About our team
CybSafe is designed and developed by a diverse team. Our team includes cyber security specialists, behavioural scientists, data scientists, software engineers and other dedicated professionals. Many have backgrounds in the UK government defence and security sector, academia and industry.
All are passionate about making a safer and better digital world for all people.
Meet the leadership team
About Oz
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.
About Sean
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.
About Jonathan
Jonathan is CybSafe’s Chief Technology Officer. He leads the development of the CybSafe Platform. He has extensive enterprise experience that includes working with HM Government Digital Services, where he led on several innovative projects for the Home Office.
Jonathan’s team ensures that CybSafe is incredible, scales to match fast-growing customer demand and continues to be an industry-leading solution.
About Charles
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.
About Mike
Mike leads the revenue team within CybSafe. His team is focused on customer experience, demand, acquisition and growth. With an acute focus on helping security professionals and organisations demonstrably reduce human cyber risk through the application of behavioural and data science.
He has more than 2 decades of operations, customer success, sales, sales operations, and leadership experience.
About Omar
Dr Omar Kamal is an executive advisor with over 25 years of experience in the financial services industry. Dr Kamal is particularly active in London’s VC ecosystem having strategic access to incumbents, innovators and influencers.
Dr Kamal has held various global senior executive roles; including the co-group chief of executive officers for a prominent family office based in Geneva. Subsequently, Dr Kamal became one of the initial founders and the CIO of a listed regional bank in the Middle East, prior to moving onto EY as a Partner in charge of Islamic Finance Global Advisory business.
Dr Kamal is currently serving on the boards of a number of listed and unlisted companies amongst others; Tharisa mining (FTSE listed), Cambridge Scientific Innovation, CybSafe and Arab Bank Switzerland, in which he Chairs the Fintech Committee.
His impressive portfolio of deals includes Cambridge Scientific Innovation, ThreadsStyling, Onfido, Pirate Studios, Pockit, SeeQuestor, CybSafe, Floranow, Arzooo, IrisGuard and Crowdemotion.
Dr Kamal holds a Ph.D. in Management from Coventry University in collaboration with the Harvard Islamic Finance Program at Harvard University. He is also the Chapter Membership Chair of London Star, Young President Organization Chapter.
About Michael
Michael is the CEO of Adviser Services Holdings Limited and Regulatory Finance Solutions, and a non-executive director at Essentia (which recruits senior consultants in financial services) and Lyncombe (a financial adviser network).
Michael was previously the Chief Risk Officer and director at Sesame Bankhall which provided services for in excess of 10,000 financial advisers. He has a degree in business studies, an MBA, and is a member of the Chartered Building Societies Institute.
He has a keen interest in the application of blockchain technology, and in his spare time is an enthusiastic golfer and keeps a herd of alpacas.
About Janet
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).
About Andreas
Andreas Wuchner is a recognised senior leader with extensive international experience.
With more than 25 years of experience and knowledge of all aspects of information security, IT-security and information risk management, Andreas has worked with partners all over the world. He focuses on highly regulated environments, such as life science and financial services.
Before joining Credit Suisse as Managing Director, Andreas worked for Hewlett Packard / HPE / DXC as their Security CTO. His extensive experience includes stops as CIO and CISO for UBS and running Security Operations for Deutsche Bank. Andreas started his professional career in the life science world, managing security and compliance at Novartis Pharmaceuticals.
About John
John Scott heads the Security Education programme for the Bank of England, delivering a series of events and communications to all staff designed to raise awareness of the issues around physical, personnel and information security, and to encourage behavioural and ultimately cultural change.
Prior to his work at the Bank, John was an IT trainer in Further and Higher Education for 20 years giving him a strongly honed sympathy for the frustrations many people feel when faced with new technology. John is passionate about communicating the why and giving easily actionable advice, believing that most people want to be more secure, they’re just not necessarily sure how to become so.
