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Karan is a highly regarded finance technologist, bringing a unique perspective and real-life learnings from both financial institutions and start-up trenches. He is a multi-disciplinary CTO with expertise in delivering products to market, strategy, building complex trading applications, developing and leading high performing teams.

He previously launched and successfully exited two businesses, a B2B RegTech and an Agile Delivery Consultancy with a customer base from ASX50. With an in-depth understanding of the finance and tech ecosystem in the UK, US and Australia, Karan is an advisor to trade associations and young businesses. Karan also advises various regulatory WGs and Think Tanks in the domains of Digital Transformation, Cybersecurity, Fintech Partnerships (Sandboxes, toolkits and Synthetic data) and Data (AI and Data sharing).

Ashish is the Managing Principal leading the APJ region for Verizon’s Threat Research Advisory Center (VTRAC). Previously he was responsible for the business and portfolio management of Verizon’s professional services in APJ region. Ashish has a long history of serving high profile clients across multiple business verticals, assisting them with their cybersecurity strategy, governance and risk management needs.

Professor of Software Systems engineering at University College London (UCL)

Anthony is Professor of Software Systems engineering at University College London (UCL) and HM Government Chief Scientific Adviser for National Security. His scientific work is in the broad area of software development tools and processes. Before being appointed to his current role, he was the Head of UCL Computer Science and then Dean of the UCL Faculty of Engineering Sciences. He has served on the editorial boards of ACM Transactions on Software Engineering and Methodology, IEEE Transactions on Software Engineering, as a Member of Council of the UK Engineering and Physical Sciences Research Council and was a Founder Trustee of the Alan Turing Institute. He is active as an entrepreneur and is the founder of several start-ups.

Anthony is a Fellow of the Royal Academy of Engineering (FREng). He is also an elected Member of Academia Europaea and a Fellow of the City and Guilds of London Institute. He was appointed Commander of the Order of the British Empire (CBE) in the 2016 Birthday Honours for services to computer science and engineering.

Partner at DBO Partners

Brian leads the global security practice for DBO partners, a leading boutique investment bank. Prior to DBO, Brian served as a vice president at Forcepoint, which he joined following the acquisition of RedOwl, a security analytics firm. At RedOwl, Brian served as the COO and a member of the Board of Directors where he managed day-to-day operations, led all go-to-market activities, and drove the strategic direction of the business. During his time at RedOwl, Brian raised more than $30M in venture capital, led their expansion into the UK, and ultimately led the acquisition process which resulted in a sale to Raytheon/Forcepoint.

Prior to RedOwl, Brian was a partner of the Chertoff Group where he led their global advisory business and established and built out their San Francisco office. Prior to his time at the Chertoff Group, Brian led a $100M business development and strategy team for Lockheed Martin. Brian also served as a senior official at the Department of Homeland Security, where he concluded his tenure as Chief of Staff to the Deputy Secretary. Other notable positions include serving as the Chief of Staff in the Office of Policy; and serving as the Congressionally mandated Director of Cargo, Maritime, and Trade Security policy. Brian also served as a Professional Staff Member in both the United States Senate and United States House of Representatives as well as an Associate at Booz Allen Hamilton.

Brian currently serves as Senior Associate with the Center for Strategic and International Studies (CSIS), where he was a member of the Commission of Cybersecurity for the 45th President. Brian is a frequent speaker on cyber issues including regular appearances on Bloomberg Technology.

Managing Director at Seedcamp

Carlos Espinal is the Managing Partner at Seedcamp. Carlos works closely with companies on everything from settling founder disputes to setting fundraising milestones. He is a published author, and wrote a book called The Fundraising Fieldguide to help answer many of a startups’ questions around the fundraising process.

Before joining Seedcamp in 2010, Carlos worked as an Associate at Doughty Hanson Technology Ventures, as an Engineer for the Advanced Communications Technologies group of The New York Stock Exchange (SIAC), and as a consultant, at PKI Developer, Cybertrust/Baltimore Technologies. Carlos has a passion for tech and jumping into the deep end with new ideas and products. Through Seedcamp, Carlos has invested in multiple CyLon alumni companies.

