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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based Principal operating in the Information Technology space. If you think a Principal 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.
Patrick Galbraith
Principal Platform Engineer of Oracle
Patrick Galbraith is a principal engineer at HPE as a member of the Advanced Technology Group. He is the author or two books: Developing Web Applications with Apache, MySQL, memcached, and Perl (Wiley), and Expert PHP and MySQL (Wiley). In his “spare time”, he also works on various projects related to Kubernetes, MySQL perl driver DBD::mysql, Ansible Modules for HP Switches, and generally tinkers with new technologies. Patrick lives up in the sticks of New Hampshire with his wife and children, as well as his Kubota tractor.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
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Mike Hobbs
Principal Engineer of Oracle
Mike Hobbs works as a Principal Engineer at Oracle.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Vikram Kimyani
Principal Cloud Sales Consultant of Oracle
Vik has many years’ experience of running a private cloud operations and on-boarding team for Credit Suisse. He now works as a solutions architect for Oracle, advising customers on cloud migrations, API and Blockchain strategy.
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Stephen Bourke
Master Principal IaaS Consultant of Oracle
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About Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
Ben Haworth
Principal Sales Consultant (IaaS) of Oracle
Ben Haworth is a Principal Sales Consultant at Oracle UK&I in their Infrastructure as a Service Specialist team, responsible for educating and assisting customers (start-ups through to enterprise) to design and deliver solutions on top of Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in conjunction with Oracle Platform and Software as a Service offerings. Ben has worked with Public, Hybrid and Private Cloud technology since 2010, first at a global System Integrator as a Cloud Platform Architect, then at a Converged Infrastructure vendor before joining Oracle to work with their next generation Oracle Cloud Infrastructure in 2016. Ben has 15 years’ experience in IT, starting as a network architect before progressing in to the broader Infrastructure services of Cloud but he remains interested in networking with the developments in software-defined and function virtualisation amongst others. He graduated from University of St. Andrews with First Class Honours in Computer Science. Outside of work he enjoys spending time with his wife and two young sons and playing golf.
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About Oracle, Oracle: Oracle is an integrated cloud application and platform services that sells a range of enterprise information technology solutions.
David Woodhouse
Principal Engineer of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Tim Boeckmann
Principal Business Development Manager of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Martin Beeby
Principal Developer Advocate of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
Ed Jackson
Principal, Strategic Accounts of Amazon Web Services
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About Amazon Web Services: Amazon Web Services provides information technology infrastructure services to businesses in the form of web services.
David Johansson
Principal Consultant of Synopsys
David Johansson has worked as a security consultant for several leading IT-security companies and has 10 years of experience in software security. Among other things, he has worked with software development and architecture, web security testing and training developers and testers in security. David lives in London where he works as an Associate Principal Consultant for Synopsys Software Integrity Group (formerly Cigital).
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About Synopsys: Synopsys is the Silicon to Software partner for companies that develop electronic products and software applications.
