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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 Founder operating in the Cyber Security space. If you think a Founder 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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Shravin Bharti Mittal
Co-Founder of Unbound
Shravin is the Founder of Unbound and a Director of Bharti Global Ltd (Bharti family office). Unbound is a globally focused long term technology investment arm that aims to build and back technology companies. Select investments include Databricks, mPharma and FreightHub. Bharti Global has numerous investments in Telecommunications, Technology, Energy and Hospitality. Portfolio companies: Airtel, One Web, Delonex Energy, TriTon, mPharma, Hike and Hoxton Hotels. Previously, Shravin was an Investor at Softbank (2016-2017). Prior to that, Shravin was an Assistant Director at Better Capital (2014-2015), a Private Equity firm in London. Between 2010 to 2012 Shravin was the MD at Airtel in Africa and India. Prior to that he worked with J.P.Morgan in Investment Banking Covering TMT. Shravin has an MBA from Harvard Business School (Class 2014) and founded Airtel Rising Stars (a youth football initiative in Africa and India).
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About Unbound: Unbound focuses on fast-growing growth stage technology companies.
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.
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.
Sean Lumley
Co-Founder of CybSafe
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About CybSafe: 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.
Edward Bishop
Co-Founder & CTO of Tessian
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Thomas Adams
Head of Client-Side Engineering and Co-Founder of Tessian
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About Tessian: Tessian creates a Human Layer Security that helps people work without security disruptions getting in the way.
Roman Itskovich
Co-Founder & CRO of At-Bay
Roman is the co-founder of CyberJack, a venture backed cyber insurance startup. Previously, he built an online lending business at Ebury, a Greylock backed Fintech firm, was on the investment team of Bain Capital, and was a consultant with Mckinsey&Co. Roman holds an MBA from Harvard Business School.
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About At-Bay, CyberJack: At-Bay is a cybersecurity insurance company that helps businesses meet digital risk head-on.
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.
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.
Pip Witheridge
Founder & Director of Grove
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About Grove: Grove is unlock business success through the power of leading-edge cloud computing, custom software development, cybersecurity & analytics.
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.
Antoine Grisay
Co-Founder and COO of Shipfix
Antoine Grisay is a co-founder and COO at Shipfix.
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About Shipfix: Shipfix operates as a data and community platform that helps with the operational efficiency in the maritime industry.
Ian Welch
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Callsign
Ian Welch is the COO of Callsign. Previously he held positions at Ladbrokers and Ascot Racecourse. Ian has a Bachelor Degree in Business Administration from Coverntry University
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
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
Michael Liberty
Co-Founder and CPO of Signifyd
Michael is a Co-Founder and the Chief Operating Officer of Signifyd. Prior to Signifyd, he was the Head of Digital Goods and Platform Risk at PayPal. Before PayPal, Michael served as the Director of Business Development and then COO of GWC Warranty, a 120-person specialty insurance company based in Wilkes-Barre, PA. Michael spent the early part of his career in investment banking and private equity, working at J.P. Morgan and CIVC Partners. Michael holds an A.B. in Economics from the University of Chicago and an MBA from Stanford.
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About Signifyd: Signifyd is a provider of an enterprise-grade fraud technology solution for e-commerce stores.
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.
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.
Faiz Ahmad Shuja
Co-Founder of SIRP
To become the most trusted provider of top quality information security services and solutions – This was the personal mission that led Faiz to found Rewterz back in 2006. Its a goal of lofty ambitions, but that’s never been a problem for Faiz. He’s a well-established entrepreneur with a long track record of success. He’s the CEO of the Honeynet Project, a non-profit, all-volunteer organization dedicated to Honeynet research, and the is president of PAKCON, a non-profit organization which organizes yearly cyber security conventions in Pakistan. Faiz was the Senior Information Security Consultant for Pakistan’s largest ISP, Cyber Internet Services (Pvt.) Ltd., and single-handedly designed and managed their information security initiatives. Because of his impressive reputation, the US NSA (National Security Agency), US DoD (Department of Defense), IEEP (Institution of Electronic Engineers, Pakistan), have all engaged him for sharing his expertise at various conferences. Of course, these feats couldn’t be pulled off without an extensive education and dedication to learning. Faiz earned his Computer Science degree from the University of Karachi, and multiple certifications, including GIAC Security Essentials (GSEC), GIAC Certified Incident Handler (GCIH), and Certified Information System Security Professional (CISSP). Even with all of that under his belt, Faiz says that he’s only just getting started. He has big plans for SIRP, and for the information security industry as a whole. Thanks to his powerful drive and vision, clients will be able to take advantage of a whole host of innovations coming our way.
