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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 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.
Rune Christensen
Founder & CEO of MakerDAO
Rune Christensen is Chief Executive Officer and Cofounder of MakerDAO. MakerDAO issues Dai, the world’s first stablecoin on the Ethereum blockchain, that eliminates volatility through a system of smart contracts designed to respond to market dynamics. Since 2015, Christensen has focused on establishing the vision and organizational structure of the Maker Decentralized Autonomous Organization and the economic foundations of the Dai stable digital currency. Previously, he served as co-founder of Try China, a company providing international recruiting. He studied Biochemistry at the University of Copenhagen and studied International Business at the Copenhagen Business School.
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About MakerDAO: Maker is a decentralized autonomous organization on the Ethereum blockchain.
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Oliver Oram
Founder & CEO of Chainvine
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About Chainvine: Next Generation Enterprise Systems / Identity Access Management (IAM) / Technology Providers Blockchain
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.
David Janczewski
Co-Founder and CEO of Coincover
David Janczewski, Head of Strategic Marketing, The Royal Mint The Royal Mint, the world’s leading export mint, and CME Group, the world’s leading and most diverse derivatives marketplace, today announced a collaboration to transform the way that market participants can trade gold. The Royal Mint, a 1,000-year-old institution owned by HM Treasury, has partnered with CME Group to build and launch a digitised gold offering called Royal Mint Gold (RMG). RMG will change the way traders and investors trade, execute and settle gold. The innovative new product, launching in 2017, will see The Royal Mint issue RMG as a digital record of ownership for gold stored at its highly-secure on-site bullion vault storage facility. CME Group will develop, implement and operate the product’s digital trading platform. Taken together, this new service will provide an easier, cost-effective and cryptographically secure alternative to buying, holding and trading spot gold.
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About Coincover, Fullvision: A complete set of technologies to protect, secure and recover crypto assets, with an insurance-backed guarantee as a failsafe.
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.
Robin Knox
Founder and CEO of Boundary
Robin Knox is the Founder and CEO at Boundary.
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About Boundary, Intelligent Point of Sale, Intelligent Point of Sale, iZettle, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
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.
Ashley Almanza
Chief Executive Officer of G4S
Extensive board and executive management experience and strong track record working across international borders in complex businesses. Held a number of senior executive roles at BG Group from 1993 to 2012, including Chief Financial Officer from 2002 to 2011 and Executive Vice President from 2009 to 2012. As Executive Vice President he was accountable during 2009 and 2010 for BG Group’s UK, European and Central Asian businesses. He also led a consortium of global companies through complex government negotiations in Central Asia. He holds an MBA from London Business School. Non-executive director of Schroders plc and Noble Corporation. Board member of the Ligue Internationale des Sociétés de Surveillance. He retires from the board of Schroders on 28 April 2016.
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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.
Graham Levinsohn
Regional CEO, Europe and Middle East of G4S
Graham became Regional CEO, Europe in November 2013. Graham has more than 20 years’ experience in the security industry, having joined Securicor Cash Services in 1994 as general manager. Since then, Graham has held a number of commercial and line management positions in both the cash and security lines of the business. Graham was responsible for the creation of the UK cash centres outsourcing business in 2001 as managing director, before moving on to become divisional managing director for G4S Cash Services UK, and then regional president, Nordics. He became group strategy and development director in 2008 and joined the executive committee in 2010. Graham is a fellow of the Chartered Institute of Marketing and a director of COESS, ESTA and member of the Ligue Internationale des Sociétés de Surveillance.
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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.
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
Ali El Kaafarani
Founder and CEO of PQShield
Dr Ali El Kaafarani is the founder and CEO of PQShield, a British cybersecurity startup specialising in post-quantum cryptography and quantum-safe solutions. A University of Oxford spin-out, PQShield is pioneering the commercial roll-out of a new generation of cryptography that’s fit for the quantum challenge, yet integrates with companies’ legacy technology systems to protect them from the biggest threats of today and tomorrow. Dr. El Kaafarani is a research fellow at Oxford’s Mathematical Institute and a former engineer at Hewlett-Packard Labs, with over a decade of academic and industrial experience.
