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Associates Biographies

Andrew Buchanan

He joined BAT with a global security management remit, and continued to develop his Sub-Saharan African responsibilities as Regional Security Manager for Africa.

He is a French speaker with extensive travel experience and intimate knowledge of most Sub-Saharan African countries.







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Geoffrey Gillion

Following a career as an officer in the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, Geoffrey was employed with a London-based multi-national company as a senior security manager. He has been heavily involved in the study and successful prevention of counterfeit goods entering and transiting international markets. He spent two years in West Africa acting to reduce the levels of counterfeit goods in circulation. His work achieved a two thirds reduction in these levels by volume in a specific niche market.

He has recently worked closely with oil-related industries and with Government Departments and training organisations in the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East as a senior consultant.







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Chris Hughes

Chris’s earlier career was as a military specialist on the Soviet Union and its successor states, with significant roles as a Russian interpreter, including Liaison Officer to the Group of Soviet Forces (East) Germany and Advisor to the Foreign and Commonwealth Office on arms control agreements. He ended this part of his career as head of Intelligence Production at NATO Headquarters.

He became BAT’s Regional Security Officer for Central and Eastern Europe, embracing over 60 different states, and making significant contributions to tackling Organised Crime, especially attacks on supply chains, cost benefit studies for corporate security’s contribution, and benchmarking.

Chris is a Fellow of the UK Security Institute.







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Robert Pepper d.f. M. Phil

Educated in the UK at public school and as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, he is also a German language interpreter having studied at the government language school at Mulheim. During his service he attained an M.Phil degree at Edinburgh University with his investigation of Soviet Theatre War Fighting Techniques. For this work he was made a Defence Fellow (df).

He served in the infantry before transferring in mid career to the Intelligence Corps. His appointments in the Corps included commanding the UK’s Intelligence Brigade of some 900 dispersed over the entire UK for which he was granted Freeman of the City of London and also made a Freeman of the Honorary Painter Stainers’ Livery Company. In his final years in the Army, he was Chief of Intelligence for the Middle East based in Riyadh during the first Gulf War, Chief of Intelligence for the Middle East based in Cyprus and also the Chief of Intelligence responsible for the Warsaw Pact based in Bielefeld, Germany with 1 (British) BR Corps. All were posts within the strategic intelligence wing. He became the Chief of Staff of the Intelligence Corps before his retirement from government service.

He then changed direction and became the Chief Security Officer for the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco both globally and within the United States. Bechtel is involved in over a thousand projects throughout the world. Progress within the company was through a mixture of good sound decisions, ecological awareness and ambition to do well. This resulted in rapid promotion achieving a position of trust giving advice directly to the leadership and the Board to whom he reported and was directly responsible. Highlights included resolving a mass kidnapping in Colombia and evacuation under live fire from a project in Bolivia.

He has travelled extensively and specialised in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East as well as Asia Pacific. Since leaving Bechtel he has been a BurrillGreen Associate. On an extended assignment to the Merchant International Group, based London, he was responsible for global risk assessment.

To date, he has been responsible for providing guidance, support, and advice to leadership regarding the protection and welfare of company employees, their dependants, and company property. He has provided for a complete range of strategic, physical, analytical, and technical security services to worksites and offices worldwide. He also supported strategic crisis management planning and coordination and managed responses to emergency situations. He has been responsible for developing and maintaining a list of "high risk" countries and for providing guidance as to the feasibility of working in those environments. In order to achieve this, he conducted a continuous risk assessment of the political and security situations for all countries. He provided appropriate warning and mitigation advice. Additional functions included, providing executive protection services, coordinating secure travel management, advising on compliance with international security treaties, safeguarding vital proprietary data, and overseeing the implementation and management of levels of security programmes with those for whom he worked.







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David Reece

• Secure Leadership Selector

David Reece is a business consultant specialising in corporate security and business continuity management issues. Following security and intelligence service in the British Army to the rank of brigadier-general, David has worked in senior corporate security roles in several large international companies, covering Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia.

To date David has worked with companies and official bodies in 54 countries. David is competent in French and Italian, with conversational Spanish and German.

Areas of Expertise

•  Working with senior management to identify and evaluate threats to stakeholders,
   assets, and proprietary information, leading to the formulation of strategies,
   policies and procedures to minimise risk.

•  Business continuity planning, from the evaluation of vulnerabilities through
   the development of plans to training and execution.

