About Us

Deep expertise.
Clear mission.

We are security practitioners, engineers, and productbuilders who identified the same gap from every angle: theindustry was tracking products when it needed to be trackingcapabilities.

Security portfolios have grown faster than the frameworks built to manage them. Vendor capabilities shift with every acquisition. Budgets haven't kept pace. And the perimeter now includes tools security leaders may not even know exist.
ESPROFILER exists to close that gap—not as another dashboard, but as the first true intelligence platform for security portfolios. One that gives security leaders the intelligence they need to manage what they defend with confidence.
Our Story

How ESPROFILER Came to Exist

The founding insight was straightforward: the data needed to manage a security portfolio well already exists inside mostorganisations. Procurement systems hold contract and renewal data. Security operations teams hold performance and incidentdata. Vendor websites publish capability data. The problem is that no one had stitched it together.

​​Louis Holt spent over a decade working across government, counter-terrorism, and Fortune-level enterprise securitytransformations. The same pattern appeared everywhere — organisations with significant security investments that couldn't answerbasic questions about what they had, what it did, or whether it was working.

​​ESPROFILER was built to answer those questions at scale — automatically, continuously, and in a format that a CISO can take into aboard conversation with confidence.​​

Today, ESPROFILER is deployed in enterprise environments, backed by Google for Startups and validated through the UK NationalCyber Security Centre programme. The platform continues to grow with the mission it was founded on: giving security leaders theintelligence they need to lead.​

Leadership

The People Behind the Platform

Chief Product Officer

Joe Pavitt

Record-Breaking Inventor, became the Youngest Ever IBM Master Inventor in the UK at age 26, holding 17 filed patents in bleeding-edge technologies.

Chief Product Officer

Joe Pavitt

Record-Breaking Inventor, became the Youngest Ever IBM Master Inventor in the UK at age 26, holding 17 filed patents in bleeding-edge technologies.

Chief Revenue Officer

John McCann

Exited founder with 30+ years cyber sales expertise spanning enterprise vendors, services, and cutting-edge AI/ML security startups.

Chief Revenue Officer

John McCann

Exited founder with 30+ years cyber sales expertise spanning enterprise vendors, services, and cutting-edge AI/ML security startups.

CEO & Founder

Louis Holt

Over a decade in cybersecurity, from government & counter-terrorism to global enterprises. Deep expertise in major security transformations for Fortune-level organizations.

CEO & Founder

Louis Holt

Over a decade in cybersecurity, from government & counter-terrorism to global enterprises. Deep expertise in major security transformations for Fortune-level organizations.

Recognitions

Recognised by the organisations that validate enterprise-grade security companies

National Cyber Security Centre

NCSC for Startups

Alumni of the NCSC's competitive For Startups programme, validating ESPROFILER's approach to enterprise security intelligence.
AI for Cybersecurity

Google for Startups

One of a select cohort of startups building at the intersection of AI and enterprise security, supported by Google's specialized programme.
techUK Winner

Cyber Innovation Den 2024

Recognised by techUK's CISO cohort as a standout innovation in the UK cybersecurity ecosystem.
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We work directly with CISOs, security architects, and portfolio leads. Tell us what you are dealing with — we will tell you if we can help.

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