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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 United Kingdom based CEO’ operating in the Cloud 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.
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
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.
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.
Ian Mann
CEO of ECSC Group
Ian is the CEO and founder of the cyber security consultancy firm ECSC Group plc. He has over 20 years’ experience in the cyber security sector, having previously worked as an adviser for GCHQ, and established a Cisco Networking Academy for Dixons City Technology College prior to founding ECSC in 2000. Ian’s professional certifications include CISSP, PCI QSA, and ISO Lead Auditor, and he holds a B.Eng. in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Nottingham, and an MBA from the Open University. He is the author of the acclaimed social engineering text Hacking the Human, and Hacking the Human II: Adventures of a Social Engineer.
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About ECSC Group: Established in 2000, ECSC is the UK’s longest running full service information and cyber security service provider
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.
Ed Macnair
CEO of CensorNet
Ed Macnair is CEO and brings 30 years of sales and business development expertise in technology and IT security to CensorNet. He has a proven entrepreneurial track record of successfully developing technology companies and leads the company’s sales, marketing and product strategy. Ed joined CensorNet to accelerate the company’s product development efforts and aggressively grow the web security revenues through its global channel partners. He was previously founder and CEO of SaaSID, a UK based single sign-on and application security vendor, which was acquired by Intermedia Inc. in September 2013. Before Intermedia and SaaSID Macnair was CEO of Marshal, a global web and email security company which merged with US web security provider 8e6 Technologies to form M86 Security. Macnair has also held senior management positions with MessageLabs, Symantec, IBM and Xerox.
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About CensorNet: CensorNet Unified Security Service (USS) is a new-generation comprehensive cloud-based cyber security solution.
Colette Wyatt
CEO of Evolve-IT Consulting
Founder and Operations Director Colette Wyatt Colette has enjoyed a varied career in technology, specifically in IT, Telecoms and Biotech. Colette is passionate about delivering solutions that make the biggest impact and fundamentally improve business results, which is why being involved in e-Bate Limited was something she couldn’t refuse. Colette is responsible for leading the continued product development and architecture of e-Bate with our team and draws on her 28 years of experience leading innovative product and service development. Living in a village in the Leicestershire countryside, Colette enjoys walking Billy the Cavalier King Charles Spaniel with her husband Brian, and trips to Italy, Greece and the USA.
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About Evolve-IT Consulting: Evolve provides bespoke software development solutions to improve business processes, user experience and loyalty, and top-line growth.
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.
Peter Cox
Founder and CEO of UM Labs
Peter Cox is the CEO and Founder of UM Labs, a UK company specialising in security for Internet based VoIP and UC services. Peter Cox has 30 years of experience in networking and cyber security. Prior to founding UM Labs, Peter was the co-founder of a successful IP security developer who achieved the first event Common Criteria EAL4 certifications for a general purpose firewall and an email security system.
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About UM Labs: UM-Labs R&D provides Real-Time Communications Cyber Security UOS (Unicus) – protects all Data in Transit and Motion, running on any cloud.
