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At CEO (Boardroom Media) we track over 1,000,000 startups and over 5,000,000 people who hold key positions in these companies. We use this directory of startups to highlight top employees, founders and board members we think deserve more appreciation than they are currently getting.
This list showcases the top Sydney based CEO’ operating in the Security space. If you think a CEO’ is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on [email protected]
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Sam Vakili
Chief Executive Officer of Mcr
Sam was appointed as CEO in 2014 with the responsibility of overseeing the day-to-day management and strategic direction of the company. Sam has progressed and developed through a variety of sales roles over his 16 years with mcr. This culminated in his appointment as Director of Sales and progressed on to the role of General Manager of Pacific Operations, where he was responsible for the creation and management of mcr’s offshore interests. Significant growth in this area led to a successful merger between mcr PNG and Allcom PNG which resulted in the formation of the largest ICT provider in the region. Sam holds a bachelor’s degree in Commerce from University of Sydney, majoring in Economics with a minor in Corporate Law, and has been continuing his education in programs with Harvard Business School.
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About Mcr: Mcr offers sourcing and implementing services to Australian businesses.
Ahmed Khanji
Chief Executive Officer of Gridware
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About Gridware: Gridware is a cybersecurity company that provides information security services protecting and minimising cyber attacks and threats
Oleg Vornik
CEO and Managing Director of DroneShield
Oleg is an experienced senior executive with experience spanning Royal Bank of Canada, Brookfield, Deutsche Bank and ABN AMRO. Prior to becoming the CEO of DroneShield, Oleg was its Chief Financial Officer. After co-leading the Company in the role of the Chief Financial Officer for over a year and steering the business through its IPO on the Australian Securities Exchange, Oleg was appointed as the CEO and Managing Director of DroneShield in January 2017.
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About DroneShield: DroneShield is a global leader in Counter-UAS, Electronic Warfare (EW) and Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) solutions
Phillimon Zongo
Chief Executive Officer of Cyber Leadership Institute
Phil is an experienced head of cybersecurity, strategic advisor, author, and public speaker. He is the Amazon best selling author of The Five Anchors of Cyber Leadership, a practical cyber strategy book for senior business leaders. Phil has won multiple industry awards, including the 2017 ISACA International’s Michael Cangemi Best Book/Article Award, for major contributions in the field of IS Audit, control and security.
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About Cyber Leadership Institute: Cyber Leadership Institute provides premium cyber security training programs to CISOs and business executives
Pieter Danhieux
Co-Founder, Chairman/CEO of Secure Code Warrior
Pieter Danhiex currently designs and implements cybersecurity exercises together with a group of extremely talented people at Secure Code Warrior in Australia.Danhiex is a certified instructor for the SANS Institute teaching military, government and private organizations offensive techniques on how to target and assess organizations, systems and individuals for security weaknesses.
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About Secure Code Warrior: Secure Code Warrior makes secure coding a positive and engaging experience for developers as they increase their software security skills.
Carlo Minassian
Founder & CEO of LMNTRIX
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About LMNTRIX: LMNTRIX specializes in threat detection and response to address advanced and unknown cyber threats that bypass perimeter controls.
Lorenzo Modesto
Chief Executive Officer of 6pillars.io
Over 15 years of experience in the Internet industry. At ZipWorld responsible for growing product, promotion & sales at ~120% YoY until the company’s sale in 1999. Oversaw Pacific Internet’s development and launch of Australia’s first business ADSL service in 2000 before co-founding Bulletproof. Has overseen Bulletproof’s growth since 2008, striving for excellence in recruitment, operational improvement, transparency and service levels.
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About 6pillars.io: 6pillars provides ongoing compliance and completely automated security remediation AWS settings.
Darren Younger
CEO, BRICKLET of Lakeba Group Pty Ltd
I am the Chief Growth Officer of the Lakeba Group. Established in 2015, Lakeba is an established technology innovator, or “Reverse Incubator” recognised for developing an innovative business platform for conceiving, creating, and commercialising at scale, disruptive, digital solutions. Based in Manly, Australia, we have a global team of over 150 people with offices in Italy, India, USA and UK.
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About Lakeba Group Pty Ltd, Quixxi: Lakeba Group is a privately held global venture catalyst firm.
Kieran Martin
Co-Founder and CEO of CheckVault
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About CheckVault: CheckVault provides a secure service, where client funds are held by a trusted specialist custodian.
Alex Gambotto
Co-Owner & CEO of The Missing Link
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About The Missing Link: The Missing Link is a premium provider of information technology solutions and services.
