Nick is Chief Security Officer for Real-Time Payments at Mastercard leading securing cross border and domestic payments services internationally. He was previously IBM’s Global Head, Cyber Security Risk and Intelligence across its 170 plus operating countries.

He is well known in Europe and Internationally having served as The National Reviewer of Security for the UK Government and authored ‘The Coleman Report’ published in the UK Houses of Parliament, and for his service on the World Economic Forum Global Future Council, leading the forum’s work around securing the future of Artificial Intelligence. He is a Visiting Professor at Lancaster University Business School and teaches executives on how to lead, govern and oversee cyber and technology risk.

In line with CRI’s growth strategy, Nick offers significant experience in leveraging CRI’s Financial Service Profile to support technology risk and regulatory assurance across the global frameworks in critically important systems.