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People who understand that accurate decision-making is often not simply rational, and can benefit from timely reflection.
People who believe our assessment service can help organisations increase performance on such key dimensions as productivity, governance, and goodwill.
We foster a close understanding of our audiences. We have long-term, in-depth experiences of the countries, organisations, and cultures we serve. We are able to analyse both rational criteria and emotional factors, which are also key drivers of behaviour and response.
We have extensive international expertise both in military and business contexts.
The Vantage Point is a professional practice division of Burrill Green, a leading management consultancy group specialising in corporate security
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Our analysts are experts combining raw data with close experience of local environments, events, people, and conditions. Our product is bespoke to client requirements.
Some of our key correspondents include -
David Burrill
David Burrill has been a professional international Intelligence and Security operator/manager for most of his professional life. On retiring from the military in 1992, having held the appointment of Deputy Director Intelligence Corps, and Chief of Staff Intelligence and Security Centre of the UK Armed Forces, he joined BAT Industries, a major global insurance and tobacco conglomerate, and subsequently on de-merger, British American Tobacco (the world's second largest quoted tobacco group - with presence in 180+ countries), as Head of Security. David, who is a Freeman of the City of London, has had close and regular contact with the private security sector for over some 26 years.
A graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Army Command and Staff Course and the Open University, he has been a Defence Fellow of London University and is a Fellow of three British professional institutes: the Chartered Institute of Management, The Chartered Institute of Personnel Development, and The Security Institute. A member of the globally prestigious International Security Management Association, he was, from June 1998 to June 1999, its President (the first non North American to hold the position).
David is also an emeritus member of the UK’s Risk and Security Management Forum.
In 2003, David Burrill became the first co-Chairman of the UK Foreign and Commonwealth Office's Security Information Service for Business Overseas (SISBO) - a public/private sector partnership initiative of which he was one of the key architects.
David Burrill was awarded an OBE in the 2004 New Years Honours List for services to international security management.
In April 2005, David was honoured by CSO Journal with a Compass Award for visionary leadership, and by ASIS International as the first recipient of its European Leadership Award.
In November 2005 he became the first foreigner to receive a distinguished achievement award from the Overseas Security Advisory Council of the US Department of State, and is the first foreigner to be granted Alumni status of the distinguished council.
In July 2006, he was recognised by the Association of Security Consultants with the award of the Imbert Prize for distinguished achievement from citations submitted by ASIS International, the British Security Industry Association, and The Security Institute.
David is now the co-founder and a director of the global management consultancy practice for corporate security, Burrill Green Limited, and its associated enterprises.
David continues to be a writer, conference platform speaker, and media personality on a wide range of security topics.
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Geoff Gillion
An independent consultant with extensive experience in security and intelligence both in military and commercial sectors. Geoffrey also advises on business continuity, benchmarking and reduction in counterfeit trading. He designs and runs training in surveillance awareness and personal protection. He specialises in counter-terrorist issues and is trained in hostage negotiation.
Following a career as an officer in the British Army’s Intelligence Corps, Geoffrey was employed with a London-based multi-national company as a senior security manager. He has been heavily involved in the study and successful prevention of counterfeit goods entering and transiting international markets. He spent two years in West Africa acting to reduce the levels of counterfeit goods in circulation. His work achieved a two thirds reduction in these levels by volume in a specific niche market.
He has recently worked closely with oil-related industries and with Government Departments and training organisations in the United Kingdom, Europe and the Middle East as a senior consultant.
Geoff is an accomplished speaker, writer, and presenter in his specialist domains.
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Kevin Green
Kevin Green was born in England, and a graduate of Trinity College, Cambridge, has worked in public and private sector enterprises for thirty years. He has specialised in the development of strategies to achieve new levels of growth, efficiency, and organisation. As a practitioner within organisations, and as a third party advisor, he has acquired a rounded perspective on organisational needs and behaviour.
The first part of his career saw Kevin Green working in communications, including spells with specialists like Foote, Cone and Belding, WPP's JWT, and Havas' EuroRSCG. These assignments demanded frequent travel, with a necessity to get close to markets, and to develop a keen sense of cross-cultural needs and behaviour.
