Pawan is a risk consultant, entrepreneur, and veteran. He is co-founder and CEO of MitKat a leading risk consultancy in ASIA based in India. His specialist areas of expertise include strategic leadership, risk management, business continuity, threat intelligence, and information security.

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Preeti is described as a ‘women Super-achiever’ on Linked-In and is one if Singapore’s top 100 entrepreneurs. Having studied business (MBA) and psychology and following an early career in banking Preeti set up her own consultancy. Her training workshops on Leadership, Emotional Intelligence and Psychological First Aid have gained immense popularity.

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Dougie Barnett is a global leader in fire and safety management and strategic risk. He is currently managing a team of 45 loss prevention specialists. He is a regular contributor to conferences on business resilience and is often a reference point for the written and spoken media. He has worked for AXA for over two decades and they are the headline sponsors of the new Fire Resilience Excellence Awards (FREAs) - www.thefreas.com which he helped pioneer.

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Simon Banks is a high-profile security entrepreneur. He started work in the area of alarm signalling and went on to develop one of the UK largest IOT critical connectivity providers. He has invested in other ventures including Skills for Security. Amongst his many other ventures he has started his own Foundation (The Banks Foundation) which is a Founding supporter of the Security and Safety Entrepreneur Awards (SSEAs).


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Tim McCreight has worked in IT and physical security for nearly four decades. He has been closely associated with developing the theory and practice of Enterprise Security, indeed he considers himself an ESRM evangelist. He has a Masters degree in Security and Risk Management, is an experienced podcaster on security and risk issues, and is the immediate past President of ASIS International.


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Bill Tenney started work earlier this year as the new CEO of ASIS International. Unlike his predecessors, Bill has a background as a security executive with considerable corporate security expertise – in business, government, and the military (he is a Navy Veteran). His work has included securing data, and enabling operations in over 40 countries at over 10,000 global locations.

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Bill Fox is internationally renowned for his knowledge and expertise in violence risk reduction and behaviour management, and in particular for having directed learning and innovation in this field for the past three decades. He is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Maybo a company he started 28 years ago which focusses on workplace conflict and violence reduction. Bill is also an inspiration behind the newly launched Workplace Violence Reduction Awards (WVRAs).

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Bob Martin has over 35 years’ experience in the Petrochemical industry, and worked in a diverse range of business operational environments before establishing a specialism in security. He brought with him a range of skills, for example on strategy development, integration, management systems, data management and crucially the importance of the ‘value add’ proposition and the need to show a profit. He has worked extensively as a security consultant.

Bob is the 2024 UK OSPAs Lifetime Achievement winner and the first ever entrant to the Security Hall of Fame.

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