Marco Casassa Mont
Principal Cyber Security Consultant and Manager of BMT Group
Results-driven Senior Manager, Principal Cyber Consultant and enthusiastic technologist. Over 20 years of experience and leadership in: cyber security; cloud & enterprise solutions and architectures; consultancy and trusted advisory; strategy; research and innovation. Worked in CTO Offices as strategist & innovator. Business development and bids coordination. Team leadership. Lead & delivery of digital transformation and large projects for: cloud and enterprise security, cyber analytics & threat detection, risk analysis, security controls. Sectors: private, public, defence, financial, energy, telecommunication. (ISC)2 CISSP, (ISC)2 CCSP, MSc and BSc Computer Science, IEEE Senior member, CIISec member. • Lead and delivery of digital transformation, architectures, complex/large projects, software solutions, consulting for: enterprise and cloud security (Azure, AWS); SIEM, UEBA; cyber threat detection (advanced use of AI/ML); threat intelligence; EDR; VTM; cyber security operations; risk analysis; situational awareness; IAM; privacy. Proficient in Agile, DevOps methodologies. • Lead of technology strategies and roadmaps for: cloud and enterprise security; cyber security controls; SIEM; big data for security; IAM; Network Traffic Analysis & Management; privacy. • Lead of business development through innovation. Shaped and developed new business opportunities for next generation SIEM, security analytics for threat detection, new security controls for IAM & privacy, risk analysis. • Director of multi-party, interdisciplinary, international R&D security programmes: TSB EnCoRe; EU PRIME; IAM & Federated Identity Management. • Lead of multiple technology transfers into HP/HPE software security products. • Inventor and innovator (HP Labs, HPE CTO Office) with strong background in cyber security, cloud, big data, security analytics, SW architectures, IAM and privacy. Named inventor of 50+ patents, 31 granted patents. • Speaker and presenter at many public events, trade shows, conferences. Cited author of scientific publications. Published 60+ referred articles and papers. • Effective communicator at all levels in large organisations, including acting as trusted advisor. • Proficient in cyber security, cloud security (Azure, AWS, etc.), protective & detective security controls, cyber attacks, kill chain, APT threats, security risk management. • Proficient in cyber security standards / frameworks including ISO 27001, NIST CSF, NIST security controls & risk guidelines, MITRE ATT&CK, NCSC CAF, CSA, OWASP, CIS. • Proficient in security operations and cyber incident response.
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About BMT Group: BMT Group Ltd is an international design, engineering, science, and risk management consultancy firm.
Ollie Gayton
Principal Consultant of Hewlett Packard Enterprise
Ollie leads the Cloud Infrastructure for Azure and Azure Stack practice for HPE Pointnext UK&I. His team is responsible for designing and implementing secure and scalable foundational cloud environments capable of hosting multiple types of workload – IaaS and PaaS – as well as defining and implementing clients’ cloud migration plans.
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About Hewlett Packard Enterprise: Hewlett Packard Enterprise is an industry technology company that enables customers to go further and faster.
Ahmet Taha Sakar
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Ahmet Taha Sakar is an accomplished serial entrepreneur, information technology executive, and full stack developer with over 15 years of experience. He has served as the founding member of several startups. Since 2005, he has worked primarily with e-commerce, software as a service, and mobile products. He is endorsed as an Exceptional Talent in Digital Technology by Tech City UK.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Danilo Sato
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Danilo is a Head of Data & AI Services UK and polyglot Principal Consultant with more than 15 years of experience as an Architect, Data Engineer, Developer, and Agile Coach. He balances strategy with execution, helping clients refine their technology strategy while also adopting practices to reduce the time between having an idea, implementing it, and running it in production using Cloud, DevOps and Continuous Delivery. Danilo is the author of the book “DevOps In Practice: reliable and automated software delivery”, a member of ThoughtWorks’ Office of the CTO, and an experienced international conference speaker.
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About Thoughtworks, Thoughtworks, Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Jim Gumbley
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Jim is a software consultant with a range of experiences in finance, public sector and healthcare. For the last few years he’s been focussing on improving information security outcomes in agile and lean development projects for ThoughtWorks in London, UK.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Andrew Harmel-Law
Technical Principal of Thoughtworks
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
Jim Gumbley
Principal Consultant of Thoughtworks
Jim is a software consultant with a range of experiences in finance, public sector and healthcare. For the last few years he’s been focussing on improving information security outcomes in agile and lean development projects for ThoughtWorks in London, UK.
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About Thoughtworks: Thoughtworks is a community of passionate individuals whose purpose is to revolutionize software design, creation, and delivery.
TP Honey
Principal Engineer of Puppet
TP has worked at Puppet for four years developing their supported modules. This includes working with the Puppet community on FOSS modules for Apache / MySQL / Postgresql / Tomcat … and also on device-based modules like the Cisco / Netscaler / F5 / Netapp modules. Before Puppet he was employed by F5 and BTI Systems. Then he moved on to IBM, working in the security space developing QVM, a networked vulnerability scanner, maintaining the penetration tools.
