Working with the founders to assist in realising product ambitions and enhance market fit.

I’m delighted to be able to provide guidance and support to Michael and the team. Endless energy and ambition in this amazing startup.

Maintaining the vesdir directory for the startup community

Taking a bit of time out to recharge and reflect.

As part of the executive team I am responsible for defining and executing product strategy and creation for the company.

Overseeing the management and enhancement of Threat Intelligence capabilities within Crossword Cybersecurity.

Acquired by Crossword CybersecurityThreat Status is the developer of Trillion™ - a Software As A Service security platform which dynamically locates, triage's and alerts organisations to the presence of stolen and distributed usernames and passwords.

I was responsible for Product Management and Engineering of the Groups Managed Services and developed product lines.

Acquired by NCC GroupAfter the successful sale and integration of EdgeSeven Ltd into the Accumuli Group I assumed responsibility for the groups go to market strategy around products and service offerings, including expanding and enhancing the groups Security Managed Services propositions, as well as developing the groups internal IP and messaging.

Acquired by Accumuli SecuriyI started EdgeSeven in 2011 to execute against the needs of organisations around the world for capabilities & solutions that delivered advanced, high quality security intelligence across complex IT systems. This company gained an immediate reputation and attraction across the industry for its unique ability to deliver high value threat detection systems beyond what even the vendors could achieve. Due to its unique skills, rapid success with many global companies and our uncompromising demand for hiring only the best talent it was acquired by Accumuli Security.

Acquired by Hewlett PackardResponsible for business development within UK Government and Defence.

Promted, demonsted and architected solutions for potential customers extensively throughout Europe and the Middle East. Identified business need and aligned ArcSight technology to strategically (and occasionally tactically) address business requirements. Where requirements were not evident, work with customers to build or strengthen internal justifications, through identifying benefits and cost savings.- Awarded ArcSight Key Player award in 2010- Qualified for Presidents club in 2010

Provided advice and consultancy to Enterprise customers on best approach and practice to enterprise deployments and aligning business functions with SIEM technology. Fundamentally, proivided guidance on stakeholder identification, requirements gathering through to developing the technical solution in line with original business goals.

Research and Development manager responsible for a team delivering state of the art proof of concept and production security solutions.

Security architect on an enterprise infrastructure replacement programme. Areas of focus included hardening, PKI and Smartcard integration, Enterprise AV, and crypto solutions.

I co-founded this startup in 1998 providing IT Hardware, Software and security solutions to Fortune 500 and Government. Company growth exceeded 4m GBP per annum within 3 years.