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Lifetime Achievement - 2024RSM of the Year - 2023First on the ground outside US, establishing Fortanix as a leading contender in the EMEA region against entrenched competition. Built a strong set of happy customers and a large pipeline across multiple geographies and sectors, enabling and supporting growth of the sales team. Currently focused on expanding the UK&I market and entering emerging markets in EMEA.Fortanix is a data-first multicloud security company with its mission to solve cloud security and privacy. Data is the most precious digital asset of businesses, but this data is spread across clouds, SaaS, applications, databases, and storage systems. Security teams struggle to track, much less secure it. Fortanix empowers customers to secure all this data with a centralized solution. Its pioneering Confidential Computing technology means data remains protected at-rest, in-motion, and in-use, keeping it secure from even the most sophisticated attacks. Fortanix is trusted by dozens of Fortune customers, including PayPal, Adidas, and NEC.Meet the future of security! Learn more at fortanix.com.

Cryptomathic provides secure server solutions for Crypto & Key Management, Authentication & Signing and EMV to businesses across a wide range of industry sectors around the world, including banking, government, technology, manufacturing, cloud and mobile.We have been a leader in crypto since 1986, and are supported by an international team of security experts and world-renowned cryptographers.

Led the Product Management and Technical Services functions for Ultra's Information Assurance product lines (Hardware Security Modules & Secure Communications Solutions) following the consolidation of Ultra Electronics AEP into Ultra Electronics CIS, responsible for product strategy, product marketing, partner relationships, security product certification (CAPS, CPA, FIPS, CC), business development, pre-sales consultancy, professional services, customer training and post-sales technical support.Acted as Head of Sales for 6 months, responsible for leading and managing the global sales and support renewals teams, maintaining the sales pipeline, generating forecasts and management reports, and delivering the required order intake. Individually responsible for a multi-million pound contact with a Fortune 500 financial services company.Represented the interests of Ultra Electronics within the Common Criteria User Forum (CCUF) and the UK Crypto Developers Forum (CDF), the trade body of the UK crypto development industry, participating in various technical working groups. Helped to roll-out ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials within Ultra CIS, and an active member of the ISMS committee.

Member of the Executive Management Team responsible for leading the company's Business Development (strategy, product management, marketing communications & pre-sales) and Technical Services (support, training & professional services) functions within Ultra Electronics AEP (previously known as AEP Networks), covering all product lines (Hardware Security Modules, Secure Communications and Secure Electronic Payments Processing).Acted as Engineering Director for 12 months, responsible for technical strategy and managing the company's Engineering function across four locations and five product lines following the acquisition of Barron McCann Technology & Barron McCann Payments.Acted as Operations Director for 5 months, responsible for managing the company's Operations & IT functions until the transition to Ultra Electronics CIS shared services.

Managed the company’s range of Communication Security products (Datacryptor, SafeDial and Guardisk), targeted at government, defence and large enterprises globally and certified to various standards (CAPS, FIPS, Common Criteria). Worked closely with sales team, customers and other stakeholders. Experience as Product Owner within an agile development team.

Part of the innovative Internet Special Products Group, responsible for secure cloud services for UK public sector clients, including the hugely successful Government Secure Intranet (GSi / xGSi) and Criminal Justice Extranet (CJX), as well as other IP security and hosting services. Worked closely with the Cabinet Office and Police IT Organisation on commercial, contractual and service-related matters, as well as with individual government departments, police forces and other stakeholders.

Founding hardware engineer in the start-up that became Madge Networks, with annual sales growing to $500m. Designed the digital hardware, ASICs and PCBs for many of Madge's industry-leading Token Ring and ATM NICs and LAN hubs/switches (which achieved a reputation for quality and performance that exceeded even IBM's competing products). Managed multi-disciplinary development teams and worked with colleagues from acquired companies to integrate the various product architectures.As Product Marketing Manager, held world-wide responsibility for Madge's LAN switch and network management software businesses with revenues of ~£50m p.a.