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About Puppet: Puppet is an information technology automation software company designed for system administrators.
Marco Sperling
Principal of The Boston Consulting Group
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Husnu Kilincoglu
Principal of The Boston Consulting Group
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Jean-Paul Petranca
Principal, Managing Director & Partner of The Boston Consulting Group
Managing Director and Partner at The Boston Consulting Group (BCG) London
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About The Boston Consulting Group: The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm and an advisor on business strategy.
Gautham Gnanajothi
Principal, Energy & Environment | Regional Leader, BP Research of Frost & Sullivan
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About Frost & Sullivan, Frost & Sullivan: Frost and Sullivan is a business growth consultation company focused on increasing brand demand.
Paul Denny-Gouldson
Principal Consultant of Zifo RnD Solutions
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About Zifo RnD Solutions: Zifo Technologies offers research and development, and data management services for enterprise laboratories.
Rob Lamb
Client Principal and CTO of Dell Technologies
Rob Lamb is a Client Principal in Dell Technologies Global Transformation Office and Chief Technology Officer (CTO) for the UK and Ireland. His role is to bring industry expertise and transformation experience, helping customers achieve key business outcomes in times of change. Taking a business centric perspective as a trusted advisor; counseling them on how they can accelerate their IT transformation, while balancing the need for consistent delivery to ensure the desired business outcomes are achieved. Prior to joining Dell EMC Rob was head of infrastructure & CTO in EMEA for a large multi-national, delivering IT services to over 16000 users in 69 locations across 44 countries. He has particular expertise in leadership of major IT transformation programmes, including cloud, data centre consolidation, outsourcing and helping drive the cultural change associated with such major change initiatives. Away from work Rob is a keen yachtsman and is a Royal Yachting Association (RYA) Yachtmaster Instructor and Cruising Instructor Trainer.
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About Dell Technologies: Dell Technologies provides essential infrastructure for organizations to build their digital future.
Daniel Carew
Principal of IQ Capital
Daniel is responsible for deal sourcing and execution, and continuous tracking of the market and relevant trends in deep technology sectors. Daniel’s main areas of interest are within AI, Advanced Engineering (Space, Quantum, Robotics, etc), Industrial Supply Chains (Industry 4.0, IoT, Cyber, etc.), Materials (Chemistry, Semiconductor, Electronics, etc.) and FinTech. He holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Toronto, and a PhD in Chemistry from the University of Bristol where he specialised in Nano- and Materials Chemistry.
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About IQ Capital: IQ Capital is a Cambridge & London -based VC firm investing in early-stage deeptech companies.
Jay Lad
Azure Practice Principal of DXC Technology
Jay Lad is the Practice Principal at DXC Technology and oversees the application modernization advisory and Azure project delivery for enterprise clients. He has over 19 years’ experience in the IT industry in customer strategy transformation and has worked with leading organizations and startups across the SaaS vendor space across EMEA and North America.
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About DXC Technology: DXC Technology is a end-to-end IT services company, helping clients harness the power of innovation to thrive on change.
Stuart Paterson
Principal Software Development Engineer of Chef Software
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About Chef Software: Chef is a continuous automation platform powered by community and open source software engines.
David Barker
Principal Product Manager of Acxiom
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About Acxiom: Acxiom is a SaaS-based company providing enterprise data analytics to fuel data-driven results.
Christoforos Anagnostopoulos
Senior Principal Data Scientist of QuantumBlack
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About Imperial College London, QuantumBlack, Variab.ly: QuantumBlack Visual Analytics Limited provides advanced data analytics services for critical decisions to various companies.
