seedata.io: Seedata.io is a cybersecurity platform that helps companies mitigate data leak incidents and crime threats.
Simon Marvell
CEO of Acuity Risk Management
Simon Marvell is a founder partner of Acuity Risk Management, a provider of solutions and services for Enterprise and Information Risk Management. Simon has over 30 years’ experience advising a wide range of clients across all major business sectors on risk management, business continuity and information management. He focuses on ensuring that risk management solutions reflect the objectives, priorities and strategies of the organisation and can provide practical and tangible benefits. Prior to establishing Acuity, Simon was a founder partner of Insight Consulting which he led through 13 years of profitable growth before selling the business to Siemens plc in 2004. In 2005, Simon established Acuity which now supplies software and services to 100 major organisations across 24 countries.
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About Acuity Risk Management: Creators of award-winning cyber, operational and IT risk management software
Jonathan Pope
Chief Executive Officer & Co-founder of Corax
Former army Captain and Sandhurst graduate, Jonathan is an insurance industry thought leader and speaker, and has acted as a board level cyber risk advisor.
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About Corax: Cyber risk intelligence platform providing data and modelling on the cyber exposure of millions of companies worldwide.
Flavius Plesu
CEO & Founder of OutThink
A cyber security leader with almost 20 years industry experience, Flavius is the Founder and CEO of OutThink. As a former CISO, he has led complex cyber security transformation programmes across large, global organisations. It is his passion for security that motivated Flavius to challenge the status quo and start OutThink, to solve the People challenge. Flavius holds a GCHQ-certified Information Security Masters degree from Royal Holloway, University of London. Strategic thinker, strong decision-making abilities, result oriented and collaborative leadership style. His primary focus is enabling organisations understand their cyber security risk exposure to make well informed business decisions. Having a strong technical background and a good understanding of business processes, he is naturally proficient at explaining the technical concepts surrounding the confidentiality, integrity and availability of information and supporting IT systems to all levels of management. Extensive expertise across a wide range of information security disciplines – Governance, Risk and Compliance (GRC), information security policies, ISMS, ISO 27001, ISF Standard of Good Practice, Data Privacy, legal and regulatory compliance – SOX, PCI DSS, GDPR, NHS IGTA, computer security, network security, web application security, secure business architectures and security technologies, with a strong emphasis on information risk management. CISSP, CRISC, CISM, SABSA SCF, SCP, QSA, ISO 27001 LI/LA
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About OutThink: Cybersecurity human risk management platform (SaaS)
Charles Nasser
Chief Executive Officer of Claranet
Charles Nasser founded Claranet in 1996 and has grown it into an international managed service provider operating in 6 countries. Charles has led the company through a strong period of organic growth as well as several acquisitions from public and private companies. Charles holds a Masters degrees in Electrical & Electronic Engineering from Imperial College (University of London), a Certified Diploma in Accounting and Finance (ACCA) and a Masters in Finance from the London Business School. A keen traveller, Charles has visited over 85 countries and participated in several expeditions, including a trek to the geographic North Pole in 2004.
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About Claranet: Claranet is an expert in modernising and running critical applications and infrastructure.
Bruce Beckloff
co-founder and CEO of Bloc Ventures
Bruce is the CEO and co-founder of Bloc Ventures, targeting investment in early life-cycle companies focused on the emerging Industrial Internet market. Before this Bruce was with ARM Holdings for 12 years serving as head of Corporate Development responsible for corporate strategy development, M&A, and investments. Bloc Ventures Recently, Bruce has been assisting the UK government as a venture capital Strategic Adviser helping the UK’s high growth early stage companies access financing from venture providers.He graduated from the Georgia Institute of Technology with a Bachelor and a Masters in materials science and holds a Masters in Business administration from the Southern Methodist University.
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About Bloc Ventures: Bloc Ventures is an early-stage Deep Tech investment company. Pitch to Bloc here: https://blocventures.com/pitching/
William B.
Co-founder & CEO of Doordeck
Co-Founder & CEO at Doordeck
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About Doordeck: Doordeck replaces traditional proximity cards with your smartphone.
Cameron Shearer
Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Superscript
Cameron Shearer is the CEO and Co-Founder at Superscript.
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About Superscript: Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses.
