THALES UK PARTNER
SUMMIT 2023

Rob Elliss
VP Sales EMEA, Data Security

Rob Elliss is Vice President of Sales, EMEA for Data Security solutions at Thales, and has over 25 years of experience in the Information Security industry with a strong focus on encryption, identity management and associated technologies. Prior to his current role, Rob has held European sales leadership positions at Gemalto, SafeNet, Rainbow Technologies, Chrysalis and Idemia. During the early 2000s, Rob was responsible for the introduction of nascent encryption and data security solutions to the EMEA market, having established the start-up Chrysalis business in the region. Rob has been instrumental in transforming data protection technologies from their early start-up phases through to what are now mature, market-leading solutions at the heart of the Thales cybersecurity business and strategy.

Rob graduated from the University of Nottingham and holds a degree in Economics and German as well as a PhD.

Phil Holmes
EMEA Channel Director, Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing

With nearly 20 years’ experience in IT security, Phil Holmes has had a broad range of experience in the cyber security sector across multiple regions and organisation types. As EMEA Channel Director at Thales Cloud Protection & Licensing he plays a key role in managing customer and partner relationships across the region, as well as scaling the team, ensuring it has the structure and skills in place to solve problems for customers and respond to market needs.

Having joined Thales through its acquisition of Gemalto, Phil previously managed the cyber-security business in the UK and Nordic region. He has had over 11 years of experience in the group, having also held a number of positions helping grow a thriving partner community in both the encryption and authentication discipline where he managed the channel business.

Phil can speak to a wide range of IT Security issues, such as cryptography, access control, authentication, network and storage security. In particular, he offers deep expertise in data protection, identity protection and digital banking security – particularly in the context of cloud computing, as cloud adoption grows rapidly across the EMEA region.

Phil Duerden
Channel and Alliance Director UKI

Phil is a Cyber Security professional with over 25 years of experience. He has a background in direct and partner driven sales. He joined the business in 2000 with Rainbow Technologies, managing major customers moving to focusing on developing Government accounts with our crypto platform. Recently he managed the SI partner team at SafeNet and then Gemalto. Progressing to the UKI Channel and Alliance Director role in 2021 – supporting and growing revenue with our key partners across UKI.

Aydin Ucbasaran
VP Sales UK, Ireland and Nordics, Data Security

Aydin has been with the company since 2005 starting his Cybersecurity journey with SafeNet, then Gemalto and now with Thales. During these periods of significant growth and transformation of the company, Aydin has had the pleasure of building the sales team that supports our valued customers and partners today. He has experience managing strategic customer relationships on behalf of the Cloud Licensing and Protection group and has been instrumental in ensuring we are a Channel Business.

Rich Sargent
Security Specialist Customer Engineer at Google Cloud

His focus is on helping customers understand Google security and modernise their capability.

He has over 20 years of experience in working in security on both the customer and vendor side. He has a customer background in the telecoms and energy sectors working as a security architect on security and digital transformation programmes. He also has experience and in security operations and security engineering around Critical National Infrastructure and Future Networks.

On the vendor side, he spent time at Symantec and Broadcom as a Solution Engineer helping customers with threat protection and zero-trust solutions.

He lives on the south coast in sunny Worthing where outside of tech he enjoys riding mountain bikes, paddle boarding and family camping trips.

Romana Hamplova
Cyber Security Expert & Presales Manager, Thales Data Security

Romana is an industry expert, helping customers with understanding their business objectives and architecting the cyber security solutions that address those requirements. She also enables market driven innovation and expansion of our solution reach. Romana is passionate about data security trends and market changes.