Board & Advisory Services
Board-Level Oversight, Governance Stewardship & Scale-Up Advising.
Advising corporate boards, venture capital firms, and high-growth founders on technology risk and regulatory landscapes. Bringing structured, independent challenge and pattern recognition to boardroom discussions, I help organisations design pragmatic risk-management frameworks, scale product-led growth (PLG) strategies, and align operations with corporate governance codes—always right-sized to prevent operational friction.
Governance (NED)
Providing independent strategic oversight, corporate governance stewardship, and deep technology/cyber risk assurance to the boardroom.
- ▹ Guiding boards through UK Corporate Governance Code Provision 29 material control declarations.
- ▹ Reviewing and validating corporate risk appetites and AI adoption governance frameworks.
- ▹ Translating complex, technical cyber risks into clear, business-enabling strategic decisions.
Founder Mentoring
Coaching high-growth founders and product executives through critical inflection points and transitions.
- ▹ Coaching founders to transition from hands-on execution to strategic corporate leadership.
- ▹ Structuring right-sized cybersecurity architectures to build investor confidence and pass enterprise procurement audits without adding unnecessary enterprise overhead.
- ▹ Establishing outcome-driven OKRs and high-trust engineering cultures rooted in psychological safety.
Scale Diagnostics & PLG
Deploying deep sector pattern recognition to help tech startups achieve product-market fit and optimise product-led growth (PLG) strategies.
- ▹ Assessing product portfolio design to align engineering roadmaps with commercial revenue OKRs.
- ▹ Identifying and remediating operational deficits in SIEM, SOAR, threat detection, and cloud architectures.
- ▹ Developing Total Cost of Ownership (TCO) and ROI models for complex security integrations.
The TIDIR Methodology
An intelligence-led, threat-focused framework to engineering resilient cybersecurity defence functions.
Threat Intelligence
Anticipating actor behaviours and modeling the attack surface to prioritise defence.
Detection Engineering
Building robust, logic-driven analytics as code to identify adversary presence.
Investigation
Rapid triage and deep contextual analysis of alerts to determine blast radius.
Response
Automated playbooks and decisive human action to contain and mitigate threats.
Advisory & Board Experience
Sample of organisations I have provided advisory services to, or through.
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If your organisation requires confident, battle-tested cyber leadership at the advisory or board level, I invite you to reach out.
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