•  Security reviews of premises and operations and the production of detailed reports and    recommendations. Special expertise in film location and event security.

•  Problem solving over a wide geographic area using personal expertise and experience,
   a wide network of trusted contacts, and/or carefully selected contractors.

•  Public speaking at trade fairs and conferences on security and business continuity matters. Items    published in the Times, the Economist, and Security Professional. Interviewed on the BBC.







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Ian Houston, CPP

Ian served 22 years in the Intelligence Corps including service with a specialist IT security team, as a trainer at the Intelligence Corps Depot and with UK Special Forces. After his military career, he joined the National Criminal Intelligence Service as the Head of Security and Departmental Security Officer. He subsequently moved to Pfizer Ltd, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, where he was head of Security Systems & Projects for the European hub site in Sandwich, Kent.

Ian has broad experience of industrial security (in both research and chemical manufacturing settings) as well as working in sensitive and classified facilities. This not only encompasses risk assessment, physical and personnel security but also the operational policies and procedures necessary to provide a safe and secure working environment for staff. His good communications skills facilitate the change management necessary to engage with those affected. He also has extensive commercial experience having managed the TUPE transfer of the NCIS guard force and the re-tendering of both manned guarding and systems maintenance contracts within Pfizer. He also has some Health & Safety expertise and holds a healthy & safety certification.

Ian has delivered many programmes and projects in both office and industrial settings, providing cost-effective and innovative security solutions that add value to the business while having the minimum possible impact on business process. In the National Criminal Intelligence Service, he wrote the Staff Code of Conduct and the Vetting policy, formulated and implemented education and training strategies for staff and also designed the security for new Regional HQs. He also wrote the security specification for a new NCIS IT system compliant with BS7799 and HM Government criteria. At Pfizer, he designed the site’s Security Command Centre, (including the Emergency Control Centre, the Security Control Room, CCTV and digital video recording system). He also designed the security for Pfizer’s central European archive and its European Data Centre. Ian was also a leading member of the site’s Incident Response Team.

His 30 years’ of security experience in military, government and commercial spheres includes work in Britain and Northern Ireland, Germany, Bosnia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Sweden and Belgium.

His wide-ranging linguistic skills enhance his understanding of different cultures. In addition to English, Ian reads and writes Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin), French and Italian.







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M Anwar Khan

In his first career in the Pakistan Army, Anwar served with distinction and, having reached the rank of Colonel, retired in 1994. A graduate from Command and Staff College, Quetta, he also holds a master’s degree in Political Science.

Having held three various operational, management and security appointments, he joined Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) - a subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), the world’s 2nd largest tobacco group). Anwar was the CSO of PTC for 11 years until his retirement in 2006. In addition, he has attended various advanced international programmes in the USA and the UK related to corporate security and information/ IT security.

While managing company business and operational security interests, Anwar developed effective and innovative contingency plans to identify and counter numerous threats like terrorism, various crisis situations and safety & security of the business in a high risk country like Pakistan, particularly following 9/11 events. He created and disseminated best operating practices, and coordinated and managed security activities of the whole company. He also has extensive experience in risk assessment - as risk manager - security vulnerability threat analysis, physical/ technical security, security of nation wide supply chain, anti-counterfeiting activities, investigation of fraud and other incidents, business continuity planning and management, anti-kidnapping processes and management of actual kidnapping incidents and conduct of security awareness programmes in the company.

In 2006, he was the first of 130 Security Managers, of BAT worldwide, to win the “BAT Business Security Excellence Award” in recognition of his contributions to support and added value delivery to various business activities and operations, and extraordinarily successful crisis management which included effecting the safe release of kidnapped company staff.







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Tony Judge

Tony served 23 years with the British Army, 17 of those years in the Intelligence Corps. After his military career, Tony joined British American Tobacco (China,) part of the world’s second largest tobacco company as CSO and was also engaged as CSO for British American Tobacco (BAT) South East Europe.

Tony's broad experience of security operations in Western Europe, the Far East and the Balkans, together with experience in the CIS and Brazil and of working with teams from widely differing environments, coupled with a flair for foreign languages enables him to bring cultural sensitivity to his assignments and tailor his approach to working with colleagues from widely differing backgrounds.

