Founding Members

The founding members are...

the original members of the UK OSINT Community

Run by volunteers for the community

Uniting the UK OSINT community to enhance skills, share knowledge, and build networks in an informal, collaborative environment.

Founding Members

Founding Members

Our founding members supported the UK OSINT Community from day 0. They helped put on the first event, funded and promoted the community and crafted the mission.

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CEO of OSINT Industries, a UK open source intelligence platform used by 3000+ law enforcement agencies.
CEO at South West Cyber Resilience Centre. Former UK Law Enforcement Cyber Protect Officer. Co-Author of D.O.G Online Safety Books.
Founder of Intelligence with Steve and PMM at Skopenow. Frequent industry speaker and OSINT trainer in both the US and UK.
Phil D
Complex covert Internet intelligence investigations. SOCMINT, OSINT, Imagery Analyst, Target Audience Analyst, Analyst (Def). Investigations, Intel.
Formerly of the British Army Intelligence Corps, Lindsay has been on the founding team at Cybsafe & Yapily.
Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Netwatch Global.
William Ruzich
CEO of The Aracari Project. With over 12 years of experience in HUMINT and OSINT, has a US Army background and degrees from Purdue and Arizona State. He delivers critical intelligence solutions to high-profile global clients.
Technologist, founder, consultant, writer.
Retired UK law enforcement officer, OSINT investigator, and trainer for over 20 years, created and runs uk-osint.net and lecturer at UCLAN. Helped found and runs Locate International.
Founder of Hunt Intelligence, an OSINT platform that enables analysts to uncover social media insights from any location worldwide.
Using OSINT, Saul primarily builds reports for global firms requiring security support. Formerly a historian, he is interested in how transnational trends continue to shape security concerns.
Current Director of Intelligence Solutions at Intel 471. Former SOCMINT Tradecraft Trainer. Specialised in Cybercrime Investigations, Threat Actor Attribution and Cyber Threat Intelligence. Jordan holds a Master's Degree in Intelligence Analysis with the Australian Graduate School of Policing and Security.
Director of Animal Welfare Investigations Project. Certified Animal Cruelty Investigator. Specialises in Internet Investigations and Intelligence.
Neil C.
Complex technical intelligence / investigations with a focus on using OSINT as a precursor to identifying and exploiting vulnerabilities.
CSO at OSINT Industries, former Australian Police Officer, former Cyber Investigator.
Lee Lewis (@LeeLewis_1)
Founder of UserSearch & ScamSearch, former Lead Digital Forensic Officer at CEOP. With 17 years in law enforcement, Lee is a recognised Digital Forensic Expert in the UK and a professional software developer, passionate about data exploitation and AI.
Former NCA DICE manager and now working within the OSINT training world whilst running the Osintia platform.
Co-founder of OSINT BE. Director of Business Intelligence Services at BANTS Consulting.
OSINT Analyst. Founder of Tactical OSINT Academy. Creator of MASTO OSINT Tool & various other tools. Keen CTF player.
CEO of Venandi. OSINT Consultant. OSINT trainer.
Sasha A.
UK Law Enforcement.
Robin E.
UK Law Enforcement.
Peter
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