Alina Swietochowska
Principal Technologist, Technical Delivery of QA Ltd
Alina is an authority on UNIX and Linux systems. She is responsible for the development and management of QA’s multi-vendor UNIX and generic Linux training portfolio, writes white papers on the subject and delivers training at all levels. Alina works closely with clients to develop customised UNIX and Linux training solutions for their employees. She also supports organisations that are going through process of consolidation and UNIX/Linux integration. Alina is a Senior Member of the Institute of IT Training. She is also a Member of BCS and a PPL(A) holder. Alina’s professional certifications include Novell CLP 10, CompTIA CTT+, CompTIA Linux +, Sair Linux/GNU CP and LPIC.
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About QA Ltd: QA is the UK’s leading training company, providing the complete range of training, talent development and learning services.
Gary Munro
Principal Consultant of Consult Hyperion
Gary is a globally recognised retail payments expert with specific focus on digital transactions from the point of sale & mobile and services perspective. He leads Consult Hyperion’s POS practice, advising clients such as mastercard, eftpos, Worldpay, American Express and Visa on the commercial and technical requirements for enabling secure digital payment solutions. He often works on the specification, design and implementation of state of the art payments technologies which challenge the current models. Prior to joining Consult Hyperion Gary led Gemalto’s POS Division in the UK and the Republic of Ireland, prior to and during its acquisition by VeriFone. He has 28 years’ experience in electronic payments, with over 13 years’ experience of tailoring point of sale solutions to meet the specific requirements of the larger UK Acquirers, including Worldpay and HSBC Merchant Services.Gary holds a BSc (Hons) in Electrical and Electronic Engineering from the University of Strathclyde.
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About Consult Hyperion: Consult Hyperion is an independent strategic and technical consultancy.
Katarina Wagnerova
Principal Technologist (OCTO) of Creative ITC
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About Advecti, Creative ITC: Creative deliver real-world IT infrastructure solutions for today, to take you where you need to go tomorrow.
Thomas Cannon
Principal Consultant of NCC Group
Thomas Cannon is the former Director of R&D at viaForensics LLC.
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About NCC Group: NCC Group exists to make the world safer and more secure.
David Christiansen
Principal Technologist of Leidos holdings
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About Leidos holdings: Leidos holdings is a provider of scientific, engineering, systems integration and technical services and solutions.
Swen-Helge Huber
Director, Principal Architect IoT of Solace
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About Solace: Solace’s event broker technology helps enterprises become real-time by making business operations and customer interactions event-driven.
Eden Zoller
Principal Analyst of Ovum
Eden Zoller serves as the Principal Analyst at Ovum.
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About Ovum: Ovum provides research, consulting, and analysis services for clients to make business and technology decisions.
Rik Turner
Principal Analyst of Ovum
Rik Turner is a Senior Analyst in Ovum’s IT Security and Technology team, specializing in cybersecurity technology trends, IT security, compliance and call recording, He provides analysis and insight on market evolution and helps end users determine which type of technology and which vendor they should be pursuing. Rik has also worked in Ovum’s Financial Services Technology team with a specialization in capital markets technology.
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About Ovum: Ovum provides research, consulting, and analysis services for clients to make business and technology decisions.
Andy Kellett
Principal Analyst – IT Security of Ovum
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About Ovum: Ovum provides research, consulting, and analysis services for clients to make business and technology decisions.
Andrew Kellett
Principal Analyst – IT Security and Retired IT Analyst of Ovum
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About Ovum: Ovum provides research, consulting, and analysis services for clients to make business and technology decisions.
Ruyman Reyes
Principal Software Engineer of Codeplay Software
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About Codeplay Software: Enabling AI to be Open, Safe and Accessible to All
Balendra Elangco
Principal Consultant of PA Consulting Group
Balendra has been delivering enterprise security architecture and solutions for financial services, telecoms, media and packaged goods that include Financial Extranets and a large Payment Card transmission network. He has experience in designing, implementing and maintaining solutions (technical and governance) that meet compliance requirements such as PCI DSS and ISO 27001. He has also led managed security services teams for multinationals with global footprints. He is an exam developer for CISSP at ISC².
