Eddie Alleyn is an advisor to Ingenium Biometrics Laboratories,  helping early stage British tech companies to grow and scale.

He spent 35 years working for the UK Government, in the Foreign & Commonwealth Office, the Cabinet Office and the Ministry of Defence.  He was Chair and CEO at HMGCC from 2011-2016, leading engineering teams designing and deploying secure systems of various kinds.

Over the last six years Eddie has built a portfolio of Executive and Advisory roles with a number of innovative British tech and cyber security start-ups and scale-ups, with a particular focus on the early stage ecosystem in Oxfordshire, where he lives. He is Chair of General System, on the Board at iProov, and a co-founder of Quince, a specialist insider risk consultancy.  He is a Fellow of the IET.