Meet the team

Andy is a 20-year veteran of cyber security, risk management and technology.  He has held international leadership positions in 1st and 2nd Lines of Defence (LoD) for cyber security, cyber-risk management, operational risk, and technology.  For companies across Engineering and Manufacturing, Financial Services and Publishing and Media.  Working with leadership teams of companies with balance sheets over €1 trillion.  He is an experienced member of management boards, global risk leadership teams, cyber security, operational risk and GDPR committees.

Andy holds Royal Charters in Security (CSyP), recognised by the UK Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and Engineering (CEng).  He has a place on the UKs Register of Chartered Security Professionals.  He is a member of the Board of the Security Institute (MSyI), the largest UK members only security trade association, he is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals (WCoSP) and a Freeman of the City of London.  He is a counsel appointed expert witness who specialises in cyber and risk management a Practicing Associate of the Academy of Experts (AMAE) and advised the Information Commissionaires Office (ICO) on high profile GDPR cases.  He is a member of the US CMMC Accreditation Body (CMMC-AB) standards working group, developing the CMMC assessment methodology.  Chair of the UK Team Defence Information (UK-MoD) CMMC Working group.  Working with UK defence trade associations in support of the deployment of CMMC into the UK DIB.

Andy is the Founding Partner of Parava Security Solutions an independent Cyber-risk Management advisory firm, supporting organizations deliver cyber-risk management and cyber regulatory programmes.  He runs CMMC Europe, an advisory company focusing on supporting the European DIB deploy CMMC.

Ted is a veteran of cybersecurity with over 40 years' experience of the design, delivery, oversight and assurance of cybersecurity and risk management systems. Ted's area of expertise is the management of risk in Information Technology developed over the years. He is an experienced systems Auditor and Integrator giving him a unique insight as to the challenges associated with developing an eGRC program that satisfies the compliance requirements faced by organizations of all types and sizes. 

He is an internationally recognised cybersecurity, risk management and Information system auditor. A highly respected security trainer, authorized to train ISACA CISA, CISM, CRISC, ISC2 CAP, CCSP, and CISSP. He holds DoD secret clearance and has taught causes for a broad range of public and private sector (available on request).

Ted has a proven record providing training to a very broad range of public and private sector client including the U.S. States Army, Navy, Air Force, Marine Corp, Defense Intelligence Agency, NSA, DHS, U.S. Treasury, DoA, DoJ, DoL, Federal Reserve Bank of the U.S, Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Northrop Grumman, General Dynamics, General Electric, Microsoft, Verizon, AT&T, IBM, HP, SAP, Cisco, Dell, VMWare, Blackberry. Wells Fargo, Charles Schwab, PNC Bank, JPM, Goldman Sachs, Options Clearing Corporation, AIG, Bank of Canada, MasterCard, Bank of New York Mellon, Prudential Insurance, Bloomberg, Blue Cross Blue Shield of NJ, CVS Health. PWC, EY, Booze Allen, Deloitte. Health Canada, Home Depot, Nestle, M&M Mars, MIT Lincoln Labs, Johnson and Johnson, Merck, Novartis and Lowes to name a few.

Bob is a leader with more than 30 years of experience in senior executive roles in both industry and U.S government.  He has a considerable amount of knowledge and experience supporting engagements, partnership and knowledge sharing between U.S Federal Government and Industry.  Recognized for his significant expertise in public policy issues management across a diverse portfolio of topics at the U.S Federal, State, and Local levels of Government.  Consistently focused on issues such as cybersecurity risk management, critical infrastructure protection and resilience, supply chain risk management, full and open competition in public procurement and much more, with a proven record of productivity in strategic planning, and value delivery in support of mission objectives.

Bob served as the Staff Director for the Subcommittee on Technology, Information Policy, Inter-governmental Relations and the Census, Government Reform & Oversight Committee, United States House of Representatives during the 108th Congress.  Spent over 11 years building and leading a global government affairs team at Juniper Networks.  Including the Information Technology Sector Coordinating Council (IT-SCC), the Partnership for Critical Infrastructure Security (PCIS), senior executive representative to the President’s National Security Telecommunications Advisory Committee (NSTAC) and Enduring Security Framework (ESF) as well as Cybersecurity Committees for AFCEA and the United States Chamber of Commerce.

Bob is a two-time Fed 100 honoree, for his services to U.S. Federal Government and was recognized as the FCW Industry Eagle Award honoree. He works to support clients engage with U.S Federal Government in the pursuit of public private knowledge sharing.  More recently supporting engagement between the White House Office of the National Cyber Directorate (ONCD) and UK cyber policy makers.

Brian is the founder and President of 327 Solutions, Inc., with over 25-years of experience in training design, development, facilitation, and human capital performance. From pharmaceutical product launch training to reskilling thousands of developers in the financial sector to Department of Defense (DoD) compliance, Brian enables the best solution to move the needle of human capital performance. 

Brian formed 327 Solutions in 2014, and has worked with every DoD service branch, a majority of prime contractors, and has deployed training globally. 327 has created global soft-skills programs for organizations like Thomson Reuters in multiple localized languages, recruited and staffed multi-lingual global facilitation teams, and architected multiple telecom programs for teams such as Comcast and Verizon. 327 Solutions has placed the top echelon of cybersecurity, risk management, compliance, audit, and technology trainers for organizations such as Global Knowledge, University of Arizona, and leading "Bootcamp Styled" training providers. 

327 Solutions is one of ISACA's newest Authorized Training Organizations (ATOs), delivering the highest caliber training and certification-focused programs for information management, audit, risk, and cyber, with resources across the entire DoD Workforce 8570 and 8140 competency program to include Cisco, CompTIA, EC-Council, and ISC2.

Neil is Managing Director of international executive search firm, Howgate Sable and an associate of Augusta Group advising on talent, capability and global mobility. 

With extensive experience in executive search and human capital consulting, Neil and his team have built a reputation of delivering talent globally in industrial, aviation, CNI and consumer markets. 

Having held a number of operational and supply chain roles in his earlier career in military aerospace, Neil’s 20+ years in headhunting mean that he is well placed to advise on organisational design and talent acquisition. Howgate Sable operate extensively in Europe, North America and the Middle East with a dedicated practice group focused on cyber defence appointing CISO and their direct line reports.