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About PA Consulting Group: PA Consulting Group provides management consulting, IT consulting, and technology and innovation services.
Raj Fowler
Principal DevOps Consultant of DevOpsGroup
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About DevOpsGroup: We make Cloud & DevOps fast, secure and simple, empowering organisations to thrive in the Digital Economy.
Anthony Onumonu
Principal Software Engineer of BBC R&D
Anthony Onumonu is a principal software engineer in BBC R&D.
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About BBC R&D: BBC R&D have been at the forefront of developments in broadcast technology since the founding of public service broadcasting in the UK.
Stoyan Smoukov
Co-Principal Investigator & Board of Directors of Xanofi
Stoyan was co-principal investigator in the development of the Xanofi technology. He holds a PhD in Chemistry from Northwestern University. Stoyan has 10 years of polymer research and engineering experience and the past 6 years spent specifically on nanoscience and nanofiber technology.
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About Queen Mary University of London, Xanofi: Xanofi is a nanotech company specializing in the production of nanofiber applications.
Bonnie Molins
Inclusive Design Principal of Kainos
Bonnie Molins has spent the last 20 years working in the public, charity and commercial sectors to produce inclusive service solutions that provide equal access and better outcomes for diverse users with a range of access needs. She currently leads on inclusive design at leading provider of Digital Services and Platforms Kainos, with a focus on producing whole systems that work for whole populations, streamline service delivery and improve user equality.​ Bonnie believes that inclusive design is good design – because it means everyone can use the thing.
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About Kainos: Kainos provide digital technology solutions that enable companies to work smarter, faster, better.
Nikolas Markou
Principal Engineer of Yodiwo
Lifelong technologist, pragmatic software engineer and machine learning practitioner with a strong mathematical background and a passion for bringing innovative Artificial Intelligence solutions.
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About Yodiwo: Yodiwo is an Internet of Things Technology Enabler with a unique framework for bridging things and applications over the cloud.
Domenico Musto
Principal Engineer of Spektrix
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About Spektrix: Spektrix is cloud based ticketing, marketing and fundraising software, created from scratch especially for the arts in 2007.
James Prain
Principal of Defence Science and Technology Lab(DSTL)
James Prain is a senior expert working at the UK’s leading defence research agency on geospatial capability development. He works closely with the GEOCORE consortium of leading academic and industry partners, led by Envitia, which was awarded a contract by DSTL to deliver applied research to the UK MoD for the rapid development and insertion of geospatial technology. James Prain is also very much involved in the Advanced Geospatial Information and Intelligence Services (AGIS) programme.
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About Defence Science and Technology Lab(DSTL): Defence Science and Technology Laboratory is an executive agency of the Ministry of Defence of the United Kingdom.
Noel Ady
Principal Consultant and Founder of Gravity 9 Solutions
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About Gravity 9 Solutions: Gravity 9 Solutions combines arts and Science to help organizations create digital products.
Joe Kay
Principal Consultant of The Table Group
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About Enswarm, The Table Group: The Table Group provides consulting services for leaders and their executive teams who want to tap into the sustainable competitive.
Jonas Partner
Principal Engineer of Trade Ledger
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About Trade Ledger: Trade Ledger is a Business lending platform.
Lawrence Wintermeyer
Co-Founder & Principal of Elipses
Lawrence is a globally recognized digital financial advocate and has over 25 years’ experience as an advisor, executive and board member working with companies from start-ups to global brands in the financial services, TMT and energy sectors. He is a Co-founder and Principal of Elipses. He is also the former CEO of Innovate Finance, the UK FinTech members association, and a Co-founder of Global Digital Finance, a not-for-profit promoting fair and transparent markets for digital and crypto assets. He is an experienced investment manager in the alternative asset management sector with a focus on systematic investment management, big data analytics and machine learning, and distributed ledger technologies.
