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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 President operating in the Security space. If you think a President 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.
Guy Podjarny
Founder & President of Snyk
Guy Podjarny, or Guypo for short, is a web performance researcher and evangelist, constantly chasing the elusive instant web. Guy is the Chief Technology Officer (CTO) of Akamai’s Web Experience business unit, dealing with everything fast browsing and mobile. Guy was previously the co-founder and CTO of blaze.io, acquired by Akamai in 2012. Guy focuses heavily on Mobile Web Performance and Front-End Optimization, is a fan of large scale tests using real world websites, and regularly digs into the guts of mobile browsers. Guy is also the author of Mobitest, a free mobile measurement tool, and contributes to various open source tools. Before digging into performance, Guy spent a decade working on Web Application Security, and more specifically the first Web App Firewall (AppShield) and the market leading Web Application Security scanner (AppScan).
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About Snyk: Snyk is a cloud native application security provider that enables millions of developers to build software securely.
Richard Perry
Vice President of Sales EMEA & APAC of BioCatch
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About BioCatch, ThetaRay: BioCatch unlocks the power of behavior and deliver actionable insights to create a digital world where identity, trust, and ease co-exist.
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.
Stuart McKenzie
Vice President Mandiant Consulting, EMEA of FireEye
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About FireEye: FireEye is an intelligence-led security company that protects customers using innovative technology and expertise from the front lines.
Phil Allen
Vice President of Ping Identity
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Phil Allen
Vice President of Ping Identity
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About Ping Identity: Ping Identity provides cloud-based identity management software for companies and government organizations.
Jeppe Juul-Andersen
Senior vice President of Nets
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About Nets: Nets is a provider of payments, card, and information services with an ambition.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Peter Turner
Senior Vice President & General Manager, Consumer & Chief Revenue Officer of Avast
Peter Turner is our Senior Vice President, Sales and Marketing for Avast Consumer business and joined the company in September 2016. Prior to Avast, Mr. Turner was General Manager, Consumer for AVG. Before AVG, he was Managing Director, Consumer Services, for global information services company Experian. Mr. Turner has held commercial roles in a variety of organizations, including Orange, Freeserve, Sainsbury’s, Dixons, and GE. He holds an HND in Business and Finance, with merit, from Humberside Polytechnic and a postgraduate diploma in Marketing Management from Staffordshire University, both in the UK, and completed training in International Executive Management from EMYLON Business School, France.
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About Avast: Avast is a security software development company that protects people from threats on the internet.
Lindsay Jack
Vice President, Security Services of Mimecast
Lindsay is the VP, Security Services at Mimecast, with responsibilities for the engineering, threat research and operational delivery of the Mimecast email security product. Lindsay has 14 years experience in the security industry, having worked for for Surfcontrol, Websense and Forcepoint building a variety of Web filtering, Sandboxing and Mobile management products before joining Mimecast in 2017. Lindsay gained a BEng as an Electrical and Mechanical Engineer, before completing a PhD in machine learning.
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About Mimecast: Mimecast is a SaaS-based email management platform enabling companies to administer business communications and data.
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
Robert Dobson
Vice President, Technology Partners, and Product Marketing of Device Authority
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About Device Authority: Device Authority is a global leader in Identity and Access Management (IAM) for the Internet of Things (IoT) and Blockchain.
Reuben Thompson
Vice President Of Technology of Gospel Technology
Reuben has 15 years’ experience in web and software development, having occupied multiple technical roles since 2003. Reuben joined Gospel from Experian Marketing Services, where he was most recently responsible for the software development and product management functions for the Alchemy Social, Promote and Intelligent Audiences product lines. Prior to that, he worked for a VAR, where he was in charge of e-commerce and internal line of business applications. Across these roles, Reuben gained extensive experience of managing large-scale software projects, scalable, distributed, service-oriented software architectures, and how to satisfy complex and divergent compliance requirements (FCA, PCI, etc). As Vice President for Technology at Gospel, Reuben is responsible for all platform and product development activities.
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About Gospel Technology: Gospel Technology is an enterprise data security platform, providing inter-enterprise data for secure & ethical business collaboration.
Danvers Baillieu
President of InfoSum
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About InfoSum, VerifyMyAge: InfoSum provides a decentralized platform designed to remove the trust barriers between progress and privacy.
Vincent Miceli
Vice President & Chief Financial Officer of NXT-ID
Vincent Miceli, age 56, has extensive hands on experience in financial and operational management and business leadership in both substantial private and public companies. He is also experienced with working with public company Boards of Directors, as well as financial institutions. Vincent Miceli was the Vice-President and Chief Financial Officer/Treasurer of Panolam Industries International, Inc., a company which primarily designs, manufactures and distributes decorative and industrial laminates, from May 2006 to mid-December 2013. Prior to that, Vincent Miceli was the Chief Financial Officer and Corporate Controller of Opticare Health Systems, Inc., a public company which provides integrated eye care services, from 2004 to 2006. Prior to 2004, Vincent Miceli held senior accounting positions at Amphenol Corporation and United Technologies, Inc. Vincent Miceli holds a BS in accounting from Quinnipiac College, an MBA, with a concentration in Finance, from the University of Hartfordand he is an affiliate member of both the AICPA and the CT Society of Certified Public Accountants.
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About NXT-ID: Sensor, Mobile, HealthTech, MedTech
Søren Lundsberg-Nielsen
Executive Vice President of Allied Universal
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About Allied Universal, Basico: Allied Universal provides security solutions.
