Role: CEO, Red Helix
What’s been your business high point of the last 12 months?
The biggest highlight has been successfully bringing Red Helix and Risk Crew closer together to deliver a stronger, more integrated cyber resilience proposition for our customers. For customers, the benefit is a more joined-up experience, with access to a broader range of services that work together to support their security, resilience and long-term risk management.
Name one thing your company is looking to achieve in 2026
To become the go-to partner for organisations looking to simplify and strengthen their cyber resilience strategy.
What keeps you awake at night as a partner leader?
Making sure we stay ahead of threats and technologies that evolve faster than most organisations can adapt, enabling our customers and their businesses to remain as safe as they can be from the cyber threats that they are faced with every day.
Is AI being over-hyped?
The hype is real, but so is the opportunity. The winners will be those who focus on practical outcomes rather than headlines. Companies need to embrace it, and I believe those that don’t will fall behind their competitors. HOWEVER, it needs to be embraced safely by organisations, consideration must be given to appropriate levels of governance and security based on the value and risk profile such AI projects have in the business.
What’s been your most successful internal AI project to date, and why?
Using AI to deliver our Security Intelligence Portal, which allows our customers to see their live security status, specific security threats, and provides real time AI based threat hunting. This is a game changer for customers in how they gain insights and manage their overall cyber risk profile.
Can you share a surprising prediction about how UK IT channel partners will evolve over the next 5 years?
I believe that the most successful partners won’t be defined by the technology they sell, but by the business outcomes and risk reduction they deliver. Strong relationship selling will be required. I believe that customers are now more demanding than ever in terms of dealing with knowledgeable salespeople.
Which tech gizmo (hardware or software) could you not function without?
Microsoft Teams. It’s become the operating system for modern collaboration.
Which three famous people, dead or alive, would you invite to a dinner party?
Winston Churchill, Ada Lovelace and David Attenborough.
If you had a warning label, what would it say?
Warning: Will challenge assumptions and ask difficult questions.
Which tech figurehead has impressed you the most this year, and why?
Demis Hassabis, because he’s helping turn AI from a fascinating technology into something that can solve real-world problems at scale, while also leading important conversations about its responsible development.
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