Burrill Green approach to security

The Burrill Green approach to security is that value added business security should be a welcome integration. As with transplants, the introduction of new security organs is not enough. It requires the full adoption of the host to make the operation a major success. Rejection weakens the whole organism.

With this in mind we believe it is essential to work closely with different and diverse groups to ensure the appropriate fit and health of security practices and behaviour in their own variations of operation, within the dominant operating culture of the overall enterprise. This means finding the correct approach and language to enable widespread specialist functional groups and services to fully understand, feel comfortable with and practice the integrated security elements that have become a critical part of their operation.

Burrill Green have spent a long time working with an enormous variety of organisations to foster and nurture the practice of world-class integrated security, and we are dedicated to continuing to serve in this way.

Here are some of Burrill Green's founders' details

David Burrill

• Secure Leadership Selector

David Burrill has been a professional international Intelligence and Security operator/manager for most of his professional life. On retiring from the military in 1992, having held the appointment of Deputy Director Intelligence Corps, and Chief of Staff Intelligence and Security Centre of the UK Armed Forces, he joined BAT Industries, a major global insurance and tobacco conglomerate, and subsequently on de-merger, British American Tobacco (the world's second largest quoted tobacco group - with presence in 180+ countries), as Head of Security. David, who is a Freeman of the City of London, has had close and regular contact with the private security sector for over some 26 years.

A graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Army Command and Staff Course and the Open University, he has been a Defence Fellow of London University and is a Fellow of three British professional institutes: the Chartered Management Institute, The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, and The Security Institute. A member of the globally prestigious International Security Management Association, he was, from June 1998 to June 1999, its President (the first non North American to hold the position).

David is also an honorary member of the UK’s Risk and Security Management Forum.

In 2003, David Burrill became the first co-Chairman of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Security Information Service for Business Overseas (SISBO) - a public/private sector partnership initiative of which he was one of the key architects..

David Burrill was awarded an OBE in the 2004 New Years Honours List for services to international security management.

In April 2005, David was honoured by CSO Journal with a Compass Award for visionary leadership, and by ASIS International as the first recipient of its European Leadership Award.

In November 2005 he became the first foreigner to receive a distinguished achievement award from the Overseas Security Advisory Council of the US Department of State, and is the first foreigner to be granted Alumni status of the distinguished council.

In July 2006, he was recognised by the Association of Security Consultants with the award of the Imbert Prize for distinguished achievement from citations submitted by ASIS International, the British Security Industry Association, and The Security Institute.

Kevin Green

• Secure Leadership Selector

Kevin Green was born in England, and a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, has worked in public and private sector enterprises for thirty years. He has specialised in the development of strategies to achieve new levels of growth, efficiency, and organisation. As a practitioner within organisations, and as a third party advisor, he has acquired a rounded perspective on organisational needs and behaviour.

The first part of his career saw Kevin Green working in communications, including spells with specialists like Foote, Cone and Belding, WPP's JWT, and Havas' EuroRSCG. These assignments demanded frequent travel, with a necessity to get close to markets, and to develop a keen sense of cross-cultural needs and behaviour.

His experience drew him to working internationally from city bases like London, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, and Madrid, serving a diverse range of globally-operating blue-chip companies, which cluster into three groups. Firstly, the technology focused operators like Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Philips, Xerox, and Unysis; secondly, the manufacturers from food and personal products like Colgate-Palmolive, Kraft General Foods Mars, Nestle, Procter & Gamble and Unilever to cars like Mercedes, Peugeot-Citroen and Volvo; and thirdly, service providers ranging from local government to utility corporates in gas, oil, and telecommunications.

Kevin Green has worked frequently with teams to develop new products and services, and marketing support portfolios for them. This work has been coupled with a career long interest in training, coaching, and development, and he has undertaken a series of executive development roles in parallel with his general management activities.

Kevin continues to focus on helping organisations identify, create, and realise additional value from their core assets.

Becky Burrill - Becky Burrill is an honours graduate of the University of Warwick where she studied English and European Literature. Her career has involved her in several different business industries as an organiser, relationship builder and manager.

After a brief period in telesales, she has worked with NatWest, in the private banking sector, attending to the needs of high net worth clients, and then entered the world of investment banking, working for companies such as Robertson Stephens, UBS and Deutsche Bank, as a senior administrator. She has experience of team co-ordination, conference organisation, marketing and recruitment.

In recent years, Becky, who is a fully qualified beauty therapist, has been using her organisational skills within the leisure industry where she established and managed a busy day spa.

She is widely travelled and is developing her French and Spanish skills.


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