Leadership team & advisory board

Our Leadership Team, like the company as a whole, hail from a wide range of backgrounds. Each member brings something unique and valued to the table and they are all excited to be part of this dynamic and ever-growing team.

Meet our leadership team

Nik Whitfield

CEO and Founder

Founded Panaseer in 2014. Previously he built automated trading systems and advanced cybersecurity detection systems for global financial institutions at BAE Systems Detica.

Mike MacIntyre

VP of Product and Co-founder

Led data science at BAE Systems Detica for high-end cybersecurity and fraud products.

Charaka Goonatilake

Chief Technical Officer and Co-founder

Developed Hadoop based security analytics platform to detect cyber threats at BAE Systems.

Albert Plattner

Chief Commercial Officer

Over 20 years experience in Financial services across technology, risk and trading at CitiGroup.

Sean Goldstein

Chief Marketing Officer

Headed up the marketing division for a number of successful cyber scale-ups, including SecurityScorecard and EverCompliant.

Becky Keightley

VP of Customer Success

Formerly led teams delivering anti-fraud solutions into global financial institutions at BAE Systems.

Sophie Harrison

Chief of Staff and Co-founder

Formerly market engagement consultant for cyber monitoring software product at BAE Systems.

Carlos Miragall

Chief Financial Officer

Over 20 years of professional experience across finance, strategy and M&A consulting and technology. Most recently, he founded and led Finance & Operations at SaaS company Nextail.

Asma Mansuri

Head of Talent

Leadership coach, with expertise in personal and professional development. Previously held senior leadership positions in education and training sectors.

Dr Leila Powell

Lead Security Data Scientist

A former astrophysicist who specialised in supercomputer simulations of galaxy formation and now applies this expertise to security data analysis.

John Sutherland

Head Of Engineering

A Software Engineering Leader with a background in SaaS startups who previously spent over a decade running the UK’s biggest bookmakers.

Meet our Advisory Board

Robert Swan, OBE

The first person in history to walk both the North and South Poles. An experienced leader, communicator and fundraiser. Advisory Board Chair.

David Fairman

An experienced CISO/ CSO. Founding member of the  Security Advisor Alliance  and  Canadian Cyber Threat Exchange.

James Doggett

Has held security leadership roles at EY, JP Morgan, Kaiser Permanente and AIG.

Andrew Jaquith

Managed a broad range of tech risks at Goldman Sachs and JP Morgan Chase. Author of a celebrated book on Security Metrics.

Raffael Marty

A cyber tech startup CEO and recognised thought leader in security data visualisation.

Andreas Wuchner

Head of IT and Risk Governance at Credit Suisse. Renowned security, IT security and IT risk management leader.

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