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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 CTO’ operating in the Network Security space. If you think a CTO’ 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.
Ian McShane
Field CTO of Arctic Wolf
Ian McShane is the Field Chief Technology Officer of Arctic Wolf. Ian has over 20 years experience in cybersecurity and operational IT, with humble beginnings in a tech support call center and live-fire experience leading sysadmin teams for large multi-national organizations. As a former Gartner analyst, Ian has advised the largest and fastest growing technology companies in the world as well as tens of thousands of organizations world-wide. He is well known as a trusted advisor and popular commentator in our industry, and prior to joining Arctic Wolf Ian also spent time in various product leadership end executive roles at Symantec, Endgame, Elastic, and CrowdStrike.
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About Arctic Wolf: Arctic Wolf helps companies end cyber risk by providing security operations as a concierge service.
Marc Woolward
CTO & CISO of vArmour
Marc has over 30 years of experience in mission critical infrastructure and software-defined networks. Marc joined vArmour as CTO in February, 2015. Prior to this role he was a Technology Fellow and the CTO for Networking and Telecommunications at Goldman Sachs. He served as a member of the Technical Advisory Group and as the founder and leader of the Security Working Group within the Open Networking Foundation (ONF). Earlier in his career he managed infrastructure at Cantor Fitzgerald and Coutts & Co. Marc has a decade’s worth of experience architecting and implementing datacenter software automation, and private cloud architectures. Marc is currently British and Worldcup Masters Surfkayak Champion and has represented England at the international level for several years.
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About vArmour: VArmour offers data defined perimeter security solutions for mobile, virtual, and cloud platforms.
Yogesh Patel
CTO & Head of AI Research of Callsign
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About Callsign: Delivering digital trust through simple secure customer interactions
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.
Bryan O’Neil
Chief Technology Officer of Digital Shadows
Bryan O’Neil is the chief technology officer of Digital Shadows.
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About Digital Shadows: Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk.
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.
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.
JP Jones
CTO of Top10VPN
JP is Co-Founder and EVP Technology at Student.com, the world’s leading marketplace for international student accommodation. JP has worked with co-founder Shak on and off for the past 14 years building various tech companies and met Founder and CEO Luke Nolan along the way in Shanghai in 2006. Witnessing Luke’s passion and vision for the business, as well as the enormous opportunity to scale the marketplace, JP joined the business in 2014 and is in charge of the company’s technology solutions, while also advising on platform strategy and acting as a soundboard for Shak and Luke. After getting his first computer at age 3, JP was hooked and subsequently made computers, and everything tech-related, a part of his DNA. As a member of the founding team and CTO at VoucherCodes.co.uk, JP has a proven track record of scaling companies for the international market, along with heading up the R&D department at The Search Works, one of Europe’s leading search marketing technology companies.
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About Top10VPN: Top10VPN.com is a leading VPN (Virtual Private Network) review website. We provide unbiased reviews and advice about VPN services.
Seamus Clarke
CTO of Skurio
Seamus Clarke serves as the Chief Technology Officer at Skurio.
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About Skurio: Skurio is a cybersecurity company that gives every organization the ability to reveal their spectrum of digital risk.
Andy Still
CTO of Netacea
As the Chief Technology Officer, Andy provides the technical direction for Intechnica’s products and services as well providing consultancy and thought leadership to clients. The author of several books on performance and application development, Andy continues to pioneer digital performance for online systems.
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About Intechnica, Netacea: Smarter Bot Management using Intent Analytics™ powered by machine learning. A sophisticated approach for sophisticated threats.
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.
Darren Anstee
Chief Technology Officer of Arbor Networks
Darren Anstee is the Chief Security Technologist within the CTO office at Arbor Networks, based in the UK. Darren has over 20 years of experience in the pre-sales, consultancy and support aspects of telecom and security solutions. Prior to joining Arbor, Darren spent eight years working in both pre- and post-sales for core routing and switching product vendors. Currently in his twelfth year at Arbor, Darren is involved in both the research and strategic activities at Arbor in relation to their enterprise and ISP network threat detection, mitigation and traffic visibility solutions. Working with Arbor’s Security Engineering & Response Team (ASERT), Darren is able to identify trends and monitor the current threat landscape through ATLAS, research infrastructure that uses anonymous data from over 300 customers to monitor approximately one-third of all internet traffic. This previous experience and involvement with ASERT means Darren is au fait with attack methodologies and well placed to advise organisations on how to protect their networks threats ranging from DDoS attacks to Advanced Persistent Threats (APTs). He speaks regularly at shows such as Infosec Europe, and is often quoted on a range of topics in media outlets such as BBC, Forbes and SC Magazine UK.
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About Arbor Networks: Arbor defines the leading edge of network security and management for today’s network operators.
Riccardo Valente
Chief Technology Officer and Founder of Restorepoint
Chief Technology Officer at Restorepoint
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About Restorepoint: Restorepoint is a pioneer in network configuration and change management.
Lewis Oaten
Chief Technology Officer of RazorSecure
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About RazorSecure: RazorSecure is a cyber security software that provides continuous threat monitoring & active defence strategy for trains, buses, cars & etc.
Gareth Howells
Co-founder & CTO of Metrarc
Metrarc’s co-founder and CTO Professor Gareth Howells holds the chair of Secure Electronic Systems at the University of Kent. He has been involved in research relating to cybersecurity, biometrics, secure communications and identity management for over 25 years and has published over 200 papers in the technical literature. He has been responsible for the design of a generalised document security system and the development of techniques for the direct generation of encryption keys from device characteristics.
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About Metrarc: Metrarc is a University spin out based in Cambridge with research and development labs at the Universities of Essex and Kent.
Neil Stewart
Founder & CTO of Metaforic
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About Metaforic: Metaforic provides security software with a built-in framework that resists attacks from malware, bots, hackers and other attempts.
Tarquin Dunn
CTO & Director of Carbon Cloud
With over 30 years experience in the IT industry, with an in-depth technical background, Tarquin has held a variety of senior positions within a partner and reseller environment covering CTO, Technical Director, Technical Consulting, Large Outsourced/Managed Services, Service Desk & Senior Management. Tarquin started Carbon Cloud in order to bring all the Enterprise-grade benefits of Cloud Computing to the wider market and also validates new technical products and vendor solutions.
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About Carbon Cloud, Education IT: Cloud Consultancy, Azure, AWS, Google, IT Support, Service Desk, Infrastructure, Storage, Virtualization, Networking, Security, Repair, AV
Will Harwood
CTO & co-founder of Silicon:SAFE
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About Silicon:SAFE: Silicon:SAFE develops impenetrable network storage solutions in hardware that prevent bulk theft of sensitive data.
