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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 Product operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a Product 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.
Arjun Hassard
Product Lead and Network Economics Researcher of NuCypher
Arjun Hassard is a CMO at Factmata.
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About NuCypher, Talent Rank: NuCypher is a cryptography company that builds privacy-preserving infrastructure and protocols.
Bobby Chadha
Head of Product – Payments of Banco Santander
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About Banco Santander, MaxTax: Banco Santander is a retail and commercial bank that offers financial products for individuals.
Samuel Coe
Product Manager of Experian
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About Experian: Experian unlocks the power of data to create opportunities for consumers, businesses, and society.
Aarti Samani
Product & Marketing Director of iProov
Aarti is an experienced executive, who drives growth through product innovation, partnerships and operational efficiencies. She has led product and commercial functions in multinational as well as applied AI firms across financial services, fast growth consumer tech and healthcare. Aarti’s work has ranged from managing technology transitions in capital markets, to spearheading product development and launch of text input solutions, revolutionising the way consumers in emerging markets interact with their smartphones. She has most recently worked at SwiftKey (purchased by Microsoft) and Digital Surgery. Aarti holds a degree in Mathematics from University of Durham.
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About iProov: iProov develops face authentication technology for online identity verification by global banks and governments.
Stephen Holmes
Chief Product Officer of Arqit Limited
Stephen Holmes is the Chief Product Officer at Arqit.
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About Arqit Limited: Arqit develops a quantum encryption platform.
Jean-Luc Crowther
Product Manager of Superscript
Jean-Luc Crowther is a account executive at Digital Risks.
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About Superscript: Superscript provides business insurance designed specifically to meet the fast-changing needs of small businesses.
Jack Pursey
Co Founder & Product Manager of SafeToNet
Jack is a recent Marketing, Advertising and Communications graduate from the University of Gloucestershire. Already an entrepreneur, Jack founded the award winning business Seen Clothing in 2012. Jack is our product manager and works closely with the design and development teams. He also likes Nando’s and long walks on the beach.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
Mike MacIntyre
Founder, VP Product & Chief Scientist of Panaseer
Mike has had a career in industry combining data analytics for both financial fraud and cyber security, working in the main for the world’s largest commercial organisations. He is responsible for researching, experimenting and applying computational and analytical techniques to derive new insights in cyber security. Mike holds a PhD and MSc in Astrophysics, as well as a BSc in Physics.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
Aviel Sela
Co-Founder & VP, Products of ESquare
Aviel Sela is a co-founder and the vice president of products at ESquare.
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About ESquare: ESquare is a Cyber protected platform for the industrial segment.
Mark Barlow
Head of Product of Ravelin
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Will Green
Senior Product Designer of Ravelin
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About Extensible, Ravelin, Wellth: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Emily Savage
Commercial Product Lead – Immersive (XR) of Digital Catapult
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About Digital Catapult: Digital Catapult drives early adoption of advanced digital technologies to grow the country’s economy.
Nigel Walker
Chief Product Architect of Global Data Sentinel
Nigel Walker is Chief Product Architect, UK of Global Data Sentinel. Nigel has spent his entire career as a serial entrepreneur in the UK, building software development companies and working with key technologies from multimedia and commodity computer peripherals to leading edge Financial Information Systems and Identity Management Solutions. Currently he is Managing Director of BioStore Limited, a software company that is the leading provider of Identity Management solutions and vertical applications with the single largest education sector based biometric system in the world, with over three million daily users.
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About CyVolve, Global Data Sentinel: Global Data Sentinel provides data security for any cloud service provider, including private networks, making a truly agnostic platform.
Piers Wilson
Head of Product Management of Huntsman Security
Piers Wilson has over 20 years experience working in a range of areas in cybersecurity, information assurance, IT security and data protection at Huntsman Security, IISP, PwC and Insight Consulting. He is Head of Product Management at Huntsman Security and also Director of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP). He has worked across most sectors and at all levels from technical to managerial and has spent many years in consulting, service and product businesses focussing on the management of technical, business and compliance risks.
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About Huntsman Security: Cyber-security management, threat detection, real-time compliance and SIEM solutions
