Chief Information Security Officer

• Apr 2021 - Present

Chief Information Security Officer and Data Privacy lead at GSS a start up working on an innovative and collaborative approach to sanctions screening. Chief Information Security Officer and Data Privacy lead at GSS a start up working on an innovative and collaborative approach to sanctions screening.

Senior Vice President - Cyber

• Nov 2019 - Nov 2022

Senior Vice President in Cyber at AlixPartners working with our clients in finance and private equity to improve all things cyber. Current CISO to a fin/reg tech company going live in 2022/23 and worked with payments providers and private equity firms to improve portfolio cyber risks and programs. Advisor to multiple CISOs pre and post M&A deals. Senior Vice President in Cyber at AlixPartners working with our clients in finance and private equity to improve all things cyber. Current CISO to a fin/reg tech company going live in 2022/23 and worked with payments providers and private equity firms to improve portfolio cyber risks and programs. Advisor to multiple CISOs pre and post M&A deals.

Associate Partner and UK Cyber lead

• Dec 2015 - Nov 2019

My role focused on cybersecurity, regulation and architectue across our financial services clients. Notable work included: 2019:• Program Architect for a financial data company who had recently been aquired to modernise, secure and simplfy their estate. • Security Architect for a trading venue rebuilding their trading engine from a legacy solution onto open source data processing solutions. 2018: • Led the EMEA technology resilience program for a large re-insurance client. Role covered crisis mangement, organisational governance, architecture, disaster recovery, work area and cyber resilience. 2015-2017• Defined architecture strategy for data reporting using mostly open source data processing tools. (e.g Hadoop, Cassandra, Kafka) at both a Swiss and Canadian investment bank. Alongside my main client work I also; • Spoke at a number of events and attended conferences on regulation and IT security. • Wrote and worked on blogs covering MIFID II, GDPR, DDOS and SWIFT security. • Produced sales frameworks covering cybr rsk assesments, regulation, access management and MIFID II. • Quoted by a number of IT Security publications across a diverse range of topics covering malware, Internet of Things security, Cross Site Scripting (XSS), Open Source security, Blockchain and encryption.

Senior Consultant

• Aug 2014 - Dec 2015

PROJECT MANAGEMENT, DATACENTRE MIGRATION I joined Citihub as a Senior Consultant and worked with a large global client . I was initially brought in to advise on migration security architecture and progressed to managing the datacentre build and migration successfully within an immovable timeframe due to a lease expiry. • Project management of large IT project including technical strategy and resources. • Budgeting of project and datacentre build • Migration of secure environments for a security focused HR and re-insurance client. • Migration strategy defined by myself was was based on the logical and physical move of individual vlans using newly purchased Cisco core switches.

EMEA eCommerce and Security Infrastructure Support Lead

• Oct 2011 - Aug 2014

I led a team supporting a bespoke set of applications and services dedicated to security, etrading and low latency applications. We provided service within RBS and owned the low latency co-location plants and web security infrastructure globally. As well as web traffic we also hosted infrastructure for external client connectivity via FIX messaging. Technologies were Apache, Tomcat, Jboss, Caplin Liberator, GlobalScape EFT, Splunk, CyberArk, F5 ASM, Citrix Netscalar, Prolexic (DDOS protection) and Cameron FIX. Our servers were loadbalanced behind both an F5 ASM and a Citrix Netscalar.

WEB AND MIDDLEWARE TEAM LEAD

• Sep 2009 - Nov 2011

I was manager for the European Operations team, comprised of 6 members split between Budapest and London. I am also the technical owner for the web technology used for matrix.ms.com which is an award winning trading platform. My team supports thousands of globally distributed web servers and other hosted products during the EU time zone. Technologies hosted are a mix of vendor products - Apache, Tomcat, Lightstreamer, LCDS, Optier and Siteminder as well as in-house products for scheduling, entitlements and content subscription. Our servers are mostly loadbalanced behind F5 devices are a mix of DMZ client facing applications and internal Intranet applications. Global lead for web technology where I functionally co-manage an additional 4 staff members in other regions (North America and Asia)Project manager for all web technology projects globally and co-manager of projects within the EU region. Escalation person for all web and middleware queries in the European time zone.Introduced the concept of operational acceptance testing for products we support to ensure that products are fully integrated and supportable when we bring them into the environment. Established and maintained relationships with key members of the business and application support groups who support clients both internally and externally. Author of a number of scripts used to gather information and perform capacity analysis within the web plant.

Web Team Manager

• Sep 2009 - Oct 2011

LINUX ADMIN AND EQUITY SYSTEM ADMIN

• Nov 2006 - Sep 2009

Responsible for maintaining storage and Linux/Unix servers (over 60'000 servers were deployed globally). This was partly project work, creating automation and support tools using Perl and Python. Technologies used included storage infrastructure based mainly on NetApp NAS, Brocade San switches, HDS arrays and our global Andrews File System (AFS). Operating systems used were mostly Red Hat (up to AS5) but also Solaris (up to 10). Other technologies used on a day-to-day basis included Veritas Cluster (VCS) and Veritas Volume Manager (VXVM). This role regularly led to the planning and performance of technology disaster recovery events. Following a year in the unixops team I was assigned as specialist admin working for the Equities division where I spend three a week with the front line support teams and developers. This role involved engaging the trade plant systems groups and developers to assist them with trade systems architecture and integration. Other projects included low latency build outs, exchange connectivity, audits for regulatory findings and onboarding of new applications.

Unix Specialist

• Jul 2006 - Sep 2009

IT GRADUATE PROGRAM

• Jul 2006 - Nov 2006

Infrastructure Engineering and Operations Financial training; Unix/Linux; Scripting and Automation; Network Engineering; Unix/Linux Internals and API, Administration and Network Services; Windows Architecture, VBA, Active Directory, Core Technologies and Scripting; XML; Software Architecture and Design; HTML; JavaScript; Web Technology; OO Concepts; Perl; Infrastructure Management; RDMS Modelling, SQL, Tables, Transactions & Procedures; Aurora; Autosys.

PostDoctoral Work

• Jan 2006 - Jul 2006

Assisted other users projectsFinite-difference modelling using 64bit infrastructure (32bit was insufficient).Results of PhD communicated to wider geophysics community using several academic papers and presentations.

PHD Student

• Sep 2002 - Jan 2006

integrated Seismic Imaging and Modelling of Margins (iSIMM): Crustal Formation and the Influence of a Mantle Plume Following Continental Breakup of the Northern North Atlantic.Using acquired seismic and other geophysical data, I processed and modelled over 4 Terabytes of raw data using time series processing techniques and inversely modelling the data using Monte Carlo uncertainty analysis. The results were used to model crustal formation to aid interpretation of hydrocarbons bearing sediments west of the UK. The work made use of Perl and shell scripting, to manage and perform analysis across the dataset, and the Cambridge high performance computing facilities for testing and modelling.