At Threat.Technology we track over 100,000 infosec, cyber security, military and cyber startups and over 500,000 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 Australia based CEO’ operating in the Cyber 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.
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
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.
Vaughan Shanks
Founder & CEO of Cydarm
Vaughan is co-founder and CEO of Cydarm Technologies, a Melbourne-based startup that has built a secure case management platform for cybersecurity incident response. Vaughan first developed an appreciation for information security 20 years ago while working as a UNIX systems administrator. Before founding Cydarm, Vaughan worked at Palantir, a Silicon Valley-based data analytics vendor, as a forward deployed engineer and deployment lead. Prior to that, Vaughan worked for almost 10 years at the Department of Defence, in Canberra and Maryland, USA, leading devops teams and driving analytic modernisation efforts using big data. Vaughan has a PhD in computer science, specialising in high scale machine learning, and bachelor degrees in computer science and computer systems engineering.
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About Cydarm: Cydarm is a secure case management platform for cybersecurity incident response.
John Fison
Chief Executive Officer of Cyberhound
John Fison is responsible for the strategic development of CyberHound in Australia and overseas. Since joining the company in 2005, he has overseen exponential growth in the domestic business and international expansion into Europe, Asia and the Americas. This includes a major deal to develop a custom solution for the Japanese market for Canon IT Solutions. John has developed strategic alliances with industry giants such as IBM,VMware and ESET. Prior to joining CyberHound, John built an IT solutions company in the UK into a A$125m business over 7 years, employing over 100 people. John won several prestigious awards in the UK for growth and entrepreneurship and was an Ernst and Young ‘Young Entrepreneur of the Year’ winner in 2001 and latterly was selected as a judge for this program in the UK and more recently in Australia. John is one of the first UK Chartered Directors and is a Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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About Cyberhound: Cyberhound provides security solution.
Michael Gianarakis
CEO of Assetnote
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About Assetnote: Advanced reconnaissance and high-signal continuous security analysis to help enterprises gain insight and control of their evolving exposure
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
Bob White
Chief Executive Officer and Director of ViewDS
Bob White managed the spin-off of ViewDS from EB2BCOM in July 2009, whilst maintaining EB2BCOM’s involvement and focus as an Asia Pacific reseller. Appointed CEO in January 2012, Bob brings more than three decades of local and international experience in the IT sector to his role, with an emphasis on sales and revenue. Bob is responsible for the day-to-day running of ViewDS.
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About ViewDS: ViewDS specializes in cloud identity management solutions.
Anthony Stevens
CEO of 6clicks
Anthony is a former Partner and Chief Digital Officer at KPMG and published author of Chasing Digital: A Playbook for the New Economy. Before KPMG, Anthony held senior executive roles for publicly listed and private businesses and was the founder and non-executive director of several high-growth technology startups. Anthony has a Bachelor of Commerce, a Bachelor of Information Systems, and a Masters of Commercial Law from the University of Melbourne and was named Young Executive of the Year in 2011 by AFR BOSS.
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About 6clicks: Your complete Risk & Compliance Operating System, including award-winning mobile app and world-first AI engine.
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.
Paul McCarty
CEO and Founder of SecureStack
Paul McCarty is the CEO and Founder at SecureStack.
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About SecureStack: SecureStack helps developers find and fix security gaps in their applications without forcing those developers to become security experts
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.
Jeff Paine
CEO & Founder of ResponSight
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About ResponSight: ResponSight offers enterprise risk and security profiling technology using behavioral analytics without collecting private information.
Susie Jones
Co-Founder & CEO of Cynch Security
Susie Jones has delivered commercial outcomes as a cybersecurity business services manager, corporate insurance broker, risk manager, innovator and now a startup co-founder. She is a brilliant translator between technical and business teams, and is focused always on improving processes to make the user experience better for all involved.
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About Cynch Security: Cyber fitness for small business
Susie Jones
Co-Founder & CEO of Cynch Security
Susie Jones has delivered commercial outcomes as a cybersecurity business services manager, corporate insurance broker, risk manager, innovator and now a startup co-founder. She is a brilliant translator between technical and business teams, and is focused always on improving processes to make the user experience better for all involved.
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About Cynch Security: Cyber fitness for small business
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