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About SIRP: Risk-Based Security Orchestration, Automation & Response (SOAR) 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.
Matt Holland
CTO & Co-Founder of Seedata.io
Matt Holland is the Co-Founder and Chief Technology Officer of Seedata.
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About EF Education First, Seedata.io: Seedata.io is a cybersecurity platform that helps companies mitigate data leak incidents and crime threats.
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)
AF_initDataCallback({key: \’ds:1\'” alt=”” class=”wp-image-14850″ width=”154″ height=”152″/>David Leftley
Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Bloc Ventures
David has more than 30 years global technology industry experience in start-ups and multi-nationals as an engineer, manager, director and investor. From 1983 he worked as a design engineer in the defence industry, specialising in radar and airborne electronic countermeasures, first at Cossor Electronics and then at Racal Defence. In 1987 he moved into the TV and film industry, working for Abacus Cox and then Vistek on the design of the world’s first digital TV production technology. In this time he progressed to become R&D Manager and later became General Manager. In 1996, as CTO he founded Digital Vision UK for DV AB of Sweden, a world leader in video compression, transmission and post production technology, securing contracts with the BBC, several Hollywood studios and customers as far afield as China. In 1999 DV AB successfully went to an IPO. In 2009 he joined Vodafone’s corporate venture team as head of its European activity, closing numerous investments in Mobile Health, Clean Tech, Infrastructure and Financial Tech services. In this time the fund ranked in the top 5 CVCs, achieved an IRR of 27% and in 2012 received an industry award for its exit of portfolio company Amobee for $321M. In 2010 David was ranked in Wired Magazine’s top 100 innovators’ list. He represented Vodafone on the boards of nine portfolio companies. In April 2013 David departed Vodafone to establish Bloc Ventures with Bruce. He has a Bachelor of Science (Honours) degree in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Aston Birmingham, and is a Chartered Engineer.
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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/
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.
Ben Rose
Co-Founder and Chief Underwriting Officer of Superscript
Ben Rose is the Co-founder and Chief Underwriting Officer 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.
Jennifer Arcuri
Founder of Hacker House
CEH, CCNA, CPTE, CISSP, CISSMP, MBA Founder of the Innotech Network, Hacker House, Pinksheet Database, and Proxsey London. Cyber security expert. Tech geek, producer, adventure seeker, & secret hero. Hot on video content and data visualization. Looking for game changing technology to rock the world with. Producer. Adventure seeker. Known to be quite entrepreneurial and passionate. Doubles as occasional secret hero. Loves to laugh and enjoys anyone with a good story to show and tell.
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About Hacker House, Innotech Network™, Tech London Advocates: Hacker House provides offensive security solutions to the information security industries.
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.
Daniel Saul
Co-Founder & CTO of Risk Ledger
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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.
James Chappell
Founder and Chief Innovation Officer of Digital Shadows
James has over twelve years’ experience of technical information security acting as an advisor to large private sector and government organisations.Much of his work has involved counteracting the growth of crime and fraud in computer networks and developing effective ways of measuring and managing the information security big picture.
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About Digital Shadows: Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk.
Chris Wallis
Founder of Intruder
Chris Wallis is the Founder at Intruder
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About Intruder: Intruder is a cloud-based vulnerability scanner that finds cyber security weaknesses in your external infrastructure.