Katryna Dow
CEO & Founder of Meeco
Katryna Dow is the founder and CEO of Meeco, a world leading data independence start-up in the emerging personal data economy. Meeco is a Personal Data Platform that connects people to their digital services, data and devices. Meeco enables individuals to manage, share, provide consent and exchange their identity and personal information for mutual value via The API-of-Me. Meeco was founded in 2012 and conceived over a decade ago, as social networks were on the rise. Katryna envisioned a time when personal sovereignty and contextual privacy would be as important as being connected. Now a decade later, personal clouds, mobile technology, AI, Internet-of-Things and regulation such as the GDPR and PSD2 have converged to make Meeco both possible and necessary. She speaks globally on privacy and data innovation and currently serves on two IEEE standards working groups; Co-Chair for the Personal Data and Privacy Committee, part of the Global Initiative for Ethical Considerations in the Design of Autonomous Systems, and Chair for the new P7006 – Standard for Personal Data Artificial Intelligence (AI) Agent
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About Meeco: Meeco is building a personal data ecosystem of equals, with distributed ledger tools for people & organisations to create mutual value
Ian Yip
Chief Executive Officer of Avertro
Ian has worked with organisations globally on Cyber Security initiatives and projects, particularly in the areas of Strategy & Transformation, Identity & Access Management, Data Protection, Threat Management, Governance, Risk & Compliance, and API Management. He has held a variety of leadership, advisory, strategy, sales, marketing, product management, consulting, and technical roles across Asia Pacific and Europe in some of the world’s leading companies including McAfee, Ernst & Young, IBM, CA Technologies and NetIQ. In addition to being a published author, Ian has built, led and managed teams with multi-million-dollar sales, operational and delivery targets, defined and executed go-to-market strategies based on market analysis and needs, set corporate and product strategy, brought new products to market, run major cyber transformation programs and engagements, delivered keynote presentations at industry events, been interviewed and quoted in the media, and contributed articles to a variety of publications.
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About Avertro: SaaS Cyber Management Decision System (MDS) helping organisations manage, measure and report on their cybersecurity performance
Eugene Holdenson Kimura
Co-founder & CEO of RagTagd
Eugene Holdenson Kimura is the co-founder and inventor of Ragtagd.
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About RagTagd: RagTagd is a service that provides ultra-simple RFID tags in kids’ school uniforms and sensor-equipped bins to schools.
Brenton Avery
Director & CEO of Oakpont
Brenton has over 25 years of leadership experience in technology related companies and has been a Director and CEO of a number of those companies. He has previously served as an Executive Director of an ASX listed company and is currently a Director of several other companies. He brings to Bell Resources skills and expertise covering enterprise technology implementations and roll-outs, cyber security, cloud technology, corporate governance, productivity reviews, business process reviews, and audit committees. Brenton holds a Master of Business Administration and a Master of Information Technology Management from Bond University, and is a Member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors (MAICD), and also a Member of the Australian Computer Society (MACS). He is also a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) as well as holding IT project management and other IT industry certifications.
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About Oakpont, Oakpont, Oakpont Professionals: Oakpont is a specialist cloud consultant and managed cloud service provider.
Michael Watts
CEO of Cloud Conformity
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About Cloud Conformity: A security, compliance, optimisation, automation & continuous assurance tool for AWS
Bradley D. Cooper
CEO of Home Security International
CEO of Home Security International.
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About Home Security International: Offer quality home security alarm package.
Jim DeLeskie
Founder / CEO of Mimir Networks
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About Mimir Networks: Mimir Networks provides single click straight,-forward network security and visibility.
Sam Johnson
Chief Executive Officer of Southern Cross Group
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About Southern Cross Group: Southern Cross Group, founded in 2005, is a provider of integrated solutions that include Facility services(Security, Cleaning & Concierge).
Ralf Huuck
CEO & Founder of LOGILICA
Dr Ralf Huuck is the CEO of the software intelligence company LOGILICA, the leading software intelligence solutions provider for digital transformation leaders. Previously, Dr Huuck was a Business Development Director with Synopsys’s Software Integrity Group responsible for guidance on their worldwide automotive activities. Before joining Synopsys, Ralf served as the CEO with security solution company Goanna Software and as Principle Researcher with R&D lab NICTA. He is an Adjunct Associate Professor in Computer Science with UNSW, Australia.
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About LOGILICA: Value stream analytics for digital transformation leaders.
Andy Walker
Chief Executive Officer of ditno.
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About ditno.: ditno uses machine learning to help build a fully governed and micro-segmented network to significantly mitigate risk across organizations.
