Alastair Paterson

Alastair is co-founder and CEO of cyber security innovator Digital Shadows. The company has offices in London, Dallas and San Francisco, where Alastair is currently based, and services tier-1 clients all over the world.

Alastair was named in Financial News' 40 most influential people in European FinTech in 2015, City AM's FinTech Power List 2015 and Computer Weekly's Rising Stars 2013. He has appeared live as an industry expert on the BBC, Bloomberg, CNN and CNBC amongst others.

Alastair received a first class MEng from the University of Bristol in Computer Science and has spent most of his career working with secure government and FTSE 100 clients, specialising in ‘big data’ risk and intelligence programmes.

Before founding Digital Shadows, Alastair was International Propositions Manager at BAE Systems Applied Intelligence, working principally with national security clients in Europe, the Gulf and Australasia.