About John
Dr. John I. Meakin is an information and systems security specialist with 30 years experience. He retired as the Chief Security & Risk Officer at Burberry in 2017. He has since advised various businesses on cyber risk, including acting as interim Chief Information Security Officer at GlaxoSmithKline and CISO at Equiniti plc.
Prior to Burberry, Dr. Meakin was Chief Security Officer for the luxury goods conglomerate Richemont International SA in Geneva. There, he oversaw physical, information and cyber security.
Previously, Dr. Meakin has built and led security functions in the Royal Bank of Scotland, Dresdner Bank and Standard Chartered Bank. He has also been Chief Information Security Officer of BP and Reuters.
Dr. Meakin has a Ph.D. in experimental solid-state physics from Cambridge University. When not fighting the good fight for better cyber security he plays five-a-side footie, classical music and jazz.
About Emma
Dr. Emma Williams is a Chartered Scientist, Chartered Psychologist and Associate Fellow of the British Psychological Society. She has particular expertise in the area of online behaviour and human aspects of cyber security and cyber crime, using a range of research methods to investigate these areas.
About Adam
Prof. Adam Joinson conducts inter-disciplinary research on the interaction between human behaviour and technology, he is programme lead for the national Centre for Research and Evidence on Security Threats, as well as, running funded projects on individual susceptibility to malevolent influence techniques (e.g. phishing), communication accommodation, and behaviour change and technology.
About Lynne
Prof. Lynne Coventry is the Director of PaCT (Psychology and Communication Technology) at Northumbria University. She is an applied researcher who is keen to explore new ways of integrating psychology into design and technology development processes.
About Shane
Prof. Shane Johnson is the Director of the Dawes Centre for Future Crime at UCL. He has worked within the fields of criminology and forensic psychology for two decades, and his research has explored how methods from other disciplines can inform understanding of crime and security issues.
About Emily
Dr. Emily Collins is a behavioural scientist in the Applied Digital Behaviour Lab at the University of Bath. With a background in Psychology and Human Computer Interaction, Emily specialises in cross-disciplinary research focusing on how technology can support and benefit users, especially in relation to cyber security behaviours.
About Jason
Dr. Jason Nurse is an Asst. Professor in Cyber Security at the University of Kent. He is also a Visiting Academic at the University of Oxford and a Visiting Fellow in Defence and Security at Cranfield University. His research investigates the human and psychological aspects of cyber security, privacy and trust.
About Joe
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.
About John
John Blythe is Head of Behavioural Science at CybSafe and a Chartered Psychologist with the British Psychological Society. He has a PhD in psychology and over eight years’ experience in researching the connections between people and cyber security.
John is passionate about helping people use technology in the most effective, safe and productive way they can.
About Veronika
Veronika is a visual alchemist and a UX/UI designer. She is particularly interested in the evolving role of design and the ways design and technology can help to address human problems.
She worked with a diverse range of digital and fintech startups, delivering branding and design solutions. Now she leads our Creative and Design team and is responsible for the design, visual alchemy, and design-infused culture at CybSafe.
When not working on CybSafe Veronika creates interactive bilingual books for multicultural children.
About James
James connects our technology with the community it’s built to serve. His background includes working with companies such as Deloitte and Intuition, and he has extensive experience helping organisations to deliver education and behaviour change programmes.
James leads enterprise business development, and is part of a growth team focused on understanding the nuance and complexity of the challenges our customers face, ensuring CybSafe can continue to develop software that solves real problems and add value.
James loves what he does.
About Akshay
Akshay is a product enthusiast with a background in technology who currently leads the product management division at Cybsafe. He has started out in software development, but has quickly transition into product management working and consulting with start-up, scale-up and a venture capital firm. Possess experience running his own start-up in e-commerce and fintech sector. Akshay is keen to understand customers pain points constantly iterating to provide a seamless, engaging and meaningful platform.
Passionate traveller, and longing to get back into playing tennis whenever the British weather permits.
About Sam
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.
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