CybSafe Team

Oz leads CybSafe. He has been the driving force behind CybSafe – the concept, vision and platform.

Oz is a former Lieutenant Colonel in the British Army and UK Special Forces. He has a successful track record of developing strategy, driving innovation and leading implementation in both the public and private sectors. 

His background gives him a unique insight into the socio-technical realities of cyber security and the sensitivities around changing human behaviour. 

Oz was awarded an MBE for personal leadership in the most complex and sensitive of conflict environments.

Sean runs the business of the business.

He is a proven entrepreneur that has successfully planned and engineered business and operating models for fast growing services businesses.

Six years ago he started TorchlightGroup, a counter threat business focusing on the integration of specialist intelligence, cyber, defence, security and justice capabilities for government and commercial clients. His contribution saw Torchlight grow to a Times Fast Track 100 and FT 1000 company during this time.

Sean remains a non-executive member of the TorchlightGroup Board.

Janet helps us keep the bigger picture on Cyber Security. in perspective.

Janet, a former Chief Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police Service, held the National Law Enforcement Portfolio for Cyber-Crime 2008 – 2012. She developed the first police E-Crime Unit and was the Law Enforcement Lead engaged in writing the first UK Cyber Security Strategy in the Cabinet Office.

She was the government Law-Enforcement Lead for Cyber-Crime for the 2012 Olympic Games taking her place at COBR. And in 2013, as a Non-Executive Director of Her Majesty’s Revenue and Customs, she helped develop the organisation’s cyber security strategy.

She is currently the National Security Adviser to the Security Committee of Qatar, where she advises on the development of Qatar’s cyber security capability and response.

Janet works to enhance SME cyber security across the UK through her work as President of the Cross-sector Safety & Security (CSSC) charity. She is also a member of the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).

Charles has served as the Finance Director of various early stage high growth businesses ranging from drones to dietary supplements and FinTech, where he has played a critical role in scaling up, fundraising and strategy.

Charles started his career as an investment banker in New York and later moved to London. He graduated from Virginia Military Institute with a B.A. in International Studies and from Sciences Po with an M.A. in Finance. A Franco-American national, Charles is fluent in English and French.

Mark leads the CybSafe growth function, which includes Sales, Marketing and Customer Success.

Mark has 25 years of sales and marketing experience in the networking, security and SaaS arenas across both the US and EMEA. He has a track record of building, scaling and maintaining high growth teams.

He is passionate about all that he does, and in particular technology and cyber security.
Mark has a particular interest in culture, wine, food and travel, having begun his professional career at Rosemount Estate wines and travelled extensively in Australia, New Zealand and South East Asia. While reading Linguistics and Economics at Surrey University, he also spent time living in Russia.

Away from work he has a love of sport, still playing competitive league cricket in the Surrey Championship and enjoys as many rounds of golf as his work schedule allows.

Jonathan is a software engineer and solutions architect who leads the development of the CybSafe Platform. He has a varied background with experience that includes working with HM Government Digital Services & Logistics, where he ran innovative projects as the Technical Lead for the Home Office. Previous tech start-up experience includes running his own businesses in prop-tech, e-commerce and publishing.

Jonathan works as part of the team ensuring that the CybSafe Unified Cyber Awareness Platform is incredible, scales to match fast-growing customer demand and continues to be an industry leading product.

Outside of Jonathan’s startup and tech interests he enjoys running, cycling and flying drones.

Veronika is a visual alchemist, creative entrepreneur & UX/UI designer. Warwick Taught Masters Scholarship and UK Tier 1 Graduate Entrepreneur Awardee, she worked with many digital and fintech startups delivering best branding and design solutions. She loves working with talented people to design great products and identifying the best ways in which technologies can solve human problems.Now she is responsible for the design and visual alchemy at CybSafe.

When not working on CybSafe Veronika creates interactive bilingual books for multicultural children.

