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.

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.

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.

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 and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. With a background and PhD in psychology, he specialises in behaviour change and human aspects of cyber security.

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.

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

Jessie works within the growth team conducting market analysis, responding to those who have made enquiries about CybSafe and continuing to develop existing relationships with clients.

Jessie studied Psychology at University in Sheffield where she developed a keen interest in neuroscience and behavioural change. When not working, Jess enjoys studying foreign languages and becoming engrossed in a great book.

Jess is passionate about mental health and volunteers with mental health organisations as a crisis counsellor.

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.

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.

Juan is a Web developer with more than 10 years of experience. For the last 5 years he has been focusing on Python/Django applications. He likes to get involved in all challenges and be able to contribute to find the best possible solution.

Outside of work, he likes to travel. He is passionate about tennis and football and tries to participate in tournaments whenever he can.

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.

Tibi is a Senior Frontend Developer with 12 years of experience. He started as a PHP developer when initially beginning university but quickly realised he’s more of a visual person and needs to do more than just write code :-). As a result his main focus has shifted to frontend since that point.

Tibi discovered computers at 9 years old. He has since then always known what he wanted to do in life and professionally. It is an obsession.

In his spare time he likes movies, old good music and long road trips — driving calms him and with a good view and good music, it’s all he needs after a long week of work.

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.

Silvian is one of the software engineers here at CybSafe with a passion for information security.

He has a strong focus on backend web app service technologies. He has a wide and varied background with experience including working 5 years for BT, having worked on multiple projects across different fields and lines of business. He has also worked for a smaller company and a startup adopting different programming languages and technology stacks as needed.

Silvian graduated with a BSc in Computer Science and Software Engineering from Maynooth University in Dublin.

Outside of work Silvian’s passion is in martial arts. He also enjoys travelling, going to museums and the cinema.

Sadiq is responsible for helping clients understand the importance of taking a risk-based approach to cyber security, over a compliance-led one.

Prior to joining CybSafe, Sadiq worked as a cyber risk and intelligence professional for leading global risk management firms. He has advised several corporate and private clients on the potential business impact of their cyber security, technology and political risks. He is also regularly invited to speak at the foremost security conferences in West Africa, and he often engages the region’s most senior government officials and business leaders on how to address insecurity.

Sadiq holds an MSc degree in Information Security from Royal Holloway University of London, certified by the UK’s technology intelligence agency, GCHQ. He is a Certified Cyber Risk Management Practitioner and holds a number of other security qualifications.

Alan is part of the behavioural science team here at CybSafe. His role is to use the tools of modern psychological science to recognise and remedy the human factors in cybersecurity. He works on the SPEC project, studying the utility of simulated phishing.

Alan has a master’s degree in Psychological Research from the University of Oxford and a bachelor’s degree in Applied Psychology from the University of Durham. His master’s thesis explored the role of self-disclosure in relationship development, and he is interested to understand the implications of this field for online privacy and cybersecurity.

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.

Jack is a Research Analyst on the Content Development team. He keeps up-to-date with cyber security news and events to help make sure the content on CybSafe’s platform is informative and engaging.

Currently studying at Bournemouth University, Jack has joined the tribe for his third year placement as part of his BSc in Cyber Security Management. He hopes to apply his passion and knowledge of cyber security into his work.

Being from the south coast, Jack has a love of water, enjoying fishing and anything to boat related. He was also part of a combined cadet force for 5 years in which he took part in numerous parades, exercises and competitions.

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.

Celine leads marketing at Cybsafe. She works closely with her team to help CybSafe strategically grow as a business and raise the overall awareness around the Cybsafe brand. 

Celine has over 13 years solid experience in B2B marketing within security and in FinTech where she worked within global teams to raise awareness, raise interest and generate growth. Seeing the results and measuring the success is what makes marketing enjoyable and drives her to push even further year after year. 

Outside work Celine enjoys spending time running and any interior design projects she gets her hands on!

Jake is responsible for ensuring Cybsafe Customers receive the best possible care and get the most out of the platform. He is a BSc Forensic Computing and Security undergraduate, and has joined us as part of a placement programme for his third year. The course has given him a great interest in the Cyber Security industry, especially the social and human behavioural aspect which has led him to joining us.

In his spare time, Jake is a keen musician and spends time composing, mixing and mastering music, and in the past he has sold instrumentals to other musicians around the world. He also enjoys film and media a great deal, and often spends his spare time in the cinema with his partner, or socialising with friends.

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.

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.

Marcia leads the People & Culture function at CybSafe, supporting the team with all people-related matters. She is passionate about improving the experience of all members of the CybSafe team.

With over 20 years’ multi-sector experience, Marcia is an accomplished HR professional who has led teams, managed small and large change programmes as well as worked with operational leads on people strategies to support their areas of the business.

When not at work, Marcia is a long-suffering Arsenal fan, loves sports, holidaying in Barbados and spending time with loved ones and family.