Meet the revolutionaries

OutThink was born from research at the world-renowned Information Security Group (ISG), Royal Holloway, University of London. Our experts have a collective 100+ years of experience in cyber security, behavioural science, psychology and data analytics.

CISOs

Flavius Plesu

Founder & CEO

Flavius is the Founder and CEO of OutThink. As a former CISO, he has led complex cyber security transformation programmes across large, global organisations. It is his passion for security that motivated Flavius to challenge the status quo and start OutThink, to solve the People challenge. Flavius holds a GCHQ-certified Information Security Masters degree from Royal Holloway, University of London.

Taewan Park

CISO, Senior Security Advisor

Taewan Park is an accomplished executive with close to 30 years international cyber security experience, currently acting as a consultant on Information Security Management Systems for some of the largest companies in Korea. Taewan holds a GCHQ-certified Information Security Masters degree from Royal Holloway, University of London, and strongly believes that People are an essential factor in security.

Science and Research

Prof. M. Angela Sasse

Chief Scientific Advisor

M. Angela Sasse is the Professor of Human-Centred Security at Ruhr University Bochum and part-time Professor at UCL, UK. A usability researcher by training, she started investigating the causes and effects of usability issues with security mechanisms in 1996. She has been advocating a new approach for over a decade and joined OutThink to promote targeted, positive and self-motivated security awareness.

Dr. Shorful Islam

Chief Product & Data Officer

Dr Shorful has extensive expertise in setting up Data and Analytics functions. His prior roles include setting up his own global Data Science Consultancy (Stream Intelligence) and serving as Managing Director for Data and Insights at Wunderman, Head of Data at DDB and Head of Business Information and Customer Data Strategy at ITV. Shorful has a PhD in Psychology and started his career as a lecturer, and was also a research fellow, at Imperial College London.

“I love OutThink because it gives me a new layer of insight, into the Human Factor, allowing me to engineer the right processes and equip people with the skills required to follow these processes.”

Paul Sharf
Chief Information Security Officer
Bunzl Plc

“I’m really excited by the potential of OutThink. The platform is helping me understand human risk factors across the business. This information empowers my team to design targeted responses to address specific behaviour changes.”

Imogen Verrett
Head of Security Awareness
Vodafone Group

“An innovative approach from the team at OutThink provides a single platform to manage human risk – dynamically teach, test, track!”

Dee Deu
Chief Information Security Officer
British Land