Tony is knowledgeable in all areas of business security and in the integration of all types of security measures into general business policy and practice to ensure, as far as is possible, effective corporate security with the minimum of added friction to business operations. In China he was responsible for planning security for a major green-field operation that included production, distribution and sales operations. Tony’s commercial security experience includes security surveys, audits and inspections and security policy development; Risk Management, including Risk Assessments, Emergency, Disaster Recovery, and Business Continuity planning and policy development, Information and IT security planning and policy development, and production, operations and logistics security. He was a member of the Crisis Management Team in BAT China during the SARS crisis.

Tony is also well versed in anti-counterfeit and anti-illicit trading operations. He has supervised the installation of physical and IT security equipment and systems, developed and implemented new policies and procedures and trained and educated (non-technical,) staff in the use of the new systems.

In nearly 30 years of military and commercial operational security experience, Tony has experience, or has carried out assignments in, Northern Ireland, Germany, South Korea, Thailand, Brazil, the CIS, China, Malaysia, Singapore, Australia, Vietnam, Cambodia, Taiwan, Indonesia, Hong Kong, the Philippines, all of the former Yugoslav Republics and Albania.

He speaks English, Chinese, Greek, German and Serbo Croat, (and therefore some Bulgarian), with some knowledge of a smattering of other languages.







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Alvaro Daniel Medina

Alvaro Medina started his security experience in the Colombian Army with over 30 years of management and leadership. Achieving the rank of Colonel, he received national and international recognitions with eighteen medals for distinguished services in the Colombian Army, from the Governments of France, Ecuador, Chile, Uruguay and Argentina.

He developed and led military operations as a Brigade Commander in high risk areas in Colombia. He graduated in high military studies in the ESGI in Paris and in the Continental Defense Course at the Inter-American Defense College in Washington.

He retired from the Army in 1990 and joined Avianca, the first airline in Colombia as CSO responsible for the whole security operation in Colombia and foreign travel destinations in other countries.

In 1993, he was asked to return to the Army as a military strategy teacher in the Escuela Superior de Guerra (War College) for one and a half years, following which he was designated as Security Manager for British American Tobacco Colombia. In his ten years with BAT, Alvaro was recognized for creating a world class security culture and developing and implementing effective plans and measures to build a security environment against threats such as terrorism, kidnapping and other high risks associated with Colombia.

Alvaro speaks English and French in addition to his native Spanish.

Areas of Expertise

•  Intelligence
•  Security Industry standards
•  Budget creation and management
•  Recruiting, training and development of security personnel.
•  Risk management.
•  Counterfeit and fraud prevention and investigation
•  Personnel and installations security
•  Anti terrorist management.
•  Security of VIPs







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Roberto Mackrodt

Roberto Mackrodt's details are currently being updated.







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Deepak Summanwar

Deepak Summanwar recently retired from the Indian Army after thirty nine years of service.

He has had varied experience as Director General Military Intelligence, Additional Director General Perspective Planning, and Additional Director General Public Information.

He has over twenty years of combat experience in the frontline and counter insurgency environment. He has been decorated for gallantry and distinguished service five times. He has been awarded the Uttam Yudh Seva medal,and the Ati Vishisht Seva medal. He has been awarded twenty medals during his service.

Deepak is a graduate of the National Defense Academy, Defense Services Staff College and the Army War College. He has schooled at the Doon School Dehradun and has a post graduate degree in Defense Studies from the University of Madras.

He has a Masters in Business Administration with a specialization in Marketing and Finance from the Vrije University, Brussels and the Solvay Business School. He has also completed the All India Management Association’s Strategic Management course and the Federation of Indian Industries’ program for independent directors.

Post retirement, Deepak, who has an extremely broad network of contacts, is engaged in establishing himself as an independent consultant and advisor.

Areas of Expertise

•  Leadership and management
•  Strategy formulation and implementation
•  Prognosis of global security and political environment
•  Perspective planning, financial management, risk management
•  Psychological initiatives and media interface
•  General and Corporate Intelligence







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John F Purnell GM, QPM, CSO Emeritus/Faculty, CSO Executive Council

• Secure Leadership Selector

Mr Purnell is a Security Executive Council Emeritus Faculty member, and Director of Caveat Consulting UK Ltd. Until September 2006 he was the Global Loss Prevention and Security Director for the UK retail giant Tesco plc, reporting directly to the Chief Executive Officer. His responsibilities included theworldwide protection of all company assets, Crisis Management and Business Continuity.