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About PQShield, University of Oxford: At PQShield, we help customers transition their product lines from legacy RSA and Elliptic Curve cryptography to quantum-safe standards.
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.
Freaky Clown
co-CEO and Co-Founder, Head of Ethical Hacking of Cygenta
FC is a well-known ethical hacker and social engineer. He has been working in the information security field for over 20 years and excels at circumventing access controls. He has held positions in his career such as Senior Penetration Tester as well as Head of Social Engineering and Physical Assessments for renowned security companies. Having worked as Head of Cyber Research for Raytheon Missile Systems, and working closely alongside intelligence agencies, he has cemented both his skillset and knowledge as well as help to steer governments take correct courses of action against national threats. As an ethical hacker and social engineer, FC ‘breaks into’ hundreds of banks, offices and government facilities in the UK and Europe. His work demonstrating weaknesses in physical, personnel and digital controls assists organisations to improve their security. He is motivated by a drive to make individuals, organisations and countries more secure and better-able to defend themselves from malicious attack. Now Co-Founder and Head of Ethical Hacking at Redacted Firm, he continues to perform valuable research into vulnerabilities. His client list involves major high-street banks in the UK and Europe, FTSE100 companies and multiple government agencies and security forces. He also co-founded the Surrey and Hampshire Hackspace as well as Defcon 441452 (Gloucester) hacker group. He has co-hosted many podcasts, been featured in the press and regularly writes articles for journals and blogs. FC and his partner Dr Jessica Barker have been announced as Guest Curators of the 2018 Cheltenham Science Festival. FC frequently gives talks at corporate events, security conferences, universities and schools around the world. He specialises in teaching people of all ages and abilities the art of security in an engaging and impactful way. He demystifies security with his expertise, humour and passion.
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About Cygenta: Cygenta support clients dealing with the multi-dimensional challenge of cyber-security.
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.
Alan Carson
Co-Founder & CEO of Cloudsmith
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About Cloudsmith: Cloudsmith is a cloud-native DevOps warehouse built on Package Management, that secures, controls and accelerates software delivery.
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
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero
Co-Founder, Co-Inventor, and CEO of Nu Quantum
Carmen Palacios-Berraquero is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as Chief Executive Officer. Carmen is a national award-winning physicist and leader of pro-equality action in science and beyond.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a quantum networking start-up building the entanglement fabric essential to scaling quantum computers.
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.
Jacques Declas
CEO of 42Crunch
Jacques Declas, founder and CEO of 42 Crunch, is an entrepreneur with more than 20 years in the Enterprise Software industry and a record of scaling international sales team. He has an extensive knowledge of the API Security market having served in senior VP roles in Forum Systems, Vordel (acquired by Axway) and Intel. During his career Jacques has built worldwide partnership with Software vendors such as Computer Associates, Oracle and Microsoft and leading consulting firms such as Accenture, Atos and CSC. Jacques holds a bachelor of Financial Management and European Business Law.
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About 42Crunch: 42Crunch is an API Security platform, addressing the development, testing, and deployment security requirements of API infrastructure.
