About Us - Software Encryption Products

Market leading software encryption products from Becrypt

• Management Team

   

  Bernard Parsons, Chief Executive Officer
  A co-founder of Becrypt, Bernard draws upon a thorough understanding of both the security market and Becrypt technology, having been Chief Technology Officer he was responsible for all aspects of product development. Bernard became CEO in 2008 and has led the company through significant growth, prior to Becrypt, he held a range of development and management posts within the security industry. Bernard has a research and lecturing background, having gained a Doctorate in Robotics, and lectured in Computer Science.
  
  Gary Thomas, Chief Operating Officer
  Gary was the original seed investor in Becrypt and joined the board as a Non Executive Director in 2005. He was later appointed Executive Director in 2009, with responsibility for internal operations. Prior to Becrypt, Gary spent 20 years in the interest-rate derivatives market, becoming a Director of Fuji Capital Markets (London), before spending four years as Head of Trading in their Hong Kong office. Since leaving the city in 2002, Gary has been an active investor in a number of start-up companies.
  
  Jon Varney, Chief Financial Officer
  Jon is responsible for Becrypt’s Finance, HR and IT departments and is a Chartered Accountant with over 20 years of experience as a Finance Director. Jon graduated in Chemistry at Liverpool University and then joined Arthur Andersen & Co specialising in Corporate Recovery before joining Alfred Dunhill plc as Treasury Manager. Subsequently, Jon gained a strong background in the Defence sector through his position as Finance Director of Dowty Aerospace Hydraulics, a TI Group plc subsidiary and then Aerostructures Hamble, a Smiths Group plc company. Latterly Jon joined Conder Environmental plc a major supplier of environmental wastewater systems to the UK construction industry as Group Finance Director and was promoted to Group Managing Director in 2004.
  
  Nick Scully, Executive Vice President of Sales and Marketing
  Nick is responsible for all Sales and Marketing activities at Becrypt. He has spent the past twenty years working in the software industry including a seven year spell at Computer Associates where he headed the National Accounts division, and nine years at SAP (UK) Ltd where he was ultimately responsible for all software sales into the UK and Ireland. Latterly he has worked at Lawson Software first as Managing Director UK, Ireland and Benelux, and then as Managing Director Northern Europe.
  
  Nigel Lee, Chief Research Officer
  A co-founder of Becrypt, Nigel is responsible for assessing new technology, future trends and innovations whilst handling technology partnerships with customers and partner organisations. Previously as Technical Director, Nigel was responsible for product architecture and design, for developing the customer support structure, and for managing consultancy work. Before founding Becrypt Nigel held IT Technical and Managerial positions in a variety of organisations in the UK, Europe, and South East Asia.
  
  Richard Brooks, Director of Sales, EMEA
  Richard has spent 19 years working for a variety of software vendors, both start up and international organisations in the IT Industry. Richard has extensive experience in the IT Security Sector having spent 8 years with leading vendors. Richard has worked with the Becrypt team for over 4 years and his responsibilities include commercial business development, UK & European channel partners, system integrator alliances and management of the pre-sales and sales teams to drive the growth of the business.
  
  Marc Hocking, Chief Technology Officer
  Marc is a leading proponent of Information Assurance, with extensive government and global cross-border data security experience. Before joining Becrypt Marc worked for the UK Government Cabinet Office where he worked closely with a various departments to develop solutions to support the delivery of a number of cross-government projects, and spent ten years in a variety of roles within global financial institutions working on systems that included PKI, authentication, authorisation, and privilege management infrastructure.
  
  To contact any of the Becrypt management team please email management@becrypt.com or call our HQ on 0845 838 2050.

• Non Executive Directors

   

  Barney Quinn, Non Executive Chairman
  Barney has over 30 years experience in application software IT companies including in North America. For 13 years Barney was a Main Board Director of Sherwood International plc, a provider of software and services to the insurance industry. Barney set up and ran for three years the Sherwood North American operation. Latterly, Barney became Director of Worldwide Operations/Chief Operating Officer of Sherwood from 2001 to 2004. Barney has also been a Non Executive Director of Raft International plc and SSP Holdings plc. Currently Barney is Chief Executive of Workplace Systems, a leading provider of software for Workforce Management.

  
  Steve Bellamy, Non Executive Director  
  Steve has over 28 years experience in both business operations and investment. He is Chairman of The First Close Technology Fund, which specialises in investing in early stage UK technology companies and is a Non-executive Director of three other technology companies. In 2007 he also became a Founder Partner and CEO of Accretion Capital, a specialist European technology fund management business, launched to capitalise on emerging technology opportunities in Europe. He has held a number of executive roles in his career, including Chief Operating Officer and Finance Director for Sherwood International plc from 1994 to 2001. Prior to joining Sherwood, Steve was a UK investment Director of Brierley Investments, an investor in undervalued UK companies, and before that worked at Coopers & Lybrand (now PwC) in New Zealand and New York. He trained as a Chartered Accountant in New Zealand.