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Meet Our 2025 Board Directors (partial list)
7th Talk to the Board: CISO 360
Susan Hooper
Non Executive Director, Uber
Non Executive Director, Chair of the Remuneration Committee, ESG Lead, DNED Workforce engagement, Moonpig
Susan sits on the Board of Uber UK, and Moonpig plc where she is Chair of Remco, Designated Workforce and ESG Lead. She is a Co-Founder of Chapter Zero, an organisation dedicated to providing education, insight and support on climate change to Non-Executive Board Directors and Chairs. Susan is also an Ambassador for the World Travel & Tourism Council and is an Association Member for Bupa.
Susan is involved in several start-ups in carbon capture and sustainability. Prior to her plural career, Susan was Managing Director of British Gas Residential Services, a £1.8bn revenue division, leading the Service and Repair, Central Heating Installations, Electrical Services, and Dyno-Rod business units. She joined British Gas from the Acromas Group where she was Chief Executive of the Travel division, responsible for Saga Holidays, Hotels and Cruises, the AA Travel division, and Titan Travel. Previously, she held senior roles at Royal Caribbean International, Avis Europe, PepsiCo International, McKinsey & Co, and Saatchi & Saatchi, living in seven countries worldwide.
She was previously Chair of Tangle Teezer, Carbon Gap and of Caresourcer.com. She has held several non-executive directorships including: Department for Exiting the European Union (DExEU), Wizz Air plc, Courtaulds plc, Royal & Sun Alliance plc, Transcom, First Choice Ltd., S.C Johnson, Whitbread plc, Affinity Water and The Rank Group plc. Susan was also a member of the Advisory Board of the LUISS Business School in Rome.
Susan has a BA from the Johns Hopkins University in Baltimore, MD, and an MA from the Johns Hopkins School of Advanced International Studies (S.A.I.S.) in Washington DC. She is fluent in German and Italian.
Susan lives near London with her husband. She loves being outdoors and enjoys combining sailing, travel and photography.
Dr Mark Carawan
Board Member and Chair of the Board Audit Committee, The Bank of London Group
Board Member and Chair of the Risk Committee, Euroclear UK and International
Mark Carawan has a wealth of experience in governance, risk management, regulatory compliance, audit, ethics, conduct and culture matters globally. Mark is a member of Council and Chair of the Audit Committee at the University of Liverpool and a Senior Fellow at the New York University School of Law Program for Corporate Compliance and Enforcement (PCCE). Mark is a Board member and Chair of the Board Audit Committee at The Bank of London Group and a member of the Board and Chair of the Risk Committee at Euroclear UK and International.
Mark’s professional career includes serving in New York as Citigroup’s Chief Compliance Officer (CCO) and member of the Citigroup Executive Committee. Mark was previously the Citigroup Chief Internal Auditor. Prior to these assignments, Mark was the Barclays Group Chief Internal Auditor based in London. Mark has formerly been a partner both at Deloitte, specializing in enterprise-wide risk management, and at Andersen, where he managed the Financial Sector Restructuring Division globally.
Mark received his B.A. in Classics from Rutgers University in the USA, a Ph.D. in Humanity from St. Andrews University in the United Kingdom, and is a Chartered Accountant, a Chartered Internal Auditor, a Certified Internal Auditor, and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Management. Mark, an Eagle Scout, is Chair of the Greater New York Councils of the Scouting America, and is a Corporation Member at Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution in Massachusetts.
Mark’s interests include skiing, scuba diving, swimming, hiking and opera.
Carolyn Brown
Chief Information Officer at the British Medical Association (BMA). Board Trustee, Association for Project Management.
Carolyn is the Chief Information Officer at the British Medical Association (BMA), which is a trade union and professional services association supporting doctors across the UK. She is responsible for the technology and digital strategy, the BMA’s business intelligence and data security. Carolyn is a member of the BMA’s executive leadership team. Carolyn has held senior technology leadership roles in a variety of private and not for profit sectors for 30 years, with a steep learning curve on project management at a very early stage of her career. Carolyn holds a degree in German Literature, a postgraduate diploma in Digital Marketing, an MBA and a Computer Science Masters. In her spare time, Carolyn enjoys dog walks and playing tennis.
Peter Davies
Former CEO, Air Malta
CEO, Airline Management Group
Peter Davies was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Air Malta in March 2011 and tasked with restructuring the business. He currently leads the Airline Management Group, a business he founded with his extensive network of professional contacts to diagnose and deliver solutions for the strategic needs of legacy airlines, especially for medium sized and smaller nations.
He joined Malta’s national airline following his position as Managing Director of Air Southwest in the UK. Peter has over 35 years experience in the aviation industry, both in passenger and express cargo operations and has served as CEO of Caribbean Airlines in the West Indies and SN Brussels Airlines, which he successfully launched as Sabena’s successor. During his term, Peter restored the airline’s stability after two years of operation by rationalising the airline’s network and internal processes and focusing on yield management on European and African routes.
Prior to that he was Chief Operating Officer for DHL Express USA where he was responsible for over 10,000 people and realised a significant turnaround in profitability and increased sales margins from 4% to 12%. Before that, he was Regional Director for DHL Europe where he established DHL as the leader in express delivery across emerging markets in Central, Southern and Eastern Europe.
In 2006 Peter accepted the appointment as Chief Executive of BWIA West Indies Airways which closed later that year. A new regional airline Caribbean Airlines of which Peter was Chief Executive commenced operations in January 2007.
