Richard Combes is a cybersecurity leader with over 20 years of experience in the field. Since 2020 he has led leads Sales Engineering for Data Protection across EMEA and APJ at Proofpoint helping customers manage data risks.

Previously, he spent 15 years at Symantec in Product Management and Sales Engineering leader roles, specialising in data security.

He holds a CISSP and IAPP EU Privacy Professional and Privacy Program Manager qualifications.