Lord Toby Harris was made a Life Peer in June 1998 and is Vice-Chair of the Labour Peers. He is Chair of the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Policing and Treasurer of the Parliamentary Information Technology Committee (PITCOM). He is a member of the Joint Committee on National Security and was also a member of the House of Lords Select Committee that reported on Personal Internet Security in 2007.

He was the first Chair of the Metropolitan Police Authority (MPA) from 2000 to 2004 and continues to sit on the MPA as the representative of the Home Secretary with a remit to oversee the national and international functions of the Metropolitan Police - primarily its role in counter-terrorism and security. He is Vice-President of the Association of Police Authorities.

He is the Chair of the Independent Advisory Panel on Deaths in Custody which reports to the Ministry of Justice, the Home Office and the Department of Health.

In October 1998 he established his own public affairs consultancy, Toby Harris Associates, which advises a number of major public and private sector bodies.

David Veness served as Under-Secretary-General of the UN Department of Safety and Security from its creation in 2005 until June 2009. This role carries responsibility for UN operations globally. Prior to this appointment, he was Assistant Commissioner (Specialist Operations) New Scotland Yard from 1994-2005.

He joined the Metropolitan Police as a cadet in 1964 and as a constable in 1966. In the course of his police career he specialized in serious crime investigation, hostage negotiation and counter terrorism. David was educated at Trinity College, Cambridge (MA, LLM), and attended The Royal College of Defence Studies 1990.

David was awarded Queen’s Police Medal in 1994, appointed CBE in 2000, and was Knighted in 2004.

Narinder Nayar has been actively and passionately involved with the Mumbai Transformation Programme, which is spearheaded by the Honourable Chief Minister.  As Chairman of Bombay First, Narinder was instrumental in arranging a study together with McKinsey on how Mumbai could be transformed into a world-class City over the next ten years.

Following this study, several initiatives have been taken by the Maharashtra Government including constituting a Citizens’ Action Group of which Narinder Nayar is the Vice Chairman.  In addition, he is also an active member of the Empowered Committee headed by the Chief Secretary to monitor various ongoing projects in Mumbai.

He is also President of the Indo-Italian Chamber of Commerce and Industry, Chairman of the Indo-Portuguese Business Committee and chairs an important CII Committee dealing with metallurgical equipment. He is also Member of the National Council of the Confederation of Indian Industry. He was a member of the Deutsche Bank Local Advisory Board for eight years.

Tom Barham is developing Business Safety Wales, a project to raise awareness and respond to business crime.  

Tom has worked for North Wales Police for the past seven years as Income Generation Manager and has developed a successful range of police/ business partnerships including the award-winning DangerPoint safety education centre.  He has been seconded to Welsh Assembly Government to develop Business Safety Wales.

Tom was previously Deputy Director of Business in the Community Wales for five years, developing corporate responsibility projects impacting on education, crime and regeneration.   He lives in North Wales with his wife and two young sons.

John has spent his entire career working within the Intelligence Services arena. With that in mind, details of his achievements are classified. However, the last 10 years saw John in the IA (Information Assurance) field delivering Threat Briefings to UK Government, Military, Police and The Royal Household. His lectures have been well received by over a ¼ of a million people and he is very much considered to be a ‘Subject Matter Expert’ lecturing alongside such noted luminaries as Lieutenant General Sir John Kiszely KCB MC (Director of the Defence Academy, Shrivenham) and Professor Richard Holmes CBE TD JP (Professor of Security Studies at Cranfield University).

More recently, John has moved into the commercial world delivering Threat Briefings and Security Advice to the likes of VT Group, BP, RWE npower, Ernst&Young, London First, CSARN and AWE while continuing to support the Police, Military, Special Forces and Clarence House.

Richard Bingley /
CEO / CSARN

Richard Bingley is the Chief Executive Officer of the not-for-profit business membership group, CSARN. During his career he has advised and worked with government partners in some of the world's most vulnerable urban security environments across Britain, the USA and India, including the UK's own National Counter-Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO).

Richard began his career in the City of London within the IT sector, before graduating from Leeds University with a Masters Degree in International Studies specializing in security studies. Subsequently, he has held leading positions within international human rights NGOs, journalism and government public relations. Richard has worked advising high-profile UK and overseas government leaders including Britain's last two Prime Ministers, Cabinet Ministers, MPs and Local Authority leaders. He is a widely published human rights and security commentator and has published books on the international defence trade and global terrorism with Heinemann.

