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This list showcases the top London based Principal operating in the Security space. If you think a Principal 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.
Ollie Gayton
Principal Consultant of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ollie leads the Cloud Infrastructure for Azure and Azure Stack practice for HPE Pointnext UK&I. His team is responsible for designing and implementing secure and scalable foundational cloud environments capable of hosting multiple types of workload – IaaS and PaaS – as well as defining and implementing clients’ cloud migration plans.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Janet Williams
Director & Principal Advisor of CybSafe
Janet helps us keep the bigger picture on Cyber Security. in perspective. Janet, a former Chief Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, held the National Law Enforcement Portfolio for Cyber-Crime 2008 – 2012. She developed the first police E-Crime Unit and was the Law Enforcement Lead engaged in writing the first UK Cyber Security Strategy in the Cabinet Office. She was the government Law-Enforcement Lead for Cyber-Crime for the 2012 Olympic Games taking her place at COBR. And in 2013, as a Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, she helped develop the organisation’s cyber security strategy. She is currently the National Security Adviser to the Security Committee of Qatar, where she advises on the development of Qatar’s cyber security capability and response. Janet works to enhance SME cyber security across the UK through her work as President of the Cross-sector Safety & Security (CSSC) charity. She is also a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).
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About CybSafe: A behavioural security and data analytics platform helps people make better security decisions, and improve their security behaviour.
Gautham Gnanajothi
Principal, Energy & Environment | Regional Leader, BP Research of Frost & Sullivan
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About Frost & Sullivan, Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Afzal Ali
Principal Engineer & Expert – Synthetic Environments & Experimentation of Airbus Defence & Space
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About Airbus Defence & Space: Airbus Defence & Space develops and engineers products in the fields of defense and space.
Ben Owens
Principal Cloud Consultant Lead of Cloudreach
Ben is a Principle Cloud Consultant Lead at Cloudreach. Ben has over 20 years experience spanning Financial Services and Technology. He is currently concentrating on helping senior leadership teams in large organisations, both Private and Govt Sector, achieve really business benefit from Public Cloud Adoption by focusing on People and Processes. Ben’s area of interest are Culture, Organisational Design, Organisational Change and People and spans across AWS, Azure and GCP.
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About Cloudreach: Cloudreach is a Global cloud enabler with extensive experience across all industries, workloads and use cases.
Chris Hewertson
Principal | CIO | CTO | Board Advisory of Freeman Clarke
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About Freeman Clarke: Freeman Clarke creates, manages, and executes technological strategies and solutions to help one’s company grow.
Saher Naumaan
Principal Threat Intelligence Analyst of BAE Systems Applied Intelligence
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About BAE Systems Applied Intelligence: Information security consulting firm.
Balendra Elangco
Principal Consultant of PA Consulting Group
Balendra has been delivering enterprise security architecture and solutions for financial services, telecoms, media and packaged goods that include Financial Extranets and a large Payment Card transmission network. He has experience in designing, implementing and maintaining solutions (technical and governance) that meet compliance requirements such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001. He has also led managed security services teams for multinationals with global footprints. He is an exam developer for CISSP at ISC².
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About PA Consulting Group: PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.
Rodrigo Marcos
Principal consultant of SECFORCE
Rodrigo caught the hacking bug when he was 14 years old, after he hacked into his dad’s computer. After discovering his passion for white-hat hacking he started his career in the offensive security industry, eventually founding SECFORCE where he is currently CEO. SECFORCE provides IT security and penetration testing services to some of the biggest brands and government organisations in the world. During his career, Rodrigo has seen an increasing demand in security services from iGaming companies, which seek to safeguard their IT assets against Internet-borne attacks. With a wide knowledge of the offensive security arena and with a vast experience in online services, Rodrigo has an unparalleled understanding of current and future cyber-threats affecting iGaming businesses. Having published a number of books, articles and tools in the topic of penetration testing and IT security, Rodrigo is a sought after speaker who has participated in conferences and seminars all around the world.
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About SECFORCE: SECFORCE are vendor independent penetration testing, security specialists providing effective business risk intelligence, security guidance.