Prior to joining Tesco in May 1998 Mr Purnell spent 35 years as a serving police office in the London Metropolitan Police. He retired with the rank of Deputy Assistant Commissioner commanding cc 8,000 operational officers in North-West London. During his career he served in all ranks throughout London, investigating a wide cross section of crime and commanding terrorist bomb scenes, civil disasters, violent public demonstrations, and ceremonial events. In 1977 Her Majesty the Queen honoured him for his part in the capture of terrorists and again in 1996 for distinguished police service.

Areas of Expertise

•  International security of retail supply chain.
•  Formulation of security strategies, policies and procedures
•  Coaching and mentoring senior security personnel
•  Investigation of serious criminal threats including fraud and extortion.
•  Executive Protection
•  Country Evacuation Planning
•  Crisis Management
•  Business Continuity
•  Chairing and facilitation of conferences/meetings







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Gennady Saraev

Gennady is a highly experienced and exceptionally effective corporate security manager and corporate security consultant who speaks fluent English.

Following a successful career as an officer in the Intelligence Service (Soviet Union/Russia) Gennady joined British American Tobacco Russia – a subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), the world’s second largest tobacco group.

He was the head of security for BAT Russia for 11 years until his retirement in 2006. In addition Gennady provided security assistance and support to BAT companies in CIS countries. He has extensive experience in risk assessment and threat analysis, physical/technical security, security of nation wide supply chain, conducting security awareness programmes in companies and is well versed in managing critical incidents. He was also heavily involved in managing investigations of counterfeiting activities and the prevention of counterfeit tobacco products entering European markets.  Gennady has always taken an intelligence led approach to the delivery of security.

While managing business security, Gennady developed and established an effective corporate security infrastructure that ensured the provision of an appropriate security service for the company across Russia as well as security assistance to the needs of other BAT European subsidiaries.

Kevin Doyle

Kevin Doyle's details are currently being updated.







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Brigadier (Retired) Brian Parritt CBE

In 1986 he formed International Maritime Security (IMS), and was the Chairman and Chief Executive until May 2006. In this position he has been a guest speaker at many Maritime Seminars, which discussed the problems of Port and Ship Security.

In 1986 he participated in the series of International Maritime Organisation Meetings, which resulted in the unanimous adoption by the United Nations of the Policy Document - ‘Measures to Prevent Unlawful Acts Against Passengers and Crews On Board Ships’ (MSC/Circ.443).

Brigadier Parritt has also been an invited speaker at five Seminars organised by the IMO, three to discuss Maritime Terrorism matters and two to discuss Piracy/Armed Robbery issues. These were 1989, Puerto Rico, 1990, Greece, 1991, Japan, 1998, Brazil and 1999 in Singapore. In 2002 he was appointed by the IMO to be the "Maritime Security Consultant” and has participated in IMO training workshops in Mombasa, Singapore, Sydney, Alexandria and Gdansk.

In 2003 he was asked to revise the week long IMO Maritime Security Seminar/Workshop Manual and has conducted this revised training in Calabar (Nigeria), Durban, Mumbai, Bangkok and Peking.

In 1989 he was part of a Delegation led by the Norwegian Ambassador, which toured the Caribbean to discuss with Heads of State how to prevent the smuggling of illegal items.

In 1991 he was asked by the Nautical Institute to write the book "Security at Sea" which is a practical guide for Masters to help them deal with terrorism, drugs and piracy. This book includes a Foreword written by the Secretary General of the IMO.

Following the success of this book, in 1992 the Nautical Institute commissioned him to write a second book, "Stowaways at Sea". This dealt with the problems arising from Stowaways, Refugees and Asylum Seekers. In 1996 a third Book was commissioned entitled "Crime at Sea" to help mitigate the effect of Maritime Crime, and in 1998 a new Book was published entitled "Illegal Drugs by Sea".

In 1994 he was elected a Companion of the Nautical Institute, and in 1995 was a joint signatory with Her Majesty's Customs and Excise to a "Memorandum of Understanding" in the fight against illegal drugs. In 1999 he was selected to be a Governor of the United States Maritime Security Committee in Washington and to be a Member of the Association of Airport and Seaport Police.







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Alastair Barron

When in the Army, Alastair served in the Intelligence Corps, holding appointments in UK, Europe and the Far East. He worked within the special forces environment, in a major NATO headquarters and, in his final appointment, commanded the regional security and intelligence resource run out of Hong Kong.