Richard is a member of the British Standards Institute Security Management Committee. He served as an elected member of Thurrock unitary borough council between 1997-2000, and 2006-2010

Ian Carter is a former Metropolitan Police Commander based at New Scotland Yard. For the last three years of his service he was the Director of Protective Security with responsibility for Aviation Security, the terrorism strand of the Olympic Games 2012 and was Secretary to the Association of Chief Police Officers Terrorism and Allied Matters Committee (ACPO TAM). His command included the National Counter Terrorism Security Office (NaCTSO), the Police International Counter Terrorism Unit (PICTU), oversight of the police officers in the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre (JTAC) and the Metropolitan Police Security Coordinators (SecCo). He was also the senior police representative on the PROTECT strand of the Government's Terrorism Strategy, the Steering Group for the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and the Oversight Group for JTAC.

As a Chief Police Officer he strongly influenced numerous national policing strategies and policies and has worked with central Government to design key legislation, most notably in Police Reform, protective security and counter terrorism. He is a highly experienced Gold Commander and presents and lectures on 'Leading in a Crisis' in the UK and abroad. After a 30 year police career he now runs his own security and risk company and works as a senior advisor on policing and national security for Deloitte

Jon was taken on by the Daily Mirror ten years ago as a graduate trainee and has enjoyed a varied career as a tabloid newspaper journalist.

He has been a general news reporter, with assignments including undercover investigations of the far right, and a duty news editor, managing coverage of events such as the 2004 Tsunami and the July 7 bombings.

Jon spent 18 months as showbiz editor in charge of the Mirror’s celebrity, television, music, film and Hollywood coverage and supervised the award-winning 3am girls column.

In 2006, he became a foreign correspondent and has reported from Iraq, Lebanon, Syria and Israel.
For the last three years, Jon has covered crime, specialising in forensics, terrorism and the policing of rape.

Richard “Rich” Cooper is a Partner with Catalyst Partners, LLC, (formerly known as Olive, Edwards & Cooper, LLC) a government and public affairs practice in Washington, that focuses on homeland and national security matters. Cooper offers client advice and strategic planning support on matters relating to emergency preparedness and business continuity leadership, public-private partnerships, homeland security policies and programes as well as science and technology development and deployment.

He also serves as the Vice Chairman of the Homeland Security Division of the National Defense Industrial Association (NDIA); as a member of the American National Standards Institute’s Homeland Security Standards Panel (ANSI-HSSP); and as an Advisor to the Reform Institute and New York University’s International Center for Enterprise Preparedness (InterCEP).

Thomas is Corporate Business Continuity Manager for Manchester City Council. His role involves leading and managing the corporate business continuity / crisis management programme for the local government operations across the major metropolitan city. Linked to this role Thomas acts as a senior manager within the City Council’s Civil Contingencies Unit and is responsible for enhancing community resilience by ensuring robust and resilient capability exists to prepare for, respond to, and recover from a disaster that may inflict the city.

Thomas Chairs the UK Emergency Planning Society’s Business Continuity Professional Working Group and Chairs the Core Cities Business Continuity Group. Thomas also chaired the Manchester Business Continuity Forum (MBCF) between 2008 to 2010. The public - private collaborative working these groups have encouraged under Thomas’s leadership have been nationally recognised as setting new precedents for best practice working within the UK. Thomas continues to be involved in developing national approaches to Corporate Resilience and is active in the BSI committee developing Third-Party Supplier Continuity Guidance (PD25222).

Thomas is a Member of the Emergency Planning Society (EPS), an Associate Member of the Business Continuity Institute (BCI) a Specialist Member of the Institute of Risk Management (IRM) and an ALARM public sector Registered Risk Practitioner. Prior to joining Manchester City Council, Thomas worked in both business continuity management and insurance in the financial services.

Steve Cummings established the UK’s Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) in 2007 and was its first Director until he left the government sector at the end of 2008.

As a senior intelligence and security official, Steve held several key posts and was responsible for the Critical Infrastructure Protection and Personnel Security Programmes under CONTEST, the UK Counter terrorist Strategy.

Since 2009, Steve has worked primarily as a special adviser to Deloitte’s Security and Resilience Practice concentrating on corporate and cyber security and business resilience. He is an Associate Fellow of RUSI and speaks regularly at conferences.

Ruth began her career in the Civil Service, working on a range of socio-economic projects across East London, working with some of the most deprived communities in the country. Ruth formed part of a specialist task force, set up by Government to tackle the mitigation of the London Docklands Development for the surrounding communities.