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.
Morten Landrock
Executive Vice President, EMEA of Cryptomathic
Morten Landrock is Managing Director of Cryptomathic Ltd and Executive Vice President of Cryptomathic’s EMEA (Europe / Middle East / Africa) operations, managing a team of people based in Denmark, France, Germany and the United Kingdom. He is also responsible for Cryptomathic’s corporate marketing activities. Since joining Cryptomathic in 1999, Morten has worked extensively in business development, corporate strategy, management, marketing, and sales with a keen focus on international expansion – setting up offices in Denmark, France and the United Kingdom. Morten has served as Vice Chair of the Marketing Centre for GlobalPlatform, an organisation responsible for the standardisation of smart card technology, from 2003-2005. Prior to joining Cryptomathic Morten Landrock worked in marketing in USA. Morten Landrock holds a B.Sc. in Business Administration from the University of Aarhus and supplemented studies with graduate economics courses from the University of Leuven.
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About Cryptomathic: Cryptomathic is one of the world’s leading providers of security software solutions to businesses across a wide range of industry sectors.
Dr. Laurent Gautier
President and Co-founder of ilex international
Doctor in electronics from the Lille University, and Graduate from the prestigious “Centrale” Engineering School, Laurent Gautier has always been passionate about IT technologies. He solders his first computer (NASCOM 1- 1978) while still a student. After his studies he teaches a “How to build computers” course at the University of Tunis for 18 months before joining, in 1985, Cap Sogeti, a large French Integrator. At the same time, Laurent starts writing and selling financial shareware as a hobby. In 1989, he joins the “Terminals & PCs” department of the IT division at BNP where he leads the company through the implementation and deployment of its first Unisys based agency system. Convinced of the potential of the IT market and driven by his passion, Laurent founds Ilex in 1989 with René Lagrèze, and starts providing services and software solutions to some of the largest organisations in the world including major airports, international airlines, leading banks, the Nasdaq, Morgan Stanley, the US coast guards… After 25 years at the head of Ilex, Laurent continues to lead our R&D team and to support the International development of the company.
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About ILEX, ilex international: Ilex International is a European software vendor which specialises in Identity & Access Management solutions (IAM).
Norman Shaw
President & Founder of ExactTrak
Norman has started and managed a number of companies over the past twenty-five years. His career started with Sony Corporation in Australia and subsequently the UK, marketing and selling newly developed products and commercialising Sony’s IP over a period of 10 years. Since 2008 Norman has been CEO of ExactTrak, developing the products and business of its mobile data security technology.
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About ExactTrak: ExactTrak supplies embedded technology that protects data and devices, giving the user visibility and control over turned off devices.
Simeon Coney
Senior Vice President, Security Practice of AdaptiveMobile
Prior to joining AdaptiveMobile in 2006, Simeon established a management consultancy business, undertaking portfolio and business restructuring for US and European VC portfolio companies. Building the company at AdaptiveMobile since formation, Simeon now works closely with Service Providers on the protection of their subscribers and network. Simeon has over 20 years’ experience within the mobile, fixed line and IT infrastructure markets, providing strategic guidance and operational execution to European & US companies. With a career spanning Marketing, Product Management, Business Development and Operations, Simeon has brought award winning products to market in Europe and the US, created high growth business units for Infrastructure suppliers and built Service Provider networks across the globe. He has worked with leading operator groups and networks including Vodafone, T-Mobile, SITA, BT, USAF, Cable & Wireless and Bharti Airtel whilst establishing new technology companies in the UK & US, and with key accounts teams at Nortel and Ericsson.
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About AdaptiveMobile: AdaptiveMobile operates as a mobile security provider for enterprises and individuals.
Simeon Coney
Senior Vice President, Security Practice of AdaptiveMobile
Prior to joining AdaptiveMobile in 2006, Simeon established a management consultancy business, undertaking portfolio and business restructuring for US and European VC portfolio companies. Building the company at AdaptiveMobile since formation, Simeon now works closely with Service Providers on the protection of their subscribers and network. Simeon has over 20 years’ experience within the mobile, fixed line and IT infrastructure markets, providing strategic guidance and operational execution to European & US companies. With a career spanning Marketing, Product Management, Business Development and Operations, Simeon has brought award winning products to market in Europe and the US, created high growth business units for Infrastructure suppliers and built Service Provider networks across the globe. He has worked with leading operator groups and networks including Vodafone, T-Mobile, SITA, BT, USAF, Cable & Wireless and Bharti Airtel whilst establishing new technology companies in the UK & US, and with key accounts teams at Nortel and Ericsson.
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About AdaptiveMobile: AdaptiveMobile operates as a mobile security provider for enterprises and individuals.
Neil Hendry
Vice President EMEA of Digital Barriers
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About Digital Barriers, Digital Barriers: Digital Barriers provides edge-intelligent solutions for the global surveillance and security markets.
Ian Shaw
Executive Vice President of MWR InfoSecurity
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About MWR InfoSecurity: MWR InfoSecurity provide specialist cyber security advice and solutions.
Richard Sheppard
Vice President of Sales of Oblix
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About Oblix: Oblix develops identity-based security and provides web access management solutions for e-commerce networks.
Iain Fraser
Vice President Sales, Strategic Partnerships of Ransom Release
Iain Fraser is the vice president for sales and strategic partnerships at Ransom Release.
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About Ransom Release: Ransom Release is the simplest and quickest way to stay protected from today’s dangerous and unpredictable ransomware attacks.
