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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 Founder operating in the 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.
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
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 Walton
Founder/CTO of Boundary
Paul Walton is the Founder and CTO of Boundary.
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About Boundary, Oodls, Prodsight, Seed Haus: Boundary is an IoT Home Security company providing a smart burglar alarm system that can be controlled over mobile devices.
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.
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.
Amrit Johal
Founder of Convo App
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About Convo App: A sport social network where all fans can convo with one another!
Jasneel Nagi
Founder of Convo App
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About Convo App: A sport social network where all fans can convo with one another!
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.
Neil Murray
CTO and Co-Founder of Mimecast
Neil Murray is one of the people who helped build Mimecast. Not just metaphorically, but literally. He’s led the development team from our inception – when he was the development team – overseeing the construction of our platform from the ground up. It’s thanks to him that Mimecast, uniquely, was conceived and built as a single, integrated platform rather a set of bolted-together services. Today he oversees the architecture of the service platform and sets out the overall technical vision and strategy for the service. Before Mimecast, Neil was the CTO of South African, JSE-listed, Global Technology Services, a provider of business information solutions, which had bought Pro-Solutions, a software development company he helped found in the early 90s. Neil’s 20 year-career also includes experience architecting and building leading software products for internet banking, messaging and rapid application development.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
Paran Chandrasekaran
Founder of Scentrics Information Security Technologies Ltd
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About Scentrics Information Security Technologies Ltd: Cyber Security and Machine Learning
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.
Roy Tuvey
Co-Founder and President of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
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
Jim Walker
CIO & VP of Global Operations – Technical Co-Founder of Wandera
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About Wandera: Wandera provides a unified cloud security solution to protect the modern workplace
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.
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.
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.
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
Joshua Pennell
Founder and Chairman of IOActive
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About IOActive, ISSA-UK: IOActive is a security consultancy with a global presence and deep expertise spanning hardware, software, and wetware.
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.
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
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.
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.
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.
Dan Conlon
Co-Founder of Cocoon
Founder of successful technology businesses Donhost & Humyo. After Humyo was acquired by Internet Security company Trend Micro in 2010, Dan directed the roll-out of its storage technology in Japan where the technology was sold as a hardware device.
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About Cocoon, humyo: Cocoon is a home security device to protect one’s home.
Stephen Henson
Co-Founder & Senior Technical Resource & Core Member of OpenSSL Software Foundation
Stephen Henson is Co-Founder & Senior Technical Resource & Core Member at OpenSSL.
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About OpenSSL Software Foundation: The OSF is a for-profit corporate entity that was created to handle commercial contracting of the OpenSSL open source software project.
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.
Matthew Applegate
Chief Technical Officer & Co-Founder of Nu Quantum
Matthew Applegate is the co-inventor of Nu Quantum technology and currently serves the company as CTO. Matthew is a computer scientist, mathematician, and industry expert turned quantum physicist.
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About Nu Quantum: Nu Quantum is a telecommunications company that develops end-to-end quantum cryptography systems.
Nigel Smart
Co-Founder of Unbound Security
Nigel Smart work on the interface of public key cryptography and cryptographic protocols. I am interested mainly in looking at how to turn theoretical constructions into practical reality, and how these can then be leveraged to solve real world problems. In the last five years my work has focused around methods to compute on encrypted data; in particular Multi-Party Computation and Fully Homomorphic Encryption. Previously I have worked on key agreement protocols, pairing based cryptography and elliptic curve based cryptography.
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About International Association for Cryptologic Research, Unbound Security: Unbound Security providing protection for cryptographic keys and credentials, even in the presence of a network and server breach.
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)
Justin Pike
Founder & Chairman of MYPINPAD
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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 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 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.
Matthew Hickey
Co-Founder and Director of Hacker House
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About Hacker House: Hacker House provides offensive security solutions to the information security industries.
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.
Matt Farmer
Co-Founder and GM Europe of Sendachi
Matt Farmer is the Founder at Ox Ventures.
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About Future Worx, Ox Ventures, Sendachi: Sendachi is a technology and services company specializing in DevOps, Continuous Delivery, and transformational programs.
