Company & Culture

The Team Building ProtectYourData

A founding leadership structure built with independent governance from day one — not deferred until a later funding round.

Executive Team & Security Practice Leaders

Led by Veterans in Cyber Defense, AI Research & Compliance

Our leadership combines decades of front-line threat response, cloud security architecture, data sovereignty governance, and machine learning research across Africa, Europe, and North America.

Executive Officers

The People Driving Human Cyber Defense

Guiding product engineering, threat intelligence, and enterprise customer success.

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Chief Executive Officer

Rockson Adote

Executive Director
CEO & Managing Director, ProtectYourData™

Enterprise cybersecurity strategist and Havoserve Limited executive. Spearheads corporate vision, international market expansion, and the development of sovereign human-layer defense architectures.

Focus Area: Strategic Vision, Enterprise Growth & Sovereign AI
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Chief Security Officer

Dr. Chioma Nkemdilim

CISSP • CISM
Chief Information Security Officer (CISO)

Former banking defense director with over 16 years leading blue teams and threat hunting operations across pan-African financial institutions. Oversees LMS curriculum threat validation and red-team phishing simulations.

Focus Area: Threat Simulation, Zero-Trust & Blue Team Pedagogy
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AI Threat Research

Babajide Olawale

PhD (Adversarial ML)
Head of AI Threat Research & Model Security

Leading researcher in prompt injection mitigation, voice synthesis detection, and Agentic AI safety. Drives the continuous learning engine of Gregory AI and develops deepfake detection drills.

Focus Area: Gregory AI, LLM Security & Deepfake Detection
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Auditor Defense

Amara Okonkwo

ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
VP of Regulatory Compliance & Auditor Defense

Certified Lead Auditor with extensive advisory background with NDPC, GDPR, and PCI-DSS compliance frameworks. Architects the automated audit reporting and compliance evidence vault for enterprise clients.

Focus Area: ISO/IEC 27001, NDPA 2023 & SOC 2 Verification
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Enterprise Solutions

Tariq Al-Mansoor

EMEA Solutions
VP of Global Enterprise Solutions

Oversees multi-tenant infrastructure integrations, SCIM/SSO identity federations, and dedicated private cloud deployments for multinational enterprise clients across EMEA and APAC.

Focus Area: Enterprise Integration, SSO & Sovereign Deployments
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Behavioral Pedagogy

Folake Adeyemi

Learning Experience
Director of Cybersecurity Pedagogy

Cognitive psychology and instructional design specialist. Develops micro-learning pathways, gamification mechanics, and interactive exercises that ensure maximum employee retention and behavioral change.

Focus Area: Behavioral Science, Retention & Gamified Learning
Core Objective

ProtectYourData is led by an executive team spanning technology, security, product, revenue, finance, and compliance, supported by a board with an independent-director majority. [Populate with named leadership bios and photos as roles are filled; use the structure below as placeholder copy per role.]

Framework & Implementation Architecture

An independent-director majority sits on the board’s Audit & Risk and Technology & Security committees, reflecting a governance standard built for institutional and government buyers, not just commercial ones.

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