CISO at Nominet UK

Cath Goulding is CISO at Nominet UK and Board member of the Women’s Security Society. Cath Goulding has over 15 years experience in the cyber security profession having worked for both UK Government and the private sector. A thought leader in her field, she frequently speaks at security and internet conferences and has provided articles and comments for multiple publications. She also won Women in IT Security Champion of the Year in 2015.

Partner at Seedplus

Chirayu is an experienced technology executive, working on IOT and mobile payments platforms at Google, Mountain View for the last five years. He headed business development for the smart router designed by Google, and before that lead business development for the NFC mobile wallet ecosystem back in 2012 with Google Wallet/Android Pay.

Prior to Google, he started Verizon Wireless’ corporate development presence in Asia Pacific and India and was one of the first few people on Softcard (JV between Verizon, T-Mobile and AT&T). Between large company stints, he has also tried his hand at founding a startup, which went on to raise a few million dollars in venture funding. Chirayu has been an advisor to Jungle ventures since its inception in 2012.

Director of Product Innovation at IAG Firemark Labs

Claudio is the Entrepreneur in Residence at CyLon Singapore and also Director of Product Innovation at IAG’s Firemark Labs. Claudio has led technology teams for over 20 years, in both startups and the Fortune 50. Comfortable in both hackathons and boardrooms, Claudio has advised private equity firms on technology strategy for portfolio companies and prospective deals, and still codes on occasion. Claudio received a Global Executive MBA from INSEAD Singapore in 2016.

Head of Internal Information Security at PwC Singapore

Emilie started her cyber security career within the financial industry focusing on application security and incident response. In 2014, she joined PwC to work on their infosec transformation program, undertaking a BISO role in PwC London. She has now joined PwC Singapore, heading their internal cyber security team.

Global Head of Sales, Cloud & Security at Vodafone Enterprise

Maureen leads Vodafone’s global enterprise security and cloud sales team. Maureen has over 18 years of cybersecurity leadership experience, helping enterprise clients in a wide variety of global industries including finance, utilities, retail and manufacturing sectors. She has actively worked with organizations to help build their cybersecurity teams, understand the threat landscape and address the risks to their business. Maureen is an active participant in industry consortia focusing on driving STEM programs and increasing the number of people with hands-on practical cyber skills.

In addition to her cyber leadership, Maureen and her team of cloud specialists are actively involved in digital transformation projects to evolve legacy systems and embrace new digital ways of working with a focus on “disruptive” ideas. Prior to joining Vodafone, Maureen was Chief Operating Officer for Verizon’s global Managed Security Services program.

Maureen holds an engineering degree from the University of Michigan, is a Lean Six Sigma Black Belt, and holds several cybersecurity certifications including a Certified Information Security Systems Professional and GIAC Security Leadership Certification.

Managing Partner of Cocoon Capital

Since becoming a full time angel investor in 2000, through Avonmore Developments, which he co-founded with his brother, Michael has invested in over 25 companies in the UK and achieved 9 successful exits. He has also invested in 8 early stage companies in Southeast Asia including Anchanto, PlusMargin and Nugit under the name of Cub Capital since 2013. Most recently, Michael has co-founded Cocoon Capital, an early stage fund, which is looking to invest in companies throughout SE Asia. To date Cocoon has invested in 10 companies including Hapz, SensorFlow, See-Mode and Hiip. As is his want the structure of Cocoon is very different than your typical fund, as his entrepreneurial spirit always wants him to challenge the status quo.

During Michael’s career he’s been named ‘UK Angel Investor of the Year 2015’ by the UK Business Angel Association, selected as one of the ‘Maserati 100’ and voted by AngelsNews into the list of ‘Business Angels You Should Know’. These accolades were not attributed to Michael only in recognition of his successful investments, but for the relentless support he gives to the founding and management teams of the companies he invests in as well as his generous contributions over the years towards building the startup and investor ecosystem in the UK.