His experience drew him to working internationally from city bases like London, Amsterdam, New York, Paris, and Madrid, serving a diverse range of globally-operating blue-chip companies, which cluster into three groups. Firstly, the technology focused operators like Hewlett-Packard, Kodak, Philips, Xerox, and Unysis; secondly, the manufacturers from food and personal products like Colgate-Palmolive, Kraft General Foods Mars, Nestle, Procter & Gamble and Unilever to cars like Mercedes, Peugeot-Citroen and Volvo; and thirdly, service providers ranging from local government to utility corporates in gas, oil, and telecommunications.
Kevin continues to focus on helping organisations identify, create, and realise additional value from their core assets. A co-founder and director of the management consulting practice for corporate security, Burrill Green Limited, and its associated enterprises, he has extensive conference speaking and writing experience across a wide range of strategic topics.
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Tony Greenfield
Tony Greenfield MBE served in the Intelligence Corps of the British Army for 35 years, between 1959 and 1994, in the fields of Intelligence and Security, in countries as diverse as Cyprus, British Guiana (Guyana), Malaya, West Germany, Northern Ireland and Great Britain.
Immediately prior to retirement, from 1991 to 1994, he was Chief Instructor of both Security Wing and Intelligence Corps Training Wing of the Defence Intelligence and Security School, an internationally renowned centre of excellence in the fields of Intelligence, Security and Counter-Terrorism.
Throughout his service he held a variety of Security and Intelligence appointments but became a recognised expert in Counter Espionage and Counter Terrorism, and thereafter concentrated in the Humint field. In 1979 he commanded a Specialist Counter Espionage and Counter Terrorism team in West Germany, which included in its remit the deployment of Agent Handling and Covert Passive Surveillance skills.
He then served for over 3 years as the Operations Officer of a Specialist Agent Handling unit, in Northern Ireland, at the conclusion of which he was awarded an MBE in the 1985 Ulster Gallantry Awards. After this tour he became Officer Commanding, Research (Humint) Branch, of the Specialist Intelligence Wing, Repton Manor, Ashford. This was followed by a tour in West Germany as Group Operations Officer of Intelligence and Security Group (Germany) and then by command of 11 Security Company in Cyprus. During this tour the unit was heavily involved in counter-terrorist operations in direct support of the first Gulf War. He was then promoted to Lieutenant Colonel and assumed his final post, at the Defence Intelligence and Security School.
Throughout his career, Tony Greenfield worked alongside the military security agencies of the USA, West Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium, as well as the UK national Security and Intelligence Services and the Special Branches of numerous police forces both abroad and in the United Kingdom.
After retirement, he was initially employed as Project Director and then Operations Director of a large, technically innovative and successful, CCTV Centre situated in a large city in Northern England. In 2001 he qualified as a Maritime Security Surveyor and in 2002 as a Department for Transport Air Cargo Security Validator. Tony has acquired a specialist knowledge of Maritime Security carrying out in excess of 100 Ship Security Assessments and, after the introduction of the International Ship and Port Facility Security Code, has conducted training on the Code in Germany, UK, Italy and Cyprus and has carried out numerous Port Facility Security Assessments and produced Port Facility Security Plans, mainly in the UK and in Italy. He has also carried out in excess of 50 Air Cargo Security Validations, on behalf of the British Government Department for Transport.
Tony joined Malcolm Davidge Associates in 2004, as an independent consultant, and has since been involved in all aspects of their Security, Risk Management and Business Continuity work with Rolls Royce (in UK and in the USA), the BBC, Imperial College, London, King's College, London, Thames Water and, most recently, the data storage company Global Switch, in UK and in mainland Europe.
Tony Greenfield has maintained his keen interest in world affairs and has retained his contact with former colleagues, both military and civilian. He is still a fluent German speaker and also has Colloquial Malay. He is computer literate. He is married, with a grown up family. He lives in County Durham and keeps fit via his golf and by swimming marathons, for charity.
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John Hedley
John served for 26 years in the British Diplomatic Service, including postings to British Embassies in Sweden, South Africa, Spain and Mexico. He has a particular expertise in political analysis and counter-terrorism. He is a fluent French and Spanish speaker.