Georgina Pursey
Co-Founder of SafeToNet
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About BarChick, SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
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.
Olga Saliba
Founder of Verimuchme
Olga co-founded Verimuchme as a result of having to share her personal information over again for pre-employment screening checks for various contract roles in the financial sector throughout her career. Winning a place on the GCHQ cyber accelerator programme she was able to complete the first version of the wallet and secure commercial partners for its launch. Olga has an extensive background in retail and investment banking, with her experience ranging from online banking to wealth management, client-on boarding, compliance and regulation including KYC and AML.
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About Verimuchme: Verimuchme is a digital wallet and exchange platform of verified personal information and documentation.
Jack Hopkins
Founder of Spherical Defense
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About LASU, Spherical Defense: Spherical Defense offers API Security powered by Deep Learning
Benjamin Hosack
Co-Founder, Director and CCO of Foregenix
Benjamin Hosack is the CCO and co-founder of Foregenix.
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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.
Neil Larkins
Co-Founder & COO of Egress Software
Neil Larkins co-founded Egress Software Technologies in 2007 and currently serves as Chief Operations Officer, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategic direction of the business, with particular emphasis on product and service development. Neil possesses a thorough understanding of the information security market and has helped Egress build a reputation on technological excellence. Working with both corporate and public organisations, he has helped deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet specific requirements for secure data exchange and collaboration, as well as compliance. Prior to Egress, he held executive management positions at Reflex Magnetics, Pointsec Mobile Technologies and Check Point Software Technologies. Neil serves as Chief Technology Officer, playing an instrumental role in shaping the strategic technical direction of the business, through product and service development. A regular speaker at information security and technology events, Neil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Manchester.
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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.
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
Christopher Doman
CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security Ltd
Chris Doman is the CTO and Co-Founder of Cado Security. He joined the industry after winning a forensics and development competition run by the US DoD. Chris is known for building the popular threat intelligence portal ThreatCrowd, which subsequently merged into the AlienVault Open Threat Exchange, later acquired by ATT. Whilst working at PwC and ATT AlienVault in research and development, Chris published a number of widely read articles and papers on targeted cyber attacks. His research on topics such as the North Korean government’s crypto-currency theft schemes, and China’s attacks against dissident websites, have been widely discussed in the media. He has given interviews to print, radio, and TV such as CNN and BBC News. cdoman@cadosecurity.com
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About Cado Security Ltd, Ignite Research: Cado Security provides the cloud investigation platform that empowers security teams to respond to threats at cloud speed.
Daniela Menzky
Co-Founder & Chief Operating Officer of Angoka
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About Angoka, Auto Clubs International, CyNation, CyNation: ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting machine-to-machine communications for Smart Cities and Mobility.
Shadi Razak
Chief Technology Officer and Co-Founder of Angoka
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About Angoka, CyNation: ANGOKA is an IoT security company focused on protecting machine-to-machine communications for Smart Cities and Mobility.
Managing Director and Co-Founder of CISO International
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About CISO International: CISO International is Digital Platform to enable access to cost effective Information and Cyber Security Advisory and solutions.
Grace Cassy
Founder of CyLon
Grace Cassy, Co-Founder of Epsilon Advisory Partners. Epsilon works with leading technology companies and investors, helping them navigate the intersection of government, enterprise, technology and society. In 2015 she co-founded CyLon. Prior to this, Grace spent 10 years in the UK Diplomatic Service, working on Asia, Europe, the Americas and global security policy. Between 2004-6, she was an advisor to PM Tony Blair in 10 Downing Street, specialising in Asia and national security.
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About CyLon, Epsilon Advisory Partners, HutZero: CyLon is the world’s leading cyber security accelerator and seed investment programme.
