Director
Independent
Total years of experience :50 years, 5 Months
• Consultant Intelligence (Anti-counterfeiting and Illicit Trade) Analyst and European Customs Law-enforcement liaison consultant to Japan Tobacco International (JTI), Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco in France, Italy and Spain.
• Product Inspector, JTI.
• Conducted OLAF Inspections for JTI. Drafted protocols for inspections.
• Carried out training of product inspectors and international law-enforcement officers for JTI.
• Produced PowerPoint presentation materials, briefing papers and reports for senior executives.
• Consultant Security Analyst to Japan Tobacco International including theft-in-transit investigations and truck-stop security audits, throughout Europe. Drew up operational plan and conducted tax-stamp transfers from Italy to Germany.
• Consultant to SafeHotel Group, Sweden. Assisted in production of hotel security audit matrix. Keynote speaker at international hotel security conference.
• ASIS Representative to CEN Anti-Counterfeit Workshop, Brussels
• Consultant Intelligence Analyst (Anti-counterfeiting and Diversion) and Customs Liaison consultant to Japan Tobacco International, Imperial Tobacco and British American Tobacco (2005 - present).
• Associate Director - Italy, Pinkerton Consulting & Investigations, Europe. Managed investigations, personnel security tasks, advance security surveys, C-TPAT audits, theft-in-transit investigations, embezzlement and insurance fraud investigations, background investigations, due-diligence enquiries, trade-mark protection cases and liaised with senior levels of law-enforcement agencies in Italy, France, Spain and Switzerland
• Set up Pinkerton C&I Europe Intelligence Centre using I2 program and customised Access databases.
• Security Audit Consultant (France), ARC Risk Management, UK. Conducted liaison with French law-enforcement and security audits on client sites.
• Co-ordinated anti-counterfeiting activities in Italy on behalf of Microsoft Corp, including liaison with Italian law-enforcement authorities at all levels.
• Intelligence Analyst and external-consultant/manager trademark-infringement and anti-counterfeiting investigations for client companies, including Pharmacia & Upjohn (1998 - 2000) and Microsoft Corp. (2000 - 2001)
• Wrote Anti-Counterfeiting and Illicit Trading Policy, including Guidelines, Action and Reporting Procedures, for Pharmacia & Upjohn.
• Project Manager/conducted European and US security audits for Pharmacia & Upjohn, including security cost analysis and establishment of internal US and European standards and guidelines for recruitment and training of security staff.
• Consultant Intelligence Analyst, CDR Group (1998 - 2000).
• Office Security Consultant to Time-Warner, Rome.
• Made numerous presentations at international conferences on the role of Intelligence Analysis in anti-counterfeiting investigations.
• Project Manager. Drafted and refined proposal for the Pharmaceutical Security Institute, a formal anti-counterfeiting intelligence exchange centre for the top 20 research-based pharmaceutical companies. Wrote and co-ordinated implementation of the Institute.
• Set up, maintained and ran, search and relational databases, using ZyIndex and customized Access programs, relating to counterfeiting and illegal diversion in the pharmaceutical industry. Analysed data obtained from sources, worldwide, including leading pharmaceutical companies.
• Wrote proposals for action investigations in a number of countries. Liaised with private investigators in those countries. Processed suspect samples as they arrived, for despatch to the relevant companies for analysis. Set up and maintained relational database to analyse these results. Responsible for recording analysis results and producing reports to members.
• Set up and administered project-cost accounting procedures.
• Set up chain-of-evidence procedures and administered sample/evidence store.
• Liaised closely with security directors and legal departments of the member companies, as well as with senior officials of national and international enforcement agencies and the World Health Organisation. Organised meetings of member companies of the PSI. Secretary to the Board.
• Worked closely with national and international agencies, including WHO, UK Medicines Control Agency and US Food & Drugs Administration - Office of Criminal Investigations and Interpol.
• Produced PowerPoint presentation materials, briefing papers, reports and recommendations for security directors of pharmaceutical companies. Produced reports for dissemination to relevant authorities on specific cases, including to the US Trade Representative and the European Commission. Produced media-response paper for the PSI.
• Drafted written submissions to the South African and Israeli Governments on the potential dangers of parallel trade and counterfeit products.
• Produced and made presentations to international audiences on the problems of counterfeiting and means to stem the trade.
Research, writing, editing and translations of articles and papers in the fields of defence, aerospace and security, for numerous newspapers and journals.
researching and writing articles for publication.
Editor-in-Chief of defence-related magazines. Editorial team manager. Translator.
Spoecialist defence journalist and technical translator.
Specialist writer/editor and translator (French - English).
Full range of officer roles in the British Armed Forces. Tank commander, finishing as a Captain, second-in-command of a tank squadron.
Royal Armoured Corps Centre Bovington, UK 1977 - 1978 TROOP COMM ANDER'S COURSE, MILITARY AC COUNTS C OU R SE
Officer Cadet. Passed Civil Service (Military) Linguist certificate.
Middlesex University, London 1972 - 1976 BA HUMANITIES (FRENCH AND LAW) RAFUNIVERSITYCADETSHIP
Taunton School, Taunton, Somerset, UK 1964 - 1971