Best Startup
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 Cloud 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.
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
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.
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.
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.
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.
Abishek Raju
Founder and Technology Evangelist of Yobitel Communications
A highly motivated, self-driven, empowered Entrepreneur from strong IT Infrastructure background, Founder and successfully managing Yobitel Communications (Multi Cloud Business Intelligence Service Provider) Multi Cloud Technology & Business Advisor – Engineering the Open Cloud Architecture through SaaS Policy based Intelligence. Blockchain Evangelist & Technology Advisor – Redefining the evolution of Distributed Ledger Technology – DApps Applications through AI. My vision “Create a connected world and simplify IT in human life”.
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About Grabnpay eCommerce Private Limited, Yobitel Communications: Yobitel a Managed SaaS Cloud Service Provider offers Network & IT Infrastructure, Multi Cloud Hosting & Consulting, Container Orchestration
Manuel Martinez Chamorro
Co-Founder of Privasee
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About Privasee: Data privacy and compliance platform
Nick Graham
Founder and CTO of Hicomply
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About Hicomply: Hicomply is an Information Security Management Software platform giving you the tools to build your ISMS as well as protect the business.
Mohammad Hadi Emami
Co-Founder of Doneo LLC
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About Doneo LLC: Doneo LLC is a technology company headquartered in Seoul, specialized in designing, developing and implementing security solutions.
Peter Cox
Founder and CEO of UM Labs
Peter Cox is the CEO and Founder of UM Labs, a UK company specialising in security for Internet based VoIP and UC services. Peter Cox has 30 years of experience in networking and cyber security. Prior to founding UM Labs, Peter was the co-founder of a successful IP security developer who achieved the first event Common Criteria EAL4 certifications for a general purpose firewall and an email security system.
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About UM Labs: UM-Labs R&D provides Real-Time Communications Cyber Security UOS (Unicus) – protects all Data in Transit and Motion, running on any cloud.
