Our team
Periphery was founded to tackle one of the biggest challenges in modern cybersecurity: protecting the embedded systems in critical infrastructure. Our founders have been working together for over a decade, including while building the incident response capabilities for NATO nations. Here, they saw first-hand the impending crisis that the proliferation of connected and autonomous systems was creating.

Based in the UK, our team of data scientists, analysts, and engineers blends experience from across the economy, including technology, consulting, government and defence, all united in our goal to solve this pressing security gap.
Toby Wilmington
CEO & Co-founder
Toby Wilmington
CEO & Co-founder

Toby Wilmington is a former NATO and BAE Systems cyber operative, who founded Periphery to protect cyber-physical systems. Having worked against increasingly sophisticated and targeted threats, he moved on to Recorded Future, where he helped multinational critical infrastructure and defense organisations build out intelligence programmes and analyse international threat actors and operations. This experience has shaped Periphery’s intelligence-led embedded models and focused its mission to protect embedded systems in critical infrastructure.

Kane Ryans
CTO & Co-founder
Kane Ryans
CTO & Co-founder

Kane Ryans is a cybersecurity analyst, automation specialist and technical detection engineer, who has worked across private, government and military security for more than 15 years. As Periphery’s Chief Technology Officer, Kane was the lead programmer responsible for building the product, designing the easy-to-implement architecture and the pioneering use of a ‘Central AI’, which compiles intelligence from devices at the edge and allows for faster threat identification. Having begun his career with a home-study security course, Kane excelled as a security engineer and analyst for BAE Systems and NATO, working in some of the most high-security and highly regulated environments in the world. His passion for the technology behind the solutions led him to move into engineering, building security automation solutions for NCC Group. He now leads Periphery’s technical team, managing everything from architecture strategy through to tactical implementation for customers.

Adam Massey
Chief Security Officer & Co-founder
Adam Massey
Chief Security Officer & Co-founder

Adam Massey is a threat detection and security compliance specialist. A former cybersecurity expert for NATO, Oracle, and BAE Systems, his experience includes leading incident handling projects in highly regulated sectors and assessing the 2015 TalkTalk cyberattack. At NATO, he built detection networks in Iraq and Afghanistan. He now leads Periphery's legal compliance, ensuring the technology meets international frameworks, and runs honeypot networks to identify new threats and maintain cutting-edge threat intelligence.