Steve Purdham

Steve Purdham co-founded the vision, architecture and development of SurfControl in 1996. It was this vision and opportunity that enabled the Company to enter the public arena in 1998 and experience rapid growth.
His early experience was as a technical strategist for a major European computer OEM, with specific focus on the financial sector. During the early 80’s, he was intimately involved with the emergence of the Open Systems market.
Since mid 90’s he has strategically worked with major worldwide software organisations to understand, analyse and define the exploding Internet marketplace. He has been a frequent conference speaker on the subject of the Internet and has contributed to several books and papers on the subject.
As President and then CEO of SurfControl he has been specifically responsible for building the operation, driving the planning, development, marketing and execution of the significant growth of the business from its first appearance on the LSE AIM market, then EASDAQ to its current TechMARK status.
During its three years as a public company, SurfControl has rapidly grown to a leading Global Operation with 387 people across 8 offices in USA, UK, Europe and Australia and has established itself as the #1 Filtering Company in the Global Security Market.