Speaking at the 2nd CSO 360 Middle East – Istanbul 2026

Patrick Kane is Senior Director Security for Atlas Air, a US airline conducting cargo and public/private passenger operations worldwide.  Patrick is heavily focused on developing and implementing mitigation measures to support a highly mobile global workforce and multiple travelers, to include pre-travel risk assessments, coordinating secure transportation and journey management, assessing hotel and transportation options.

Patrick currently serves as the Chair of the ASIS International Santa Barbara Ventura Chapter #21 and is the President of the Corporate Executive Protection Leadership Council (CEPLC).  He recently spearheaded the creation of a Travel Risk Working Group within ASIS International. Patrick is also the past Chair and Chair Emeritus of the OSAC Aviation Security Working Group.  He has over 20 years of experience working in private sector corporate security; most of that time focused on international operations and has personal experience on the ground in more than 70 countries.

Since 1996 Patrick has been a Certified Protection Professional (CPP) in good standing under the auspices of ASIS International.  He received an International Executive MBA from Instituto de Empresa in Madrid, Spain in 2004. Prior to entering the private sector, Patrick served as an infantry officer in the US Marine Corps.  He welcomes questions, comments and suggestions and he can be reached at patrick.kane@atlasair.com or patrick.kane.cpp@gmail.com .

Ned currently manages a globally dispersed strategic intelligence team, embedded with a major technology company. Before joining ERI, Ned led global intelligence for Transocean, a world leader in offshore drilling. Prior to that, as Geopolitical Risk Manager at American Airlines, he designed and implemented the geopolitical risk and security intelligence program; Ned has also served in a variety of leadership positions within the US State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC).

 Ned has previously worked at Royal Dutch Shell, the Inter-American Development Bank, the US Congress, and Morgan Stanley. Ned received his B.A. in Political Science from McGill University in Montreal and his M.A. in International Affairs from American University in Washington, DC. He also studied at the Universidad de Salamanca in Salamanca, Spain. He is fluent in Spanish, proficient in French, and has traveled to over 100 countries.

As a graduate in Philosophy, Mark served for 25 years as an officer in the Royal Marines, seeing commando service globally, spending much of his time planning and taking part in counter-terrorist operations and intelligence. On leaving military service, he was appointed as Chief Security Officer in Smiths Group, a FTSE-100 company, followed by similar jobs in Cadbury, Philipp Morris International, PwC and most recently CRH, the global building materials company. During this time, Mark has been directly involved in most global crises, conflicts and natural disasters that have taken place and is highly experienced in all aspects of resilience and problem solving, including crisis planning and response. He has global corporate security experience and his innovative and adaptable approach, has demonstrated on numerous occasions the real “value add” in the function. He is a proponent of the intelligence driven approach to security and has always enjoyed a close relationship as a trusted advisor to the executive teams and boards in the companies he has worked for.  Most recently Mark has been intimately involved in the Ukraine crisis, having first visited the country during the Maidan uprising in 2014, to develop and implement the appropriate crisis and evacuation plans. He has been and continues to be a regular visitor to Ukraine ever since then and especially so since the full-scale invasion by Russia in 2022.