Ashu is a Corporate Investigator with 25 years of experience in Mining, Banking, Law Enforcement, and the UK Regulatory sector. Working internationally, Ashu led on significant investigations with global remit. He is a Certified Fraud Examiner, a Certified Compliance and Ethics Practitioner,  and is a category A liaison advisor for the International Organization for Standardization. In addition to leading special investigations for a global mining company, he is also Chief Strategy Officer for the Association of Corporate Investigators.

Alberto Gallardo works at Decysyon as a Security Manager for The Walt Disney Company for Spain and Portugal (Iberia). He is protecting the brand in all the events of the company, as well as the prevention of any risk that may affect to the brand. He also does intelligence reports for security and defense companies, among others.

Prior to his current experience, he worked as Senior Intelligence Analyst for the multinational Prosegur for 5 years, in charge of the elaboration and drafting of intelligence reports for strategic companies in the energy, banking and security field, between others.
Alberto received his Bachelor Degree in Law at the Carlos III University of Madrid. Subsequently, he obtained a Master Degree in Forensic Sciences and Criminal Investigation at the Universidad Autónoma de Madrid, where he specialized in terrorism and intelligence studies. He has also studied Security Management at several prestigious Spanish universities. Alberto speaks Spanish, English and Italian.

Hannah has overall responsibility for ERI’s intelligence and analysis teams. She has over a decade of experience working in geopolitical and security risk. Before joining ERI in early 2025, Hannah managed a large multicultural intelligence team at a security and political risk firm. Hannah is an empathetic and decisive leader, with an unrelenting focus on iterative development and efficiency. She has also led a MENA-focused due diligence research team, and her analytical background is in that region.  An Arabic speaker, she has a degree in Middle Eastern studies from the University of Cambridge.

John leads Crisis and Operational Risk at Dragonfly, where he is responsible for crisis planning intelligence analysis and oversees TerrorismTracker, Dragonfly’s global terrorism monitoring and analysis platform. He previously worked as a lead analyst on Sub-Saharan Africa and has over 15 years’ experience in security risk analysis and crisis response.
Before joining Dragonfly, John managed intelligence training for new analysts in the British Army and served at the UK’s crisis response headquarters, developing intelligence-led plans for global emergencies. His field experience includes deployments across the Middle East and Afghanistan, where he supported counter-insurgency operations, and humanitarian missions in the Caribbean. He has conducted on-the-ground assessments in multiple African countries.
John holds an MA in Intelligence and International Relations from Staffordshire University.
Expertise:

• Crisis risk and management
• Global terrorism
• Conventional warfare
• Asymmetric warfare
• Disaster relief
• Political and security issues in Sub-Saharan Africa
• Intelligence analysis processes and methodology

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.

Lady Olga Maitland, Chairman of the Board at Algeria British Business Council; President, Defence and Security Forum; Board Advisor

Lady Olga Maitland has wide experience in all major Governance, risk Management and Compliance issues in general and global Fraud and Corruption problems in particular. She is a special adviser to a number of dignitaries and a widely sought after speaker at all Major Conferences on several Corporate Governance issues. Lady Olga is a former British MP for the Conservative party. Prior to her political career she was a reporter for the Fleet Street News Agency, a columnist in the London.

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 .

Steve is a cybersecurity and risk adviser to several leading enterprises, as well as a security contributor to ABC News and an honorary professor at King’s College, London. He was previously Group CISO at Credit Suisse and, before that, their global head of technology, cyber and third party risk management. He retired from the UK government in 2017, where he had served as Deputy Director responsible for cyber in the National Security Secretariat in the Cabinet Office and in various national security roles for over 30 years (including in the British Embassy, Dubai). He graduated from Jesus College, Cambridge.

Dr Sally Leivesley is interested in all catastrophic risks to people, infrastructure cyber security and to the stability of organisations and governments – see www. Newrisk.com, Sally@newrisk.com.

She is a former Scientific Advisor for all-out nuclear attack protection of the public, infrastructure and government and was trained by the British Home Office during the Cold War.

She commenced her career in Australia working across petrochemicals, oil and gas and mining infrastructure and worked on resilience of power generation and distribution, railways mainline and underground, bulk shipping, banking and other areas of critical industry. She has spoken at many international events on energy security including EIS industry meeting in the Capitol Building Washington and to the Baker Institute on catastrophic supply chain risks.

In Australia she was the first civilian director of a disaster recovery unit and held government appointments for reforms of emergency services and health and safety.

She has been contracted on nuclear power plant incidents – TMI, Chernobyl and Fukushima and as an international media commentator for BBC World Service and other news outlets. She has commentated on the 2023 Chinese spy balloon over USA nuclear missile site, uranium package at London Heathrow airport, cyber; terrorism; aviation losses; nuclear reactor disasters; South China Sea; Polonium-210 and Novichok poisonings, Beslan siege; Iran; DPRK; Covid-19, unexplained incidents such as MH370 and chemical incidents.

In cyber and physical security she has worked closely with governments and emergency services in the design and execution of large field exercises, table tops and board level exercises. In recent years she has chaired international scientific meetings on risks of emerging nuclear weapons, Covid-19, infrastructure resilience and hazardous near-earth objects. She has worked on a small panel of advisers for the UK government supported publications on cyber security in the built environment and served in the community of interest of the Information Assurance Advisory Council.

Dr Leivesley holds memberships with the Register of Security Engineers and Specialists, the International Association of Bomb Technicians and Investigators, and the Royal United Services institute for Defence Studies.