If you would be interested in getting involved as a Speaker, please do let us know. We would also very much value your input into companies, topics or specific persons you may like to see present at the event this year. Please email sara.hook@pulseconferences.com.
Many thanks.
International Speaker Panel (to date) – 7th CSO 360 Congress 2023
Opening Global Security Landscape Updates
FRANK GARDNER OBE
BBC’s Security Correspondent & Author
Frank spent nine years as an investment banker in New York, London and Bahrain before switching to journalism and joining the BBC in 1995. Frank has reported extensively on the global ˜War on Terror’ in Guantanamo Bay, Yemen, Afghanistan, Iraq and elsewhere in the Middle East. In 2004 Frank survived being shot six times at close range by Al-Qaeda terrorists in a Riyadh suburb in Saudia Arabia. He went on to write the best-selling book Blood and Sand, the poignant story of what can happen to your belief system when the culture you have embraced ends up trying to kill you. Frank has gone onto write three best-selling spy thrillers Crisis, Ultimatum and Outbreak. He was awarded an OBE in 2005 for services to journalism. In 2018 he was awarded the University of Southern California’s Tommy Trojan Trophy for distinguished speaking. As a career broadcaster and a witty and gifted communicator, Frank shares his passion for the Middle East, travel and adventure. He draws on a unique perspective and understanding of both domestic and international security.
Lana is a security professional with more than 20 years of experience in national, international and corporate security. Before joining Swiss Re as Group Head of Corporate Security, she spent several years as director of regional security in EY, responsible for leading internal security risk management of GSA. Prior to that, she has been building and coordinating Global Security Situation Center for Deutsche Post DHL Group’s Corporate Security, where she focused on comprehensive and strategic security intelligence analysis. Before joining DP DHL, Lana worked nationally and internationally in several positions in the field of security for Ministry of Defence and was awarded a NATO medal while working for ISAF in Afghanistan. She holds master level degrees in Law, International Relations and National Security and Business Administration (MBA).
Lana is a published book author (Corporate Security in the age of COVID-19 (2020)), OSAC Germany Steering Committee member-at-large where she is driving young security professionals agenda, ISMA’s Education Committee member and as well occasional LinkedIn blogger and international conference speaker on various topics like impact of digital transformation on the corporate security function, insider threat, DEI or climate security resilience.
Staff Officer d.R. in the Cyber and Information Domain Service of the Bundeswehr and prior to that in the Special Operations Division.
2016, participation in the Security Policy Course for Senior Officials at the Federal Academy for Security Policy.
Lectureships for strategic steering of Corporate Security Organizations at the Frankfurt School of Finance & Management and the European Business School.
2007-2020, Member of the Board of the Allianz für Sicherheit in der Wirtschaft NRW e.V. (2014-2018 Chairman of the Board), 2019-2020 Member of the Board of the European Energy – Information Sharing & Analysis Centre (EE-ISAC). Member of the Advisory Committee of the Bundeswehr University Munich for the accompanying research project IT-Security in critical infrastructures, Member of the federal working group Cybersecurity of the Economic Council Germany e.V., in the CSO Roundtable of ASIS International, in the International Security Management Association, the European Institute of Corporate Security Management and others.
Publisher of the book „Risiko Blackout – Krisenvorsorge für Wirtschaft, Behörden und Kommunen“. Since 2007, publisher of the Online Security Portal www.sicherheitsmelder.de of the Richard-Boorberg-Publishing Company
Cybersecurity Leader Award, 2019
Outstanding Security Performance Award 2015 und 2019
CSO50 Award 2018 und 2019
Security Innovation Award 2018
The Most Influential People in Security 2016
Carolin Jameson is a “Quereinsteiger” into the security world, who found her calling in the challenging world of Corporate Security over 15 years ago.
She has been working for a wide array of industries, such as mobility, automotive and now healthcare.
