Executive Summary:

► Versatile, experienced business leader with deep expertise in risk management, compliance and assurance within large, highly regulated companies across Financial Services, Consulting, Manufacturing and Business Services sectors

► Tenured board advisor in mission-critical fields of Information Security, Data Protection, Business Continuity and Operational Risk

► Proven leader, managing risk and operational teams of 20+ with companies with multi-million-pound operating budgets

► Great communicator with natural ability to deliver against challenging briefs in complex commercial

environments whilst focusing on and supporting wider business objectives

► Ability to create pragmatic solutions, driving continuous improvement and supporting leadership teams in managing their business simply but effectively while reducing cost of failure

► Strong relationship-building and stakeholder management skills, quickly developing rapport and collaborative partnerships across business hierarchies and structures to ensure delivery of outcomes through partnership,

teamwork and alignment of objectives

► International risk governance experience across Europe, EMEA and North America

▶️Professional Achievements:

► Development and ongoing oversight & governance of risk framework to support large global Financial Services, Government, Utilities and FMCG client base

► Development of change processes and governance for transactional communications of leading (£17bn+) high-street bank – PMO portfolio <£25m

► Development of groupwide Incident Management process within 1,000+ FTE organization and subsequent team leadership through multiple potentially high-impact incidents

► Management of Security Operations Centre (Information Security and Cyber Security) with concurrent role as Data Protection Officer (DPO)

▶️Specialities:

Operational Risk | Operational Resilience | Risk Governance | Supplier Assurance | Data Privacy | Enterprise Risk Management | Governance | Information Security | Process Improvement | Project Governance | Risk Management | Six Sigma | Stakeholder Management | Methodology | Strategic Planning | Disaster Recovery | Critical Communications | Change Governance | Incident Management | Problem Management | Assurance | Programme Management

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