Carla comes from a cognitive science background. With a strong interest in user privacy and organisational preventive behaviour, she brings in an academic and commercial perspective to the behavioural frameworks underpinning CybSafe and the way in which the product is built and delivered. Her previous start up experience, coupled with her passion for helping users adopt safe behaviours online come together nicely and make her a powerful asset to the CybSafe team.

Outside of work, she enjoys outdoor swimming, deep conversations, hydrating salads and comedy shows. (She’s yet to find the love for writing self-descriptions in the 3rd person.)

Dr. Blythe is the Head of Behavioural Science at CybSafe. With a background and PhD in psychology, he specialises in behaviour change and human aspects of cyber security.

John is passionate about helping organisations move towards a people-centric security culture and to develop awareness training that is grounded in behavioural science.

He has an extensive research background and has in the past led on a number of Government and industry funded projects exploring the intersection of behaviour change and cyber security. John has previously worked at the Department for Digital, Culture, Media, and Sport (DCMS), and both the Dawes Centre for Future Crime and the Centre for Behaviour Change at University College London.

Alongside his academic publications, he co-wrote the government reports on “Using behavioural insights to improve the public’s use of cyber security best practices” and more recently, “Secure by Design: Improving the cyber security of consumer Internet of Things” whilst at DCMS.

He collaborates regularly with academics and policy-makers and is a Honorary Research Fellow at the UCL Dawes Centre for Future Crime.

Joe makes cyber things simple.

He is responsible for content development – ensuring the learning process is smooth, informative, and most importantly, enjoyable.

Before joining CybSafe Joe was a specialist detective at the Metropolitan Police Cybercrime Unit where he investigated complex online fraud and cybercrime. He worked closely with industry and government partners to build relationships, identify trends and design out enablers of crime.

Mat is part of the commercial team here at CybSafe and leads on a variety of the commercial and contractual aspects on both the sales and procurement side of the business.

With 20 years experience in the IT Reseller market and having worked for the largest VAR in the UK, Mat is very experienced helping us to optimise contracts and meet growth aspirations.

Outside of work Mat enjoys spending time with friends & family, and tries to get to the gym 5 times per week.

Chris ensures our messages remain both interesting and incomplex.

He enjoys telling stories and making cyber security simple; two talents we put to good use when demonstrating where and how CybSafe adds value.
After proving his worth while working with Britain’s largest magazine and digital publisher, Chris began using his skills to inject life into otherwise uninspiring communications. His career so far has seen him steal market share from established brands and break fundraising records for globally renowned non-profits.

In 2017, Chris became a member of the Professional Copywriters Network.

With almost 10 years of office and events management experience in a number of industries, Dannique is vital to maintaining the CybSafe environment and ensuring that the tribe is able to produce its best work.

Dannique’s experience includes working with smaller companies and start-ups where she helped build solid foundations, enhance productivity amongst staff, managed office relocation projects and operations for international events.

An organiser extraordinaire – as well as ensuring the office environment is fit for purpose, Dannique enjoys planning and coordinating team social events. She’s also brilliantly creative and enjoys making CybSafe guests feel at home when with us.

Zoe is a crucial part of the CybSafe team as she helps manage and coordinate Oz’s business activities and public-facing engagements. With a wealth of Executive Support experience behind her from the last 10 years, Zoe is no stranger to the UK’s Security landscape. Former roles have seen her support the Head of Security for an international multimedia house, and successfully grow and run a PR and communications agency.

Zoe is dedicated to making Oz’s busy schedule run smoothly and optimising it to best support attainment of the CybSafe vision. She is remote based and, amongst other things, supports Oz with diary management, travel, and making sure he remembers family birthdays.

Tristam is responsible for helping new and existing customers identify their business needs and ensuring CybSafe succeeds in delivering on those requirements.

Prior to joining CybSafe, Tristam served for 10 years as a British Army Officer where he gained unique experience leading teams on complex counter-terrorism operations across a number of sensitive conflict environments.

His background gives him unique insight into the realities of information exploitation in the digital age and significant experience in strategic risk mitigation.