David Atkinson
Founder & CEO of SenseOn
David has over fifteen years’ experience working within the UK’s specialist military units and government environments, making him one of the best trained government cyber operatives. He was responsible for designing, delivering and managing a range of specialist techniques and innovative technology to support cyber operations and information security challenges at both the strategic and operational level. It was during David’s time within government and whilst working alongside CISOs that he realised the current approaches to cyber defence were flawed and that organisations needed a new technology to deal with the increasing velocity of cyber attacks. David has brought together a team of experts that has built a truly unique cyber defence platform. His sense of comradery, instilled by his military background, has created a collaborative working culture which is nurtured by an extremely bright, dedicated and most importantly passionate team.
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About SenseOn: SenseOn’s self-driving cyber defense platform automates the process of threat detection, investigation and response.
Daniel Holden
Chief Executive Officer of Trust Payments
Daniel is responsible for all financial and commercial aspects of the UC Group. He previously held senior positions at Deloitte and Capita, and was involved in a number of venture capital-backed companies.
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About Emerging Payments Association, Trust Payments: Trust Payments is a global unified payments group for global pay-in, pay-out and customer journey technologies.
Haydn Brooks
Co-Founder & CEO of Risk Ledger
Haydn graduated Imperial College London with a degree in Neuroscience and Mental Health. He then joined KPMG’s cyber security team where he specialised in supply chain security and social engineering. Haydn was one of the youngest graduates at a big 4 firm to set up, design, implement, and close, a number of third party assurance projects on behalf of a number of large clients. After a successful consulting career that spanned a number of years at KPMG, Deloitte, and a technology startup, he founded Risk Ledger. Risk Ledger solves the pain around third party assurance and security due diligence. Haydn hopes that Risk Ledger will mean that nobody ever has to experience the pain of running a manual third party assurance programme again.
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About Risk Ledger: Risk Ledger is the world’s most innovative vendor risk management platform, built on the model of a secure social network.
Andersen Cheng
CEO of Post-Quantum
Andersen Cheng has considerable experience in venture investing, incubation and consulting, achieving significant growth and exits for several high-tech companies including L3-TRL. He was the COO of the Carlyle Group’s European venture fund and a founding member of LabMorgan, the e-finance unit of JP Morgan. He has been involved in the spinoff and incubation of a number of trading and transaction system ventures. Prior to that, he was JP Morgan’s European Head of Credit Risk Management and was involved in many system implementation and risk management projects connected to credit risk, swap transactions, EMU and Y2K. Andersen holds a BSc in Civil Engineering and an MSc in Management Science from Imperial College. He then qualified as a Chartered Accountant with Deloitte & Touche, specialising in computer security and data interrogation.
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About Post-Quantum: Post-Quantum is a world-leader in quantum-safe encryption, blockchain and digital identity
Vishnu Chundi
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer of AssetVault
Vishnu Chundi is the Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer at AssetVault.
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About AssetVault: AssetVault allows customers to catalogue all their physical and digital assets in one secure register.
Dishant Shah
CEO of Spherical Defense
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About Spherical Defense: Spherical Defense offers API Security powered by Deep Learning
Des Lekerman
Group CEO of TiG Data Intelligence
Chief Executive, Des Lekerman is a proven business leader. He has a keen eye for technologies and trends – always seeking the next opportunity to grow the business and add value for his team and clients. Des has over 25 years’ experience in the technology sector. Having founded Eurodata in 1990 as one of the leading service providers in the UK, he went on to sell the business in 2011 (it’s now part of Capita). Since then, he’s been involved in several acquisitions – including ThirdSpace. Des is passionate about delivering the very best outcomes for both staff and clients alike – creating a growth environment that empowers everyone to deliver innovative services and solutions that delight our clients.
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About ThirdSpace, TiG Data Intelligence: TIG is a provider of cloud services, unified communications, and infrastructure solutions.
Andrew Henwood
CEO of Foregenix
Andrew Henwood is a cyber security evangelist and serial entrepreneur.
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About Foregenix: Foregenix prevents, protects, investigates, and solves serious cyberthreats for large enterprises and SMEs all around the globe.
Tony Pepper
Co-Founder & CEO of Egress Software
Tony Pepper co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for the company. Tony has overseen the company’s rapid expansion, driving innovation and worldwide sales. Tony currently serves as Chief Executive Officer, overseeing all aspects of business growth and innovation, with particular focus on Sales and Marketing. Pepper has an in-depth understanding of the data security market and prior to Egress held executive management and integration roles at Reflex Magnetics Ltd, Pointsec Mobile Technologies, and Check Point Software Technologies. Over the years, he has presented on a variety of data security-related issues and strategies for mobile computing and best practices surrounding secure data exchange. Pepper holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Politics from Nottingham Trent University. He also holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Liverpool University.
