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The Board of Directors is led by David Guyatt, co-founder of Osirium, who has over 30 years’ experience in turning next generation IT products into successful technology businesses. He is a recognised pioneer in establishing the content security software market, being a co-founder and CEO of the Content Technologies group, which created MIMEsweeper and became the recognised world leader in content security solutions, with a 40 per cent global market share, and was sold for $1Bn within 5 years, the largest European cyber security acquisition at the time.

Previously, David was Sales & Marketing Director at Integralis from 1990 to 1996, as it established itself as Europe’s leading IT security integrator - now part of the NTT group.

Stuart has over 20 years in the IT industry with a breadth of experience in leading direct and channel sales teams of SaaS and on premise solutions into mid-market and enterprises across EMEA. Most recently he was Sales Director for Privileged Access Management vendor, Bomgar, where he established an EMEA operation and led the UK and Northern Europe sales teams. Stuart saw local revenues grow by over 600% and sales operations created in UK, Netherlands, Germany and France.

Stuart was also a member of Bomgar ’s Global Leadership team and managed the integration of sales operations of the acquired Lieberman, Avecto and BeyondTrust businesses. Stuart has also held successful sales and consulting management positions at EMC, UK start-up software company Thunderhead, BroadVision and Oracle.

Rupert’s most recent deal was while he was working at Artilium Plc and was instrumental in the sale to NYSE listed Pareteum for $104.7 million (or £78.0 million). Rupert previously served for 12 years as Finance Director of AIM-quoted Atlantic Global PLC, a cloud-based project portfolio management software company, before being sold in February 2012 to KeyedIn Solutions, an international, US private equity backed software business based in Bloomington, Minnesota. Rupert’s early career was served as Group Finance Director of the Milton Keynes and North Bucks Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise. Rupert trained with Grant Thornton and has an AMBA accredited Masters in Business Administration and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Simon Lee is an International Advisor to Fairfax Financial where he sits on the Boards of Brit Syndicates Ltd and Fairfax International (Barbados) Ltd. He is also on the Advisory Boards of Sherpa Technology and Perfect Cellar, a Non-executive Director of Atlas Mara Bank and President of Hospice in the Weald. Until December 2013, Simon was Group Chief Executive of RSA Insurance Group PLC, a FTSE 100 company, operating at the time in 32 countries, employing around 23,000 people, writing c. £9 billion p.a. in premiums with assets of c. £21 billion. Previously, Simon spent 17 years with NatWest Group, working in a variety of roles including Chief Executive NatWest Offshore, Head of US Retail Banking, CEO NatWest Mortgage Corporation (US) and Director of Global Wholesale Markets.

Simon is Founder and Managing Director of Acumin Consulting. Established in 1998, Acumin is a leading specialist for cybersecurity and information risk management recruitment and executive search operating throughout Europe and the US. Acumin has established relationships with end user organisations, system integrators, consultancies and vendors across the security industry. Simon has expertise consulting around mergers and acquisitions, facilitating European market entry for high growth companies and working closely with industry leaders and venture capital to create new ventures and business development networks globally. Simon is also Co-Founder and Director of RANT Events, the leading community of senior information security professionals who work within end-user organisations and a Director of Red Snapper Recruitment, which merged with Acumin in July 2015.

Stuart has over 20 years in the IT industry with a breadth of experience in leading direct and channel sales teams of SaaS and on premise solutions into mid-market and enterprises across EMEA. Most recently he was Sales Director for Privileged Access Management vendor, Bomgar, where he established an EMEA operation and led the UK and Northern Europe sales teams. Stuart saw local revenues grow by over 600% and sales operations created in UK, Netherlands, Germany and France.

Stuart was also a member of Bomgar ’s Global Leadership team and managed the integration of sales operations of the acquired Lieberman, Avecto and BeyondTrust businesses. Stuart has also held successful sales and consulting management positions at EMC, UK start-up software company Thunderhead, BroadVision and Oracle.

Rupert’s most recent deal was while he was working at Artilium Plc and was instrumental in the sale to NYSE listed Pareteum for $104.7 million (or £78.0 million). Rupert previously served for 12 years as Finance Director of AIM-quoted Atlantic Global PLC, a cloud-based project portfolio management software company, before being sold in February 2012 to KeyedIn Solutions, an international, US private equity backed software business based in Bloomington, Minnesota. Rupert’s early career was served as Group Finance Director of the Milton Keynes and North Bucks Chamber of Commerce Training and Enterprise. Rupert trained with Grant Thornton and has an AMBA accredited Masters in Business Administration and is a fellow of the Association of Chartered Certified Accountants.

Kev, who co-founded Osirium with David Guyatt, has over 20 years’ experience in the planning, deployment and management of corporate IT infrastructure and security projects. Kev was previously the Head of Consulting at Integralis, Europe’s largest Security Solution Provider, which he joined in 1996. Kev has a BEng (Hons) degree in Microelectronic Engineering from Brunel University in 1997 and is also a Chartered Engineer (CEng), a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and holds many vendor specific certifications.

In a long and distinguished career, including being Technical Director at Integralis, Andy has invented many leading-edge technologies including IP Network Translation Gateway, Print Symbiont Technologies for LANbased printers and Disaster Master, a technique of continuously updating a backup site with mirrored data. As one of the Co-Founders and CTO of MIMEsweeper, Andy was the creator of the world’s first content security solution which became the default product in its space. Andy went on to start WebBrick Systems which was one of the pioneering Home Automation technologies, also a forerunner to what we know as IOT devices today. As Engineering Director, Andy has created and patented several core components in the Osirium product family.

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With over 25 years of experience growing start-up businesses, Catherine’s skill set is perfectly suited to driving Osirium in both sales and operational roles. Starting with Integralis in 1988, she joined the start-up team and quickly adopted a sales and customer services role which ended up being a key factor in the growth of the business.

Moving to more senior sales roles in the early 90’s, she established the City Business Unit at Integralis, before accepting the Sales Manager role when the MIMEsweeper solution was launched in 1995.

In 1997, Catherine became the SVP Europe at MIMEsweeper which, under her leadership from 1997-2000, grew the European business from $3million to over $15 million in three years, consistently achieving revenue growth of over 100% p.a. with over 50 channel partners in 12 countries. The MIMEsweeper business was sold for $1Bn in 2000.

She has since been involved with a few smaller start-up organizations, before joining Osirium in 2010, where she has been responsible for the acquisition of early adopter customers and providing operations support to the business.

Chris has 20 years’ of experience in demand generation and marketing leadership across various industry sectors. At Osirium, he leads the marketing team, focusing on demand generation and product marketing; as well as developing the Osirium brand and market presence. Before Osirium, Chris spent 8 years helping IT organisations by transforming their prospect engagement with companies including Kaspersky, Netgear and QNAP.