Our team
Our skills, knowledge and expertise are based on a long experience…
Sarah Austerberry
Former UK Government’s Head of Specialism for Personnel Security
Over 25 years providing government security advice to UK and Overseas critical national infrastructure on insider risk.
Developing and implementing insider risk capacity building programmes as part of EU funded security programmes.
Carnegie Mellon insider threat programme manager, a Chartered Security Professional (CSyP) and a Principal of the Register of Security Engineers and Specialists (RSES).
Vice-Chair of the Security Institute.
Richard Mackintosh
Senior security professional with 35 years' diverse experience
Specialized in national security, counter-terrorism, cyber security
Recent roles: Head of Intelligence at Lloyds, Director of Investigations at BP
Established BP's enterprise-wide insider risk program
Independent adviser, Senior Adviser to StoneTurn
Provides specialized training in investigation and elicitation
Dr Paul Martin CBE
Three decades of senior practitioner experience in UK national security
Former head of CPNI (now NPSA) and Director of Security for UK Parliament
Professor at Coventry University; Fellow of RUSI, IET and Imperial College London
Adviser to various government and public sector entities
Author of The Rules of Security (2019) and Insider Risk and Personnel Security (2024)
Eddie Alleyn
Three decades working in the UK defence and security community
Two years as Director responsible for Personnel and Physical security for MOD
CEO at HMGCC (2011-2016), a national security engineering lab
Executive and advisory roles with tech startups and scale-ups since 2017
Current roles: Chair at General System, Board member at iProov, co-founder of Quince
Tim Cook
Ten years in UK military including active service and reserve special forces
CEO at Cherwell Scientific in the Oxford Science Park
25 years in recruitment including Egon Zehnder and Russell Reynolds
Specialist in assessment and benchmarking of individuals in senior roles especially in the HR, Security, Cyber and Technology functions
Adviser to MissionLink UK; co-founder of Quince
James Kidner
35 years’ service in the Foreign Office and other Whitehall roles, including:
Work in the Prime Minister’s Strategy Unit, the Royal College of Defence Studies, and the office of the Leader of the House of Commons
Former Deputy Private Secretary to The Prince of Wales
6 years’ work with two technology “unicorns” – Improbable and Rebellion Defence
Adviser to several technology start-ups and charitable foundations; Director of Partnerships at Bookomi