Rethinking Defence

Resilience Media is an independent publication focused on defence, security, and resilience. It is run by tech media and industry professionals who care about the defence and security of their democracies. Resilience Media is a mission-driven business that champions the role of startups and the tech sector in defence and national security by bringing together the public sector and tech sector at events, and by covering their stories in our media outlet.

John Biggs

John Biggs is an entrepreneur, consultant, writer, and maker. He spent fifteen years as an editor for Gizmodo, CrunchGear, and TechCrunch and has a deep background in hardware startups, 3D printing, and blockchain. His work has also appeared in Men’s Health, Wired, and the New York Times

Natasha Lomas

Natasha Lomas is a freelance journalist and editor who has been reporting on the tech industry for the best part of two decades. Based in Europe, she was most recently senior reporter on staff at TechCrunch. She has also freelanced for the New European (aka the New World), Digital Frontier, the Guardian, and the BBC. Her journalism includes coverage of startups, tech policy, consumer gadgets, and a range of socially impactful issues. Currently she is also Tech Editor for the Brussels-based media network, Euractiv, where she manages a team of tech policy reporters.

Jonathan Shieber

Jon Shieber covers the intersection of climate, technology, and resilience. He currently works as a Senior Strategist for the communications firm LaunchSquad and previously worked as a Venture Partner at Robert Downey Jr.’s climate-focused venture fund, FootPrint Coalition, and spent 18 years as an editor and reporter for TechCrunch, Dow Jones, and The Wall Street Journal.

Contributors

Fiona Alston

Fiona Alston is a defence tech, innovation and business journalist based in Estonia. With over a decade of experience covering tech, business and sustainability for Irish and European publications, she has a knack for bringing interesting and technical stories to an everyday audience.

Paul Sawers

Paul is an experienced technology journalist covering some of the biggest stories from Europe and beyond since 2011 — most recently at TechCrunch.

Initially focused on consumer stories around the European startup ecosystem, Paul later segued into enterprise, infrastructure, and AI, with a particular interest in open source. In January, 2025, he launched Forkable, a newsletter all about open source.

Julia Gifford

Julia Gifford is a Canadian-Latvian writer and communicator, a tech advocate who gets excited about telling the world about Europe’s tech excellence and impactful initiatives from the region. She has recently published her first book, Treasures of Latvia, and has previously written for Tech.eu, Labs of Latvia, and more.

Tom Pashby

Carly Page

Carly Page is a freelance technology journalist with over a decade of experience covering the intersection of tech and security. She previously worked as a senior cybersecurity reporter at TechCrunch, focusing on ransomware campaigns, data breaches, zero-day exploits, and government cyber policy. She also writes for IT Pro, LeadDev, The Telegraph, WIRED and more.

Editorial Board

Jessica Cecil

Jessica Cecil works both commercially and in the not-for-profit sector on the challenges new technology is throwing at the media and creative industries. She was a journalist at the BBC and Chief of Staff to four Directors-General. While there she also negotiated and led the Trusted News Initiative, the world’s only alliance of the biggest tech companies and news organisations, alerting each other fast to the most harmful forms of disinformation. As a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Reuters Institute, she chaired a series of roundtables in 2023 where tech and news companies considered the implications – both good and bad – of Generative AI for the news industry. She is currently developing an innovative training programme for professionals fighting disinformation.

Jessica is a non-executive director at The Digital Catapult, a Trustee at Bristol University, and a Council Member at Chatham House.

Caroline Daniel

Caroline Daniel is a Partner at Brunswick Group, and specialises in technology, artificial intelligence and media, providing strategic communications advice to boards and senior executives at both FTSE100 companies and tech start-ups, for CEOs and founders. Her work includes advising on crisis situations, AI positioning, IPOs, leadership campaigns, financial transactions, and stakeholder engagement.

She spent 17 years at the Financial Times in leading editorial roles including as Editor of FT Weekend (2010-2016), Opinion Page Editor, White House correspondent, and technology writer. She has previously made multiple broadcast appearances as well as been a frequent moderator at tech and geopolitical events including Brilliant Minds, WebSummit, and CogX.

Caroline was a member of the BBC’s Editorial Guidance and Standards Committee, a BBC Board committee from July 2022-July 2026; is member of the Trilateral Commission, a global non-governmental discussion group of leading executives and politicians; and is a Trustee of the UK’s leading non-fiction prize and at The Trampery, a social enterprise in London.

Andrew Pike CBE

Andrew is the Founder of his own boutique advisory, public affairs and communications consultancy. Clients include leading names from national security and soft power. From 2021 until autumn 2023, he was Director of Downing Street’s GREAT Britain and Northern Ireland Campaign – the world’s most successful overseas prosperity and nation branding initiative.

Previously, Andrew was Director of National Security Communications at No 10 and the Cabinet Office. Among other things, he led the cross government communications response to the Russian poisonings in Salisbury and Gulf tanker crisis.

As GCHQ’s first Director of Communications and Engagement, he led an ambitious and internationally unprecedented engagement programme designed to increase understanding of the crucial work the agency performs to keep people safe.

A career diplomat by background, previous Diplomatic Service assignments have included Ireland, Poland, Vanuatu, Libya, Brazil and Yemen.  He worked for almost six years, from 2004 in New York as HM Consul with special responsibility for Northern Ireland and was main British government link with the White House, The Hill, and the US government. Before this, Andrew was head of communications for BBC England.

