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 CEO’ operating in the Physical Security space. If you think a CEO’ 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.
James Popper
CEO of Amberbox Gunshot Detection
Founder at Sinclair Fire.
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About Amberbox Gunshot Detection: Detect Gunshots | Inform Law Enforcement | Empower First Responders
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.
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.
maciej klemm
Chief Executive Officer of Advanced Protection Systems
At APS, he is responsible for the coordination of the engineering team as well as developing and creating new products. Senior Lecturer (American Associate Professor) at the Department of Electrical and Electronics Engineering at the University of Bristol. In 2003 he joined the Electronics Laboratory of ETH Zurich, Switzerland, where after three years he obtained a doctorate in electronic science. In 2006 he joined the University of Bristol in the United Kingdom. In 2007 he won the Best British Research Engineer competition. In 2015, Maciej decided to use his unique expertise in practice, co-founding Advanced Protection Systems.
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About Advanced Protection Systems: Leader in affordable drone detection & tracking technology and creator of SafeSky system.
Isabel Van De Keere
Founder and CEO of Immersive Rehab
Isabel is an experienced innovation strategist & manager, researcher, product designer, experimentalist, and collaborator across disciplines. She is passionate about science, healthcare technologies, digital health, immersive technologies (VR/AR) and its applications in healthcare, using tech for good, social entrepreneurship, and promoting women in tech.
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About Immersive Rehab: IR creates interactive physiotherapy programmes in Virtual Reality that improve the effectiveness of physical & neuro-rehabilitation.