Her current role as Deputy CSO and Head of Business Resilience is to develop both the overall security strategy as well as being responsible for Risk Intelligence, BCM and Crisis Management for Siemens Healthineers.
She led the global crisis management effort at her previous employer when the Covid pandemic began to change the world.
She holds an MBA in International Management and believes it is very important to keep one’s eyes and mind open to new, different, and opposing voices. She thus also worked for a children’s NGO as well as the German Federal Office for Migration and Refugees.
Eduardo Jany is the Chief Security Officer for News Corp. He has extensive experience in global, multinational firms where he has led award winning units in physical security, travel, crisis management and event security efforts covering more than 26,000 people at over 190 offices worldwide through innovative strategies and processes. Eduardo provided advisory services for public safety and security projects with special emphasis on the 2014 World Cup and 2016 Olympic Games in Brazil. He retired from law enforcement as a Captain – Assistant Chief of Police after more than 25 years of police service in Florida, Minnesota and Washington State. He held command and supervisory assignments in patrol, SWAT, canine, narcotics and mounted units. He also retired as a Colonel from the United States Marine Corps having served 33 years of combined active and reserve duty in Reconnaissance, Special Operations and Infantry assignments as well as prior service in the Army Special Forces. He was a Foreign Liaison Officer, force protection and anti-terrorism specialist with overseas assignments in U.S. Embassies, the Department of Homeland Security and NCIS and commanded the Anti-Terrorism Battalion with over 1,200 people at 11 sites spanning six different time zones.
He received a Master of Science in Criminal Justice from the University of Wisconsin and attended the University of Minnesota for undergraduate studies. He was a 2014 Senior Executive Fellow at the Harvard University – Kennedy School of Government, and completed the Kennedy School National and International Security Senior Executive Program, the National Defense University Reserve Components National Security Program, and is a graduate of the United States Marine Corps Command and Staff College and the FBI DSEA Academy. He was the recipient of the Bronze Star Medal, Defense Meritorious Service Medal, Joint Meritorious Service Medal, three foreign parachutist and military free fall badges, several US and foreign awards as well as the Police Medal of Valor and Officer of the Year-Excellence in Service Award. He serves as Chair of the Latin American Regional Council (LARC-CIC) for the Overseas Security Advisory Council, is a member of the Citizens Crime Commission of New YorkCity, the FDR Four Freedoms Park Board, the Domestic Security Alliance Council, ASIS, and the International Association of Chiefs of Police. He is an active volunteer with Bloomberg Philanthropies and a Veteran’s mentor with American Corporate Partners. Eduardo’s Team were the proud recipients of the 2017 OSPA – Outstanding Security Performance Award for Best Internal Security Organization and runners up in 2019 and 2020. A native of São Paulo, Brazil, Eduardo immigrated with his family to the United States in 1968, was naturalized a U.S. Citizen and speaks fluent Portuguese and Spanish
In May 2017 I reach 20 years working in the security industry, 18 of those recruiting within the corporate security & resilience field. I have placed candidates in senior level and niche roles across 40+ countries and 5 continents in a wide range of industry sectors including oil & gas, mining, pharmaceutical, tobacco, FMCG, food, engineering, technology, telecoms and financial services. In 2013 I joined Barclay Simpson, the world leader in Corporate Governance recruitment, to develop their global corporate security recruitment function. Our consultants, based in offices in London, Hong Kong, Singapore, Dubai and New York work with clients throughout the globe and we place permanent and interim positions within internal and IT audit, risk, security & resilience, compliance, legal, and treasury across all economic sectors. Alongside my work at Barclay Simpson I launched Intelligent Access International in January 2017, connecting CSOs to proven security service providers internationally to save time and money. Why pay for a consultancy to fly halfway around the world, or pay a large mark-up when the project is sub-contracted anyway, when you can utilise a reliable local firm who can fulfil your requirements? Whether it be site security surveys in Turkey, executive protection services in Cote D’Ivoire, threat intelligence in Saudi Arabia, brand protection support in Malaysia, security training in Mexico, crisis management support in Russia or forensic investigations in Ghana; IAI are here to help you identify the best resource for you to use in a specific country.