Ruth has an exemplary track record of managing and delivering regeneration projects and programmes throughout London and the South-East. Significantly involved with major Government initiatives bringing over 25 years of experience.

Over the last two decades, Ruth has been fundamental in the development and implementation of major high profile urban regeneration schemes in Central London delivered through public, private and community partnerships which includes; Paddington Waterside Development; the development and implementation of the Victoria Business Improvement District; and Kings Cross Central.

Ruth is currently leading the development and implementation of the Cheapside Initiative in the City of London. Her experience has been gained through managing projects in the UK and gaining experience through national and international links for partnership development and delivery of urban regeneration.

Paul joined the Fire Service in 1978 working in the busy central Birmingham area. He progressed through senor positions at the national Fire Service College in Gloucestershire, Suffolk Fire Service and Norfolk Fire Service, before being appointed as Chief Fire Officer/Chief Executive with Hereford and Worcester Fire and Rescue Service in 2005.

In addition to his local work, Paul has held a number of key Government and Chief Fire Officers Association (CFOA) roles. Key appointments included membership of the National Fire Safety Committee, national officer for flooding and environment issues, member of the Environment Agency Strategic Partnership Group, the UK Search and Rescue Strategic Group, and advisor to the Local Government Association on water matters.

Paul has represented the UK as a “civil resilience and flood response expert” on a number of EU projects and exercises and has worked extensively on strategic incident command challenges with colleagues in the EU, and with FRS, FEMA and DHS colleagues in the US.

Since leaving the fire and rescue service in 2010, Paul has worked on a number of safety and resilience projects including a UN sponsored role in Mongolia where he assisted the National Emergency Management Agency in devolvement of operational policies for a range of major disasters. His most recent UN deployment has been to assist the Himalayan Kingdom of Bhutan, where he has designed and implemented a Business Continuity programme across all Government Ministries.

Tom's early career took him from Securicor (now G4S) monitoring their Cash in Transit vans and marketing private vehicle tracking systems to Carlson Marketing in Sydney, Australia, Globix Corporation in London and the Moorings Yachting Company in the Caribbean.

On return to the UK, Tom co-founded Crisis Response Journal, the international publication, which for five years has been analysing homeland security issues, large scale natural and manmade emergencies and disaster issues from a multi-agency perspective, and distilling them into practical lessons learnt. From this stemmed the National Risk and FloodFighters suite of conferences.

Tom is now a Director at City Security and Resilience Networks.

Wayne is a Director at the Centre for Disaster Management, Coventry University, where he leads on global academic and practitioner based CPD partnerships.

He has a diverse background spanning risk, crisis, continuity, emergency planning, incident management, facilities and security management. He is the recipient of three inter/national business continuity awards, and a member of the CIR Hall of Fame.

He holds the position of Vice Chairman of the Emergency Planning Society (Professional Working Group) on Business Continuity Management and is the appointed principle expert for the UK in relation to ISO standards on ‘security assurance’ (TC247) and ‘societal security management’ (TC223), where he is currently working with under Swedish Ambassador Krister Kumlin and NAPSO.

Over the past 10 years Wayne has been privileged to advise 26 governments, central banks, the commonwealth, island communities, inter/national police, fire and ambulance services, churches, voluntary organisations and national museums on the core principles of organisational resilience. He has helped draft “Emergency Preparedness”, the non statutory guidance for the UK Civil Contingencies Act (2004), and was invited to contribute to Sir Michael Pitt’s review team regarding proposed recommendations on UK Critical National Infrastructure following serve summer flooding in 2007.

Wayne was appointed by the UK Cabinet Office to oversee new national guidance on Business Continuity Management for all Category One responders. He is a long serving member of the British Standards Institute BCM/1-Business Continuity Management (BS25999), and RM/1 Risk Management (BS31100) committees. He is a former Close Protection operative with extensive experience of operations in private security operations, where he was involved in urban security design, counter IED, and counter terrorism for key London landmarks.

Ghaffar Hussain is Head of Outreach and Training at the Quilliam Foundation and author of A Brief History of Islamism. He holds a BSc (HONS) in Psychology from the University of Wales. Ghaffar previously worked as a Business Development Manager for a number of IT firms and ran his own business venture.

