About Mark
I am an internationally recognized thought-leader in Cybersecurity and all wider aspects of digital risk, and bring empathy and experience building on my near 35 years of industry and professional services experience.
A former Global Fortune 10 CISO, Global Fortune 500 CIO/CTO as well as an Associate Partner at EY, Senior Partner and Global Practice Head at Wipro, my last permanent role was as Global Managing Director Digital Trust Consulting at The British Standards Institution (BSI) where I held Global P&L management responsibility for the Digital Trust Consulting business and strategy development and oversight responsibility for the horizontal cross service line Digital Trust businesses globally.
I have also held strategic advisory roles for private equity funds and PE backed startups operating in the cybersecurity portfolio business arena.
I am currently focused on business enabling capabilities around cybersecurity and digital business with a focus on emerging technologies such as Industry 4.0 (OT & IoT), 5G and Artificial Intelligence. This focus assists organizations transition operating models alongside technology development to accelerate business growth in and enabling and cybersecure manner.
I am available for full time or fractional roles as well as Non-Executive Directorships or as a retained strategic board level advisor.
French
Basic
English
Native or bilingual
German
Conversational
Can work on-site
Woking (up to 50km), London (up to 50km)
Experience
- 1 - SE - IA - Process Automation - UK&I - Billing French entity
On Malt
Strategic Cybersecurity & GRC AdvisorENERGY AND UTILITIESMay 2025 - June 2026 (1 year and 1 month)London, United KingdomDesigned, operationalized, managed and led the strategic program of works necessary to successfully achieve ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification across the Schneider Electric Industrial Automation Cybersecurity Solution Group operating bases including Bangalore, Grenoble and Boston and then transition efforts to achieving SOC 2 Type II attestation for the same line of business and operating sites - Schneider ElectricStrategic Cybersecurity & GRC ConsultantCONSULTING AND AUDITSMay 2025 - Today (1 year and 3 months)London, United KingdomDesigned, established, operationalised and managed the ISO/IEC 27001:2022 certification program for the Industrial Automation Cybersecurity Solutions Group for its managed security services offerings in Bangalore, Grenoble and Boston
- Bloom Equity PartnersStrategic Business Advisory ConsultantCONSULTING AND AUDITSApril 2025 - May 2026 (1 year and 1 month)New York, United StatesBloom Equity Partners are currently undertaking a proactive growth strategy across their Cyber GRC business through a focus on middle market cybersecurity consulting and solution providers with HQ in UK. I have been contracted to support the ongoing due diligence review of the target companies and acting as a strategic business advisor identifying the opportunities for synergistic growth of the existing GRC International platform and the optimal extension opportunities post successful acquisition transactions.
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Education
- A levels (various)Perth Academy1990Graduated High School with A levels in Accounts, Economics, English, French, Physics Geography and Certificates of Sixth Year Studies in Mathematics III (Statistics) and Mathematics IV (Computing & Numerical Analysis)
Certifications
- Member Business Continuity InstituteMBCI2008