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About Elipses, PR Specialist: Elipses digital structured finance specialists, focusing on industry advocacy,
Rodrigo Marcos
Principal consultant of SECFORCE
Rodrigo caught the hacking bug when he was 14 years old, after he hacked into his dad’s computer. After discovering his passion for white-hat hacking he started his career in the offensive security industry, eventually founding SECFORCE where he is currently CEO. SECFORCE provides IT security and penetration testing services to some of the biggest brands and government organisations in the world. During his career, Rodrigo has seen an increasing demand in security services from iGaming companies, which seek to safeguard their IT assets against Internet-borne attacks. With a wide knowledge of the offensive security arena and with a vast experience in online services, Rodrigo has an unparalleled understanding of current and future cyber-threats affecting iGaming businesses. Having published a number of books, articles and tools in the topic of penetration testing and IT security, Rodrigo is a sought after speaker who has participated in conferences and seminars all around the world.
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About SECFORCE: SECFORCE are vendor independent penetration testing, security specialists providing effective business risk intelligence, security guidance.
Kelly Kehn
Founder & Principal Consultant of Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.
Kelly Kehn has been in iGaming senior management since 2012. She’s led teams and brands through regulatory changes, migrations and rebrands as well as held leadership roles in marketing, operations, management and sales. In 2016 she formed Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd., a consulting firm dedicated to helping companies grow their business and improve corporate governance through recruitment, retention, mentorship and empowerment of women. Her mission is to demonstrate to corporations the invaluable benefit of gender diversity through measurable results and revenue growth.
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About Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.: Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd. is a business consulting firm
Christina Thakor-Rankin
Principal Consultant of Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.
Christina has over 25 years’ experience in the betting, and gambling industry, 15 at director level and above. Starting out in the pre-dotcom era, she has a career spanning land, internet and mobile, covering all aspects of gaming operations, holding senior roles with some of the world’s best known brands (incl. William Hill and Virgin) responsible for managing multiple business disciplines, functions and teams across a range of channels, products and customers, including regulatory compliance and money laundering. REGISTER FOR SiGMA17
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About Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd.: Kelly A. Kehn Consulting Ltd. is a business consulting firm
Andrew Stevens
Principal, Banking and Financial Services of Quadient
With nearly 2 decades of experience at one of the worlds largest banks, Andrew is ideally placed to ensure that Quadient’s product suite continues to evolve to meet the needs of today’s financial institutions. His resume covers all aspects of banking operations and technology with respect to customer communications management and customer experience, and he has built a reputation as someone that can successfully execute complex international transformational projects in these fields. He earned his law degree at Sheffield Hallam University.
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About Quadient: Quadient helps companies deliver meaningful interactions with current and future customers.
Steve Goodman
Principal Technology Strategist of Content and Code
Steve Goodman works as Principal Technology Strategist for Content and Code, spending his time helping people understand how to best utilise Office 365. He enjoys getting hands-on, solving some of the more complex problems associated with migrating to the cloud or to newer versions of Exchange Server. As an eight time Microsoft MVP award recipient, Steve regularly talks at conferences and user groups. He also enjoys recording podcasts and writing articles to share advice.
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About Content and Code: Content and Code solves business challenges with creative IT solutions.
James Peet
Principal Consultant of Amido
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About Amido: Amido is an independent technical consultancy that specializes in implementing cloud-native solutions.
John Devlin
Principal Analyst & Founder of PAID Strategies
Utilizing over fifteen years of commercial and analyst experience, John takes a broad view of how different technologies fit together across multiple segments, understanding and explaining determining factors in market adoption and technology development. As the founder of P.A.ID Strategies John applies his knowledge and expertise to help companies understand their environments, to answer strategic questions and resolve tactical issues. John has authored many reports, white papers and published documents that provide clarity and understanding of complex technological solutions. He has been covering mobile, NFC, smart cards, payments, authentication, identification, contactless, connectivity, M2M/IoT and secure applications for over a decade.