In his youth, he was a very active supporter of a number of non-violent Islamist organizations in the UK. He now works to challenge extremists' ideas and to promote positive modes of political engagement. Ghaffar regularly travels to the UK, North America, and Europe to deliver lectures and organise training sessions for policy makers and practitioners, as well as students and journalists. These sessions focus on raising awareness of Islamist radicalisation as a phenomenon, as well as addressing external contributory factors such as identity, alienation and perceived grievances.

Ghaffar has been quoted in a range of international outlets including: The National, Paris Match, The Guardian, Der Speigel, Kultur Austausch, Islamonline, LBC and the BBC 

A prominent business psychologist and leadership coach.  She is the owner of Equilibria Coaching and Consultation Services, a business/organizational solutions company and also Equilibria Psychological and Consultation Services, LLC, a group practice. Based in Philadelphia, USA, Nicole coaches business and public sector desision-makers to prepare for crisis management and staff trauma scenarios.

Ms. Lipkin co-authored “Y in the Workplace: Managing the “Me First” Generation”, released by Career Press in July 2009, and is a regular contributor to the US print and broadcast media community. 

Brett joined the Metropolitan Police Service in 1978. Over his 30 years of service, he has been posted to uniformed, academic, strategic and detective duties. In 1992, he served as a Detective Inspector in Counter-Terrorism and spent much of that time in Northern Ireland and Europe. He attended Reading University and gained a Masters degree in Criminal Justice and Terrorism.

Brett transferred to the City of London police in his last five years and retired as the Head of Counter Terrorism that included the CT Section, Emergency Planning and Business Continuity, CBRN, Police Search Advisors and Architectural Liaison.

In this role, he was frequently asked to advise international organisations and governments including the US Congress, the European Government in The Hague and the Danish Parliament. Brett led on the London, national and international rollout of Project Griffin (a police/security professional initiative to identify hostile reconnaissance), is now a Liveryman of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals, a member of the Defence and Security Committee in the London Chamber of Commerce and Industry, a member of the UKTI DSO security sector advisory group, a Visiting Fellow at Cranfield University, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a visiting professor at the European Centre for Security Studies in Germany.

Brett is also a Director of Valentis Bridge Ltd and this company addresses the full spectrum of resilience issues featuring both nationally and internationally on defence and organisational solutions.

Richard Lyall is Facility Services Director for Anschutz Entertainment Group (AEG Europe), owners and operators of The O2 in London. Richard has overall responsibility for all hard and soft support services for The O2 Estate including; Building Services, Health & Safety, Logistics, Customer Support Services, Cleaning and, crucially, the Security Services for this iconic site.

Richard is a professional security and senior operations manager whose career to date includes 24 years senior management experience with the UK Post Office security and investigation departments, including 6 years as the Head of Security for Royal Mail Group working throughout the UK and abroad. More recently, involved in developing security strategy and managing the operational security services for Wembley (London) Limited and a range of security consultancy projects.

Hugh McLeod established Assynt Associates in 2003, producing briefing and analysis on terrorism and country risk issues to large companies and government entities with interests in the Middle East, Asia and beyond. In April 2008, their 11-strong-team became part of the Stirling Assynt International Group, of which Hugh is Chief Operating Officer. This new company also provides Business Intelligence and enhanced Due Diligence services.

From 2006-7 Hugh was Head of Security Intelligence in HSBC.  Earlier, he spent 18 years in HM Diplomatic Service, with postings to Islamabad, Accra, Nicosia - where he served as Political Counsellor - and Kosovo. During his service in London his responsibilities included Counter Terrorism, the Arabian Peninsula and the Former Soviet Union. 

Before joining the Diplomatic Service he was in the Army for 14 years, where he served as an infantry officer. His final appointment was to the Military Mission to the Soviet Forces in East Germany, when he was awarded the MBE

Paul Moxness has been with The Rezidor Hotel Group since 1987. During his career he has held various management positions both in operations and at corporate level and his work has taken him to over 50 countries on 4 continents.

Since 1998 Paul has led development of the safety and security programme and guidelines for Rezidor and its brands across Europe, Middle East and Africa. He developed Rezidor’s TRIC=S* formula to oversee and enhance safety, security and resilience and is also involved in strategic planning and support to hotels operating within the Group on events pertaining to safety and security.

Paul was the first European representative on the ASIS International Hotel, Entertainment and Tourism Council, an original member of the OSAC Hotel Security Working Group. He was also a member of the working group at the trade association HOTREC tasked with developing a charter for fire safety in European hotels launched in late 2009. Paul has a Bachelor’s Degree in Social Sciences from the University of Trondheim Norway and currently resides in Brussels where the Rezidor headquarters are located.

