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Becrypt is an agile London-based UK SME with 20 years cyber security expertise. We provide High Assurance cyber security products and services. 

Using government-accredited security platforms and standards, we help our customers safely and rapidly deploy mobile endpoint and cloud technologies, driving greater business flexibility, agility and productivity.

We supply governments and critical national infrastructure organisations with a range of security solutions and services – from funded research, to commercially available products and flexible managed services.

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Our Mission

As a trusted partner for government, we continue to deliver innovative high assurance products and services – protecting public and private sector organisations from elevated cyber threat.

We specialise in providing security teams a better night’s sleep, ensuring users have more time to do their work with a greater user experience, while minimising the cost and complexity of cyber risk management. 

We are committed to continually improving customer satisfaction, and product and service quality. Our formal quality policy can be found here.

Our Vision

High assurance products and services protect our customers’ most sensitive information – completely.

Adopting emerging technology, be that cloud, mobile or IoT, is about enabling business value and improving user experience. Technology should be designed to be secure by default, simplifying informed risk management. 

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Our Values

Customer Satisfaction – Understand and prioritise customer needs, seek solutions and deliver value in a timely fashion.

Delivery – Take pride in innovation and ownership for the quality and delivery of commitments.

Teamwork – Work collaboratively, communicate effectively and promote knowledge sharing

Respect – Consider everyone on an individual basis, and promote due regard for others whilst encouraging communication and trust

Spirit – Passionate, committed and positively embraces challenge and change

These values collectively shape the company’s culture, guide decision-making and influence how employees interact with customers, colleagues and partners.  They contribute to creating a strong, customer-centric and high-performing company.

Our Board and senior management team

Dr. Bernard Parsons MBE

CEO
Bernard is CEO and a co-founder of Becrypt. With an academic and research background, Bernard has over 25 years of experience in the software industry, with expertise spanning AI, embedded systems, telecommunications and cyber security. Over the last decade, Bernard’s focus has been high-assurance cyber security technology within innovative software start-ups, and has represented a number small businesses on various government-industry bodies. Bernard has been engaged as an industry advisor to government, contributing to policy and awareness initiatives such as product assurance, and security governance.

Gavin Newport

MD
Gavin joined Becrypt in August 2024. He has extensive senior leadership experience within the Defence and Security sector, including being Managing Director at Ultra CIS and Vice President at L3 Communications. With an Engineering background he brings a strong sector knowledge and track record of delivering growth to organisations. His portfolio of program delivery includes cryptography, secure communications, surveillance solutions, intelligence applications, content management systems and multi-level security solutions. Outside of work he enjoys live music, following sport, and travel with his family.

Nick Scott

CFO
Nick joined Becrypt in May 2021. He is a Chartered Accountant bringing with him over 25 years experience within senior management and financial roles across a range of organisations and sectors, the last 15 years in the cybersecurity industry. He is an entrepreneurial, financially astute, commercially driven professional with a focus on strategy creations and execution. Additionally Nick has strong experience in M&A transactions, fund raising and company consolidations. Outside of work, Nick enjoys travel, walking and time with his family.

Gary Thomas

COO
Gary was the original seed investor in Becrypt and joined the board as a Non-Executive Director in 2005. From an early career as an engineer in the defence and security sector, Gary went on to become a successful trader within the finance sector, before embarking on the management of his own investment portfolio. Returning to an executive role, he became a full time member of Becrypt’s Executive team in 2009, holding various responsibilities across Sales, Engineering and Customer Support, and aiding the Business’s transition from an encryption focus to broader high-assurance cyber.

Nick Hopkinson

Non Exec Chair
Nick has over 30 years’ experience in information technology environments for both industry and government. As a Board member within government, Nick contributed to the overall governance and strategic direction and operated at the most senior levels across the defence and security sectors.Nick led major initiatives to modernise and transform operational capability, before becoming a Chief Information Officer and leading Information Security and Assurance. After leaving government, Nick became Director of Cyber Security Europe for CSC (now DXC), leading the establishment of a new business delivering cyber security services, followed by a role as the Strategy Director for Northrop Grumman.

Harshad Toke

Chief Architect
Harshad Toke is the Chief Architect at Becrypt with over 19 years of industry experience and has been with Becrypt for 13 years. He holds a Master of Computer Science from the University of Pune (India). Harshad has guided the design and development of several products from their inception such as Paradox, MDM+ and APP-XD. Harshad has a keen interest in cross domain, zero trust, PKI and cryptographic technologies. Harshad also heads the DevOps team. Outside of work Harshad enjoys hiking, reading and technology.

Dominick Hume

Director of Product & Technical Services
Dom is a Cyber Security Professional (CISSP) with over 20 years of experience in both the public and private sector. He joined Becrypt in 2009. He has a passion and proven track record of delivering differentiated Products, Solutions and Services that provide genuine value and demonstrable security benefits for the customer.

Mark Wilce

Director of Engineering
Mark joined Becrypt in October 2012 as Director of Engineering. He has extensive experience of managing cutting edge software development projects purposed towards system software (horizontal market) products. He holds a 2.1 Bachelors degree in Computer Science from Cambridge and a Masters (with distinction) from Birkbeck, London.  Mark has 35 years software experience originally as a developer in C, Intel assembler and other proprietary environments. His latter 25+ years experience in leading teams at SCO (Unix applications and packaged Unix OS products), Symbian (mobile OS), mobile start-ups and for 10+ years Becrypt.’

Arran Bevington-King

Director of Business Development
Arran Bevington-King served for 24 years in the British Army before transitioning to industry. He has over 30 years’ experience working across a wide field of technical and theoretical based development solutions for the Defence & Security sectors, for both Government and Industry, with expertise spanning Telecommunications, Information Management, Cryptography and Cyber Security. Arran has an impressive track record of delivering end to end capability in multi domain environments. When outside of work, Arran enjoys spending time travelling with his family and enduring the tribulations of being a supporter of Birmingham City Football Club.

Snejana Beveridge

Head of HR
Snejana joined Becrypt in 2018, as Head of Human Resources, with 14 years of experience in both the operational and strategic side of HR. She holds an LLB Business Law degree and a CIPD professional qualification in Human Resource Management. Snejana has extensive experience working across a truly generalist remit, taking accountability for all HR concepts and operations. Prior to joining Becrypt, Snejana worked as the Head of HR for one of the WPP agencies and lead from the HR perspective on a four-way merger. Prior to that, Snejana worked for an e-commerce and consumer analytics SME tech company headquartered in LA.

Chris Claxton

Director of IT and Service Delivery
Chris has over 27 years experience working in the IT Services industry and is very well versed in delivering a whole host of different technical services. Chris is extremely passionate about delivering services to a high level, he has a proven track record of leading technical teams and implementing ITIL processes to underpin IT Service Management, resulting in high customer satisfaction. In more recent years Chris has been focused on delivering cyber security services and helping clients improve their security posture. Chris joined Becrypt in January 2023, taking the lead on IT & Service Delivery to ensure a high level of support and services are in place for Becrypt’s products.
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