Emma is a Marketing Assistant and is part of the Marketing team at CybSafe. She assists with the implementation of the marketing and communications strategy.

Emma completed a 4-year degree in Retail, Marketing and Management at Loughborough University, with a placement year spent in the marketing industry.

In her spare time, Emma likes to fit in as many fitness classes as she can, and enjoys finding the best food markets London has to offer on the weekends.

Ben is a front-end developer with a background in javascript technologies. His role is to collaborate with the designers to turn their incredible designs and prototypes into visual elements that the users can see and interact with. Most of his experience has been in digital transformation within Government where he has worked on many projects within the Home Office and the Ministry of Justice.

Outside of work, he enjoys playing sport such as football and golf. He also enjoys playing video games, eating burritos and drinking cider (sometimes all at the same time!)

Gideon is one of our Channel Account Managers within the Sales and Marketing team. His role keeps him close to our Channel Community by supporting and enabling our all important CybSafe Channel Partners. You will most likely meet him at any number of our events.

Gideon comes from a successful background with 2 large multi-national Channel Vendors.
He is an experienced Channel Account Manager with expertise in supporting channel partners and business planning.

Aside from work, he tries to keep as active as time will allow, be it scuba diving, sailing or snowboarding.

As a Customer Success Manager, Jonny ensures that customers have the best user experience throughout the customer journey, from onboarding through to renewal.

Jonny has extensive experience in B2B Customer Success Management and Customer Support working with major corporate, governmental, retail, and financial institutions in the UK, Europe and Africa. He has a particular interest and specialises in designing programmes of engagement and learning for clients.

With a BA (Hons) in French and German, Jonny is a keen linguist who enjoys sports, travelling live entertainment and film, as well as spending time with friends and family.

Oscar is responsible for helping to write and create the content that makes CybSafe so good. He is a BSc Psychology undergraduate joining the tribe for an industrial placement during his 3rd year. Oscar is passionate about psychology, technology and cyber security, and he has a particular interest in using problem-solving to understand why humans interact with technology in the ways that they do.

Oscar is using his knowledge of psychology and the behavioural sciences to help grow the theoretical underpinning of CybSafe.

Andrea is a Marketing Assistant here at CybSafe. Andrea studied (B.S.c) Psychology at the University of Plymouth, with a year working as a researcher in the department of cognitive sciences at the University of Aveiro, Portugal. Following this, Andrea completed her Masters degree in Cyberpsychology from Nottingham Trent University.

In her spare time, Andrea loves to travel. Before starting university Andrea lived and worked in Australia for a year to gain independence and explore life far away from home. Recently she spent three months travelling around Indonesia and climbed one of their largest Volcanoes, Mt Rinjani. Andrea’s main hobby is playing Lacrosse, which she has previously represented South West England for and is eager to continue this passion in London.

Justin is a crucial part of the creative team and is responsible for assisting with multimedia design and ideation. Having recently graduated from London College of Communications studying BA (Hons) Advertising, he has worked across various agencies in London, Shanghai and Hong Kong to learn the ins and outs of digital design.

Outside of work Justin enjoys music, basketball and is a occasional dabbler in the culinary arts.

Daniel is​ one of the software developers here at CybSafe. He works with the tribe to bring the concepts and ideas to life – delivering secure, brilliant and engaging software in accordance with the CybSafe vision.

He is a BSc Computer Science graduate of Aberystwyth University.​ He has also spent a year working as a developer at IBM.​

Daniel is passionate about problem-solving and enthusiastic about implementing the latest advancements in technology to further the CybSafe dream.

Daryl has over 20+ years experience in CyberSecurity working for a number of start up vendors over this time. Starting in a technical capacity and then moving commercial to help vendors in their journey in to a channel business. Covering international business development across a variety of verticals. Coming from a technical background enables Daryl to help explain business benefit and value from technology.

Aside from work, he tries to keep physically active with running and cycling having completed a few marathons, sportive rides and triathlon over the years.