*The TRIC=S formula stands for Threat assessment + Risk evaluation and mitigation + Incident response capability + Crisis preparedness, communication and continuity = Safe, Secure hotels.

David has more than 30 years’ experience in business, politics, law and public affairs.  As former chief of staff to US Rep Asa Hutchinson (R-AR3) and a former staffer for US Senator Jim Allen (D-AL) Mr Olive understands that very few things get done in Washington without approaching them in a bi-partisan manner.

Upon leaving Capitol Hill, David oversaw the aviation, antitrust, telecommunications and information technology practice group as senior vice president of the public affairs firm, Powell Tate.

Before coming to Washington, he served as president of Care First Inc, a nursing home management company in Fort Smith, Arkansas. He also directed the legal division of the Donrey Media Group, a multi-state publishing, real estate and advertising firm. Prior to this he practised law as a partner in the Birmingham, Alabama, firm of McMillan & Spratling.  There he had a general civil practice, specialising in news media, risk mitigation, employment law and insurance defense.

He has taught at the University of Alabama-Birmingham, University of Montevallo, and Webster University-Fort Smith.

Detective Chief Inspector Chris Phillips is the Head of the National Counter Terrorism Security office. This is a team of officers responsible for protecting the United Kingdoms hazardous sites and dangerous substances. The unit aims to make the terrorist acquisition of weapons more difficult. The team have the lead role in the Counter terrorism protection of crowded places and soft targets including Stadiums, Shopping centres, Visitor attractions and Licensed premises., They work alongside the Centre for the Protection of the National Infrastructure.

He has responsibility for training, tasking and co-ordinating over 230 Counter Terrorism Security Advisors across the UK.

DCI Phillips devised, developed and delivered the strategy and tactics for the protection of Crowded places. He also worked closely with the Home Office and Lord West to review and then develop new and innovative ways of delivering advice to the various business sectors.

He is a regular speaker to Governments, Business and Police both in the UK and across the world on Counter Terrorism Protective Security and in particular the protection of Crowded places.

He has extensive policing experience in both Public order and community based policing. This included event commander for major sporting events and concerts at Twickenham Stadium. During his service he has experience of commanding events such as Wimbledon tennis and the Epsom Derby. As a public order commander he led teams at many hundreds of public order and security events across London.

He is a very experienced Police Security Co-ordinator (SECCO). In this role he co-ordinated the Counter Terrorist security for visits to the UK from foreign governments and dignitaries. Within this role he also had responsibility for the policing at Lords cricket ground, The Oval, Wembley stadium and large concerts such as The Proms and music concerts.

Ze'ev works for Attorney Gilead Sher who was Israel's Chief Peace Negotiator at the Camp David David Peace talks and formerly head of Ehud Barak's office when he was Prime Minister.

Ze'ev worked for Louise Ellman MP for ten years in the House of Commons as her Political Adviser and as part of this role he conducted extensive research into terrorist groups operating in the Middle East and extremist groups operating within the UK. He also, when visiting the UK still works for the two of the countries leading security companies and has taken part in major security operations at leading sport stadia and arenas, such as Wembley Stadium, Twickenham , Wembley Arena and Lords cricket ground.

Ze'ev is a visiting lecturer at the University of Greenwich in constitutional and international law, as well as, international and domestic politics. He also guest lectures at the University of Liverpool. In his spare time, Ze'ev enjoys reading history books, jogging and listening to music and above all supporting Watford football club.

Sue is a 30 year Corporate Security Professional, who has worked in the fields of Aviation, Finance, and Telecommunications at various levels of management and has learnt her trade along the way.

Sue was actively involved in investigating or managing her teams during the Lockerbie air disaster, 9/11 and 7/7 incidents.
Sue is a trained and qualified Crisis Management Leader, Hostage Negotiator, Change Management Practitioner, Bomb Threat Assessor and Behaviour Profiling Specialist.

In her last corporate role as Global Group Head of Security for Barclays, Sue managed the Crisis Response Team through the Islamabad and Mumbai travel emergencies.

Sue joined Global Aware International in December 2008 in the role of Managing Director.

Her skills offer Global Awares customers consultancy services that are truly unique.

Emma is the Managing Director of Esoteric Ltd, a well established Electronic Sweeping, Counter-Espionage and Intelligence gathering company based in Woking, Surrey. The company is accredited by the National Security Inspectorate and provides a solution based approach to countering espionage activity and electronic countermeasures to both commercial and non commercial organisations internationally.

