OSTIA Board

Ian Stevenson MBE

Chair

Ian Stevenson's work in online safety started when he was CEO of Cyacomb, a company helping law enforcement, social media and cloud companies find and combat CSAM. Ian is a technologist and entrepreneur with 25 years' experience bringing new technologies to market. Ian has campaigned for online safety through OSTIA and alongside NGOs and actvists for nearly a decade, and was awarded an MBE for services to online safety in 2025.

Adam Hildreth

Adam started his first business in 1999 at the age of 15. Dubit was one of the world's first social media networks. It went on to become one of the most popular websites for teenagers in the UK. Adam subsequently worked with the UK government to develop the first online child protection laws; he then left Dubit to set up Crisp in 2005. Today Crisp (now Resolver) the expert in weaponized communication defense.

Richard Pursey

CEO SafeToNet

Richard Pursey is a seasoned entrepreneur having successfully started and sold a number of technology companies in both the services and software sector. Following this success, he became an active private investor before founding SafeToNet where he is Group CEO. Richard has held various board level positions and sat on the board of the Southern Division of the CBI.

Dr Anna Vartapetiance

CEO Securium

Dr Anna Vartapetiance is the CEO, Co-Founder, and Co-Director of Securium and Visiting Fellow of Surrey Centre for Cyber Security. In 2017 Anna was acknowledged by the Home Office as an Exceptional Talent in Natural Language Processing, Cyber Security, and Data Sciences. Since 2007, she has focused her efforts in designing and developing systems for "Safer Internet".