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About Egress Software: Egress is a software company that specializes in human layer security designed to prevent accidental and intentional data breaches.
Simonetta d’Ottaviano
Co-founder, CEO of Nettoken
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About Nettoken: The control panel for your digital identity!
Justin Lyon
CEO of Simudyne
Justin Lyon is the founder of the pioneering technology company, Simudyne. Justin is one of the world’s foremost experts in the field of computer-based simulation and a regular speaker on the application of AI, advanced analytics and simulation technology in solving complex problems and enabling better decisions for the world’s business, government and civic leaders. In a market densely populated with companies deriving insight from data for their customers, Justin’s entrepreneurship, vision and technical expertise has helped to craft technology that revolutionizes decision-making for the 21st century – turning insight into foresight. Justin studied at MIT and has worked in software development, strategic consultancy, sales and marketing for over 20 years.
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About Simudyne: Simudyne helps financial organisations to understand their world and make the best possible decisions.
Ben Prouty
CEO & Co-Founder of Shepper
Builder of innovative new on-demand services. Previously part of the early Zipcar and LOVESPACE teams.
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About Poncho, Shepper: Shepper collects data on physical assets for businesses using the power of technology and people
Kyle DuPont
Founder and CEO of Ohalo
Kyle DuPont is Founder and CEO of Ohalo, a company building data governance tools using AI/Machine Learning and Blockchain. This is his second company following, a company he founded in the Bitcoin financial crime compliance space in 2013. Kyle was a Fellow at Anthemis prior to starting Ohalo, and it was there, while working on blockchain technologies that he got the idea for Ohalo. Before building companies, he was fortunate to have worked in many areas of finance primarily in Asia with companies such as MUFJ Morgan Stanley. Kyle spends his time between London and Tokyo. Ohalo is supported by 500 Startups and Anthemis Group. Kyle has a BSci from Georgia Tech and MBA from Waseda University.
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About Ohalo: Ohalo helps automate data governance for modern organizations
Dobromir Todorov
CEO | Chief Cloud Officer & Co-founder of HeleCloud
Dob Todorov, CEO & Chief Cloud Officer, has co-founded and led many start-ups in the technology and financial services industries. With solutions architecture, security and systems engineering experience at organisations including HP, Accenture, Visa, BT Global Services and International Network Services (INS), he was subsequently employed by Amazon Web Services (AWS) as CTO for Public Sector in EMEA, and Principal Architect for Security & Compliance in EMEA. He has supported clients as diverse as central and local government, large internationals and emerging start-ups in their design and implementation of cloud solutions following AWS best practice. Dob is passionate about the opportunities for business advantage coming from technology innovation and strategic digital disruption.
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About HeleCloud: HeleCloud provides strategic technology consultancy, engineering and managed cloud services on the AWS Platform
Nick Morris
Head Of Partnerships & CEO of CyLon
Nick is a Director at Epsilon Advisory Partners, before which he spent three years running a technology startup. Following the company’s launch in 2014 by HRH Prince Charles, Nick successfully secured partnerships with a number of globally market leading companies across the UK, Europe and USA. Nick also sits on the Trustee Board of two small charities.
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About CyLon: CyLon is the world’s leading cyber security accelerator and seed investment programme.
Nik Whitfield
Founder & CEO of Panaseer
A globally recognised figure in the field of cyber and financial technology, Nik brings direction and leadership to the team, where he applies his phrase #deservetowin daily.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Vartan Sarkissian
CEO & Co-founder of Apomatix
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About Apomatix: Apomatix is an active audit management software that audits risks and conduct gap analysis.
Randhir Shinde
CEO of Galaxkey
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About Galaxkey, Image Analyzer: Galaxkey is an encryption platform to easily protect confidential information.
Daniel Ng
CEO of CyberOwl
Dan was Associate Director at KPMG, where he focused on the Defence, Security, and Industrial sectors. During that time, he worked extensively developing propositions, market entry and commercial strategies for global security, defense, technology and engineering companies such as Northrop Grumman, Atos, and BP. Dan is also Chair of a Working Group at the IoT Security Foundation, a non-profit working towards establishing principles and improving capability globally for IoT security.