An MBA graduate, and a Chartered Security Professional (CSyP) Emma's early career was spent with the Royal Military Police, followed by a career in the Security Service (MI5). Emma founded Esoteric Ltd. in 1998. Emma is also a Director & Fellow of the Security Institute; a Board member of the Defence Industry Security Association (DISA); a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and a member of the Advisory Council for CSARN.

Richard is currently seconded from his home force, Nottinghamshire, to the East Midlands Police Regional Collaboration Board researching crimes affecting the Business community in the region. Richard manages the Nottinghamshire Police Business Crime Reduction team, developing the team from concept to a Home Office funded best practice model which addresses business continuity and risk.

He is a Director of the East Midlands Business Crime Forum, a member of the UN Public Private Partnerships Project in protecting Crowded Places and has spoken at numerous international conferences on public sector engagement with the private sector and problem solving. Richard is a member of the Security Institute and recently worked with the CPNI / NaCTSO Resilient Design Team. As a Private Pilot and aircraft owner Richard has a particular interest in the threat posed by private aviation.

Bharat is Head of the Business Continuity and Resilience Services for BT Global Services and has a remit to develop business resilience solutions for BT customers globally. He has over 14 years experience in designing, implementing and managing end to end security and continuity solutions, risk, security and crisis management solution. Prior to joining BT Bharat worked for Fujitsu/ICL in several roles including systems design, project/programme management, business analysis before moving to a specialist consultancy to head their continuity, security and risk practice.

Since joining BT Global Services Bharat has focused on developing BT's BCM and Resilience Services as well as BC strategy, channel enablement and partner and relationship development. He has led strategic programmes in several industry sectors in Europe, Middle East and Asia. Bharat regularly conducts BC and security training events and has been a visiting lecturer on university masters programmes and is a frequent conference speaker. He has an MBA from Imperial College and is a CLAS consultant, CISSP and CBCP practitioner. Bharat lives in Charvil near Reading in Berkshire and is married with two children.

Keith Weston is a Senior Research Fellow in Counter Terrorism in the Security Studies Institute of the Department of Applied Science, Security and Resilience, at Cranfield University, located within the Defence Academy of the United Kingdom.

He currently lectures on several Post Graduate Degree courses on the subjects of policing, counter terrorism, crisis management, security and the forensic management of crime scenes. 

In 2005, after 32 years service, he retired from the Metropolitan Police Service. He was a career counter-terrorist officer and served in both Special Branch and the Anti-Terrorist Branch. His last post was head of the Police International Counter Terrorism Unit.

He is a regular speaker at UK and international conferences and is on the International Board of Advisors at New York University Law School, Centre on Law and Security.  He is a founder member of the Institute for Civil Protection and Emergency Management.

In 1992 he was awarded a Master of Arts Degree by Exeter University.

In 2003 he was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal.

Andy Williams /
Co-Global Head of Security, Nomura

Andy Williams is Co-Global Head of Security for Nomura, with specific responsibility for EMEA and the Americas. Originally a Police Officer in the Metropolitan Police, before later joining the City of London force, an injury on duty brought Andy's career in the Police service to a premature end in 1995. During his service and along with a high proportion of his colleagues, Andy was deployed on Operation Orange and Policing the "Ring of Steel", two high profile Counter Terrorism operations to deter and detect Irish republican terrorist cells operating in the square mile.

In 1995, Andy embarked on career number two as a Security Manager in National Health Service. A demanding role which served as Andy's apprenticeship in Security Management, requiring as it did, wide open public buildings, their patients, staff and visitors, to be kept safe and secure with the limited budgets.

Following a change of government in 1997, and an even greater restriction on budgets, Andy left the healthcare environment and moved into contract security services, firstly as an Operations Manager running a portfolio of manned guarding assignments in the City of London, before eventually becoming a Regional Director, and running a £48m business unit for an international property services group.

When the opportunity to move back into in-house security presented itself early in 2009, Andy didn't hesitate to accept the challenge. As well as recently becoming Vice Chairman of TINYg, Andy is a long standing member of ASIS and serves on the committee of the UK Chapter. He sits on the Validation Board of the Security Institute, and the Finance & General Purposes Committee of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals. He has recently been invited to join the Advisory Panel of CSARN and has been a regular speaker at security industry events internationally and is a contributor to security media.