A best-selling author, an award-winning speaker, and a serial entrepreneur, Kai Roer is the CEO and co-founder of Praxis Security Labs, an innovative, research-based security management software company. He is dedicated to improving the knowledge and understanding of the human factors that influence security and the organizational impact they have, and is widely recognized as a leading global authority on the topic of security culture.
Kai Roer has been providing actionable advice founded on empirical evidence to public and private organizations around the world since the 1990s, and has spent the past decades working with the information security community on a global stage. He has written and co-written several best-selling books on leadership and technology, as well as Build a Security Culture (IT-Governance, 2015) and The Security Culture Playbook (Wiley, 2022), which are well-considered as industry-guiding resources on the topic of security culture. He is also a popular keynote speaker, expert lecturer, a frequent guest on podcasts and is often featured in national and international media.
Kai focuses on presenting complex challenges in easy-to-understand language, and explains security in ways that resonate with non-security people. Thanks to his invaluable contributions to the industry and unique background which combines leadership, communication, and technology, Kai has received several awards throughout his career – including the Ron Knode Service Award by the Cloud Security Alliance CSA for his extensive volunteer work for the security community around the world.
When Kai is not working, he enjoys spending time outdoors, riding his motorcycles and BBQing with his family and friends. You can connect with Kai at www.linkedin.com/in/kairoer.
Mustafa is a Security Management Professional with military background, specialized in CIP (Critical Infrastructure Protection) especially in Oil and Gas Sector. Holding a CSMP certificate from ISMI.
During his 23 years of service in military, served at various positions in Turkish Armed Forces and NATO E-3A Component Command in Geilenkirchen/Germany.
During his civilian career, he designed, formed, and managed Security Management Programs of International multi-billion-dollar projects in Oil and Gas sector in Türkiye, Kuwait, and Saudi Arabia for about 10 years and currently is working in KRI (Kurdish Region of Iraq) as a Project Security Manager.
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.
Philip Grindell has a MSc in Security Management and is one of only 300 Chartered Security Professional (CSyP) globally.
He founded the consultancy Defuse in 2019, specialising in countering disputes, threatening & concerning behaviours & approaches from problematic people to corporate & private clients, including workplace harassment and violence and insider threats.
Philip has rapidly become known as the UK thought leader in Protective Intelligence, Behavioural Threat Management, and the protection of prominent figures, regularly commenting on this subject in the media.
Philip appears in both Spears 500 and the Tatler Address Book as a recommended adviser for the UHNW and Private Client communities.
Previously, Philip served as a Scotland Yard Detective in the Metropolitan Police Specialist Operations Command for 30 years, during which he was seconded to British Intelligence for 3 years.
Following the assassination of Jo Cox MP in 2016, Philip was responsible for setting up the new protective intelligence and investigative team in the UK Parliament and identified the next attack being planned in 2017, preventing an MP and a Police Officer from being attacked.
As a former Counter Terrorist Security Coordinator, he was responsible for the security plans protecting numerous events with the British Royal Family, Military and Government.
Philip launched The Online Bodyguard podcast in 2022 bring together globally renowned experts to discuss the latest research and practices that ensure the safety of private clients and prominent people.
Robert is the Interim Head of Information & Technology Security Strategy at DS Smith PLC. He also holds a number of board positions including Chair of Crossword Consulting Ltd Board, Non-Executive Director of Crossword Cybersecurity PLC, Chair of the Board at Think Cyber Ltd and advisor to the Government of Singapore Ministry of Health. He is also a Governor/Trustee and Audit Committee Member of the University of Brighton. Robert has over 35 years of audit, risk and security experience and has held a number of senior leadership positions, including CISO for the NHS and health & care system, GSK, National Grid, and Merrill Lynch and Head of InfoSec at Royal Bank of Scotland, and he was a partner at KPMG.
