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2022 Overview

It has been another year of significant progress for Osirium in which we have achieved record levels in bookings and revenue and further grown our customer base while also taking substantial steps to reach cash breakeven and beyond.


The market demand for privileged security continues to strengthen, with businesses recognising privileged security as an essential component of cybersecurity despite turbulent macroeconomic conditions. This is reflected in the healthy levels of product and license expansion from existing customers in 2022, reinforced by the emergence of PPA and PEM as standalone products during the period.

We have started the new year with a refocused sales strategy and a partner first sales approach, through which we expect to see increased interest across a wider range of sectors and geographies. As privileged security continues to rise up the agenda of IT professionals globally, we are excited for the future and the continued growth of the business.

David Guyatt

Stuart McGregor

Chief Executive Officer

2022 Highlights

Operational Highlights

  • Customer base increased by 46%, representing further opportunity for up-selling and cross-selling through the pursuit of the Group’s proven land-and-expand strategy. Over 70% of existing customers increased their range of services or number of licenses from us during the financial year
  • Customer renewal rate continued to be strong at 96% (2021: 95%)
  • Average initial contract value for new customers increased by 93% over the course of the year as the Group focuses on larger and multi-year deals
  • New customers signed across a range of sectors and geographies including notable wins in higher education, healthcare and financial services and the Group’s first contract signed in the US
  • Privileged Process Automation (“PPA”) and Privileged Endpoint Management (“PEM”) now contributing materially to bookings growth alongside Privileged Access Management (“PAM”), with the first standalone deals for both PPA and PEM being signed in the year
  • Continued innovation in the Group’s product suite to ensure Osirium’s products deliver tangible return on investment for customers

Financial highlights

  • Total bookings up 86% at £3.00 million (2021: £1.61 million) reflecting the success of the Group’s continued customer acquisition strategy, alongside larger average contract values
  • Annual Recurring Revenue (“ARR”) for SaaS contracts up 28% to £1.86 million in December 2022 (December 2021 ARR: £1.45 million)
  • Total recognised revenue up 31% at £1.92 million (2021: £1.47 million)
  • Deferred revenue up 66% to £2.72 million (2021 £1.64 million)
  • Operating loss of £3.36 million (2021: £3.23 million)
  • Cash balances and debtors at 31 December 2022 of £1.22 million (31 December 2021: £0.71 million), and cash and debtors at 28 February 2023 of £0.70 million

Post year-end (unaudited)

  • Bookings and pipeline growth momentum continues to date as customer purchasing patterns normalise
  • Maintained customer acquisition into the new year, with continued strong prospects across the Group’s target sectors
  • Market awareness and demand remains strong across the Group’s product suite, including PPA and PEM, reinforced by increasing recommendations for privileged security protection by governing bodies and heightened cybersecurity insurance requirements
  • The Group’s transition to a partner first strategy is enabling swifter pace of customer acquisition and access into new sectors and geographies

Board of Directors

David Guyatt

David Guyatt

Executive Chairman and Co-Founder

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 McGregor

Stuart McGregor

CEO

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 Hutton

Rupert Hutton

Chief Financial Officer

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

Simon Lee

Senior Independent Non-Executive Director

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 Hember

Simon Hember

Independent Non-Executive Director

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.

Management Team

Stuart McGregor

Stuart McGregor

CEO

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 Hutton

Rupert Hutton

Chief Financial Officer

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 Pearce

Kev Pearce

Co-Founder and Tech Services Director

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.

Andy Harris

Andy Harris

Chief Technology Officer

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.

Catherine Jamieson

Catherine Jamieson

Sales and Operations Director

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 Tumelty

Chris Tumelty

Marketing Director

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.

Business Description

The Osirium team have intelligently combined the latest generation of cyber-security and automation technology to create the world’s first, built-for-purpose, privileged account protection and task automation solution for the hybrid-cloud world. Osirium PAM, which has been tried and tested by some of the world’s biggest brands and public sector bodies. Osirium helps organisations drive down business risks, operational costs and meet IT compliance.

