Innerworks Appoints Egress Founder Tony Pepper to the Board
London, 12/02 - Innerworks today announced the appointment of Tony Pepper as Non-Executive Director, strengthening the company’s leadership as it builds security infrastructure for an internet shaped by autonomous threats.
Tony Pepper is one of the UK’s most accomplished cybersecurity entrepreneurs and the founder and former CEO of Egress, the cloud email security company acquired by Vista Equity Partners–backed KnowBe4 in 2024. His appointment brings deep commercial scaling expertise, shaped by experience securing the highest-stakes systems across global enterprises and critical national infrastructure.
“The threat model has changed,” said Pepper. “Attackers now operate as autonomous systems. Defending against them requires security that can identify adversaries, adapt continuously, and operate independently of human intervention. Innerworks has built precisely that.”
Innerworks is foundational account-security infrastructure. The company operates at the device, network, and behavior layer to answer three primitive questions that underpin most fraud and security decisions: whether an actor is human or automated, what persistent device they are operating from, and where they are truly located.
The platform is deployed in production environments protecting hundreds of billions of dollars in transaction volume, where it has materially outperformed incumbent security approaches, including against highly sophisticated and state-sponsored adversaries.
“Tony understands how cybersecurity categories are actually built - and when they need to be rebuilt,” said Oliver Quie [Founder & CEO], Innerworks. “His joining reflects a shared conviction that security must now be architected as autonomous, adversarial infrastructure - not a human-managed workflow.”
Tony Pepper’s appointment comes at a moment of inflection for the cybersecurity industry, as incumbent detection rates deteriorate under the weight of autonomous and AI-driven attacks. As traditional, human-paced security models fail to keep up, the market is increasingly open to a new security paradigm built for machine-speed adversaries.
