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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based VP’ operating in the Risk Management space. If you think a VP’ 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.
Terry Bishop
VP Customer Success, EMEA of RiskIQ
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Terry Bishop
VP Customer Success, EMEA of RiskIQ
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About RiskIQ: RiskIQ is a security company that provides digital threat management solutions for software vendors.
Gavin Millard
Vice President of Product Marketing of Tenable
Gavin is a trained, ethical hacker who works with medium and large enterprises to address their cybersecurity challenges. With a deep understanding of how attackers plot a breach, he helps bring these companies to a trusted state of IT infrastructure. He previously worked as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) technical director for Tripwire. He has also spoken frequently on data integrity, hacking and other key security topics. Current Position: As Technical Director, Gavin is involved with the major clients in the EMEA region, helping to manage and reduce their attack surface.
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About Tenable, Tenable: Tenable helps organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk across the full range of modern computing assets.
Mark Bilson
VP, Client Development & Integration Practice of Intapp
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About Intapp: Intapp is a provider of industry-specific, cloud-based software solutions that enable connected professional and financial services.
John R. Bragg
Executive Vice President of Bank Operations of National Commerce
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About National Commerce: National Commerce is a a financial holding company that provides various financial services to individuals, businesses, and business owners.
Rajan Koo
SVP Engineering and Cyber Intelligence of Dtex Systems
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About Dtex Systems: Dtex Systems utilizes user behavior intelligence to help enterprises detect cybersecurity threats without compromising privacy.
David Griffiths
SVP Sales & Marketing of 4me
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About 4me, 4me: 4me is an IT and Enterprise Service Management & Workflow application, providing complete visibility and control of service cost & quality.
David Byron
SVP Global Alliances and New Markets and General Manager of Global Sales and Marketing of CUBE
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About CUBE: CUBE is a global RegTech provider empowering regulated financial institutions to meet compliance challenges head on.
Audelia Boker
Global VP Marketing of Glassbox
Audelia Boker joined Glassbox in January 2016 after spending over 17 years in Israel’s largest FMCG and flagship tech companies, including Strauss-Elite, Orange (now Partner), Comverse (now Xura) and NICE Systems. Equally at home with storytelling as with crunching analytical data, Audelia’s international background and leadership abilities have recently brought her back to Europe, where she grew up. Her most recent role was in London, where she headed Demand Generation for EMEA at NICE Systems, managing inside sales teams as well as the Enterprise integrated off-line and online marketing strategy and execution for the company across Europe. Before this, Audelia ran a team of marketing managers and had global responsibility over the Real-Time Solutions product marketing activities, significantly contributing to the success of the fastest growing business within NICE’s Enterprise portfolio. Audelia holds an MBA from ESCP Europe where she studied in Paris, France, majoring in Strategy and Marketing.
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About Glassbox: Glassbox develops an analytics platform designed to automatically record, index, and analyze digital interactions.
James Noe
Senior Vice President of Training & Mission Support of Constellis
As the senior vice president of training and mission support for Constellis, Jim Noe leads the company’s training and mission support lines of business for which he is responsible for all operations and strategy. With more than 20 years of experience in the field, he is one of the nation’s leading experts in preparedness training. Jim previously served as president of his own technology management company, Eon, LLC. Prior to Eon, he served as president of O’Gara Training and Services where he oversaw the acquisition of three companies and their subsequent integrations into one operating division, generating over $100M in revenue over a five-year period. In 2001, Jim founded Critical Incident Solutions (CIS) where he built a robust government contracting program focused on bid and proposal response–resulting in the award of a major U.S. Department of State (DoS) contract providing training to U.S. embassies worldwide. He also served as a program manager for DoS for two years during which he provided chemical and biological terrorism training for the Department of Diplomatic Security; training for the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program in Manila, and was responsible for the development of training programs for DoS regarding weapons of mass destruction. An explosive ordnance disposal technician for the U.S. Army for seven years, Jim is a graduate of the U.S. Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal School in Indian Head, Md. He holds a master certificate from Villinova in government contracting and a degree in technology from Pierce College.
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About Constellis: Constellis is a provider of operational support and risk management services to government and commercial clients.
