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This list showcases the top United Kingdom based President operating in the Risk Management space. If you think a President is missing from this list, feel free to contact our editor on editor@beststartup.co.uk.
The individuals on this list have been included because of exceptional performance in one of the following categories:
- Innovation – Operating as a key part in an extremely innovative business or startup.
- Growth – Operating as a key figure in the growth and upscale of a market leading business or startup.
- Management – Showing exceptional management skills.
- Societal impact – Putting their business on the map for their positive societal or environmental impact.
Our Data – We source our data from OSINT (open source intelligence) and public directories such as Companies House UK, Crunchbase, SemRush and many more. The data from these sources should be treated with a degree of caution and verified yourself.
Gavin Millard
Vice President of Product Marketing of Tenable
Gavin is a trained, ethical hacker who works with medium and large enterprises to address their cybersecurity challenges. With a deep understanding of how attackers plot a breach, he helps bring these companies to a trusted state of IT infrastructure. He previously worked as the Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) technical director for Tripwire. He has also spoken frequently on data integrity, hacking and other key security topics. Current Position: As Technical Director, Gavin is involved with the major clients in the EMEA region, helping to manage and reduce their attack surface.
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About Tenable, Tenable: Tenable helps organizations to understand and reduce their cybersecurity risk across the full range of modern computing assets.
John R. Bragg
Executive Vice President of Bank Operations of National Commerce
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About National Commerce: National Commerce is a a financial holding company that provides various financial services to individuals, businesses, and business owners.
Thomas Scott McDonald
President and chief executive officer of Oliver Wyman
Scott McDonald is the Chief Executive Officer of Oliver Wyman Group. In his role, Scott provides global leadership to the entire set of industry practices and horizontal capabilities within Oliver Wyman. Scott also leads Oliver Wyman Group, which includes Oliver Wyman, NERA, and Lippincott. Previously, Scott was the Managing Partner of Oliver Wyman’s Financial Services practice. In that role, he managed the practice globally across all of its service lines and advised senior executives in financial services around the world, especially on matters of competitiveness and industry regulation and reform. Scott joined the firm in 1995, was elected a partner in 2000, and elected by his partners as Managing Partner in 2007. Prior to becoming Managing Partner of Financial Services, Scott was the Global head of the Corporate & Institutional Banking practice within Financial Services, which includes the firm’s activities in Corporate Banking, Investment Banking, Capital Markets, Asset Management, Exchanges, and other related businesses. Scott has a special interest in the role that financial services firms play in society at large. He has sat on various international industry working groups, such as the International institute of Finance Committee on Market Best Practices, Her Majesty’s Treasury Professional Services Global Competitiveness Group, the World Economic Forum Steering Committee for Future Financial Architecture, and the McGill University’s Expert Panel for Strategy and Global Leadership. Scott is also a regular speaker at events held by the Council of Foreign Relations in New York, the World Knowledge Forum in Seoul, and at Oliver Wyman’s annual World Economic Forum lunch in Davos. Before joining Oliver Wyman, he was an M&A investment banker with RBC Dominion Securities in Toronto. Scott has degrees in Finance & Economics from McGill University and International Relations from Cambridge University. A marathon runner, he makes his home in London. Scott is an avid fisherman and specializes in finding any fish at all in the English Channel.
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About British Council(BIRAX), Oliver Wyman: Oliver Wyman is a management consulting firm that specializes in strategies, operations, risk management, and organizational transformation.
James Noe
Senior Vice President of Training & Mission Support of Constellis
As the senior vice president of training and mission support for Constellis, Jim Noe leads the company’s training and mission support lines of business for which he is responsible for all operations and strategy. With more than 20 years of experience in the field, he is one of the nation’s leading experts in preparedness training. Jim previously served as president of his own technology management company, Eon, LLC. Prior to Eon, he served as president of O’Gara Training and Services where he oversaw the acquisition of three companies and their subsequent integrations into one operating division, generating over $100M in revenue over a five-year period. In 2001, Jim founded Critical Incident Solutions (CIS) where he built a robust government contracting program focused on bid and proposal response–resulting in the award of a major U.S. Department of State (DoS) contract providing training to U.S. embassies worldwide. He also served as a program manager for DoS for two years during which he provided chemical and biological terrorism training for the Department of Diplomatic Security; training for the Anti-Terrorism Assistance Program in Manila, and was responsible for the development of training programs for DoS regarding weapons of mass destruction. An explosive ordnance disposal technician for the U.S. Army for seven years, Jim is a graduate of the U.S. Naval School Explosive Ordnance Disposal School in Indian Head, Md. He holds a master certificate from Villinova in government contracting and a degree in technology from Pierce College.
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About Constellis: Constellis is a provider of operational support and risk management services to government and commercial clients.
Mark Brown
Vice President of Software Solutions and Services of Sword GRC
Mark joined Active Risk in April 2000 from SunGard. Prior to that Mark held senior management and consulting roles with Coopers & Lybrand and Lazard Brothers in London. Mark holds a Bachelor of Business Studies in Information Systems and Finance and is an Associate Chartered Accountant with the New Zealand Society of Accountants. He has held several executive roles within the company as both a founding director involved in the launch of Active Risk Manager in 2000, the IPO of the company in 2005 and is now the member of the Management team with responsibility for Product Management, Pre-sales and Consulting Services.
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About Sword GRC: Sword GRC is a software solutions company that specializes in risk, compliance, governance, audit & policy management services.
John Frain
Vice President of Global Support of Sword GRC
John joined Sword Active Risk in 2011, working as a Business Analyst in the Development Team. Prior to Sword Active Risk, John worked in software development for 18 years, predominantly in Retail Finance, Logistics, and Supply Chain environments. John has a BSc from the University of York, in Information Technology, Business Management, and Language.
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About Sword GRC: Sword GRC is a software solutions company that specializes in risk, compliance, governance, audit & policy management services.
Marcelle von Wendland
Managing Director, President – Big Data of Fincore Ltd
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About Fincore Ltd, Huuzlee Ltd: Fincore offers two branded products that are CBPM (Collaborative Business Process Management) and FDM3 (Financial Data Management).
Chris Beaumont
Vice President Marketing of SHE Software
Chris is Vice President Marketing and masterminds all marketing, public relations, events and business development activities across the globe. His main focus is to build SHE Software’s reputation globally as the leading health and safety software provider, and develop new creative routes to market to meet acquisition and retention targets. Chris joined SHE Software in 2013, bringing over 15 years marketing leadership experience. In his previous role at BP, he worked on product development, creating a number of successful go-to-market strategies. He holds a Professional Diploma in Marketing, Chartered Institute of Marketing and BSc Hons Management & Information Technology, UMIST. When not putting his creative brain to the test, outside work, Chris enjoys spending time with his wife, young daughter and eating!
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About SHE Software: Health and Safety software. Transforming how companies engage with their employees, delivering safe, nurturing and compliant workplaces.
Peter Erceg
Senior Vice President of Lockton
Peter joined Lockton from EE in June 2016, the largest telecommunications company in Britain. As the CISO he was responsible for the security of the companies and their customer’s information. He led a team that covered all areas of Information and Cyber Security, Technology Risk Management and Business Continuity for the company. Prior to joining EE Peter was the VP of Information Security at Visa Europe, responsible for the protection for Visa’s sensitive data for the company which had a turnover of over €1 trillion per year.
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About Lockton: Clients across the globe count on Lockton for risk management, insurance and employee benefits.
