I have had the good fortune of three careers, the first in IT gave me a deep understanding of how information and technology can support an organisation. Then as a leader of IT Security and Cyber functions in financial institutions I had to learn how to bring pragmatic control structures to highly complex organisations.
Co-founding and leading a boutique governance, strategy and risk advisory firm for 15 years broadened my IT Governance skillset out into Corporate Governance. The breadth and scope of engagements over this journey developed a pragmatic-ness to my advice that reflects that governance is often more about people.
The Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) only work with the best facilitators and I have been facilitating, authoring and reviewing governance, strategy, risk and cyber courses for them since 2010. As the author of all of the AICD's Cyber courses I have been recognised as a thought leader in the governance of Cyber for over a decade.
I am currently working with a range of organisations to transition them to an Objective Centric Risk Management approach, flipping risk culture on its head and finally making risk management feel like it makes sense and is adding genuine value.
For something completely different I am a co-founding a startup bringing something new and innovative to the Advertising / Marketing Eco System for Premium Goods.