Country of incorporation

Osirium Technologies plc (“Osirium” or “the Company”) is incorporated in England and Wales (Registration Number 9854713) on 29th October 2008.

Main country of operation

United Kingdom

Takeover Code

The Company is subject to the UK City Code on Takeovers and Mergers.

Addresses

One Central Square
Cardiff
CF10 1FS
United Kingdom

Theale Court
11-13 High Street
Theale
RG7 5AH
United Kingdom

Business Activity

Osirium’s experienced management team has its roots firmly in IT security, helping thousands of organisations over the past 25 years protect and transform their IT security services, before founding Osirium Ltd in 2008 and establishing its headquarters near Reading, UK.

Osirium Privileged Access Management

Our innovative 2nd generation Privileged Access Management (PAM) solution helps customers prevent targeted cyberattacks from accessing privileged accounts and opening massive security holes in their critical IT infrastructure, leaving them open to malicious attacks and data loss.

Unlike other 1st generation PAM vendors which are complex and expensive to install and maintain, Osirium’s second-generation solutions are simple for customers to deploy and use. Using an ‘Identity In, Role Out’ model we avoid the need for Privileged Accounts to receive passwords, or for passwords to exist on their workstations. How can the cyberattacker steal what’s not there?

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Osirium Privileged Process Automation

In addition, our innovative Privileged Process Automation (PPA) technology provides Robotic Process Automation-like productivity gains to IT. Wrapping privileged operations in automation significantly reduces the cyberattack surface and delivers over 95% time savings in completing Privileged Tasks. For this outstanding innovation Osirium was awarded a Gartner Cool Vendor award.

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Osirium Privileged Endpoint Management

Privileged Endpoint Management (PEM) extends protection of privileged access by letting organisations removed local administrator rights from Windows endpoints without impacting end-user productivity.

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Nominated Advisors

Advisor and Broker

Allenby Capital Limited

5 St Helen’s Place
London
EC3A 6AB

Auditors

PKF Littlejohn LLP

15 Westferry Circus
London
E14 4HD
United Kingdom

Solicitors

Blake Morgan LLP

6 New Street Square
London
EC4A 3DJ
United Kingdom

Public Relations

Alma PR

Alma PR
71-73 Carter Lane
London
EC4V 5EQ
United Kingdom

Registrars

Neville Registrars Ltd

Neville House
18 Laurel Lane
Halesowen
B63 3DA
United Kingdom

Shareholder Information

The below information has been made available pursuant to Aim Rule 26 and was last reviewed on: 5 January 2023.

AIM Securities in Issue, shares not in public hands, significant shareholders and restrictions on transfer

As at 5 January 2023, the following interests of shareholders equal to and in excess of 3%, have been notified to the Company. In accordance with the AIM Rule 26, in so far as the company is aware as at 5 January 2023, the percentage of the Company’s issued share capital that is not in public hands is 21.93%.

The Company currently holds no treasury shares. There are no restrictions on the transfer of ordinary shares. As at 5 January 2023, the company’s issued share capital consists of 122,548,681 ordinary shares with a nominal value of 1 pence each (“Ordinary Shares”), each share having equal voting rights. Therefore the number of Ordinary Shares with voting rights is 122,548,681.

Exchanges or trading platforms that have been applied or agreed to have any of its securities (including its AIM securities) admitted or traded

The securities of Osirium Technologies plc are traded on the AIM market operated by the London Stock Exchange plc. Its shares have not been admitted, nor have any applications been made, for any of its shares to be admitted or traded on any other exchanges or trading platform.

