National Cyber Awards 2024

 Bryan Lille

Bryan has spent over 30 years as a cyber security professional in both the public and private sector, achieving a successful career built on providing direction, leadership, expertise and value to organisations and clients.

He has held many roles ranging from CTO to Business Unit Manager. He has worked in numerous countries developing a wider perspective on the role of security and privacy in society.

Dr Clare Johnson

Clare is the Capability Lead (Cyber and Networks) at ITSUS Consulting, and Founder of Women in Cyber Wales.

She has extensive experience of working in academia and is particularly interested in skills development and linking industry to education. Clare is an advocate of diversity within the industry and founded the Women in Cyber network in 2018 with the aim of providing networking opportunities for women working in, or hoping to work in the sector.

Clare hosts the Women in Cyber networking breakfast at CyberUK and ran the first Women in Cyber conference this year, with over 150 attendees including the CyberFirst Girls Competition finalists for Wales.

She is a member of the Diversity and Outreach working group for the UK Cyber Security Council, a CyberFirst Ambassador, a member of the UK Cyber Cluster Collaboration network (UKC3) and a Fellow of the BCS.

Poppy Baker

Poppy is a retired civil servant who has been working with cyber security organisations within government and in the private sector for the last 12 years. She is passionately interested in the continuing development of the cyber security profession, which is at the heart of some of the most important infrastructure in this country.

Isabel Scavetta and Kathy Liu from Inclusive Cyber

Isabel - Product Manager at Checkout.com, London Lead of Inclusive Cyber

As a multi-award-winning technology advocate, Isabel is a recognised champion of building a digital future that reflects the society we live in. As the London Lead of the Inclusive Cyber at the World Economic Forum Global Shapers, she has introduced 100s of non-STEM students to cyber careers, and promotes the next generation in technology to enterprises and policymakers on the national and international stage. Her expertise has been featured by organisations including BBC News, the Financial Times, the UK Cybersecurity Council, Microsoft, Code First Girls, the Chatham House Journal of Cyber Policy & several industry podcasts.

Across her product management career, she encourages the industry to take a people-first view on cybersecurity, with a vision to make our technologically-enabled society technologically-educated. Her contributions to gender equality and LGBTQ+ inclusion in the tech sector have supported key strategic initiatives and partnerships to unlock new opportunities for talent progression and industry development.

Kathy - Founder of Inclusive Cyber and Senior Technology Business Development Manager for Digital Sovereignty at Amazon Web Services

Kathy Liu is the founder of Inclusive Cyber, a global cyber capacity initiative spanning London, Montréal and Kigali. Coming from an atypical background herself, since 2018, she’s been mobilising underrepresented talent to break into fulfilling cyber careers. Outside her volunteer work, Kathy is the Senior Technology Business Development Manager for Digital Sovereignty at Amazon Web Services (AWS). She is a global speaker and thought leader on cybersecurity; she has spoken at Davos, the United Nations, the UK Cyber Security Council and ISC2, and has been published in the World Economic Forum Agenda, Los Angeles Times, Chatham House Journal of Cyber Policy and Canadian Security Magazine. Kathy is a Working Group member of the World Economic Forum Centre for Cybersecurity, where she contributed to their new Strategic Talent Framework, and represents the youth voice. Outside of everything cyber, Kathy helps lead the UK’s largest surfskate community. 

Andy Jones

Andy specialises in people, process, and technology risk within organisations and at a national level. As Strategy Director at the Cyber Scheme he looks at the future evolution of assessment standards and is a strong advocate for creating a structured cyber security profession in the UK.

He has 31 years’ experience working on National security outcomes within GCHQ, undertaking several key roles including Head of Operations (remote facilities), Lead Representative embedded with deployed UK Military, Senior Representative at the Home Office, and Senior Representative to three key International Partners. 

Andy has developed wide commercial experience over the last 8 years covering cyber security consultancy, engineering R&D and large-scale managed service provision. He brings cross sector knowledge in areas such as Government, CNI, automotive, telecoms, Cloud technology and threat intelligence research.  Appointed Chairman of the Professional Standards Working Group at the UK Cyber Security Council (UKCSC) in 2023 and a fellow of Chartered Institute of Information Security (CIISec) in 2024.