Head of Strategy for SE Asia at CISCO Systems

Nishant Dave is the Head of Strategy for Cisco Systems covering the SE Asia region. Nishant has worked with Cisco Systems in the Asia Pacific region for over a decade covering various aspects of technology strategy including but not limited to new business development, GTM strategy, business operations and analytics. Before joining Cisco, Nishant worked as an industry analyst covering the IT industry with firms such as IDC and AMI Partners. Prior to that, he drove marketing & business development for Siemens in the area of industrial automation. Nishant has a Masters in Business Management from the Asian Institute of Management and a Bachelor’s degree in Engineering from the University of Mumbai.

CTO of NCC Group

Ollie Whitehouse is Chief Technical Officer at NCC Group and is responsible for the Group’s technical strategy, research and development. Over the past 20 years, Ollie has worked in a variety of cyber security consultancy, applied research and management roles, including being responsible for security research & assessment at RIM (BlackBerry) in Europe. Ollie is a research and science advisor to UK Government on cyber security.

Head of Innovation & Partnerships at Singtel Innov8

With over 30 years experience in the technology industry, Paul still continues to be amazed and excited by the latest developments and opportunities. Paul has driven 6 successful exits during his career and has focused on successfully turning around and building early-stage technology businesses to the point of global market success, leading to over $4.7B in increased shareholder value gained through profitable exits via IPO and/or acquisition.

The most recent of these being five across the mobile technology sectors with Validsoft, restructured to become a market leader in white label User Authentication and Voice Biometric technology in preparation for divestment by it’s NYSE listed parent company; SpinVox, a leading developer of “Speech to Text” technology, was acquired by Nuance for $103M; ViAir, the first company to develop real time mobile access to Exchange & Notes, was sold to Visto for $64M; Paragon software, the investors of SyncML, acquired by Phone.com for $515M & Mobile Systems International, the leading designer of mobile networks, sold to Marconi for $618M. Currently based in Singapore, Paul has lived and worked in various countries across Europe, Asia and the Americas.

Partner at PreHype

Richard is a partner at PreHype where they help established companies and VCs facilitate spinouts, incubation and venture partnerships. They run programs for companies like LEGO, Newscorp, Coca-Cola, O’Reilly, and LGE where they identify business opportunities and incubate these via their lean incubation process. Previously, Richard was the Director of New Ventures and Innovation at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence for over four years.

CEO of Nettitude

Rowland is founder and CEO of Nettitude. Rowland founded Nettitude in 2003 with a vision for providing high quality cyber security and risk management consultancy services for organisations across the globe. Rowland has developed an award winning company that delivers high quality consultancy services and is at the cutting edge of the security industry. Rowland is the Director responsible for International Development at CREST, the not for profit organisation that is driving professionalisation and maturity in the technical cyber security industry.

Rowland works closely with international governments and regulators to bring about increased levels of capability in the Penetration Testing, Threat Intelligence, Incident Response and Security Operations Centre markets. Rowland has been integral in creating CREST chapters in the USA, Singapore and Hong Kong and has worked closely with government and financial services regulators to achieve these objectives.

Director at CrowdStrike & Network Leader at Village Global

Vincenzo is an entrepreneur and investor focused on cybersecurity. He currently serves as a Director at CrowdStrike following the sale of his company Iperlane in 2017. Vincenzo is also a Network Leader at Village Global, a seed stage VC fund based in Silicon Valley. In addition, Vincenzo is an Associate Researcher at the MIT Media Lab and serves as a committee member on the Black Hat Conference board. Vincenzo co-authored the “iOS Hacker’s Handbook” (Wiley, 2012) and was part of the winning teams that attacked Firefox, iOS and Blackberry OS at Pwn2Own between 2010-2012.