Shareholders

HOLDING

Nicholas Slater

13,550,000 (11.06%)

Herald Investment Management Limited

10,507,079 (8.57%)

David Guyatt (Director)

9,913,109 (8.09%)

Mark Horrocks and Family

6,954,545 (5.67%)

Simon Lee (Director)

1,656,083 (1.35%)

Stuart McGregor (Director)

896,523 (0.73%)

Rupert Hutton (Director)

753,809 (0.62%)

Simon Hember (Director)

103,571 (0.08%)

Reports, Accounts, Circulars, Notices

Corporate Governance Statement

Chairman's Introduction

With my transition to Executive Chairman, one of my key responsibilities is to ensure good corporate governance. That includes the establishment, monitoring, maintenance, and communication of good governance and to make improvements where needed to ensure shareholders' interests are properly managed.
With this goal, the Board has adopted the QCA Corporate Governance Code (2018) and this Corporate Governance Statement sets out and confirms:

  • my responsibility as Chairman to ensure that the Company and its subsidiaries (together the Group) has appropriate corporate governance standards in place and that these requirements are followed and applied within the Group as a whole;

  • how the QCA Code is applied by Osirium and how we believe its application supports the Group’s medium to long-term success;

  • the areas where Osirium’s structures and practices may differ from the expectations set by the Code;

  • any key governance related matters that have occurred during the year, including any significant changes in governance arrangements.

In addition to adoption of the QCA Code, the directors have adopted the Group’s Code on Dealings in Securities for dealings in the shares of the Company by directors and other PDMRs (persons discharging managerial responsibilities) and their respective PCAs (persons closely associated) and other restricted persons, amended post-float to reflect the requirements of the Market Abuse Regulation (Regulation (EU) No 596/2014) with effect from 3 July 2016.

The corporate governance arrangements that the Board has adopted are designed to ensure that the Group delivers long term value to all its stakeholders and that shareholders have the opportunity to express their views and expectations for the Group.

The Board understands that the decisions regarding strategy and risk will impact the corporate culture of the Group and that the tone and culture set by the Board will impact all aspects of the Group as a whole and the way that employees behave.

The importance of sound ethical values and behaviours is crucial to the ability of the Group to successfully achieve its corporate objectives. The Board places great importance on all aspects of corporate life and professionalism and seeks to ensure that this is adopted throughout the Group.

The Board is responsible to shareholders for the proper management of the Company.

The Board comprises 5 directors, three of whom are Executive Directors and two of whom are Non-Executive Directors, reflecting a blend of different experience and backgrounds. The Board considers Simon Lee, and Simon Hember to be independent Non-Executive Directors under the criteria identified in the QCA Code.

The Board meets regularly and is responsible for strategy, performance, approval of any major capital expenditure and the framework of internal controls. To enable the Board to discharge its duties, all directors receive appropriate and timely information. Briefing papers are distributed to all directors in advance of Board meetings. The Board has established Audit and Remuneration Committees with formally delegated duties and responsibilities and with written terms of reference. Each of these Committees meets regularly and at least twice a year.

From time to time, separate committees may be set up by the Board to consider specific issues when the need arises.

Simon Lee

David Guyatt

EXECUTIVE CHAIRMAN and Co-Founder

Corporate Governance Statement

The QCA Code sets out 10 principles which should be applied. These are listed together with a short explanation of how the Group applies each of the principles, in our Corporate Governance Statement which is available as a PDF from the link below.

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Renumeration Committee

The Remuneration Committee has responsibility for reviewing and determining, within agreed terms of reference, the Group’s policy on the remuneration of Senior Executives, Directors and other key employees and specific remuneration packages for Executive Directors, including pension rights and compensation payments.

It is also responsible for making recommendations for grants of options under the New Share Option Scheme. It has met not less than twice a year. The remuneration of Non-Executive Directors is a matter for the Board and no Director may be involved in any discussions as to his or her own remuneration. The Remuneration Committee comprises David Guyatt, Simon Lee and Simon Hember and is chaired by Simon Hember.

Determination of Directors’ and Senior Management’s Salaries. The Remuneration Committee believes that the interests of the executive directors, other Group Company directors, senior management and staff and those of the shareholders and other stakeholders are best aligned by a remuneration policy that provides a base salary together with awards under the Group’s Share Option Scheme and/or the award of bonuses paid for through the issue of shares.

The Remuneration Committee reviews and determines annually directors’ and senior management’s salaries in relation to the tasks and responsibilities involved and the level of comparable salaries in the market place. In particular, the Committee seeks to ensure that salaries are competitive. In its final determination of salaries, the Committee’s conclusions are set within what is affordable.

