Panel 01 - Manufacturing and Construction
TBD - Host
Bryn Sutton
Andrew McKinnon
TBD
Former Director at the UK Foreign Office. He specializes in analyzing state-sponsored cyber threats and designing diplomatic security protocols for high-risk operations.
Bryn has held regional and global security and crisis management positions across several FTSE 100 multinationals, spanning industries from energy to FMCGs and retail. He is a trusted advisor to organisational leaders in matters relating to international security, including geopolitical risk, crisis and incident management, business continuity, travel and risk mitigation. He is currently the Global Head of Security for Inchcape, a leading independent automotive distributor operating across over 40 countries worldwide on behalf of over 60 brand partners.
Retired Royal Navy Commander. He specializes in mapping maritime trade route choke points and implementing protective transit strategies for global commercial shipping fleets.
Middle East security consultant. She has spent fifteen years coordinating high-threat extraction operations and refining corporate duty of care frameworks in volatile environments.
Panel 02 - Professional services
Helen Donald - Host
Nick Hymans
Simon Donnelly
Matt Childs
Crisis response coordinator who has managed complex corporate evacuations during major East Asian typhoon events and sudden natural disasters.
Simon Donnelly is Head of Health and Safety at KPMG UK, with responsibility for workplace health and safety, travel risk management, security, and resilience programmes across the firm. He works closely with UK and global stakeholders to develop practical, risk-based approaches that support the safety and wellbeing of employees both in the workplace and while travelling internationally. With extensive experience spanning health and safety leadership, security, crisis management and operational resilience, Simon brings a pragmatic perspective on managing travel risk within a global professional services environment
Global supply chain strategist specializing in rapid rerouting protocols. He helps multinational enterprises maintain operational continuity during severe environmental and political disruptions.
Helen has a passion for travel and a thirst for adventure. She has spent much of her professional life in the corporate world working across a wide range of industries and public sector organisations as a Communication Expert for McKinsey & Company. She has also worked as a journalist, exhibition manager and tutor to Japanese diplomats. Helen has travelled globally for her work and has lived and worked in the UK, Japan, Italy and South Africa. Her careers have presented her with many weird and wonderful experiences – geographic, cultural, situational – and she has learned much about how to prepare for and navigate these. She loves good conversation, good food, single malt whisky, roaring log fires and overland trips through the African bush. Preferably in tandem.
Panel 03: Other services
Jeremy Wilkes - Host
Sunny Bhambra
Graeham MacKenzie
Manuel Grimm
Former GCHQ cybersecurity analyst. He specializes in corporate espionage countermeasures, secure mobile communications, and protecting executive data during high-risk international travel.
Threat intelligence lead tracking state-sponsored digital espionage. She trains corporate security teams to detect and mitigate targeted digital surveillance of traveling executives.
Author of 'The Secure Traveler' and digital forensics expert. He designs custom cryptographic protocols to ensure secure operational communications over hostile public networks.
Counter-surveillance specialist who trains corporate leadership teams in physical and digital tracking countermeasures before deployment to high-surveillance sovereign jurisdictions.
Panel 04: NGO's & Not for Profits
TBD - Host
Simon Richards
Richard Savage
TBD
Former Scotland Yard negotiator with twenty years of experience resolving hostile corporate kidnap incidents and managing complex international ransom negotiations.
Director of global response operations. He specializes in tactical extraction coordination, emergency communications, and rapid deployment security teams in high-risk zones.
Richard Savage is Head of Global Security at the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), where he leads the organisation’s approach to security risk management across a diverse portfolio of humanitarian operations worldwide. He has extensive experience supporting teams operating in complex, fragile and conflict-affected environments, with a particular focus on proportionate, enabling security management. Richard previously served in the British Army and holds an MSc in Security, Conflict and International Development. His work centres on helping organisations manage travel and operational risk effectively while enabling staff to work safely in challenging environments.
Remote medicine specialist. He designs emergency trauma response protocols and field medicine training programs for corporate personnel operating in medically isolated regions.
Panel 05: Executive Liability
Sam Roper - Host
Paul McMahon
TBD
TBD
Sam is the Regional Security Lead for Solventum, a Healthcare Technology and Medical Solutions provider. Previously, she worked at Google and Netflix in leadership roles within their corporate security departments. She also served in a leadership capacity as a Regional Security Operations Manager for a global risk consultancy firm. Sam has a BA in French & Hispanic Studies from the University of Nottingham and an MA in International Relations from Queen Mary, University of London. She has a keen interest in Africa and the Middle East, loves travelling and has visited over 60 countries; often as a solo traveller
Paul McMahon is Country Security Manager for SAP in Ireland and has spent more than 30 years supporting people and organisations through moments that matter — crisis, pressure, uncertainty and change. His experience spans physical security, travel risk, duty of care and crisis management across the globe.Prior to joining SAP, Paul worked as an EMEA Regional Security Manager based in the Middle East for six years. Before that he had spent nine years with Control Risks and International SOS, supporting global travel security and crisis response programmes. As the nature of organisational risk has evolved, so too has Paul’s work and thinking. He is particularly interested in the human dimension of risk — how resilience, wellbeing, individual circumstances and adaptive capacity influence the way people experience and respond to challenging situations. Increasingly, his focus is on how organisations can move beyond simply protecting travellers towards better equipping people to recognise, manage and adapt to risk themselves.
Enterprise risk auditor specializing in modern operational resilience. He aligns corporate travel safety policies with evolving regulatory frameworks and international safety standards.
Director of global response operations at a multinational firm. She specializes in duty of care litigation avoidance and proactive crisis management planning.