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 Pollock
Founder & CEO of Chess ICT
David established Chess in 1993, one of the UK’s fastest growing companies, listed in the Sunday Times Fast/Tech Track 100 and in the 100 Best Companies to Work For the last eight years. In 2017 and 2016 Chess was named the 2nd in 100 Best Company to Work For, the 2014 European Business Awards Customer Focus Champions and the Institute of Customer Service Quality Service Provider of the Year 2011. Acquisitions play a big part in Chess’ growth having completed over 100 to date. Chess employ over 500 people throughout the UK serving over 30,000 business customers in the Information Communication Technology sector. In 2017 David was named Best Leader by The Sunday Times 100 Best Companies to Work For. He won the Ernst and Young UK Technology Entrepreneur of the Year 2007, Telecoms Industry Entrepreneur of the Year 2008 and Institute of Directors – Cheshire Director of the Year 2009, he was made a Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire in 2012. His business career began at school promoting bands to his friends, moving on to music videos in Los Angeles, he has established many successful businesses from utilities, property, energy, organic food to online marketing. In his charitable work David, an active supporter of the Prince’s Trust, has been Chairman of the NW Development Committee since 2010. He enjoys physics challenges, In 2008 he led a team that won the Prince’s Trust Costa Rica Challenge, in 2009 his team came 2nd out of 42 teams in the Prince’s Trust Wild UK Challenge, in 2011 and 2012 his team won The Prince’s Trust Mersey to Tyne Challenge. In July 2012 he summited Mont Blanc and Kilimanjaro in July 2013. He is also a Trustee of Active Cheshire a charity that encourages health and well being through activity and is a Vice President of East Cheshire Hospice.
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About Chess ICT: Chess ICT provide services including product supply and installation, storage, hosted and cloud solutions.
David Grant
Chief Executive Officer of Westcon-Comstor
With more than 25 years of IT industry and channel experience, David Grant is Westcon-Comstor’s COO, responsible for the operational leadership and management of all commercial operations in the business across EMEA and APAC. David has held several executive leadership roles with the company serving as EVP of Global Partner Sales and Business Operations and as SVP of Solution Practices and Vendor Management in EMEA. He came to Westcon-Comstor from European distributor Crane Telecommunications, where he served as CEO until the company’s acquisition in 2007. David also held leadership roles with Canon in the UK across direct sales, marketing, investments and acquisitions, retail and channel management. His advanced education includes a B.S. in Mechanical Engineering from Brunel University and the Senior Executive program at Henley Management College.
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About Westcon-Comstor: Westcon-Comstor is a value-added technology distributor of category-leading solutions in security.
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
James Moore
Founder and CEO of CultureAI
James Moore is the Founder and CEO at CultureAI.
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About CultureAI: CultureAI enables clients to orchestrate personalised security awareness, behaviour and culture programmes.
Chris Erven
CEO and Co-Founder of KETS Quantum Security
Chris Erven(CEO & Founder) has been thinking about the commercial application of quantum encryption for over 12 years since he started building these systems experimentally. He has commercial start-up experience with QuSpin Inc., in Canada and is currently Deputy Director of the Quantum Technology Enterprise Centre at the University of Bristol.
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About KETS Quantum Security: KETS Quantum Security is developing a range of future-proof, cost-effective technologies for quantum-secured communications.
Boyd Mulvey
CEO & Founder of Chorus Intelligence
Boyd started his career in 1990 as a data analyst for Credit Suisse Financial Products (CSFP), an investment bank which created and traded derivative financial instruments based in London. At CSFP Boyd created a database for analysing capital at risk for the bank called FRED (Financial Risk Exposure Database) which is still in use today. Boyd moved from analyst to strategy at UBS and then into investment banking where he helped to raise money for and float several technology companies on the UK Stock Exchange before launching a Venture Capitalist Fund called the CREATE East of England Fund, which specialised in investing into early stage tech companies around the Cambridge area. Following the completion of that Fund, Boyd founded Chorus Intelligence to focus on data analytics once again.
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About Chorus Intelligence: Chorus Intelligence provides technology that allows authorities to investigate crimes using mobile phone records.
Fintan Galvin
CEO of Invotra Ltd
Fintan is the founder / owner of Invotra. He has a passion for delivery and keeping things focussed and connected. With over 25 years in enterprise technology he has a vast array of knowledge in getting large scales systems developed and deployed out to the people that count.
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About : Enterprise Intranet and Portal solutions for organisations worldwide
David Notley
CEO and Co-Founder of Enclave Networks
David Notley is the CEO of Enclave Network. He is a highly experienced Board level management consultant with a proven track record in management training, corporate strategy and finance and an expert in advising technology businesses. Following a career in international M&A and venture capital, David Notley founded and invested in a number of technology and professional services businesses. David currently advises high growth tech businesses and delivers Government sponsored support programmes.
