ASSOCIATE DIRECTOR

Expertise: Corporate and cyber security strategy, policy and risk management.
Locations: Europe, Middle East, Latin America and Africa (based in Italy).

Chairman of Richard Knowlton Associates and Executive Director of the Cambridge Cyber Centre. Richard spent six years as Group Corporate Security Director of Vodafone, and earlier worked in Milan as Head of Security Global Operations with the UniCredit Group, the largest bank in central and eastern Europe. Richard is an honorary Life Member of the International Security Management Association (ISMA), and is a member of the Future Vision Committee of Disaster Recovery Institute International (DRI) in New York . He has served on the Board of the Washington-based Internet Security Alliance (ISA) and of the Commonwealth Cyber Crime Initiative. Richard worked in the UK Foreign Service before entering the private sector.  He is based in Italy.