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About PAID Strategies: P.A.ID Strategies has been formed to provide and develop market intelligence.
Stanley Ogbeide
Principal Network Architect of CACI Limited
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About CACI Limited: CACI offer marketing solutions and information systems to a wide range of industries across both private and public sectors.
James Robertson
Principal of The Atlantic Systems Guild
James Robertson is a consultant, teacher, author, project leader whose area of concern is the requirements for products, and the contribution that good requirements make to successful projects. James is a leading proponent of the principle of introducing innovation into the requirements process.His controversial article “Eureka: Why Analysts Should Invent Requirements” in IEEE Software has provoked much discussion and has been widely quoted. Before becoming a systems engineer, James trained as an architect and his experience in that profession provides inspiration for his work on innovation and creativity. He is co-author of Mastering the Requirements Process, Second Editions (Addison-Wesley 2006), Requirements-Led Project Management (Addison-Wesley 2005) and the Volere approach to requirements engineering. He is also a founder of The Atlantic Systems Guild, a think tank known for its innovative systems engineering techniques.
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About The Atlantic Systems Guild: Atlantic Systems Guild practice, teach, and improve the fields of system requirements definition, team leadership, and project management.
Aaron Rendell
Microsoft Cloud Principal Architect of Transparity
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About Transparity: Transparity are a leading Microsoft Gold and Direct CSP Partner delivering business transformation through public, private.
Neil Cullum
Principal Solution Engineer of BMC Software
Neil Cullum is a senior solutions engineer on the Innovation IT team at BMC, where he specializes in Control-M and workload automation in areas such as Hadoop, DevOps, and the cloud. Neil has over 22 years of experience in the IT industry, helping customers through technical and business challenges.
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About BMC Software, BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Jon Hall
Principal Product Manager of BMC Software
Based in the UK, Jon has worked in Service Management for over 20 years, focusing primarily on the development and alignment of tools and practices. He joined BMC in 2008, where he is currently Principal Product Manager for BMC Helix ITSM. A moderniser, user experience devotee, and DevOps advocate, his work on the alignment of DevOps and Service Management has been cited by leading DevOps figures such as Gene Kim. Jon is a contributing author for the new ITIL 4 framework and a regular presenter at conferences spanning ITSM, DevOps and IT Asset Management.
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About BMC Software: BMC Software is a business service management platform offering cloud and IT management solutions for businesses.
Kieran O’Leary
Managing Director and Principal Consultant of Mixed Signal Systems
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About Mixed Signal Systems, Upstart Jobs: Mixed Signal Systems offers product development and consultancy services in the electronics, technology, and semiconductor industries.
Robert Orr
Cyber Security Principal Consultant – CNI of Context Information Security
Rob leads information and cyber security regulation of the UK civil nuclear sector, in order to ensure the safety of the public, the protection and safeguarding of nuclear material, the non-proliferation of enrichment technologies, and the control of sensitive nuclear information. He is responsible for enabling, influencing, assuring and ensuring the transformation of cyber security and information assurance across the UK civil nuclear sector, through effective and efficient regulation. Prior to this appointment, Rob managed cyber security policy, strategy and programme/project assurance for the Nuclear Decommissioning Authority. His background is in intelligence, security and telecommunications management and leadership roles within the MOD. Rob holds degrees in Politics and International Relations (LSE), in Defence Technology (Cranfield), and in Advanced Computer Security & Digital Forensics (Edinburgh Napier).
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About Context Information Security: Context Information Security is a cybersecurity consultancy, specialising in assurance, technical security research.