Air Southwest, SN Brussels Airlines and BWIA West Indies Airways required extensive re-organisation, change and transformation. Sabena went bust and SN Brussels was the phoenix which rose from its ashes. Sabena had made a profit only twice in its 70 year history whereas SN Brussels Airlines made a profit immediately and is still going strong. Likewise, BWIA West Indies Airways made a profit only twice in its 66 year history. Peter recommended to the Trinidadian government that they close it and launch a new airline, Caribbean Airlines. After only a few months there was a discernible difference in the punctuality and financial performance of the airline.
Customer service has always been the driving force behind his many business achievements, and Peter is a compelling speaker on service, culture, leadership and change.
Meet Our 2025 CISOs and Luminary Speakers (partial list)
7th Talk to the Board: CISO 360
Steve Hill is an independent strategic adviser, helping Boards to navigate geopolitics, national security and cybersecurity challenges. Steve served as the Group CISO at Credit Suisse and deputy Group CISO at UBS until August 2024. His previous appointments at Credit Suisse included Global Head of Operational Resilience and Group Head of Technology, Cyber and Third Party Risk.
Steve served in the British Government for over thirty years, including as Deputy Director in the National Security Secretariat of the UK Cabinet Office, with responsibility for aspects of cybersecurity policy. For over thirty years, Steve worked at the Foreign and Commonwealth Office in a variety of National Security roles with a focus on transnational threats including terrorism and weapons proliferation. He served overseas in Vienna, Washington, Dubai, Kabul and New York. Steve is a senior visiting research fellow at King’s College, London. He sits on several global advisory boards including those of Dell Technologies, Venari and Twine.
Alan was formerly Group CISO at Babcock International, UK CSO at CSC and T-Systems, an Associate Partner at IBM Security, and served in the Royal Air Force for 21 years.
James is a Solutions Architect at Synack, the leading crowdsourced security testing company, where he manages the UK and Ireland region. He helps organisations strengthen their cybersecurity through Synack’s human-led, AI-augmented testing platform, enabling them to test faster, at scale, and on-demand.
James provides clients with strategic insights into systemic problems. His background is in cybersecurity across diverse sectors, including Government, Defence, and Security. His experience spans areas such as business intelligence, the delivery of quantum-resistant secure communications systems, and large-scale cloud migrations.”
Antonio Ramos is one of the leading experts in Spain and Europe in cybersecurity and information systems auditing. He developed his professional career at EY as Director of Technology Risks and at S21sec, in various management positions with responsibility for Managed Security Services.
He holds the most prestigious certifications: CISA, CISM, CRISC, CCSK, ITIL, COBIT 5, etc. He has been president and vice-president of ISACA Madrid, is a member of the ENISA List of Experts, a trainer of auditors and information security managers, and a member of the European Commission’s Stakeholder Cybersecurity Certification Group (SCCG).
He is currently the CEO of LEET Security, an Uptime company, which he founded 13 years ago.
Dr. Oliver Farnan is the Head of Research at Reliance Cyber, with expertise in offensive security, advanced threats, and nation-state cyber policy. With a rich background in cybersecurity, Oliver has held diverse roles, including as an officer in the Royal Signals, a postdoctoral research position at Oxford University, and as the Global Head of Information Security for the INGO Oxfam. Holding a PhD in Cybersecurity, Oliver combines academic research with practical security operations, empowering organisations to effectively navigate emerging cyber threats.
Quentyn Taylor is Director of Information Security at Canon Europe, Middle East and Africa. Using the power of stories and his own experience of testing products to destruction; Quentyn has embraced building business relationships across the world whilst driving Canon’s strategy and educating business customers to minimise their security risk. Before joining Canon, Quentyn has worked in a variety of industries such as Internet service providers as well as startup businesses.
Vasilis Razos is Head of Information Security Risk at Informa, a FTSE-100 international B2B events, digital services and academic publishing company. Vasilis has 14 years of cybersecurity experience, with a focus on risk management. Before Informa, he worked in global companies in a variety of industries, including financial services and telecoms. Vasilis holds the CISSP and CISSP-ISSMP certifications and is a member of the FAIR Institute for cyber and operational risk management. https://www.linkedin.com/in/vasilis-razos-79308a23/
With 20 years spent working in the security industry, Matt brings significant experience to his role at Qualys. He has worked for many organisations, specialising in areas such as risk management, identity and access management, application, network and database security. Matt most recently held the position of General Manager EMEA and Board member at Netwrix Corporation. Previous to this role Matt was V.P. Northern Europe at CyberArk Software, where he oversaw five consecutive years of 45%+ per annum revenue growth. Prior to CyberArk he held the position of Business unit executive at IBM Security Systems. Matt joined IBM from CA where he had spent six years, working on their largest information security projects. Matt is a CISSP® – Certified Information Systems Security Professional.
Recent Directors on the Talk to the Board Panel have included:
- Lorraine Heggessey, Former Controller of BBC One
- Josephine Fairley, Co-Founder, Green & Black’s
- Dame Inga Beale, former CEO, Lloyd’s of London
- Mike Coupe, Fomer CEO, Sainsbury’s
- Roger Flynn, Former CEO and leader in transformation change, Virgin, British Airways, Prudential
- Rupert Lee-Browne, Group Chief Executive, Caxton
- Daniel Bobroff, Founder and CEO, DUWL, and Former Co-Founder, ASOS Ventures
- Laura Tenison MBE, Former Founder & CEO, JoJo Maman Bébé
- Haydn Brooks, CEO & Co-Founder, Risk Ledger
- Dr. Alan Knight OBE, Group Director of Sustainability, Drax
- Julian Wheatland, former Chair of SCL Group and COO and CFO of Cambridge Analytica
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