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About CyberOwl: CyberOwl offers an early warning system for cyber attacks through real-time monitoring of high value targets for malicious behavior.
Eva Berg-Winters
Founder & CEO of Bewica
Eva Berg-Winters has a background in insurance and management consulting with a focus on digital. Until summer 2017, she was Head of UK&I Claims with a leading insurer. She has since founded Bewica to help SMEs manage cyber risks.
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About Bewica: Bewica makes cybersecurity beautifully simple for small organisations with our award-winning SaaS platform
Nithin Thomas
CEO of Ceerus
I have over 10 years track record in developing and commercializing cutting edge cyber security technologies from early stage research. I am currently the CEO of SQR Systems, a company that I founded in 2010 to bring to market the technology I developed during my PhD. In this role, I have set up multiple R&D and commercial programmes and partnerships with the UK Ministry of Defence, the US Department of Defence and other intelligence and government agencies in the UK. In my role at SQR, I have also been working closely with global defence primes, telcos, mobile device manufacturers and some of the leading financial and professional services organisations and critical infrastructure protection. In my spare time, I like getting involved with the London startup ecosystem through various meet-ups, hackathons and I am a startup mentor at Shell LiveWire and IncuBus London.
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About Ceerus: Security to communicate freely
Martin Sweeney
CEO of Ravelin
Martin is the CEO of Ravelin, which prevents fraud for online businesses around the globe.Martin’s background is in software and Physics, and he believes in harnessing the power of technology to solve real world problems. He started Ravelin to use cutting-edge Artificial Intelligence in the fight against fraud. When not spending time with his three children, Martin is a keen fisherman, cricketer and rock climber.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Paul McGuire
Co-Founder & CEO of tru.ID
Paul McGuire is the Co-founder & CEO at tru.ID. Serial Entrepreneur – previously founded two leading international transaction platform businesses. Now at JustInvesting, building the online transaction platform for the next-generation of Angel investing – moving venture investing online, to the benefit of Investors, Entrepreneurs and the whole economy. Prior to JustInvesting Paul co-founded Paymo, later acquired by BOKU, and led the company to become one of the leading mobile payments platforms, available in over 50 countries. Prior to Paymo, Paul co-founded mBlox, the world’s leading mobile transaction network, where he led the company’s sales and marketing organizations, guided the company’s expansion into the European market, and led M&A efforts to acquire six companies. Before founding several start-ups in the telecommunications sector, Paul began his career in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton.
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About tru.ID: tru.ID is reinventing mobile authentication for today’s world through a modern developer platform.
Andrew Martin
Founder & CEO of DynaRisk
Andrew is the founder and CEO of DynaRisk, a fast growing cyber security startup. The company has built a system to determine a person’s level of cyber risk then gives them simple actions to take protect themselves. An industry leading security professional, Andrew is a holder of the Security Expert (GSE) designation, one of only 150 worldwide. Earlier in his career as a cyber investigator, his threat research contributed to the protection of millions of people around the world.
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About DynaRisk: DynaRisk is a cyber security company
Tamas Zelczer
CEO of Cursor Insight
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About Cursor Insight: Cursor Insight is a software development company with many years of experience in human movement analysis.
Nicholas Oliver
CEO & Co-Founder of FORTYEIGHT
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About FORTYEIGHT: FORTYEIGHT develops software and online tools that track what various websites get from personal accounts.
Jeremy Hendy
CEO of Skurio
Jeremy Hendy serves as the Chief Executive Officer at Skurio. He brings Nujira considerable experience of semiconductor sales and marketing across multiple technologies for wireless communication and digital video. Previous positions include Marketing Director of wireless USB start-up Artimi, VP Marketing for Aspex Semiconductor, and Strategic Technology Director of Cadence’s Wireless and Multimedia business unit. He started his career with Texas Instruments and holds a first-class honors degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Liverpool.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
Andrea Carmignani
Co-Founder & CEO of Keyless
Andrea Carmignani serves as the founder and CEO of Keyless.
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About Keyless: Pioneering privacy-preserving cloud-native biometric authentication to enable businesses adopt zero-trust passwordless authentication.
Charlie Horrell
CEO of Imagen Ltd
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About Imagen Ltd: Imagen Ltd is a modular enterprise video platform that enables content owners to publish and monetize media archives.
