About Orphean
We believe security should be converged, intelligent, and autonomous. Orphean was built to make that real.
Executive Team
Orphean's leadership brings together more than 100 years of collective experience spanning startups and multi-billion dollar enterprises. Our executives have held C-level and senior operating roles across hardware, software, and security — building, scaling, and securing businesses from early-stage ventures to global public companies. This blend of deep technical expertise and proven operational leadership is the foundation for how we build Orphean and serve our customers.
Tim Knight
Chief Executive Officer
Nearly nine years at NatWest/RBS in technology transformation, strategy, and the bank's regulatory and governance agenda. Now also CEO of Knight Protection, a specialist security business he has grown nearly fivefold. He started Orphean to turn the physical–cyber gap into a defensible record.
Ronnie Wilson
Executive Chairman
Three decades of enterprise software leadership: Group Chief Executive of Macro 4 PLC, President and General Manager of Quest Software, VP and General Manager for EMEA at Dell Software Group, and Group EVP at Serviceware SE. Non-Executive Chairman of Knight Protection.
Gary Broadwater
Board Member | CTO, CISO
Former Chief Technology Officer of Quest Software, President and General Manager of KACE, and Head of R&D for Dell Software Group. Actively serving in the Office of the CISO at Johns Hopkins University, and Board Member CTO, CISO at Knight Protection.
Sam Wilson
Chief Revenue Officer
More than a decade of enterprise software sales leadership across the UK, Europe and the United States. Senior commercial roles at Serviceware SE as VP Sales, UK General Manager and Head of International Sales, following enterprise sales roles at Adobe, SAP and HP.
Craig Ravellette
Sr. VP R&D
More than three decades in enterprise software engineering, most recently as Senior Vice President of Software Engineering, Global R&D at Quest Software. An early employee at KACE, where he built the K1000 appliance that led to Dell's acquisition. Earlier, NeXT Computer, DHL and UPS.
Dave Hansen
Advisor | Chairman
Dave Hansen, Chairman of Orphean's Advisory Panel. Former CEO of SafeNet; former Chairman of Wavelynx Technologies; former leader of CA Technologies' Security business unit; former chair, product and technology committee, Acre Security; former Board member, Senetas.
Rob Zanella
Advisor | GRC
More than 40 years of IT leadership across operations, cybersecurity, software development, strategy and governance. Most recently global head of Technology Governance & Regulatory Compliance at Estée Lauder. Earlier, senior roles at CA Technologies, the New York Stock Exchange and Deloitte Consulting.
Dan Twomey
Advisor | Regulatory
A 27-year career at Dell Technologies across finance leadership roles spanning operations, planning, international business and financial services, having begun at Price Waterhouse. He led a regulated international banking business, balancing commercial growth against compliance, resilience and risk.
Darren Learmonth
Advisor | PSIM
An international technology executive and board advisor with more than 30 years leading global engineering, product, cybersecurity and operations teams across North America, Europe and Asia. Group Chief Technology Officer at Hirsch, with prior executive roles at Quarterhill and acre security.
Our Mission
Eliminating the Gap Between Physical and Digital Security
Today's security operations are fragmented. Physical security teams monitor cameras, badges, and perimeters. Cybersecurity teams watch firewalls, endpoints, and networks. They operate in silos — different tools, different dashboards, different teams.
The threats that matter most exploit that gap. An insider badges into a facility at 2am and accesses sensitive data. A tailgater enters without a badge swipe and authenticates on the network. These cross-domain threats are invisible to any single tool.
Orphean was built to eliminate that gap. We created a unified intelligence layer that correlates signals across every security domain, detects patterns that span physical and digital boundaries, and provides the explainable intelligence security teams need to act with confidence.
Convergence First
Cross-domain correlation is not a feature — it's the foundation. Every capability is built to unify physical and digital security.
Explainability
Every score tells a story. No black boxes. Analysts see plain-English drivers behind every risk assessment.
Noise Reduction
We don't add to alert fatigue. Orphean suppresses noise through intelligent deduplication and convergence-based prioritization.
Governance, Risk & Compliance
The Same Intelligence, Now Provable
Convergence doesn't stop at detection. The signals that reveal a cross-domain threat are the same signals that prove a control is working — so we built governance, risk, and compliance directly into Orphean's intelligence layer rather than bolting it on beside it.
For the teams we serve, compliance has too long meant parallel spreadsheets, point-in-time snapshots, and a scramble before every audit. We believe risk posture and compliance status should be a live byproduct of watching your environment — current by default, defensible on demand, and grounded in the same evidence your analysts already trust.
Built In, Not Bolted On
GRC runs on the same converged data as threat detection — one source of truth for security and compliance alike.
Continuous, Not Point-in-Time
Controls evidence themselves from live data, so your posture stays current without manual collection.
Defensible by Design
Auditor-ready evidence and an immutable history of every status change — provable whenever you're asked.
Physical and Cybersecurity
Are Converging.
The $48B+ global enterprise security market is undergoing a fundamental shift. Organizations are recognizing that physical and cyber threats don't exist in isolation — and neither should the systems that detect them. Orphean is building the platform that defines this new category.
Our Approach
Augment, Don't Replace
Orphean sits above your existing security stack. We make your current investments smarter without requiring you to rip and replace.
Intelligence, Not Alerts
We transform raw events into scored, correlated, explainable intelligence. Context replaces noise. Patterns replace individual alerts.
Continuous Learning
Behavioral baselines evolve with your organization. Orphean's intelligence gets sharper over time without manual tuning.
Join Us in Defining
Converged Security
We're building the future of security operations. Talk to us about how Orphean fits your mission.