Robert is a Senior Fellow at the Centre for Assurance Research and Engineering at George Mason University, Washington DC. He is also an Honorary Professor at UCL. He was awarded a PhD in psychology by the University of Leeds for his work on the perceptions of information and IT risk and has published and presented on this and other topics. He continues to undertake research in these areas. He was also awarded an MBA from Manchester Business School.
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.
With over 29 years of managerial experience in different telecommunication fields, including eight years as Chief Information Security Officer, and Security Executive Director, added to six years as Internal Audit Executive Director, Sami has extensive knowledge of information security, cyber-security, privacy, Internal Audit, Risk Management and Internal Control.
As Telecom Engineer, Sami has also good expertise of telecommunication technologies and trends. He was Mobile O&M Director at Tunisie Telecom and supervised as Regional Director the infrastructure deployment for both fixed and mobile networks in three Tunisian Departments.
Additionally, Sami is an expert assistant at the Tunisian University where he teaches Management Information Systems and Information Security. He holds an MBA of Paris Dauphine University-France and two Telecom Engineering diplomas of SUPCOM Tunisia.
Sami is the winner of The Inspiring Leader of the Year 2022 Award at North AfricaCom Event
Thorsten Neumann has 20 years’ experience in leadership roles in the Industrial Loss Prevention & Security
industries.
After joining the Transported Asset Protection Association’s (TAPA) Board of Directors in the Europe, Middle East & Africa (EMEA) region in 2003, he went on to serve as Chairman of TAPA EMEA between 2006 and 2019 before being appointed as the supply chain security
and resilience Association’s first-ever full-time President & CEO in 2020.
Since then, TAPA EMEA has built a full-time professional team to support it membership of nearly 800 companies, including Manufacturers, Logistics Service Providers, Insurers, Security Service Providers and Consultancies, as well as Law Enforcement Agencies and Associate Partner organisations from across the EMEA region.
As well as its highest-ever membership in the region, TAPA EMEA is also seeing record growth in companies achieving certifications for its
Facility, Trucking and Secure Parking industry standards. Supported by the Association’s biggest-ever training programme.
In 2022, the launch of the TAPA EMEA Intelligence System (TIS) now provides members with a new and intuitive intelligence tool to support their risk management and loss prevention strategies by providing a searchable database of all cargo crime incidents reported to the Association.
As well as representing TAPA EMEA during its work with, and support of, Europol, INTERPOL, the European Commission, and other supply
chain security stakeholders, Thorsten is a NATO Civil Expert for Transportation, Communication & Cyber Threats.
He also serves as Chair of the Board (Vorstandsvorsitzender) of ASW NORD, the Alliance for Security in the Economy of Northern Germany (ASWN).
He is now based at TAPA EMEA’s offices in Germany. To learn more about TAPA EMEA, go to www.tapaemea.org
A absolute positive thinking team player with excellent analytical and problem solving skills with almost 20 years of Management
experience in law enforcement and Corporate Security sector for a huge company and a startup.
Equipped not only with a MBA in
Safety & Security, but also with a record of success in building up, managing and leading a team of global Security experts to develop
and mature security processes and risk mitigating measures.
Always focused on the matter to contribute to team success through targeted analysis the business environment, hard work, attention to details and excellent organizational and interpersonal skills.
If you would be interested in getting involved as a Speaker, please let us know! We would also very much value your input into companies, topics or specific persons you may like to see on the 2022 agenda!
We are looking for:
- best practice corporate case studies
- interactive formats
- future-facing persons and companies
- practical and actionable takeaways
- inspirational speakers – the world’s smartest thinkers and doers!
We welcome your input into shaping the agenda. Please email sara.hook@pulseconferences.com with your thoughts.
Many thanks!