Panel 01 - Manufacturing and Construction
TBD - Host
Bryn Sutton
Andrew McKinnon
TBD
Former Director at the UK Foreign Office. He specializes in analyzing state-sponsored cyber threats and designing diplomatic security protocols for high-risk operations.
Bryn has held regional and global security and crisis management positions across several FTSE 100 multinationals, spanning industries from energy to FMCGs and retail. He is a trusted advisor to organisational leaders in matters relating to international security, including geopolitical risk, crisis and incident management, business continuity, travel and risk mitigation. He is currently the Global Head of Security for Inchcape, a leading independent automotive distributor operating across over 40 countries worldwide on behalf of over 60 brand partners.
Retired Royal Navy Commander. He specializes in mapping maritime trade route choke points and implementing protective transit strategies for global commercial shipping fleets.
Middle East security consultant. She has spent fifteen years coordinating high-threat extraction operations and refining corporate duty of care frameworks in volatile environments.
Panel 02 - Professional services
Helen Donald - Host
Nick Hymans
Simon Donnelly
Matt Childs
Crisis response coordinator who has managed complex corporate evacuations during major East Asian typhoon events and sudden natural disasters.
Simon Donnelly is Head of Health and Safety at KPMG UK, with responsibility for workplace health and safety, travel risk management, security, and resilience programmes across the firm. He works closely with UK and global stakeholders to develop practical, risk-based approaches that support the safety and wellbeing of employees both in the workplace and while travelling internationally. With extensive experience spanning health and safety leadership, security, crisis management and operational resilience, Simon brings a pragmatic perspective on managing travel risk within a global professional services environment
Global supply chain strategist specializing in rapid rerouting protocols. He helps multinational enterprises maintain operational continuity during severe environmental and political disruptions.
Helen has a passion for travel and a thirst for adventure. She has spent much of her professional life in the corporate world working across a wide range of industries and public sector organisations as a Communication Expert for McKinsey & Company. She has also worked as a journalist, exhibition manager and tutor to Japanese diplomats. Helen has travelled globally for her work and has lived and worked in the UK, Japan, Italy and South Africa. Her careers have presented her with many weird and wonderful experiences – geographic, cultural, situational – and she has learned much about how to prepare for and navigate these. She loves good conversation, good food, single malt whisky, roaring log fires and overland trips through the African bush. Preferably in tandem.
Panel 03: Other services
Jeremy Wilkes - Host
Sunny Bhambra
Graeham MacKenzie
Manuel Grimm
Former GCHQ cybersecurity analyst. He specializes in corporate espionage countermeasures, secure mobile communications, and protecting executive data during high-risk international travel.
Threat intelligence lead tracking state-sponsored digital espionage. She trains corporate security teams to detect and mitigate targeted digital surveillance of traveling executives.
Author of 'The Secure Traveler' and digital forensics expert. He designs custom cryptographic protocols to ensure secure operational communications over hostile public networks.
Counter-surveillance specialist who trains corporate leadership teams in physical and digital tracking countermeasures before deployment to high-surveillance sovereign jurisdictions.
Panel 04: NGO's & Not for Profits
TBD - Host
Simon Richards
Richard Savage
TBD
Former Scotland Yard negotiator with twenty years of experience resolving hostile corporate kidnap incidents and managing complex international ransom negotiations.
Director of global response operations. He specializes in tactical extraction coordination, emergency communications, and rapid deployment security teams in high-risk zones.
Richard Savage is Head of Global Security at the Mines Advisory Group (MAG), where he leads the organisation’s approach to security risk management across a diverse portfolio of humanitarian operations worldwide. He has extensive experience supporting teams operating in complex, fragile and conflict-affected environments, with a particular focus on proportionate, enabling security management. Richard previously served in the British Army and holds an MSc in Security, Conflict and International Development. His work centres on helping organisations manage travel and operational risk effectively while enabling staff to work safely in challenging environments.
Remote medicine specialist. He designs emergency trauma response protocols and field medicine training programs for corporate personnel operating in medically isolated regions.
Panel 05: Executive Liability
Sam Roper - Host
Paul McMahon
TBD
TBD
Sam is the Regional Security Lead for Solventum, a Healthcare Technology and Medical Solutions provider. Previously, she worked at Google and Netflix in leadership roles within their corporate security departments. She also served in a leadership capacity as a Regional Security Operations Manager for a global risk consultancy firm. Sam has a BA in French & Hispanic Studies from the University of Nottingham and an MA in International Relations from Queen Mary, University of London. She has a keen interest in Africa and the Middle East, loves travelling and has visited over 60 countries; often as a solo traveller
Paul McMahon is Country Security Manager for SAP in Ireland and has spent more than 30 years supporting people and organisations through moments that matter — crisis, pressure, uncertainty and change. His experience spans physical security, travel risk, duty of care and crisis management across the globe.Prior to joining SAP, Paul worked as an EMEA Regional Security Manager based in the Middle East for six years. Before that he had spent nine years with Control Risks and International SOS, supporting global travel security and crisis response programmes. As the nature of organisational risk has evolved, so too has Paul’s work and thinking. He is particularly interested in the human dimension of risk — how resilience, wellbeing, individual circumstances and adaptive capacity influence the way people experience and respond to challenging situations. Increasingly, his focus is on how organisations can move beyond simply protecting travellers towards better equipping people to recognise, manage and adapt to risk themselves.
Enterprise risk auditor specializing in modern operational resilience. He aligns corporate travel safety policies with evolving regulatory frameworks and international safety standards.
Director of global response operations at a multinational firm. She specializes in duty of care litigation avoidance and proactive crisis management planning.
