Bill
is a former Intelligence Corps officer with extensive commercial
experience in the Middle East. Fluent in Arabic, he moved into
international consultancy, before becoming the Chief Security Adviser at
the Bank of England.
Bill is now a private consultant and advises specialist
companies. He is the current chairman of The Security Institute, and the
author of the books The Millennium
Security Manager and A Guide to
Security Surveys.
Specialisms: Corporate Security Design,
Project Management, Risk & Threat Assesstment, Business Continuity
Management, Loss Adjustment Investigations and Kidnap & Extortion
Awareness & Recovery.
David is Director of Training at the ARC
International Academy for Security Management, training security managers
from many of the biggest companies in the world to manage complex security
risk challenges. He is a Chairman of the ASIS UK Chapter Professional
Development Committee, Council member of the Security Institute, visiting
lecturer in criminology at Middlesex University and an external marker on
the Leicester University MSc in Security and Risk Management. David
speaks Arabic and Russian.
Specialisms:
Professional Development, Security Risk Analysis, Corporate Responses to
Terrorism, Information Security, Business Travel Security, Security
Design, Criminology
Mike
is a director of specialist recruitment consultants HJA Fire and Security
and has been recruiting in the industry for 16 years. Prior to that he was
General Manager of a specialist Fire Protection contractor. He is a Fellow
of the Recruitment and Employment Consultants (FREC) and a Member of The
Security Institute (MSyI) where he sits on the Verification Board. He has
been a member of the UK Chapter of ASIS International for over 9 years and
has been on the committee for about 6, where is is responsible for Media
(which includes Editing the Newsletter, The Blog and the Web site).
Specialisms: Recruitment, Career Advice, Sales and
Marketing, Blogging.
Stephen is a former Detective Chief
Superintendent with a distinguished investigative career spanning over 30
years of tackling Serious and Organised Crime and Corruption. He is now a
director of Altiorem Limited, an innovative investigation service that
provides a wide range of overt and covert investigative services and,
building on their experience of
fighting corruption, dishonesty and unethical behaviour, a quite unique
integrity strengthening programme to help protect organisations against
future threats.
Specialisms: High quality investigations and
investigative reviews, crisis management, risk and threat assessment,
proactive and reactive anti-corruption techniques and policies.
Colin is a former Royal Military Policeman who specialised as a crime prevention and police architectural liaison officer; additionally he worked in a counter terrorist search advisor capacity on a number of high profile public military events in London. Commercially, Colin has held a number of security & safety management positions, including working at a fund management company in the City of London. He is currently the Head of Security at a leading London University and Vice Chairman of the London & South East Region of the Association of University Chief Security Officers (AUCSO).
Specialisms: Contract & Staff Management,
Security Systems Management, Access Control, CCTV Intruder Alarms, Business Continuity Planning, Health &
Safety, Public Space Emergency Planning.
Peter is the Chief Executive of SSR Personnel, is
engaged in permanent recruitment ,
contract & interim hire
of personnel in the security, fire , health
and safety sectors. He is Master, Principle
Founding Member and Trustee of the Company of Security Professionals.
Peter is the ASIS International Senior Regional Vice President
in Europe, a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) and one of 50 European
members of the International Security Management Association (ISMA). He
is also Deputy Chairman of the London Board of the Crimestoppers Charity.
David Evans is the Managing Director
of Global Aware International which provides Counter Terrorist Solutions
and Consultancy to blue chip companies. Global Aware have Offices in
Canary Wharf, London, and New York. The current experience of his company
lies within a specialist staff critique of Policing Counter Terrorism in
capital cities.
John Geddes is a highly respected ex
SAS Warrant Officer and former member of 2 Para (Parachute Regiment). A
highly trained soldier and security expert, Mr Geddes spent ten years with
the Parachute Regiment and thirteen years with 22 Regiment SAS. After
leaving the SAS, Geddes spent 18 months as a private security contractor
in war torn Iraq.
After leaving Iraq, Geddes formed a
leading British security company, Ronin Concepts Ltd, specialising in broad
spectrum security strategies and training. John Geddes has two books under
his belt, Highway to Hell and Spearhead Assault.
Specialisms: Close Protection Training and
Management, Security Strategies and Operations.
Justin is the Deputy International
Chairman of the International Professional Security Association (IPSA),
where he is responsible for publications, British Standards advice and
general promotion of IPSA.
He has worked in the security industry since 1994, until recently as
Managing Director of a guarding company and is now working as a
consultant. He has had articles on various security related issues
published.
Specialisms: Security Guarding, Security Management,
Employment Issues, Screening, Security Training
Robert is currently an
Investigative Security Consultant with a specialist security
company. He is a Home Office Trained Architectural Liaison Officer and
Crime Reduction Officer, with experience both in the military and
commercial loss prevention field. He
has a depth of knowledge in the physical security (target hardening) of
large commercial and industrial premises.