Beau Lotto
Founder of Traces
Beau Lotto is the Founder and CEO of Lab of Misfits, the world’s first neuro-design studio. Uncertainty and the brain’s need to resolve it is essential for thinking about not only branding and business, but design, leadership and innovation. Misfits is a team of scientists, designers and producers who discover the essential questions about the nature of uncertainty. Their work provides a deeper, scientific basis for an organisations DNA & Strategy, creates content that expands PR & marketing potential, and strengthens its internal and external relationships. By focusing on how the perceptual brain resolves the fundamental challenge of uncertainty, The Lab of Misfits gives audiences and clients the opportunity to create … and more than this … to embody innovation. Their results inform and transform. They have worked with the Edelman Group and TJ Max, Golin and L’Oreal, and are currently working Cirque du Soleil. Beau is one of the few speakers to have given two TED talks, which have amassed over 6 million views combined. He has also spoken at Google’s Zeitgest Minds, Wired, G8 and made significant programme contributions to BBC’s Horizon, National Geographic Channel and PBS in the US. In 2017, Beau published a new major popular science book, Deviate: The Science of Seeing Differently. He draws on over two decades of pioneering research to explain that our brain didn’t evolve to see the world accurately. It can’t! Visually stunning, with entertaining illustrations and optical illusions throughout, and with clear and comprehensive explanations of the science behind how our perceptions operate, Deviate will revolutionise the way you see yourself, others and the world. With this new understanding of how the brain functions, we can apply these insights to every aspect of life, love and work. Deviate is not just an illuminating account of the neuroscience of thought, behaviour and creativity: it is a call to action, enlisting readers in their own journey of self-discovery.
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About City University London, Goldsmiths, University of London, Lab of Misfits, New York University, Ripple, Traces: Traces lets you share digital messages anywhere in the world. To get messages, you have to be in the right place at the right time.
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.
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.
Philip Sibson
CTO and Co-Founder of KETS Quantum Security
Philip is arguably the world leader in integrated photonic systems for quantum communications. He is the lead developer behind the world’s first chip-to-chip QKD demonstration and the main inventor on both of KETS’ patents. He is a QTEC alumni fellow and a key contributor to the UK’s Quantum Communications Hub.
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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.
Jake Kennard
Technical Sales Director and Co-Founder of KETS Quantum Security
Jake has 10 years of applied integrated quantum optics and industrial research experience. He is passionate about taking KETS’ technology to market and has quickly developed a multi-award winning pitch. A former post-doctoral researcher at the University of Bristol’s Quantum Engineering Technology Labs, he is an expert in integrated quantum photonics and communications and a key contributor to the UK’s Quantum Communications Hub.
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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.
Marc Barry
CTO and Co-Founder of Enclave Networks
Marc Barry is the CTO and Co-Founder of Enclave Networks. He is a Master’s graduate in Information Security who builds, researches and secures computer networks. He has worked extensively with internet-based technologies, encryption and digital assurance, spending several years prior to Enclave Networks leading the security and infrastructure team of a large UK based digital media agency, delivering solutions to Government and enterprise.
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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.
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.
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.
Sharon Pursey
Co-Founder, Head of Strategic Alliances of SafeToNet
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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
Andrew Bontoft
Director and Founder of Foregenix
Andrew Bontoft is the director and 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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Ivo Sluganovic
Co-Founder of PhishAR
Ivo Sluganovic is a Co-Founder at PhishAR.
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About PhishAR, Skillset, Vibby: PhishAR is a computer network and security company that specializes in the fields of artificial intelligence and augmented reality.
Jan Vanhoutte
CPO & Co-Founder of Shepper
Co-founder and CPO at Shepper, passionate about designing and developing awesome products.
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About Shepper: Shepper collects data on physical assets for businesses using the power of technology and people
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
Siraj Ahmed Shaikh
Founder and CSO of CyberOwl
Siraj is currently a Reader in Cyber Security at Coventry University, UK. He has been involved in research, development and evaluation of large-scale distributed secure systems for over fifteen years. He is currently involved in a three-year (2014-17) EPSRC-Funded project App Collusion Detection (ACiD), in collaboration with City and Swansea University, and McAfee (part of Intel 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.
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
Tom Griffin
Director and Co-Founder of Ripjar
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About Ripjar: Ripjar is a data intelligence company that transforms global institutions ability to manage strategic risks.
