Executive and board advisory
Clear, credible conversations about cyber risk, resilience, investment and the decisions leadership teams actually need to make.
Executive cybersecurity advisory
The person in the room when security has to make sense.
Ian helps leadership teams, strategic customers and cybersecurity vendors turn complex risk into clear decisions, credible narratives and commercial momentum.
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Where Ian adds value
Credibility outside. Clarity inside.
Strategic customer engagement
Peer-level engagement with CISOs, CIOs and senior buyers during complex opportunities, customer briefings and executive roundtables.
Commercial security strategy
Connecting customer need, market narrative, product direction and sales execution without turning security into a pitch deck.
Technical authority
Current credibility across enterprise architecture, cyber risk, cloud, AI security and resilience when the conversation needs to go deeper.
Built on real responsibility
The career behind the counsel.
Account CISO & Security Director
Senior security voice for major UK financial, utilities and critical-infrastructure customers.
EMEA product and technical leadership
Represented Managed Security and Professional Services across customers, sales teams and the regional market.
MoD, DWP and Home Office
Enterprise security architecture, executive advisory and assurance in complex, mission-critical environments.
Commercial accountability
Achieved an A$1m gross-profit target, equivalent to approximately A$12m revenue, in year one.
Field CISO mindset
Security leadership that faces outward.
Ian is at his best where practitioner credibility meets customers, boards, analysts, partners and the wider market. He can challenge the detail, shape the story and represent a company without sounding like he swallowed the corporate messaging handbook.
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