Ciara Morrison
VP of People of DueDil
Ciara is the VP of People at DueDil and is an experienced global HR Director. She has both Fortune 500 and SME experience having delivered achievements in generalist and centres of excellence leadership positions for talent and performance management, organisation design, M&A, employee relations, management capability, resourcing & workforce planning and HR operations.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
Carolyn Branco
VP of Marketing of DueDil
Carolyn Branco is the VP of Marketing at DueDil, where she leads the company’s growth and marketing team. She joined DueDil after directing marketing at several early stage and established start-ups. She’s also excelled at both big tech and finance companies, including Google and UBS Investment Bank and holds an MBA and BA from Columbia University.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
Stephen Robinson
VP Finance of DueDil
Steve is VP of Finance at DueDil, with responsibility for the company’s financial and corporate affairs. He is a qualified accountant with more than 20 years’ post-qualification experience, and has held several senior finance positions in the media and technology sectors.
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About DueDil: DueDil is a company intelligence platform that gives businesses a solution to identify opportunities and manage risk.
Mark Brown
Vice President of Software Solutions and Services of Sword GRC
Mark joined Active Risk in April 2000 from SunGard. Prior to that Mark held senior management and consulting roles with Coopers & Lybrand and Lazard Brothers in London. Mark holds a Bachelor of Business Studies in Information Systems and Finance and is an Associate Chartered Accountant with the New Zealand Society of Accountants. He has held several executive roles within the company as both a founding director involved in the launch of Active Risk Manager in 2000, the IPO of the company in 2005 and is now the member of the Management team with responsibility for Product Management, Pre-sales and Consulting Services.
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About Sword GRC: Sword GRC is a software solutions company that specializes in risk, compliance, governance, audit & policy management services.
John Frain
Vice President of Global Support of Sword GRC
John joined Sword Active Risk in 2011, working as a Business Analyst in the Development Team. Prior to Sword Active Risk, John worked in software development for 18 years, predominantly in Retail Finance, Logistics, and Supply Chain environments. John has a BSc from the University of York, in Information Technology, Business Management, and Language.
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About Sword GRC: Sword GRC is a software solutions company that specializes in risk, compliance, governance, audit & policy management services.
Andrew Clinton
EVP, International Operations of Protiviti
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About Protiviti: Protiviti is a global business consulting and internal audit firm.
Ivan Kotorov
VP Enterprise Accounts of VendorMach
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About VendorMach: Big data analytics platform for ecommerce supplier planning and accounts payable (AP) reconciliations, reducing fraud, error and costs.
Alastair Parr
SVP of Global Products & Delivery of Prevalent Networks
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About 3GRC, Prevalent Networks: Prevalent was founded two goals in mind. First, to work with the leaders in information security
Chris Beaumont
Vice President Marketing of SHE Software
Chris is Vice President Marketing and masterminds all marketing, public relations, events and business development activities across the globe. His main focus is to build SHE Software’s reputation globally as the leading health and safety software provider, and develop new creative routes to market to meet acquisition and retention targets. Chris joined SHE Software in 2013, bringing over 15 years marketing leadership experience. In his previous role at BP, he worked on product development, creating a number of successful go-to-market strategies. He holds a Professional Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing and BSc Hons Management & Information Technology, UMIST. When not putting his creative brain to the test, outside work, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife, young daughter and eating!
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About SHE Software: Health and Safety software. Transforming how companies engage with their employees, delivering safe, nurturing and compliant workplaces.
Matt Stafford
Operations Director (VP Operations) of Commerce Decisions
Matt Stafford joined Commerce Decisions in February 2014, having worked within QinetiQ since 2000. Matt has worked in management, consultancy and research environments, and is an experienced Operations, Business and People Leader. Most recently Matt led QinetiQ’s Acquisition Services business, serving a broad range of MOD and commercial clients. As a strong generalist, with a rigorous and diverse background, Matt takes pride in providing timely, pragmatic advice and strategic guidance. He delivers a highly personalised and bespoke service to those depending upon high quality management, reporting and operational leadership. Matt seeks to create positive and rewarding environments, backed by a passion for organic talent development, in which people flourish to maximise business success.
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About Commerce Decisions: Commerce Decisions delivers proven software, best practice knowledge and expert services to assist in high risk sourcing projects.
Peter Erceg
Senior Vice President of Lockton
Peter joined Lockton from EE in June 2016, the largest telecommunications company in Britain. As the CISO he was responsible for the security of the companies and their customer’s information. He led a team that covered all areas of Information and Cyber Security, Technology Risk Management and Business Continuity for the company. Prior to joining EE Peter was the VP of Information Security at Visa Europe, responsible for the protection for Visa’s sensitive data for the company which had a turnover of over €1 trillion per year.
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About Lockton: Clients across the globe count on Lockton for risk management, insurance and employee benefits.