Silvio Di Crosta
CEO of Domotz
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About Domotz: Remote Monitoring & Management in an IoT World.
Robert Baugh
Founder & CEO of Keepabl Ltd
Founder & CEO of Keepabl Ltd. TMT Lawyer, international City law firm and in-house experience. GC and EVP of LoopUp 2004 to 2016. Director and GC of Drayson Technologies 2016 to 2017. Founded Keepabl 2017. Oxford University Masters in Engineering, Economics and Management.
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About Keepabl Ltd: Keepabl’s Privacy-as-a-Service solution solves GDPR headaches for organisations, public and private.
Nandini Sukumar
CEO of World Federation of Exchanges
Nandini Sukumar is CEO @ World Federation of Exchanges
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About World Federation of Exchanges: World Federation of Exchanges is a trade association of 64 publicly-regulated stock, futures, and options exchanges.
Deepak Prabhakara
CEO of BoxyHQ
Deepak Prabhakara is the CEO and co-founder at BoxyHQ. He brings close to two decades of expertise in the design, architecture and development of complex software products. Prior to founding BoxyHQ he was the CTO at Red Sift, a fast-growing cybersecurity startup. He has led product and engineering teams at several startups and worked on the Opera Mini and Mobile browsers, a product loved and used by millions of users across the globe.
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About BoxyHQ: BoxyHQ helps startups to enable enterprise features in any SaaS app with just a few lines of code.
Nils Mattisson
CEO & Co-founder of Minut
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About Minut: Minut is a computer software company that specializes in product design, hardware, electronics, software, IoT, and smart home.
Peter Bradley
Founder & CEO of Torsion Information Security
BSc (Comp. Sci), MBA. Background in consulting, designing IT systems and management processes to maximise business outcomes for information.
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About Torsion Information Security: Confident Data Access Control – Get control of who has access to what, why and when. Secure, Compliant, Efficient.
Kiran Bhagotra
CEO and Founder of ProtectBox
Kiran Bhagotra raised £30m for (East) London food village as COO, government chose to do themselves. As consultant helped raise inaugural 3i Indian Infrastructure Fund & Big Issue Social Investment Fund, both on 2nd funds of £20m+. Commercialisation of Nyrstar, securing 3x investment & Top20 country status. In the UK government’s National Archives she worked on machine learning & digital sensitivity review. For the Cabinet Office and Foreign and Commonwealth Office in cyber-crime, operational engagement (public/private) and strategic bi-/multi-lateral partnerships. This included the #WeProtect (Children Online) Summit in which 50+ countries attended, committed to a Statement of Action, new legislation and a new fund led by Unicef were launched. As well as a Ministerial (Letwin) Review of critical infrastructure’s resilience to coastal flooding.
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About ProtectBox: NetZero cybersecurity marketplace
Matthew Cheung
CEO of ipushpull
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About ipushpull: Live data sharing and workflow automation platform providing real-time interoperability of data across any application
Jim Liddle
CEO of Storage Made Easy
Prior to Storage Made Easy, Jim Liddle was responsible for sales and operations for GigaSpaces in the UK Europe after joining the company in 2006 to help expand European operations. Jim was previously the General Manager for Europe and New York Finance for Versata, a business process and rules management company. During his 6 years at Versata, Jim filled in technical, product management, and product marketing roles. Jim has extensive experience in Big Data, Middleware and Cloud technologies and has successfully built teams and grown sales for high growth technology companies for the last 20 years. Jim holds a BA (honors) from Brunel University in History and Computer Science and studied for an MSc. in Data Communications at Kingston University.
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About Storage Made Easy: SME provides software, the Enterprise File Fabric, which unifies a company’s File & Object Storage accessible through a global file system.
Ryan Jones
CEO of ThreatInformer
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About ThreatInformer: ThreatInformer provide advanced security metrics tailored for cyber insurance underwriters.
Areseny Zarechnev
Co-Founder & CEO of Mothership
Arseny Zarechnev Prior to founding Mothership, Arseny co-founded Sabaka, a DevOps, mobile and web consultancy. He is a full stack developer, entrepreneur and solution architect and has worked at leading technology companies including Atlassian, Enki, and Ostrovok. He is a digital nomad, Estonian e-Resident and remote advocate. Arseny studied Business Administration at the Russian University of Economics.
