Neil Larkins
As Chief Operations Officer, Neil plays an instrumental role in shaping the strategic direction of the business, with particular emphasis on product and service development and delivery.
Neil possesses a thorough understanding of the information security market and has helped Egress build a reputation on technological and operational excellence. Working with both corporate and public organisations, he has helped deliver cutting-edge solutions that meet specific requirements for secure data exchange and collaboration, as well as compliance. Prior to Egress, he held executive management positions at Reflex Magnetics, Pointsec Mobile Technologies and Check Point Software Technologies.
A regular speaker at information security and technology events, Neil has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from the University of Manchester.
Tony Pepper
As Chief Executive Officer, Tony has overseen the Egress’ rapid expansion, driving innovation and worldwide sales. He has an in-depth understanding of the data security market and prior to Egress held executive management and integration roles at Reflex Magnetics Ltd, Pointsec Mobile Technologies, and Check Point Software Technologies.
Over the years, he has presented on a variety of data security-related issues and strategies for mobile computing and best practices surrounding secure data exchange. Pepper holds a Bachelor of Arts honours degree in Politics from Nottingham Trent University. He also holds a Masters degree in Software Engineering from Liverpool University.
Highlights
Our instincts and our if you like, moral compass, our guide on what the right thing to do is absolutely aligned, we’ve never disagreed in 20 plus years on what’s the right thing to do.
When solving a complex problem we’ve often come at it from absolutely the opposite directions and that, that kind of creates a really healthy debate.
I see these sole founders growing businesses and my admiration is just off the chart because you are absolutely right, we felt in the last 17 years for this business every bit of pain together, we felt every bit of joy together.
These are the type of behavioural based challenges that traditional technology can’t solve unless you are using machine learning or artificial intelligence.
I think start-ups still have one quality that surpasses all of those larger tech business which is the ability to be super agile.
I think we’ve learnt a lot on this journey and the context of a growth mind-set is something you hear bandied around quite a bit and that really is something you have to understand and get your head around.
I’ve learnt to cope with, with stress because actually life’s too short to let it really drag you down.
I am a strong believer that a bit of failure actually in people’s upbringing and even careers is a pretty important part of personal development.
If you want to be solving super complex problems you are going to be growing and if you want to do it in a way that’s going to see an outcome for the business at the end you’ve got to be growing at a decent percentage.