A copy of the Renumeration Committee Terms of Reference is available on the link below.

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Audit Committee

The duties of the Audit Committee are to consider the appointment, re-appointment and terms of engagement of, and keep under review the relationship with, the Group’s auditors, to review the integrity of the Group’s financial statements, to keep under review the consistency of the Group’s accounting policies and to review the effectiveness and adequacy of the Group’s internal financial controls.

In addition, it has received and reviewed such reports as it from time to time requests from the Group’s management and auditors. The Audit Committee has met at least twice a year and has unrestricted access to the Group’s auditors. The Audit Committee comprises Simon Lee and Simon Hember and has been chaired by Simon Lee.

The directors acknowledge that relevant corporate governance guidelines, including the QCA Code, state that the Audit Committee should not be chaired by the Chairman of the Company.

The directors have considered the membership of the Audit Committee carefully and have concluded that, given the current composition of the Board, Simon is the most appropriate choice to be its Chairman.

The Board regularly reviews the effectiveness of the Audit Committee. Once any further appointments have been made to the Board, the Audit Committee will be reviewed to bring its composition into line with corporate governance best practice guidance.

A copy of the Audit Committee Terms of Reference is available on the link below.

Downloadable

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Osirium Coverage by Allenby Capital

Osirium Technologies plc (AIM: OSI) is a leading UK-based cybersecurity software vendor delivering Privileged Access Management (PAM), Privileged Endpoint Management (PEM) and Osirium Automation solutions that are uniquely simple to deploy and maintain. With privileged credentials involved in over 80% of security breaches, customers rely on Osirium PAM’s innovative technology to secure their critical infrastructure by controlling 3rd party access, protecting against insider threats, and demonstrating rigorous compliance. Osirium Automation delivers time and cost savings by automating complex, multi-system processes securely, allowing them to be delegated to Help Desk engineers or end-users and to free up specialist IT resources. The Osirium PEM solution balances security and productivity by removing risky local administrator rights from users, while at the same time allowing escalated privileges for specific applications. Founded in 2008 and with its headquarters in Reading, UK, the Group was admitted to trading on AIM in April 2016.

CEO David Guyatt interview at Edison
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video | 29 April 2022

Osirium Technologies – executive interview

UK-based Osirium Technologies designs and supplies subscription-based cybersecurity software, specialising in privileged access security. Osirium’s product portfolio includes privileged access management (incorporating privileged access, task, session and behaviour management), secure process automation and privileged endpoint management. In this interview, CEO David Guyatt and CFO Rupert Hutton discuss the company’s FY21 results. They also cover trading year-to-date, progress with selling the wider product suite, and their view on the short- and medium-term outlook for the business.

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Taking on the world of Privileged Access Management

Osirium Technologies PLC (LON:OSI) is a cyber security company focused particularly on the PAM space – privileged access management.

”It’s a niche area, but still up there at $2.2bln by 2020, so it’s a great opportunity for a company such as us who’ve had a long history and involvement in cyber security over the last nearly 30 years now. We’re well-placed to address that particular market that’s emerging and we have the skills necessary to take on the world really”,

says Osirium CEO David Guyatt.

Proactive website

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The Importance of Privileged Account Security

London AIM listed Osirium is a company that produces ‘product suites’ that, it says, protects critical data from cyber-attacks and ‘internal threats’.

CEO David Guyatt and CTO Andy Harris explained a bit more about what the company does and say that, while consumers ultimately benefit from the work that Osirium, and others in the sector do, it goes largely unnoticed. But to the corporations and organisations that it works with, the relationship is key to protect them from a barrage of threats that are designed to search out online frailties.

It is not likely that the threat to our online security is going to ease. Indeed, there appear to be more and more attempts by illegal organisations, based in places that are difficult to locate, that can be paid a lot of money to breach online security.

As companies like Osirium come up with solutions to current online threats, criminals use increasingly sophisticated techniques to breach the protections put in place.

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