Jonathan Luff
Founder of CyLon
Jonathan Luff, Co-Founder of Epsilon Advisory Partners. Epsilon works with leading technology companies and investors, helping them navigate the intersection of government, enterprise, technology and society. In 2015 he co-founded CyLon. Jonathan is a former diplomat and advisor to the British Prime Minister on innovation and international issues. At 10 Downing Street, Jonathan served as the first Director of the ‘GREAT’ Campaign, the British government’s global communications campaign to promote inward investment, exports and enterprise.
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About CyLon, Epsilon: 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.
Sophie Harrison
Co-Founder & Chief of Staff of Panaseer
Sophie is chief of co-ordination and organiser extraordinaire. She looks after all of our client activity, bringing order to the team so that we can delight our customers.
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About Panaseer: Panaseer helps businesses make informed, risk-based security decisions.
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.
Charaka Goonatilake
Founder & CTO of Panaseer
Charaka is the brains behind our big data technology. His team lead the way in generating innovative techniques for deriving new security insight for our customers.
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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.
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
Mairtin O’Riada
Founder & CIO of Ravelin
Mairtin is the CIO at Ravelin, which provides fraud protection for online businesses.The “I” in CIO stands for “Intelligence”, and Mairtin runs the Signals Intelligence team, responsible for the machine learning and graph network models at the heart of Ravelin’s detection engine. He was previously the Head of Fraud at the taxi app Hailo, where he honed his fraudster frustrating skills. He is an internationally experienced intelligence analyst, with stints in Scotland Yard, the United Nations and elsewhere, busting down doors and taking names. An enthusiastic amateur violinist, any resemblance to a certain fictional detective is entirely coincidental.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Leonard Austin
Founder / CTO of Ravelin
Leonard Austin is the chief financial officer of [Ravelin](https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/ravelin), a smart fraud prevention platform. He was previously a technical lead at Hailo. Prior to Hailo, Austin founded Recensus before which he was a director at Welford Media. Austin holds a bachelor’s degree in physics from the University of Leicester.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
Nick Lally
Founder & COO of Ravelin
Nick Lally is the Founder at Ravelin Technology Ltd.Nick Lally is an Employee at British Telecom, Hailo, NBC Universal, Canonical Ltd (Makers of Ubuntu), Village Roadshow Pictures. He holds Institute Of Chartered Accountants Of Australia in 2002 and studied at La Trobe University in 1999.
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About Ravelin: Ravelin is a smart fraud detection and prevention platform that helps companies stop online payment fraud.
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
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.
Panos Dimitriou
CTO & Founder of Encode
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About Encode: Enorasys Security Analytics enables continuous cyber situational awareness to address advanced persistent threats (APTs).
Ozan Ucar
Co-Founder of Keepnet Labs
Ozan Ucar is the founder and chief technologist at Keepnet Labs. He has been innovating in the cyber-security space since 2006.Ozan holds international accreditations in penetration testing, ethical hacking and digital forensics.
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About Keepnet Labs: Keepnet Labs is a phishing defence platform that provides a holistic approach to people, processes and technology.
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.
Manuel Martinez Chamorro
Co-Founder of Privasee
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About Privasee: Data privacy and compliance platform
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.
Ramesh Krishnasagar
Founder and Director of Coppercube Ltd
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About Coppercube Ltd: Specialists in Embedded software and Cyber security solutions
Givi Chkhartishvili
Founder of Noxtton
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About Academy of Digital Industries, Noxtton: Noxtton, multidimensional technology and consulting company
Rafael Libardi
Founder & Executive Director of NoLeak Defence
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About NoLeak Defence: Noleak Behavior Recognition is an AI-based system to identify suspicious actions and behaviors from cameras
Andy Lilly
Director and Co-Founder of Armour Communications
Andy Lilly, Director and Co-Founder of Armour Communications has a proven track record of delivering challenging, leading-edge research and development solutions into global markets. Having held leadership positions at multi-national organisations as well as VC-funded start-ups, Andy has been instrumental in delivering military-grade secure communications systems as well as solutions suitable for use in commercial environments for over 25 years. As of April 2018, Andy has been elected as Chairperson of the Secure Chorus Technical Standards Committee.
