Accelerating cyber confidence through the power of engineering, automation and AI.

Dr. Ryan Heartfield has over a decade of experience in combatting complex cybersecurity threats through AI-driven threat detection and incident response capabilities, and dynamic software-defined network security architecture. Prior to Exalens, Ryan was a senior security architect at Splunk for Security Orchestration Automation and Response (SOAR), and security architect for UK Government, where he led the delivery of advanced cybersecurity operations capabilities. He is a previous Research Fellow of Cybersecurity within the Internet of Things and Security Research Centre at the University of Greenwich; his published work in AI-driven intrusion detection for cyber-physical systems and semantic social engineering attacks has received both academic and industry acclaim. He holds a PhD in Cybersecurity and First-class degree in Computer Systems and Networking from the University of Greenwich.

Sadaiyandi Ramadoss has over 14 years of experience in the IT industry spanning architecture, design, and implementation of the platform device drivers to distributed systems across a wider range of embedded systems platforms such Automotive Infotainment, Connected Vehicles and Mobile systems.

Prior to Exalens, he was a principal developer at BOSCH, NXP and NOKIA and has successfully led product development teams in NISSAN, GM, SUZUKI, RENAULT, VW, and DAF.

Dr Eirini (Irene) Karapistoli, MBA, background combines over 10 years of advanced research and innovation project delivery in cybersecurity, covering domain areas such as data privacy, network intrusion detection, threats and vulnerabilities assessment, decision-making based on cost-benefit analysis, and mathematical optimisation.

Irene holds a diploma degree and a PhD in Electrical & Computer Engineering from the Aristotle University of Thessaloniki, Greece, where she was also the recipient of a postdoctoral research grant focusing onto tackling security issues in wireless sensor networks. Irene also holds an MBA degree from the Blekinge Institute of Technology, Sweden.

With over a decade in marketing, Andrew has a proven track record of integrating digital strategy with customer-focused design to achieve business objectives. His expertise includes digital campaign strategies, demand generation, lead generation, content creation, and branding across various sectors. He has worked and consulted for companies and clients in technology, education, and mergers and acquisitions.

Andrew holds an MBA with Distinction from Hult International Business School and is the Head of Marketing at Exalens, where he spearheads the brand's growth and market penetration.

Veera Manikandan Raju, is a strategic leader focussed on nurturing startups/technologists/leadership and technologies for future. In the last 28+ years of his industry expertise, he has held various senior leadership roles such as CTO of software/systems, senior director, director of different business units of embedded processing at Texas Instruments.  He was Distinguished Staff at Texas Instruments which recognized him at top 2% and holds 75+ patents and multiple publications to his credit. He has taken more than 100+ silicon/software products to market by influencing with contributions on software, hardware, systems architecture across wireless, industrial, automotive and personal electronics markets segments. He has steered and influenced key strategic pivots in product roadmap and definitions across different business units like Symbian to Android Products, Smart Phone to Automotive/Industrial Acceleration, Standalone to Wireless MCUs etc. He brings unique diverse broad technology and management expertise in leadership spanning across multiple products in heterogeneous computing, AI accelerated hardware, Internet of Things, Industry 4.0, ultra-low power systems, ML algorithms, Advanced Vision/Video/Imaging, Embedded Security and Safety Critical systems. Prior to joining TI he has worked with Lucent Technologies Bell Labs and Center for Development of Telematics.

Frank's impressive career includes serving as the CTO and co-founder of SecureLink Group, a leading specialist in Europe in the design, implementation, and support of networking, security, and data center infrastructure solutions. Frank played an integral role in building the company for 15 years and was responsible for managing a team of 650 people across nine countries. He stepped back from his operational role in December 2017 and continued his involvement as an advisor until May 2019.

In addition to his work at SecureLink Group, Frank co-founded InvestLink, an independent investment company aimed at providing additional value to other companies through their extensive experience, network, and knowledge. As experienced entrepreneurs, Frank and his team understand the challenges that come with growing and scaling a company and aim to support companies in their growth.

Frank's expertise lies in a range of fields, including secure application delivery, virtualization, next-generation security gateways, endpoint security, and cloud security. His experience and knowledge continue to make him a valuable asset to the business community, and he is highly regarded for his passion and personal customer approach.

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Professor Hankin joined Imperial College London in 1984 and was promoted to Professor of Computing Science in 1995.

He served as Dean for Engineering (2000-2003), Pro Rector for Research (2004-2006) and Deputy Principal for Engineering (2006-2008).  He was Director and then Co-Director of the Institute for Security Science and Technology from 2010 until 2019. His research is in cyber security, data analytics and theoretical computer science. He leads multidisciplinary projects focused on providing better decision support to defend against cyber attacks for both enterprise systems and industrial control systems.  He has published about 130 publications including 3 textbooks and 7 edited volumes.

He is Director of the UK Research Institute on Trustworthy Inter-connected Cyber-physical Systems (RITICS) which focuses on cyber security of critical infrastructure. He is founder and immediate past chair of the UK’s Academic Resilience and Security Community (Academic RiSC).  He is a Board Member for the International Cyber Security Centre of Excellence (INCS-CoE) which is a new collaboration between leading cyber security research centres in the UK, US and Japan. He is immediate past chair of the Association for Computing Machinery (ACM) Europe Council.  He serves on the ACM Publications Board, as Co-Chair of the Assessment and Search Committee, and chairs the ACM Europe Technology Policy Committee.

With over 30 years of experience in cloud, security and managed services, Rob is a successful strategic security leader who has solved cyber security challenges for customers globally across a broad spectrum of organisations, including large corporates, telcos, and government installations.

Rob combines a successful track record in CNI defence, with a history of building and commercialising innovative and unique cyber security start up business. He has a passion for developing, implementing and commercializing new ways for utilizing technology to solve organisations cyber security issues.

Rob developed his security experience working in agency, blue chip MSSP environments, and global vendors. He is currently the CEO of MXDR limited, a specialist cyber security business and additionally retains a broad portfolio of advisory, non-exec and mentoring positions in the cyber, cloud, managed service and OT sectors across all sizes and types of business ranging from pre-launch through to security transformation

A passionate and committed business specialist, Rob crafts specialist offerings to address customers security challenges, and has brought multiple managed security service businesses from startup to revenues exceeding £35M p.a. He has been actively involved in IT security since he was the sysop of several of the first dialup UK BBS in the early 90s.