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About Mothership: Mothership A state-of-the-art digital asset exchange, EU token marketplace and wallet with powerful security features.
Adam Pritchard
CEO of AlphaBeta Investments
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About AlphaBeta Investments, Cypaw: We seek early stage cybersecurity technology & provides seed investment to commercialise the most promising innovations.
Ales Teska
CEO of TeskaLabs
Owner of SeaCat.
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About LibertyAces, SeaCat, TeskaLabs: TeskaLabs is a mobile application security provider.
Ahmad Baker
Co-Founder & CEO of CYKEEP Ltd.
Experienced Cyber Security Engineer with a demonstrated history of working in the Cyber and information security industry. Skilled in Python, Penetration Testing, PHP, Malware Analysis, C++ ,Machine learning and Artificial Intelligence . Strong information technology professional with a Bachelor’s Degree focused in Computer Science from Birzeit University.
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About CYKEEP Ltd.: CYKEEP Is Cyber Security Startup
Nick Allan
CEO – Europe & Africa of Control Risks
Nick Allan is the Chief Executive Officer for Control Risks’ Europe and Africa Region and sits on the company board and executive committee. Prior to this role Nick led the Asia Pacific region for a number of years. Nick started in the company in the area of political and country risk analysis, leading project teams dealing with a range of issues across multiple geographies. Leading and providing expert witness services in support of lawyers dealing with allegations of complicity in human right abuses by business in conflict zones Providing advice to an infrastructure company seeking to build compliance systems to prevent the paying of bribes Presenting at international conferences on the subject of business and human rights in post-conflict environments Before Control Risks, most of Nick’s career was spent with the De La Rue International plc. During his time there he worked in mainly in the Identity Systems business focusing on Latin America. Nick also gained project management experience through his involvement in electoral projects in Mozambique and Sierra Leone. Nick studied Politics at the University of Bristol and he completed an MBA at Imperial College Management School, University of London. He speaks Spanish fluently and has good knowledge of Portuguese.
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About Control Risks: Control Risks is an independent, global risk consultancy specialising in helping organisations.
Robert Kay
CEO of DISC Holdings
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About DISC Holdings: DISC networks reduce costs, improve security and give individuals ownership based control of their transaction and identity information.
Nigel Jones
CEO of Information Assurance Advisory Council
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About Information Assurance Advisory Council: The IAAC is a private sector led, cross-industry forum dedicated to promoting a safe and secure Information Society.
Paul German
CEO of Certes Networks
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About Certes Networks: Certes Networks, Inc. provides security solutions for high performance networks for government agencies and federal organizations.
Danny Lopez
CEO of Glasswall
Danny joined Blippar in August 2016 following a career in both the private and public sectors. Blippar is a global technology company that brings the physical world to life through smart devices using augmented reality and artificial intelligence. Blippar, a pioneer in augmented reality, created one of the first sustainable business models for the technology through branded interactive experiences and has today expanded its reach into the realms of education and enterprise solutions. Prior to joining Blippar, Danny was the British Consul General to New York and Director General of ‘UK Trade & Investment’ in the USA, a position he held between 2011-16. In this role, Danny was responsible for promoting the UK’s economic profile, foreign policy and national security priorities in New York as well as leading the UK government’s trade and investment offices across the US. Before his diplomatic posting, Danny worked for the Mayor of London’s economic development arm between 2009-11. During this time, he was responsible for creating ‘London & Partners’, the UK capital’s promotional agency for business, visitors and students and was its inaugural CEO. From 2006-09, he was Managing Director, Marketing and Communications, at ‘UK Trade & Investment’, where he was responsible for delivering a new marketing strategy to promote and showcase the UK economy internationally. Previously, Danny worked at Barclays Bank for 10 years, where he held a number of senior international positions, including Director of Business Banking USA in New York, Head of Inward Investment in London and Business Development Director in India. He holds a Bachelor of Arts (Honours) degree in economics and a master’s degree in international economics and finance from the University of Essex. Danny is married and has two daughters. He is a big tennis, football and Formula 1 fan. Born in England, Danny grew up in Spain and is a fluent Spanish speaker.
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About Glasswall, Innovate Finance: Glasswall is a technology company that protects organizations from file-based threats.
Peter Lancos
CEO of eXate
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About eXate: eXate unlocks the value of production data by allowing you to share it safely, because data privacy is at the heart of everything we do.
