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Fabienne de Blois, Associate Director

Fabienne has spent over 12 years working on human rights, political, civil society, and anti-bribery issues in the MENA region. She works with clients to understand and address the human rights and environmental impact of their operations. She also helps financial institutions and the public sector understand the provenance of private funds from the Middle East, with a particular focus on war economies.

Rosie McKeown, Head of Content

Rosie is Head of Content at S-RM. She has over 20 years' experience in content and communications across a variety of roles in education and accountancy.

Septimus Knox is the Deputy Head of S-RM’s Disputes & Investigations practice and oversees all the firm’s disputes work in Central & Eastern Europe and Russia & CIS. His clients include international law firms, global corporations and leading business figures. He has developed particular expertise in conducting cross-border asset traces, litigation support investigations and strategic intelligence assignments. Septimus has a BA in Russian Studies from University College London. He speaks Russian and has previously lived in Russia, Italy and Southeast Asia.

Amy Francis is a Senior Associate at S-RM and heads up the Digital Forensics practice. Amy has 6 years’ experience of leading complex digital forensics cases including investigations into fraud, IP theft, whistleblowing allegations, various misconduct and compliance issues, and other litigation.

Lenoy Barkai is a Director of Cyber Security at S-RM. She has over 8 years’ experience spanning security risk analysis, strategic consulting and alternative investment management.

Joseph Tarraf is an Associate Director of Cyber Security at S-RM. He helps clients across a range of cyber security disciplines, with a focus on incident response. Previously, Joseph worked in cyber security consulting at PwC and Deloitte. He holds Computer Engineering and Political Science degrees from Concordia University.

Greg Foss is a Senior Cyber Security Strategist with VMware Carbon Black where he focuses on detection engineering, security efficacy, and bypasses across the diverse product line. In previous roles, Greg led a Threat Research team, built and ran a Global Security Operations programme, consulted in penetration testing, and worked as a security analyst for the federal government.

Magnus Josias, Co-Founder, and COO of Krizo, is a recognised crisis management consultant. Working in the UK and Australia, he has helped some of the largest financial institutions with professionalising their set-up through digitisation, plan development and full-scale exercises.

Lenoy Barkai is the Regional Head of S-RM in South Africa, and an Associate Director of Cyber Security. She has over 8 years’ experience spanning security risk analysis, strategic consulting and alternative investment management.

Cvete Koneska leads the Political Risk and Security Analysis team at S-RM, providing clients with bespoke analysis of security threats, reputational, policy and political risk. She has a decade of experience in the political risk and security analysis sector, having advised clients across sectors and geographies. She has designed bespoke threat monitoring solutions and methodologies, provided in-depth country and sector assessments and helped clients understand and adapt their operations to the threat context. Cvete is also a researcher on academic and policy projects investigating post-conflict security in the Balkans. She holds a DPhil degree in Politics from the University of Oxford and a Masters in Politics and Security from University College London. Her research has been published in several academic journals and industry publications.

Lenoy Barkai is the Regional Head of S-RM in South Africa, and an Associate Director of Cyber Security. She has over 8 years’ experience spanning security risk analysis, strategic consulting and alternative investment management

Libby Benet is AXA XL’s Global Chief Underwriting Officer and a member of S-RM's Supervisory Board. Before joining AXA XL, she served in the following companies in an Underwriting capacity – Zurich, General Re, and Beazley. She is a licensed attorney in the US and has practiced law. She has her BA in Political Science and her JD in law. She has her Certified Information Privacy Professional and Certified Information Privacy Management designations.

Billy Gouveia joined S-RM in 2019. He oversees the US business and is a member of the Executive Committee. Billy helps clients build their cyber security capabilities, protect their data, and respond to cyber incidents. Billy joined S-RM from a tech start-up and, over his career, he has worked in management consulting at Booz Allen Hamilton, Sungard, and Protiviti.

Lenoy Barkai is the Regional Head of S-RM in South Africa, and an Associate Director of Cyber Security. She has over 8 years’ experience spanning security risk analysis, strategic consulting and alternative investment management.

Ross McKean has over 20 years’ experience advising on data protection, privacy and cyber security law and chairs the UK Data Protection and Cyber Response practice. He advises clients across a wide range of sectors, notably those in the financial services, defence and technology sectors.

Lenoy Barkai is the Regional Head of S-RM in South Africa, and an Associate Director of Cyber Security. She has over 8 years’ experience spanning security risk analysis, strategic consulting and alternative investment management.

S-RM cyber experts discuss what it takes to turn cyber threat information into cyber threat intelligence, and examine what this looks like in practice.

Is it too early to draw lessons on corporate readiness and the effectiveness of organisational responses to the COVID-19 pandemic?

According to S-RM’s Head of Resilience Advisory, John White, “there is a big difference between lessons identified and lessons learned. With each day that passes we discover more about the near and long term impacts of Covid-19, and there are many more unknowns between where we are today and any return to the old, or a new normal.”

In this podcast, we look back at how approaches to risk management have evolved and consider what needs to change – culturally, structurally and operationally – for companies to be better prepared in future

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In our latest podcast, Christopher White and Patrick Rogers discuss some of the major and emerging maritime security issues and hotspots their teams have been monitoring and responding to.