In the private sector, John worked in cargo security with TRI-MEX International, specialising in satellite tracking of high-value, high-risk cargo across Europe. He also built the EUROWATCH network of security companies, providing real-time cross-border response to car and truck theft.
In 2003 he was recruited by Nestlé, the world's largest food & beverage company, to be their first Head of Group Security. Working from Nestlé Headquarters in Switzerland, John designed and developed the corporate security strategy and built and directed a team of some 40+ security professionals working across the globe on issues such as counterfeit, extortion, theft, fraud, kidnap, crisis management, emergency evacuations, expatriate travel programmes, staff security awareness, pandemic preparation, manned guarding efficiency, workplace violence etc. Commercially-oriented and fully aligned with the Group's business objectives, the Nestlé Security Group delivered a demonstrable year-on-year return on security investment of some 300%.
John subsequently became the first Global Head of Security and Travel Facilitation for the International Air Transport Association (IATA), representing 93% of the world's scheduled airlines.
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Ian Houston
Ian served 22 years in the Intelligence Corps including service with a specialist IT security team, as a trainer at the Intelligence Corps Depot and with UK Special Forces. After his military career, he joined the National Criminal Intelligence Service as the Head of Security and Departmental Security Officer. He subsequently moved to Pfizer Ltd, the world’s largest pharmaceutical company, where he was head of Security Systems & Projects for the European hub site in Sandwich, Kent.
Ian has broad experience of industrial security (in both research and chemical manufacturing settings) as well as working in sensitive and classified facilities. This not only encompasses risk assessment, physical and personnel security but also the operational policies and procedures necessary to provide a safe and secure working environment for staff. His good communications skills facilitate the change management necessary to engage with those affected. He also has extensive commercial experience having managed the TUPE transfer of the NCIS guard force and the re-tendering of both manned guarding and systems maintenance contracts within Pfizer. He also has some Health & Safety expertise and holds a healthy & safety certification.
Ian has delivered many programmes and projects in both office and industrial settings, providing cost-effective and innovative security solutions that add value to the business while having the minimum possible impact on business process. In the National Criminal Intelligence Service, he wrote the Staff Code of Conduct and the Vetting policy, formulated and implemented education and training strategies for staff and also designed the security for new Regional HQs. He also wrote the security specification for a new NCIS IT system compliant with BS7799 and HM Government criteria. At Pfizer, he designed the site’s Security Command Centre, (including the Emergency Control Centre, the Security Control Room, CCTV and digital video recording system). He also designed the security for Pfizer’s central European archive and its European Data Centre. Ian was also a leading member of the site’s Incident Response Team.
His 30 years’ of security experience in military, government and commercial spheres includes work in Britain and Northern Ireland, Germany, Bosnia, Hong Kong, China, Japan, Sweden and Belgium.
His wide-ranging linguistic skills enhance his understanding of different cultures. In addition to English, Ian reads and writes Chinese (both Cantonese and Mandarin), French and Italian.
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Anwar Khan
In his first career in the Pakistan Army, Anwar served with distinction and, having reached the rank of Colonel, retired in 1994. A graduate from Command and Staff College, Quetta, he also holds a master's degree in Political Science.
Having held three various operational, management and security appointments, he joined Pakistan Tobacco Company (PTC) - a subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's 2nd largest tobacco group). Anwar was the CSO of PTC for 11 years until his retirement in 2006. In addition, he has attended various advanced international programmes in the USA and the UK related to corporate security and information/ IT security.
While managing company business and operational security interests, Anwar developed effective and innovative contingency plans to identify and counter numerous threats like terrorism, various crisis situations and safety & security of the business in a high risk country like Pakistan, particularly following 9/11 events. He created and disseminated best operating practices, and coordinated and managed security activities of the whole company. He also has extensive experience in risk assessment - as risk manager - security vulnerability threat analysis, physical/ technical security, security of nation wide supply chain, anti-counterfeiting activities, investigation of fraud and other incidents, business continuity planning and management, anti-kidnapping processes and management of actual kidnapping incidents and conduct of security awareness programmes in the company.
In 2006, he was the first of 130 Security Managers, of BAT worldwide, to win the "BAT Business Security Excellence Award" in recognition of his contributions to support and added value delivery to various business activities and operations, and extraordinarily successful crisis management which included effecting the safe release of kidnapped company staff.
