In 2009, she moved to Mike Lynch’s Autonomy, a business that would become inextricably intertwined with Darktrace, for a two-year stint, before the cybersecurity company was born. She then qualified as an accountant at Deloitte before working for Amadeus Capital, the venture capital firm run by ARM Holdings founder Hermann Hauser.
After attending Hinchingbrooke secondary school – alumni include Oliver Cromwell and Samuel Pepys, and Wolf Hall author Hilary Mantel was patron of its 450th anniversary – she took a maths degree at the University of Sheffield, where her first student job was building kitchen cabinets. She grew up in Cambridgeshire, where her father ran an agricultural sales business and her mother was a journalist for Farmers Weekly. “It’s only something I’m aware of when I’m doing interviews or when I’m at an industry event and suddenly you see a sea of men staring back at you,” she has previously said.īy design or not, Gustafsson, who was awarded an OBE last year for her contribution to cybersecurity, has proved to be something of a gender stereotype-breaker for much of her life. A rare tweeter, the last post still lingering at the top of her Twitter feed references how “proud” the company was of its gender diversity marking International Women’s Day. Photograph: John Phillips/Getty Imagesĭarktrace employs more than 1,500 staff globally, of which 40% are female – including at management level – a rarity against an industry average of just 15%. Poppy Gustafsson at a tech conference in London.
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