Advisory Board

Graham Chynoweth

Graham Chynoweth has experience as technology executive, venture investor, and U.S. Navy Reserve officer with deep expertise in innovation and startup ecosystems. He has served as CEO of a NASDAQ-listed company, led successful public and private capital raises, driven over a dozen M&A transactions, and helped foster defense innovation and dual use finance ecosystems through roles at NavalX and the Office of Strategic Capital. Graham holds degrees from Duke and UC Berkeley and currently serves on the board of NH Public Radio and as a council member at the Center for Global Competition and Innovation.

Sir Chris Deverell

Sir Chris Deverell founded Deverell Innovation Ventures in 2019. His advisory portfolio is centred on Innovation, Strategy, and Leadership, in both the public and private sectors. Chris is also an angel investor, as well as a Venture Partner in a San Francisco VC. He was recently a panel member for the UK Strategic Defence Review.

Sir Chris retired from the military in September 2019. In the rank of 4* General, his last role was as the Commander of Joint Forces Command and one of the UK Chiefs of Staff, responsible for UK Special Forces, Defence Intelligence, Operational Command and Control, Cyber, Space, Information Systems and Services, Defence Medical Services, Professional Military Education, Defence Force Development, Logistic Policy, and all UK Joint Operating Bases around the globe.

Dr Chris Magazzeni

Chris Magazzeni is an Investment Director at Lakestar, where he leads investments across Aerospace, Defence, Industrialisation, and Resilience technologies throughout Europe. His work focuses on backing founders building critical capabilities for the future of European security and industrial sovereignty.

Chris began his career as an aerospace engineer, completing a PhD in partnership with Rolls-Royce at the University of Oxford, before moving on to work at the European Space Agency. Prior to joining Lakestar, Chris was a VC at IQ Capital, where he led the firm’s aerospace and defence investment practice.

In early 2023, Chris co-founded and now co-chairs the UK Defence Investor Network — a cross-sector community that convenes UK defence and security-focused VCs with senior military, political, and end-user stakeholders. The initiative aims to accelerate and inform capital allocation into national security innovation by fostering collaboration between the investment community and key decision-makers.

Charlie March

Kadi Silde

Kadi Silde is the Director for European Engagement at Helsing, where her work is focused on EU, NATO and Europe’s Eastern Flank. Prior to that, she worked in various roles in NATO and the private sector, accelerating defence tech start-ups. She helped set up NATO DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic), as Head of the transition team, and subsequently as Chief Operating Officer.

She previously served as Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence in 2019-2022. She joined the Ministry of Defence in 2008, holding various positions including the director of policy planning. She joined Estonia’s EU Council Presidency team at the Estonian Representation to the EU in 2017, coordinating defence efforts and subsequently worked in the European Commission on defence industry initiatives such as the European Defence Fund.

Clayton Williams

Managing Director, IQT International

Dr Ilana Wisby

Dr. Ilana Wisby is a deep tech entrepreneur, quantum physicist, and seasoned CEO. As the founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she took the company from lab-stage research to one of the world’s leading quantum computing businesses — raising over £100 million and launching the first quantum platform in a public data centre.

Ilana advises governments, startups, and national security bodies on quantum strategy, emerging technologies, and responsible innovation. She is passionate about building high-performing, emotionally intelligent teams.

She is currently developing a new venture at the intersection of the future of compute and open societal impact.

Resilience Media Mission Statement and Code of Practice

Mission statement

Resilience Media is a mission-driven organisation founded to support the role of tech in defence and national security. To do this we bring together the military, national security community, tech investors, and most importantly startup founders. We convene them at our events, and our media publication acts as a platform to shape the narrative in this rapidly evolving tech ecosystem. We write news, news analysis, features, and opinion pieces about startups, investment, policy, strategy, and tactics. Our writers develop these stories and we host guest writing from experts, all of which informs this sector and those adjacent to it to support the defence of our democracies.

Our code of practice

• Resilience Media is part of Resilience Media Ltd, which also produces events focused on the same principle and mission statement.
• Resilience Media will occasionally write about and promote our own events: this will include articles to encourage people to attend our conferences, articles telling you about the speakers and sessions we are lining up, and — when merited, and when sessions are not under Chatham House Rule — reporting on the stories that come out of our events.
• We are a team that wears many hats. Writers at Resilience Media are involved in other activities (you can read about them in our profiles). We are committed to taking an ethical approach to our writing and will make clear any conflicts of interest or association our writers or guest writers have that may affect their writing.
• We have assembled a senior Editorial Board that will act as an independent advisor to ensure journalistic independence and best practice at Resilience Media.
• Our editorial decisions and writing are never influenced by investors, sponsors, or any other forms of payment. We keep editorial and commercial separate across our activities. We choose and reject stories based on their merit and relevance to our mission statement, and we do not accept payment either to be featured in our publication or on our stage at events.
• We do not use AI to write stories. What you read has been penned by a human. We occasionally might use AI in the course of research, as we would search engines.
• We want to encourage discourse and debate in our writing and on our stage. While we support different views, opinions, and beliefs, we operate within a clear understanding that we are in favour of democracy, truth, facts, and the accepted ethics of most Western liberal democracies.
• We operate in a high risk environment and moment in history. We are a security-first media company. This means that we put the security of individuals and our national security first. Sometimes we may not name people or companies when we cover them in order to protect them. We also respect the steps taken by government agencies to protect their employees and their work when they are covered by or speaking at our events. We aim to be a safe, responsible platform that can support dialogues and interactions not possible elsewhere. Whilst managing these issues we always operate within the clear code of ethics of an independent media company, and defer to our Editorial Board to support this approach.

This page was last updated on 17 January 2026.