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Frank Marsh
Frank Marsh is an exceptional and internationally renowned information security specialist covering all aspects of information security including physical, digital, oral and intangible forms, and the prevention, detection and investigation of information leakage. He has a PhD from Liverpool University where he worked under Professor (now Sir) David King. He did post-doctoral research before working in the University Computer Laboratory.
For 25 years, until 2008, he worked for BAT Industries/British American Tobacco in a broad range of business roles, and from 1995 as Global Information Security Manager. Working with BAT's business operations globally, he also became the deputy CSO.
In 2001, he was elected, by the UK membership, to the global Council of the Information Security Forum (ISF) and was elected by that council of his peers to the ISF Executive a year later. He was a member of the ISF Ltd Board of Directors that led strategic business change in the ISF which resulted in renewed membership growth year on year. He was also a member of the ISF Board finance sub-group. His responsibilities with the ISF continued until December 2007.
As an information security specialist he developed various in-house training programmes for business staff that have been delivered worldwide including a 5-day specialist workshop for security managers. He has presented at numerous conferences, was a referee of the EU CTOSE project and has worked with national and international manufacturers' associations. Throughout his career he has delivered business-focused and aligned information security that enables, rather than inhibits, business operations.
Additonal to information security, he has had responsibility for R&D and factory IT, health & safety, Quality Control, building services, and general information services. Transferred to head office in 1991, reporting directly to the Chairman, he managed the implementation of records management for BAT's UK companies, a review of global policies reporting to another Board Director and managed disaster recovery planning and data protection.
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Brian Parritt
Brigadier (Retd) Brian Parritt served for thirty-seven years in the British Army, culminating in five years as Director of the Intelligence Corps. Throughout his service he held a variety of senior Intelligence and Security appointments all over the world, including Hong Kong, Singapore, Malaysia, Borneo, Malta, Libya and Cyprus. He is a parachutist, and was wounded and commended for bravery as a Gunner Officer during the Korean War. He was awarded the MBE during the ENOSIS Campaign in Cyprus and the CBE in Northern Ireland.
In 1986 he formed International Maritime Security (IMS), and was the Chairman and Chief Executive until May 2006. In this position he has been a guest speaker at many Maritime Seminars, which discussed the problems of Port and Ship Security.
In 1986 he participated in the series of International Maritime Organisation Meetings, which resulted in the unanimous adoption by the United Nations of the Policy Document - 'Measures to Prevent Unlawful Acts Against Passengers and Crews On Board Ships' (MSC/Circ.443).
Brigadier Parritt has also been an invited speaker at five Seminars organised by the IMO, three to discuss Maritime Terrorism matters and two to discuss Piracy/Armed Robbery issues. These were 1989, Puerto Rico, 1990, Greece, 1991, Japan, 1998, Brazil and 1999 in Singapore. In 2002 he was appointed by the IMO to be the "Maritime Security Consultant" and has participated in IMO training workshops in Mombasa, Singapore, Sydney, Alexandria and Gdansk.
In 2003 he was asked to revise the week long IMO Maritime Security Seminar/Workshop Manual and has conducted this revised training in Calabar (Nigeria), Durban, Mumbai, Bangkok and Peking.
In 1989 he was part of a Delegation led by the Norwegian Ambassador, which toured the Caribbean to discuss with Heads of State how to prevent the smuggling of illegal items.
In 1991 he was asked by the Nautical Institute to write the book "Security at Sea" which is a practical guide for Masters to help them deal with terrorism, drugs and piracy. This book includes a Foreword written by the Secretary General of the IMO.
Following the success of this book, in 1992 the Nautical Institute commissioned him to write a second book, "Stowaways at Sea". This dealt with the problems arising from Stowaways, Refugees and Asylum Seekers. In 1996 a third Book was commissioned entitled "Crime at Sea" to help mitigate the effect of Maritime Crime, and in 1998 a new Book was published entitled "Illegal Drugs by Sea".
In 1994 he was elected a Companion of the Nautical Institute, and in 1995 was a joint signatory with Her Majesty's Customs and Excise to a "Memorandum of Understanding" in the fight against illegal drugs. In 1999 he was selected to be a Governor of the United States Maritime Security Committee in Washington and to be a Member of the Association of Airport and Seaport Police.