Specialisms: Commercial Investigation, Loss
Prevention, Architectual Liaison & Crime Reduction.
Richard is
former Parachute Regiment and Royal Military Police Close Protection Unit
and has 18 Years of Military,
Government & Commercial CP experience. Richard produced a comprehensive
critique report to the Home Office, Cabinet Office and the Parliamentary
Under-Secretary of the Security Industry Authority and their stipulated
operational skills and training standards for the licensing of a Close
Protection Operative in the United Kingdom and directs and leads CP
operations throughout the world.
Specialisms: Close Protection Services and all
associated disciplines, Physical Security, Intruder Detection Systems.
Martin Gill is Director of Perpetuity Research and
Consultancy International (PRCI) and a Professor of Criminology at the
University of Leicester. PRCI specialises in the areas of security
management, risk management, crime and crime prevention. Professor Gill
is a Fellow of The Security Institute, a member of the Company of
Security Professionals, Chair of the ASIS Research Council and editor of
a new ASIS Series called Current Research in Security Practice (CRISP).
He is co-editor of the Security Journal and founding editor of Risk
Management: an International Journal.
Specialisms: Business crime including shop
theft, frauds, staff dishonesty, burglary reduction, robbery, the
effectiveness of security measures, money laundering, policing, violence
at work, organised crime.
Emma,
a former service police officer and UK Government official, is the MD of
Esoteric Ltd, a specialist covert investigations company - a provider of
confidential services, assisting clients to deal with theft, fraud,
counterfeiting, employment issues, economic & corporate espionage
and critical information protection. She
is a member of the Council and Validation Board for The Security
Institute, Southern Region Chair for the Defence Industry Security
Association (DISA), and Assistant Regional Vice President to ASIS
Europe.
Del is Director of
Performance at Specialist Recruitment Firm SSR. A fellow of the
Recruitment & Employment Confederation and fellow of the Institute
of Sales and Marketing Management, he is also a member of the Chartered
Institute of Personnel & Development and the British psychological
Society. When he is not working, Del is Chairman of the National
Charity, Careline and still finds time to ride a Ducati.
Specialisms: HR Management, People
Management, Security Feature Writing.
Charles
enjoyed a long and distinguished career with the Royal Military Police Close Protection
Unit. He is now an Associate Director for Janusian Security Risk
Management and is responsible for designing and implementing emergency evacuation
plans, security surveys and security training courses (personal safety, residential security, travel security, defensive driving and hostage
survival) for diplomats and other governmental agencies working in high risk countries.
Specialisms: Security Training & Management,
Security Surveys, Covert Investigation Management, Close Protection
Services.
Stefan Hay is Head of the Fire and Security Association (FSA), the largest representative body for the Fire and Security Systems sector in the UK. Stefan is a Fellow of the Security Institute and his previous roles include Director of Business Development and Communication at Skills for Security, Deputy Chief Executive of the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) and Managing Director of its training subsidiary, the Security Industry Training Organisation (SITO), until it was incorporated into Skills for Security in 2006. He joined SITO in 1998 as Contract and Development Manager, having embarked on his career in the private security industry as an Area Operations Manager at Firm Security Group Ltd in 1992. Before that, Stefan was an officer in the Merchant Navy.
He has written more
than a hundred
published articles on fire and security industry related subjects.
Specialisms and personal interests: Fire and Security Systems, Education and Training, Regulation and Government Crime Reduction policy, Strategic Planning, Security Guarding and the Wider Police Family, Conflict Management, Security Management, Executive Protection and Global Terrorism
Steve Collins is the CEO of PS5, an internationally acclaimed security related
training and production consultancy, his organisation specialises in the
design and production of training and educational material for the law
enforcement, defence and security industries. PS5 also has its R.E.A.C.T
training wing, which delivers highly specialist security associated training
to both the private and public sectors.
Steve is a familiar face worldwide, delivering training and lecturing to
government bodies, law enforcement agencies and the corporate sector on
officer and public safety with specific focus on weapons and personal
protection from violence and aggressive behaviour.
He is
internationally recognised as a teacher of modern combat systems as well as
traditional martial arts with almost 50 years experience. He is also a
prolific writer and accomplished author, his influential R.E.A.C.T books,
editorial features and ‘R.E.A.C.T Survival Files’ are studied and utilised
around the world.
Steve is also an
acknowledged authority on disguised, improvised and clandestine weapons,
methods of attack and weapons concealment, and the author of the world
renowned ‘Manual of Prohibited and Concealable Weapons’.
Chris Hovey spent 12 years in the British Army, serving in both Commando and Special Forces, followed by 18 years in the Police, working in uniform and CID departments.
A secondment to the FCO in 2003 involved the training of Iraqi Police officers in Jordan.
Commercial tasks in a hostile environment include working on a close protection team in Baghdad and in addition on a security management and fire risk project in Iraq.
Hocartsolutions Ltd was formed in January 2008 and undertakes a variety of tasks, including surveillance, private investigations and personal safety training.