Sally comes from a successful sales background working with Global Distribution Companies. She is an experienced Channel Account Manager and has worked in Channel for over 7 years.

Aside from work, she spends a lot of time with family and likes to travel, scuba dive and is a member of Women in Business and Networking.

Osman is a software developer here at CybSafe. He is passionate about Data Science and is working to improve CybSafe’s intelligent platform which turns data into information, information into insight and insight into business decisions.

He is a BSc Computer Science graduate of Queen Mary University of London and holds an MSc in Data Science & Machine Learning from University College London.

Outside of work, Osman likes to travel and take photos.

Angie is an experienced leader with a strong customer experience and service operations focus. She has significant experience in service strategy, and change. Her passion is delivering amazing customer experiences using strategies focused on customer feedback and KPIs. Angie is an excellent leader who gets the most out of high performing teams enabling them to have a positive impact on our customers.

Angie’s energy is infectious. You will find her cycling and spinning at speeds that she once thought she couldn’t reach. She loves an explosive workout and aims to inspire people in all walks of life to achieve their personal best in whatever they do.

Sam helps to support and grow the CybSafe community by connecting the various CybSafe teams and working with them to deliver a market-leading product and experience to our clients.

As a Senior Product Specialist, Sam is responsible for helping new and existing customers and partners identify their business needs and ensuring CybSafe succeeds in addressing those requirements.

Before joining CybSafe, Sam was part of the new business team at Mimecast, where he was responsible for acquisition of new clients and overseeing the deployment and configuration of their chosen services.

A linguistics and language expert, Sam has also worked across Central & South America as an English teacher, and has a passion for all things technology and cyber security.

Laura is responsible for helping to write and update the CybSafe content, making sure it is relevant, interesting and beneficial to all. She is a BSc Cyber Security Management undergraduate, joining the tribe for an industrial placement in her third year. The breadth of her course has enabled her to combine a growing knowledge of the potential people risks encountered in cyber space, with a keen interest in understanding the psychology behind people’s interactions with technology.

Laura is passionate about helping people and aims to use this enthusiasm to maintain the quality and focus of the course material.

Sam is responsible for market analysis, research, developing positive client relationships and fueling future CybSafe sales.

Through a family history in cyber security and keen interest in the psychology behind technology use, Sam is keen to provide CybSafe clients with the support and expertise needed to reduce their cyber risk.

Before joining CybSafe, Sam worked in the maritime industry as a yacht skipper and sailing instructor across the UK and Mediterranean. From there he went on to university in Bath, achieving both a degree in Business and Management and undertook research into how and why businesses adopt new technology.

Outside of the office, Sam is a keen guitarist and still enjoys getting some sailing in when he can.

Rob has over 10 years of experience working within the Support, Service Management and Transition functions within Telecoms and IT Managed Services. With a keen eye for detail and by always evaluating the end to end customer experience, Rob thrives on ensuring CybSafe customers can use the platform to drive behaviour change and make better data-driven cyber risk decisions.

Rob is a motoring enthusiast and follows F1 with an unwavering passion. He spends his weekends with his wife and kids and enjoys regular holidays back to his native South Africa.

With 15 years of Customer Success experience in Telecommunications Kay is driven to create a world class experience that surpasses customers expectations. With a real passion to deliver customer satisfaction, Kay truly understands customers needs. She enjoys helping and solving any problem that customers may have with a enthusiastic and friendly approach.

When she isn’t working, Kay enjoys socialising with friends and family.

Jade is the Sales and Marketing Coordinator here at CybSafe. Jade joins the team with a successful background in administration, account, office, team and management support from various sectors. Her experience and skills mean she is perfectly placed to sit at the heart of our growth function supporting both sales and marketing activity.

When Jade is not working, she enjoys travelling around the country, visiting friends and family, going to different shows and concerts as well as planning her dream future – however she spends the majority of her time with her son, going on adventures and helping shape him into – what she hope’s to be – a wonderful young man.