Paul Gerrard
Founder & Principal of Gerrard Consulting
Paul Gerrard is a Founder and Principal at Gerrard Consulting Limited since September 2006. Paul is a consultant, teacher, author, webmaster, programmer, tester, conference speaker, rowing coach and publisher. Paul has conducted consulting assignments in all aspects of software testing and quality assurance, specialising in test assurance. Paul has presented keynote talks and tutorials at testing conferences across Europe, the USA, Australia, South Africa and occasionally won awards for them. Paul was the founding Chair of the British Computer Society Information Systems Examination Board (BCS ISEB) of the Software Testing certification board. Paul is also the host of the UK Test Management Forum. Paul earned his M.Sc. degree in Concrete Structures from Imperial College London and M.A. in Engineering Science from Pembroke College. Paul wrote “Risk-Based E-Business Testing” with Neil Thompson in 2002 and the “Business Story Pocketbook” with Susan Windsor in 2012. He wrote “The Tester’s Pocketbook” in 2009. Paul won the EuroSTAR European Testing Excellence award in 2011 and The European Software Testing Awards (TESTA) award for Lifetime Achievement in 2013. Paul is the Programme Chair for the EuroSTAR 214 conference in Dublin.
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About Gerrard Consulting: Gerrard Consulting has been delivering testing services since 1992.
Lee Sanderson
Principal Software Craftsperson of Codurance
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About Codurance: Codurance is a software company that offers embedded solutions and software creation.
Edgar Danielyan
Director & Principal Consultant of Danielyan Consulting Ltd
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About Danielyan Consulting Ltd: Security engineering & penetration testing consultancy helping start-ups deliver secure applications
Erkut Evirgen
CEO, Principal Consultant of Wisen
Erkut Evirgen is the founder and principal consultant at Wisen.
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About Wisen: Wisely Crafted Software Solutions
Bruce Hallas
Owner & Principal Consultant of Marmalade Box
Bruce Hallas is an advocate, consultant, trainer and speaker in information security awareness, behaviour and culture (ABC), governance, risk and compliance. He is author of two upcoming books: ‘Re-Thinking the Human Factor’ and ‘Cyber Security ABCs’, commissioned by British Computing Society. He presents the Re-thinking the Human Factor podcast. Bruce’s background is in information security practise. Recently he has helped global organisations design highly effective infosec awareness programmes that demonstratively change behaviour and culture. Bruce is Chairperson of the Corporate Executives Programme’s, Embedding Information Security Awareness into Business Systems working group, Founder of The Analogies Project and of Marmalade Box..
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Kylie Fowler
Principal Consultant of ITAM Intelligence
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About ITAM Intelligence: IT Asset Management Consultancy, specialising in software, hardware and mobile device management.
Ian Dowson
Founder and Principal of William Garrity Associates
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About William Garrity Associates: A focus on project delivery and transaction closure with sustainable results
Ian Dowson
Founder and Principal of William Garrity Associates
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About William Garrity Associates: A focus on project delivery and transaction closure with sustainable results
Matt How
Principal Consultant of Adatis
Matt is a passionate and creative Business Intelligence consultant and international conference speaker. Having spoken at several large conferences across the world he is committed to sharing knowledge and insight to the wider community. In his spare time he is dedicated to writing blogs, researching the latest cloud based tech and attending user groups. All of Matt’s sessions have a strong focus on demos and ensure attendees come away with applicable knowledge and a good place to start their own research.
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About Adatis: Adatis is a specialist Data Analytics Consultancy and trusted Microsoft business intelligence partner.
Matt How
Principal Consultant of Adatis
Matt is a passionate and creative Business Intelligence consultant and international conference speaker. Having spoken at several large conferences across the world he is committed to sharing knowledge and insight to the wider community. In his spare time he is dedicated to writing blogs, researching the latest cloud based tech and attending user groups. All of Matt’s sessions have a strong focus on demos and ensure attendees come away with applicable knowledge and a good place to start their own research.
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About Adatis: Adatis is a specialist Data Analytics Consultancy and trusted Microsoft business intelligence partner.