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Robert Pepper
Robert has worked both as an adviser and executive in senior global security roles. He has worked closely with US State Department, the Department of Homeland Security and the UK's Ministry of Defence and Foreign and Commonwealth Office. He prides himself on loyalty, commitment to work, relationships with colleagues, honesty, trustworthiness and quality and quantity of work. He is a business security consultant and works from Spain.
Educated in the UK at public school and as a cadet at the Royal Military Academy at Sandhurst, he is also a German language interpreter having studied at the government language school at Mulheim. During his service he attained an M.Phil degree at Edinburgh University with his investigation of Soviet Theatre War Fighting Techniques. For this work he was made a Defence Fellow (df).
He served in the infantry before transferring in mid career to the Intelligence Corps. His appointments in the Corps included commanding the UK's Intelligence Brigade of some 900 dispersed over the entire UK for which he was granted Freeman of the City of London and also made a Freeman of the Honorary Painter Stainers' Livery Company. In his final years in the Army, he was Chief of Intelligence for the Middle East based in Riyadh during the first Gulf War, Chief of Intelligence for the Middle East based in Cyprus and also the Chief of Intelligence responsible for the Warsaw Pact based in Bielefeld, Germany with 1 (British) BR Corps. All were posts within the strategic intelligence wing. He became the Chief of Staff of the Intelligence Corps before his retirement from government service.
He then changed direction and became the Chief Security Officer for the Bechtel Corporation in San Francisco both globally and within the United States. Bechtel is involved in over a thousand projects throughout the world. Progress within the company was through a mixture of good sound decisions, ecological awareness and ambition to do well. This resulted in rapid promotion achieving a position of trust giving advice directly to the leadership and the Board to whom he reported and was directly responsible. Highlights included resolving a mass kidnapping in Colombia and evacuation under live fire from a project in Bolivia.
He has travelled extensively and specialised in Europe, Latin America and the Middle East as well as Asia Pacific. Since leaving Bechtel he has been a BurrillGreen Associate. On an extended assignment to the Merchant International Group, based London, he was responsible for global risk assessment.
He was responsible for providing guidance, support, and advice to leadership regarding the protection and welfare of company employees, their dependants, and company property. He has provided for a complete range of strategic, physical, analytical, and technical security services to worksites and offices worldwide. He also supported strategic crisis management planning and coordination and managed responses to emergency situations. He has been responsible for developing and maintaining a list of "high risk" countries and for providing guidance as to the feasibility of working in those environments. In order to achieve this, he conducted a continuous risk assessment of the political and security situations for all countries. He provided appropriate warning and mitigation advice. Additional functions included, providing executive protection services, coordinating secure travel management, advising on compliance with international security treaties, safeguarding vital proprietary data, and overseeing the implementation and management of levels of security programmes with those for whom he worked.
Robert is now the editor and driver of The Vantage Point, a professional practice division of Burrill Green Ltd, the global corporate security management consulting group.
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Gennady Saraev
Gennady is a highly experienced and exceptionally effective corporate security manager and corporate security consultant who speaks fluent English.
Following a successful career as an officer in the Intelligence Service (Soviet Union/Russia) Gennady joined British American Tobacco Russia - a subsidiary of British American Tobacco (BAT), the world's second largest tobacco group.
He was the head of security for BAT Russia for 11 years until his retirement in 2006. In addition Gennady provided security assistance and support to BAT companies in CIS countries. He has extensive experience in risk assessment and threat analysis, physical/technical security, security of nation wide supply chain, conducting security awareness programmes in companies and is well versed in managing critical incidents. He was also heavily involved in managing investigations of counterfeiting activities and the prevention of counterfeit tobacco products entering European markets. Gennady has always taken an intelligence led approach to the delivery of security.
While managing business security, Gennady developed and established an effective corporate security infrastructure that ensured the provision of an appropriate security service for the company across Russia as well as security assistance to the needs of other BAT European subsidiaries.
Since 2006, Gennady, who understands the needs and exposures of Western companies operating in the former Soviet Union very well, has been providing consultancy services. He is extremely well connected in both the public and private sectors.
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