Alan Goode
CEO & Chief Analyst of Goode Intelligence
Founder of Goode Intelligence. London-based research and analysis firm that specialises in Information Security and Mobile Commerce. Publisher of the mSecurity 2010 series of reports investigating the market for mobile phone security products and services.
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About Goode Intelligence: Goode Intelligence provide Mobile Security, Identity & Biometrics Research & Consultancy.
Rob Masson
CEO of The DPO Centre
Robert is CEO of The DPO Centre Ltd, a specialist data protection and compliance consultancy and the UK’s leading provider of outsourced Data Protection Officers. With almost 30 years of business experience, Robert is a veteran entrepreneur and thought leader who has been involved in delivering solutions and services to some of the world’s largest and most respected companies, and advised a broad range of organisations on the most effective strategies to meet their goals. Robert is an expert adviser on compliance with the General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR). Through his leadership of the DPO Centre, he and his team of experienced Data Protection Officers assist organisations of all sizes to identify how this significant new legislation will affect them, the steps they need to take to comply, and how when implemented well, compliance builds trust, engagement and confidence.
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About The DPO Centre: The DPO Centre is the UK’s national data protection resource centre.
Peter Connolly
CEO of Toro Solutions
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About TechVets, Toro Solutions: Toro Risk Solutions is an end-to-end provider of blended [cyber, physical & people] managed security services.
Jim McCoy
Founder/CEO of Q-Branch Labs
Jim McCoy joined Q-Branch Labs as Founder/CEO in 2016.
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About Q-Branch Labs: Cybersecurity protection for remote and work from home employees
Paul Chu
CEO – Co-founder of Ukkobox
Founder at Ukkobox.
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About Ukkobox: Multi cloud protected storage layer service for high sensitive data.
Arpana Gandhi
Co-Founder & CEO of Disarmco
Arpana Gandhi is Co-Founder & CEO at Disarmco.
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About Disarmco: Disarmco was formed in 2012 as a services business targeting munitions disposal.
Joe HQ Luong
CEO of Crypta Labs
Joe is the CEO of Crypta Labs, an IoT security startup that is developing a quantum-based encryption chip and software to secure the Internet of Things, Prior to Crypta Labs, Joe Co-founded iProsper Media (a marketing agency and advertising platform focusing on Financial Services). Joe also founded financial websites MyEggNest, FinanceNews, and PensionCalculator. Joe is also an active advisory member for several UK tech Start-ups.
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About Crypta Labs: Crypta Labs is an award winning Mobile and IoT Security company.
Dror Trieman
CEO of Mazor
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About Mazor: Mazor offers solutions detection of threats on network and security components.
Michael Newman
Founder & CEO of My1Login
Michael has twenty years leadership and management experience in the technology sector spanning sales, marketing, operations and product development in a number of UK PLCs.
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About My1Login: My1Login is a next generation Identity and Access Management solutions for Enterprise.
Roman Gaufman
Founder & CEO of Xanview
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About Xanview: Xanview provides a single platform for managing all physical security devices and locations.
Cristóbal Rosa
CEO of PayMet Ltd.
CEO PayMet Ltd.
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About PayMet Ltd.: Secure Mobile Payment and Loyalty
Johan Holder
Co-founder/ CEO of Kazoup
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About Kazoup: Protect, identify and control access to sensitive information across Office 365, G Suite and more
Isabel Van De Keere
Founder and CEO of Immersive Rehab
Isabel is an experienced innovation strategist & manager, researcher, product designer, experimentalist, and collaborator across disciplines. She is passionate about science, healthcare technologies, digital health, immersive technologies (VR/AR) and its applications in healthcare, using tech for good, social entrepreneurship, and promoting women in tech.
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About Immersive Rehab: IR creates interactive physiotherapy programmes in Virtual Reality that improve the effectiveness of physical & neuro-rehabilitation.
Lionel Hackett
CEO of WiseCrowd
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About WiseCrowd: WiseCrowd is the trusted online platform connecting businesses with freelance consultants in Governance, Risk & Compliance (GRC)
Paul Donnelly
Founder and CEO of Teknov8
Paul Donnelly is the founder and CEO of Teknov8.
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About Teknov8: Teknov8 provides managed IT services to help businesses accelerate business activity and boost efficiency.
Rory Byrne
CEO and Founder of Security First
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About Security First: Securing human rights defenders. Simply. Comprehensively.
