C-suite customer engagement
Peer-level conversations with CISOs, CIOs, boards and senior buyers where credibility and commercial judgement both matter.
Field CISO · Executive Security Advisor
Cybersecurity authority built for the market, not hidden inside it.
Ian helps cybersecurity vendors earn executive trust, improve strategic customer conversations and turn practitioner credibility into commercial momentum.
Where Ian adds value
A senior security voice wherever the company meets the market.
Field CISO work sits between security expertise, executive engagement, product insight, sales influence and public thought leadership. Ian brings those disciplines together without losing technical credibility.
Strategic sales influence
Support for complex pursuits, executive briefings and late-stage opportunities without turning the CISO conversation into another sales pitch.
Thought leadership and keynotes
A credible external voice for conferences, media, analyst conversations, customer events and category-defining content.
Field-to-product insight
Turning market signals, customer objections and board priorities into useful feedback for product, marketing and commercial leadership.
Regulated and public-sector credibility
Experience spanning UK government, defence, critical infrastructure, financial services and complex enterprise environments.
Commercial security storytelling
Connecting technical truth, customer need and business outcomes in language people can understand, trust and act on.
Proof behind the positioning
Thirty years of responsibility before the job title.
Ian's career includes Account CISO and Security Director leadership, enterprise security architecture, vendor CTO responsibility and senior roles across Fujitsu, Symantec and Dimension Data.
He has worked with the Ministry of Defence, DWP, Home Office, critical infrastructure, regulated enterprise and global security vendors. FBCS, CITP and CISSP credentials support the experience; 41M+ online views and 55K+ followers demonstrate the ability to make complex ideas travel.
See Ian's keynote workEngagement models
Embedded authority or targeted intervention.
Ian can operate as a retained Field CISO or Executive Advisor, support a defined strategic pursuit, lead an executive briefing programme, contribute to category and product narrative, or represent the business through keynotes, roundtables and media.
AI security is part of that expertise—not a disconnected product catalogue—alongside cyber risk, resilience, cloud, enterprise architecture and customer trust.
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