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About Enclave Networks: Connect all your computers, servers, cloud instances and containers across any infrastructure with effortless Zero Trust Network Access.
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.
Richard Pursey
Founder & CEO of SafeToNet
A proven businessman having started and sold 4 technology companies and an insurance business. He was also a Board member of an NHS trust where he learned about social care and welfare issues but his biggest success came in the disaster recovery and risk management industry where he developed software to profile and predict the operational and risk behavioural patterns of businesses. It’s those same behavioural patterning techniques that are used in SafeToNet today.
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About SafeToNet: SafeToNet makes the digital world safer for children to explore and enjoy.
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.
maciej klemm
Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Protection Systems
At APS, he is responsible for the coordination of the engineering team as well as developing and creating new products. Senior Lecturer (American Associate Professor) at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Bristol. In 2003 he joined the Electronics Laboratory of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where after three years he obtained a doctorate in electronic science. In 2006 he joined the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. In 2007 he won the Best British Research Engineer competition. In 2015, Maciej decided to use his unique expertise in practice, co-founding Advanced Protection Systems.
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About Advanced Protection Systems: Leader in affordable drone detection & tracking technology and creator of SafeSky system.
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.
Shahram Mossayebi
Founder & CEO of Crypto Quantique
Shahram founded Crypto Quantique in 2016. His goal is to solve real world cybersecurity problems around the IoT by combining quantum technologies and modern cryptography. Shahram holds a PhD in Post-Quantum Cryptography
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About Crypto Quantique: Crypto Quantique offers hardware based cyber-security solution for authentication and encryption in a wired local network.
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!
Louis-James Davis
CEO And Founder of VST Enterprises
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About Kidscan Children’s Cancer Research, Manchester Metropolitan University, V-Health Passport, VST Enterprises: VST Enterprises has been widely recognize for its development of VCode.
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
James Campbell
CEO and Co-Founder of Cado Security Ltd
James Campbell is the CEO and Co-Founder of Cado Security and has over 13 years of experience in helping global organizations tackle sophisticated cyber espionage and criminal campaigns. James has a deep passion for cyber incident response, forensics, and cyber crisis. His background includes a career in intelligence previously leading Australia’s National Incident Response capability as the Assistant Director of Operations at the Australian Signals Directorate. After moving to the UK in 2013 James started with PwC to help build and lead the Cyber Incident Response service. As a Director within the PwC cyber practice, he worked with his team on unveiling the APT10 Cloudhopper cyber espionage campaign, as well as helping many global organizations investigate, isolate, and mitigate significant compromises. James has previously spoken at various conferences, including cloudsec, crestcon, and the forensics Europe expo. James has also published papers on topics such as disruptive cyberattacks, and supply chain attacks and loves to stay active in the wider cybersecurity community.
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About Cado Security Ltd: Cado Security provides the cloud investigation platform that empowers security teams to respond to threats at cloud speed.
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
Pascal Nizri
Founder and CEO of Chekk
Pascal Nizri is the Founder and CEO of Chekk.me, a digital identity start-up. With Chekk.me, individuals are empowered to own their Digital Identity and control what data they share, and businesses get a secure platform for seamless data request and on-going customer interactions (eg., customer due diligence at on-boarding and refresh; electronic verification of ID; secure messaging for chats, offers, alerts, statements). Pascal has over 16 years experience in the Financial Industry, having worked across geographies (France, UK, Hong-Kong, Australia, Indonesia), disciplines (strategy, business, technology, digital), and positions (Global Chief of Staff for a large international Retail Bank; Chief Operating Officer for Retail Banking & Wealth Management in countries; Global Head of Transformation for a leading international Private Bank).
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About Chekk: Chekk helps businesses by providing seamless on-boarding solutions.
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.