After leaving the military, Alastair was appointed as the first Security and Contingency Planning Advisor to the Corporation of the City of London in the aftermath of the ’92 and ’93 PIRA bombs in the Square Mile. He worked with the City of London Police to develop measures to protect the business community and worked with the business community to improve their own efforts to protect their businesses and to enable them to manage security risks more effectively. He was also responsible for the planning of the City’s response to major incidents.

Alastair moved into the private sector in 1997 and joined the US bank, Lehman Bros, as the Head of Security for Europe and Asia. His five years at Lehman Bros helped confirm his belief that the security and contingency planning functions must be part of an organisation’s overall risk management strategy and, crucially, an integral part of the aims, objectives and strategies of the business.

He then moved to the UK’s Barclays Group which comprised some 75000 employees in 68 countries globally. In a new appointment, he headed up the Group Security function as part of the Group Risk team created to ensure that, at both Group and Business Group levels, risk management was aligned to the business process. Alastair established a central team that articulated Group policies, governance structures and contingency plans as well as providing core support functions such as risk assessment and high risk personnel and travel security capability into the businesses.

Latterly Alastair has worked within QinetiQ, a leading international defence and security technology provider and research organisation, developing business with partners into, primarily, the Middle East and North Africa. He has, most recently, led a successful specialist information assurance consultancy growing the business into the government, public and private sector markets.

Alastair is a Fellow of the Security Institute and a member of the UK’s Risk and Security Management Forum. He holds a Batchelor’s degree in French, German and Psychology and, in 2004, took a year out to study for an MBA where he graduated with distinction.







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Dr. Frank Marsh

For 25 years, until 2008, he worked for BAT Industries/British American Tobacco in a broad range of business roles, and from 1995 as Global Information Security Manager. Working with BAT‘s business operations globally, he also became the deputy CSO.

In 2001, he was elected, by the UK membership, to the global Council of the Information Security Forum (ISF) and was elected by that council of his peers to the ISF Executive a year later. He was a member of the ISF Ltd Board of Directors that led strategic business change in the ISF which resulted in renewed membership growth year on year. He was also a member of the ISF Board finance sub-group. His responsibilities with the ISF continued until December 2007.

As an information security specialist he developed various in-house training programmes for business staff that have been delivered worldwide including a 5-day specialist workshop for security managers. He has presented at numerous conferences, was a referee of the EU CTOSE project and has worked with national and international manufacturers’ associations. Throughout his career he has delivered business-focused and aligned information security that enables, rather than inhibits, business operations.

Additonal to information security, he has had responsibility for R&D and factory IT, health & safety, Quality Control, building services, and general information services. Transferred to head office in 1991, reporting directly to the Chairman, he managed the implementation of records management for BAT’s UK companies, a review of global policies reporting to another Board Director and managed disaster recovery planning and data protection.







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Laurie Vanner

A corporate security expert who has operated across the Globe for a major multinational company, following on from 30 years as a senior detective with the Metropolitan Police Service (New Scotland Yard).

Laurie joined the Met in 1968 moving at an early stage from general policing both in uniform and as a detective, through anti terrorism, drugs and organised crime, kidnap, ransom and extortion investigations and hostage negotiating. With the latter responsibility, he worked for the UK Government on kidnap resolutions overseas.

He joined BAT in 1998 having a global security remit before assuming the role of Regional Security Manager for Africa and the Middle East and then for 5 years from 2002, with the same role in the Company’s Asia Pacific Region and being based in Hong Kong. In addition to the expected responsibilities, Laurie played a key part in the development and implementation of BAT’s anti illicit trade strategy.

As well as his strategic and operational capabilities, Laurie is a first class instructor.







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Tony Mannakee

Tony joins BurrillGreen after 26 successful years working in corporate security for British American Tobacco, the world’s most international tobacco group.
He has broad experience in all areas of business security providing tailored advice and solutions to clients both in the UK and overseas.

Tony provides consultation in areas including, security vulnerability and risk assessments, crisis management and executive protection advising on physical and procedural security measures designed to provide protection to VIPs and corporate executives and their families.

He is widely experienced in planning and managing security for special events including:

•  Shareholder meetings where disruption by either activists or disgruntled shareholders jeopardises
    the company’s reputation or the safety of others attending the event.

•  Executive board meetings and strategic planning sessions.

•  Conferences and corporate events.

•  Keynote speaking engagements.

Tony has worked on numerous major new build and refurbishment projects in the UK and overseas developing customised security solutions that integrate effective management, operations and design strategies into the security approach.







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