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About Armour Communications: Armour Communications provides government-grade encryption for secure communications.
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
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
Ian Turnbull
Co-Founder, Director of Pentasec
With over 15 years in the industry as a consultant and managing teams across Europe for global enterprise, Ian brings a wealth of business, management and network security experience to the team. He is well respected and valued by his peers for proficiency in strategy, outsourcing / offshoring, and transformation. Ian has strong vendor and distribution ties driving forward the Pentesec Partnerships to ensure the business evolves with the challenges presented by ever changing security landscape.
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About Pentasec: Pentasec is a cyber security firm based in Peterborough, United Kingdom.
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
Robin Oldham
Founder and Chief Consultant of Cydea
Robin Oldham is the founder of Cydea, a positive cyber security consultancy, and previously lead BAE Systems’ Security Advisory & Technical Services business, recognised by Forrester as one of the leading information security consultancies. He helps businesses defend themselves from cyber crime and thrive in the digital world and has over fifteen years experience including advising numerous boards on how to manage crises resulting from cyber-attack. Robin works with financial services, energy, telecommunications and transport clients, as well central and secure government departments, to better prepare and protect their interests. By better understanding their cyber threat and risk landscape Robin helps them build resilient, defendable architectures and implement efficient security operations. Previously Robin worked for Multiplay – a world leading esports festival and enterprise game hosting provider – where he regularly built and secured 3000-node, high performance networks within 24 hours. Robin has a first class degree in Digital Forensics from the University of Portsmouth and is mentor to cyber technology startups from the CyLon incubator.
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About Cydea: Cybersecurity consultancy
Robin Oldham
Founder and Chief Consultant of Cydea
Robin Oldham is the founder of Cydea, a positive cyber security consultancy, and previously lead BAE Systems’ Security Advisory & Technical Services business, recognised by Forrester as one of the leading information security consultancies. He helps businesses defend themselves from cyber crime and thrive in the digital world and has over fifteen years experience including advising numerous boards on how to manage crises resulting from cyber-attack. Robin works with financial services, energy, telecommunications and transport clients, as well central and secure government departments, to better prepare and protect their interests. By better understanding their cyber threat and risk landscape Robin helps them build resilient, defendable architectures and implement efficient security operations. Previously Robin worked for Multiplay – a world leading esports festival and enterprise game hosting provider – where he regularly built and secured 3000-node, high performance networks within 24 hours. Robin has a first class degree in Digital Forensics from the University of Portsmouth and is mentor to cyber technology startups from the CyLon incubator.
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About Cydea: Cybersecurity consultancy
Francois Raynaud
Founder of DevSecCon Limited
Francois Raynaud is a Founder at DevSecCon Limited.
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About DevSecCon Limited: Integrating DevOps and SecOps methodology
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.
Simon Wilkinson
Founder/Managing Director of Superpowered Email
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About Superpowered Email: Superpowered Email is an email security service provider that offers online user identity protection services to its users.
Sandy Porter
Founder & Strategy & Business Dev Director of Avoco Secure
Sandy is an internationally respected security, privacy, identity and technology keynote speaker, panelist and expert advisor. He has promoted the development and deployment of user centric identity for online services in his roles as an Identity Commons Steward, Director of the Information Card Foundation, EU R&D assessor and Moderator and through the UK Government Cabinet Office (DSG) work groups.
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About Avoco Secure: Avoco Secure is an innovation company whose areas of focus are solutions for cloud identity, security, and privacy.
Sandy Porter
Founder & Strategy & Business Dev Director of Avoco Secure
Sandy is an internationally respected security, privacy, identity and technology keynote speaker, panelist and expert advisor. He has promoted the development and deployment of user centric identity for online services in his roles as an Identity Commons Steward, Director of the Information Card Foundation, EU R&D assessor and Moderator and through the UK Government Cabinet Office (DSG) work groups.
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About Avoco Secure: Avoco Secure is an innovation company whose areas of focus are solutions for cloud identity, security, and privacy.
