Results of techUK Cyber Resilience Programme elections announced – 2025 – 2027

Saba Ahmed

Managing Director – Accenture Security UKI, Accenture UK

I lead the Managed Security Services consulting practice for Accenture UK with a focus on Detection & Response. I have 19 years of experience in the security industry spanning across geographies delivering security projects in Middle East, Asia and Europe.

For the last 10 years my focus has been on building Security Operations Centres and SIEM transformations for UK clients. More recently I have also been working with technology vendors in this space to define what the next generation of security operations looks like.

Phillip Jones

Head of CyberSecurity Programmes, Airbus Defence & Space UK

Shadi A. Razak

Co-CEO/CTO, Angoka Ltd

Dr Andy Lilly

CTO / Co-Founder, Armour Communications Limited SME

Andy is Director and Co-Founder of Armour Communications with a proven track record of delivering challenging, leading-edge research and development solutions into global markets. Having held leadership positions at multi-national organisations as well as VC-funded start-ups, Andy has a broad defence and cyber experience, from secret mobile comms systems to resilient satellite software, and from military phased array radars to commercial broadband mesh networks and in-home voice and video phones.

Andy is a key contributor to Armour’s work with the NCSC and UK government, as well Armour’s range of overseas customers, for which the company received the Queen’s Award for Export in 2022.

Ravi Boodhram

Senior Manager, Cyber Security & Information Assurance, BAE Systems Digital Intelligence

Ravi Boodhram is Head Consultant for Security Architecture and the Security Architecture & Engineering Capability Lead at BAE Systems Digital Intelligence working with customers to deliver secure and resilient systems.  Ravi’s responsibilities include setting the strategic direction for capability development, providing delivery assurance, developing a community of security architects (including their learning and development) and working with customers to understand their challenges developing solutions to best support them in their missions. 

Ravi is an experienced Security Architecture Consultant with subject matter expertise in cloud security and enterprise risk management.  He works across Government, Critical National Infrastructure and Commercial environments, delivering cyber security at a programme level and designing secure and cyber resilient solutions over the past 16 years.

Ravi is a Chartered Cyber Security Professional (ChCSP), an active contributor to cyber security research projects.

Dr Bernard Parsons

CEO, Becrypt SME

I am the CEO and a co-founder of Becrypt, a UK SME that develops and supplies a range of cyber security software products and services, primarily for critical national infrastructure organisations.

Originally Becrypt’s CTO, and with a career starting in academia, I continue to leverage my background in and passion for technology.

Stuart Lyle

Senior Manager - Security Liaison & Industry Collaboration, BT Group

Alex Woodward

Head of Cyber Security Services, CGI

Alex leads cyber security services for CGI IT in the UK. The group provides a balanced portfolio of services across a broad range of sectors from Defence and Intelligence, Central and Local Government, Energy and Utilities, Financial Services as well as the commercial sector. Engagements include the design and delivery of major transformational programmes, consultative assignments, and the provision of a range of operational security managed services.

Gordon Morrison

Senior Director, Global Defence Policy, Cisco

Majid Ali

Public Sector Strategy, CrowdStrike

Sarah Blundell

Chief Operating Officer, CyberHive

As COO of a growing UK Cyber SME, I am passionate about delivering technology that can be used to protect people while also delivering business value.  Much of the focus in Cyber security education is on improving the security baseline but I believe that this should not be at the expense of identifying and analysing new and emerging threats and trends along with the opportunities this can provide UK PLC.

My prior background in risk management in the financial services sector and strong operational delivery experiences enables me to blend the desire for increased security with the requirements for usability to ensure that security posture is increased both theoretically and in practice.

Ben Lyons

Director of Policy and Public Affairs, Darktrace

Suzy Button

Field CTO EMEA, Elastic

Elaine Hanley

Partner, IBM

Elaine Hanley is a Partner in IBM Consulting Cybersecurity Services in the UK and Ireland for the Industrial Sector leading Cybersecurity Services in Ireland for key clients, and helping these clients to drive business securely. It is a role that combines Elaine’s interest in operating successful business outcomes safely, as well as harnessing the data at our disposal safely and respectfully.

Elaine likes to help organisations demystify the often over-technical jargon in the Security business and decode the underlying risks in terms of why a focus on cyber security is in the interests of all members of an organisations leadership team, and what can be done to minimise the risk, increase time to response and minimise impact of cyber activity.

As part of her commitment to creating and continuously improving the support for a workforce where diversity is celebrated, and the huge benefits of inclusion can be realised, Elaine has an additional role as Talent and Engagement Leader, UKI Consulting and Delivery for Cybersecurity Services.

These roles provide a complementary conduit for Elaine to bring her experience in leading teams and building on a career of multiple complementary fields of work, including

WW Lead for DataOps Center of Excellence, cross platform Product Management, data and process modelling, software development and client work.

Elaine holds a BAI (Software Engineering) from Trinity College, Dublin, and an MSc (Computer Applications) from Dublin City University.

Stuart McKean

CEO, Nine23

Dr Paul Thorlby

QinetiQ

I am a senior technical leader in QinetiQ with over 25 years’ experience in cyber security and related, mainly for National Security and Defence markets in the UK. I am a Chief Technologist in cyber and information assurance, the Cyber & Intelligence Group Leader, and a QinetiQ Fellow. I have previously held technical, project management, business development, strategy, and business leadership roles. I chair the employer steering group that has pioneered development of national cyber security apprenticeship standards, specifically the Level 4 Cyber Security Technologist and the Level 6 Cyber Security Technical Professional Integrated Degree Apprenticeship. I have been a member of the TechUK Cyber Management Committee since 2012.

Keith Driver

CTO Cyber, Raytheon UK

Keith joined Raytheon in 2015 and is an Engineering Fellow and CTO Cyber at Raytheon UK. He has a distinguished career in the telecommunications, defence and cyber security industries as a technology leader and board member in a variety of SME and large organisations, delivering technical advantage though strategy, product definition, and innovation.  He has worked extensively with commercial,  defence and government sector customers worldwide, and has spoken regularly at global conferences.

Chris Jenkins

Senior Principal Chief Architect (Cyber Security Strategy & Adoption), Red Hat

Lawrence Munro

CTO, Reliance Cyber

Dale Geach

Head of IOT and OT Cybersecurity Services, Siemens

Stuart Murdoch

Founder & CEO, Surevine

Tim Ward

CEO & Co-founder, Think Cyber Security Ltd

Tim is CEO and Co-Founder (with Dr Mike Butler) of Think Cyber Security Ltd. ThinkCyber offer the next generation in Security Awareness. Their Redflags™ software product applies behavioural and learning science theory, in a highly innovative approach to deliver context-sensitive just-in-time guidance.

Tim has worked in IT for more than 25 years both in consulting and corporate IT with organisations including Logica, PA Consulting, Sepura and was previously Global Head of IT for the cyber division of BAE Systems (previously known as Detica). Tim graduated top of his year in Computer Science with AI at the University of Leeds, holds an MBA from the Open University and a Post Graduate Diploma in Entrepreneurship from Cambridge University.

Dave Parkin

VBSE CTO, Vodafone Business UK