Jonathan Gill
CEO of Panaseer
Jonathan Gill leads RSA’s EMEA organisation. He manages an international team that serves the security needs of customers in a wide variety of industries across Europe, Middle East and Africa. Jonathan has more than 25 years’ experience in global enterprise security leadership, with a proven track record of creating customer success and executing sales strategies that drive incremental business growth. He has previously served as Executive Vice President for Global Sales at Veracode, following leadership and sales roles at CA, Arcot and IBM. Jonathan holds a degree in economics and geography, is a fitness enthusiast, and particularly enjoys road cycling. He is also a keen amateur photographer and lives with his wife and two children in Berkshire within the United Kingdom.
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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.
Neil Andrew
CEO of PPC Protect
Neil is the CEO at PPC Protect.
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About Piccana Ltd, PPC Protect, WP Nexus: Reduce CPAs, improve PPC performance and remove invalid users from your entire PPC funnel.
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
David Irvine
CEO of MaidSafe
David has in excess of 23 years experience in IT and 15 years running companies. He was previously responsible for Enterprise network design and project management and has worked on some of the world’s largest network projects. David is also a published author on papers in the fields of complex networking, distributed computing and cryptography related technologies. David enjoys sailing, engineering, camping and has a secret interest in intelligent robotics
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About MaidSafe: Building the SAFE Network: an open source P2P decentralized Web with privacy, security and freedom by default for all users.
Jeremy Annis
CEO & CTO of Ripjar
Jeremy Annis serves as the Chief Executive and Technology Officer at Ripjar.
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
Alan Foreman
CEO of B-Secur
CEO at B-Secur.
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About B-Secur: B-Secur represents the next generation of internal biometrics.
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.
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.
Paul Hague
CEO and co-founder of BlackDice
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About BlackDice, Haandle: BlackDice is a machine learning software for device management and cybersecurity.
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
Josh Hutchinson
CEO & Co-Founder of ARX Defence
Joshua Hutchinson is the CEO at ARX Defence.
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About ARX Defence: We design, manufacture and deploy effective and sustainable security.
Charles Preston
Founder & CEO of usecure
Having enjoyed several successful years in the cyber security space, Charles is currently the Chief Executive Officer and Founder of a rapidly growing security awareness training provider. After working with countless IT teams, Charles discovered that employees were often deemed as the “weakest link in the security chain”, receiving sporadic and ineffective cyber security training. usecure was born to provide a solution. usecure’s training is user-focused, effective and achieved through an automated four-step approach of evaluate, educate, simulate and report in order to simplify training – transforming your users into your greatest security asset.
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About usecure: Our business helps employees understand cyber security threats and empowering them to become the strongest link in the chain.
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.
Oliver Pinson-Roxburgh
Chief Executive Officer of Bulletproof
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About Bulletproof: Bulletproof is a trusted provider of innovative cyber security and people-powered solutions.
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.
Vassilis Seferidis
Co-Founder & CEO of Zeetta Networks
Vassilis has more than 25 years of experience in the Telecom and Consumer Electronics (CE) industries mainly in Strategic Business Planning and Development roles. Before co-founding Zeetta Networks, Vassilis was VP of European Business Development for Samsung Electronics responsible for driving revenue growth and strategic development of the company’s Consumer Electronics business in Europe. Prior to Samsung, he held senior management positions with British Telecom, Toshiba Information Systems, Philips Electronics, and British Standards Institute. During 2006-2009 he was the CTO of QIO Systems Inc., a pioneer in wearable electronics based in New York City. Vassilis holds a BSc and MSc from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, a PhD in Electronic Systems Engineering from Essex University and an MBA from Cass Business School, University of London. In 2011 he was included in Euro50, a list of Europe’s 50 most influential people in Broadband &Telecoms industries.
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About Zeetta Networks: Zeetta Networks simplifies the monitoring, management and automation of complex ICT networks
Jamie Graves
Chief Executive Officer of Uleska
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About Uleska: Uleska is an application security automation platform. We help security and development teams manage application security at scale.
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.
Adam Blake
CEO & Founder of ThreatSpike Labs
Adam Blake is the CEO at ThreatSpike Labs
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About ThreatSpike Labs: ThreatSpike Labs provides a managed security service using a unique, in-house developed technology platform.
