Meet the Directors

Prior to founding Beyond Blue, David spent 6 years at KPMG working with global clients in the financial sector, government, pharmaceuticals, telecoms, oil and natural gas to advise on high end cyber threats and the cyber threat landscape, running cyber exercises and advising on the optimal mix of security controls. David supports KPMG as their Global Head of Cyber Futures where he leads the global innovation agenda on cyber, as well as working with KPMG’s largest global clients.

Throughout his career, David has advised CISO teams on the development of cyber security strategies and transformation programmes and has overseen high end red teaming and attack simulations to validate security across a broad range of sectors. He continues to work closely with a range of financial sector clients to develop their approach to operational resilience, to review the integrity of their critical business processes, and to assess potential attack scenarios against those processes including criminal exploitation, IT disruption and insider threats.

David started his career in the public sector and before moving into consulting, was the Head of Cyber and Space for the Ministry of Defence in the UK. During his career he has worked with key international allies, created and delivered the Defence Cyber Security Programme, set up MOD’s first penetration testing team, ran the first ever UK-US cyber wargame, and carried out the first national infrastructure cyber security review.

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Formerly Lead Partner for Cyber Security at KPMG UK. Specialising in “cyber in the boardroom” Paul led a team of 250 cyber professionals covering the spectrum from penetration testing, through strategy to incident response.​

Deputy Managing Director at AWE plc, responsible for providing the Atomic Weapons Establishment Board and UK Ministry of Defence with assurance of delivery of the c£1Bn pa nuclear warhead programme.​

Director General of Technology and Chief Information Officer in a small international UK Government Department, where he was a member of both ExCo and the main board. Paul carried responsibility for technical operations worldwide and for the development and protection of the capabilities to conduct them.​

Director General of Strategic Technologies and then Director General of Equipment in the Ministry of Defence. Senior Responsible Owner for the UK’s Nuclear Deterrent. Paul had responsibility for the Defence equipment programme, and for delivery of Urgent Operational requirements to British Forces in Iraq and Afghanistan.​

First Chief Executive of the Defence Science and Technology Laboratory (DSTL). The post carried responsibility for all elements of defence research and the 3500 staff that were retained within government following the split of MOD R&D activities into QinetiQ and DSTL. ​

Director of Chemical & Biological Defence at Porton Down.

Alicia has experience in a variety of industries including technology, manufacturing, energy, and retail, but most of her experience and interest is in financial services. Alicia has helped deliver cyber, privacy and operational resilience programmes for global banks, insurers and investment managers and advised and exercised Boards and senior management on cyber and technology crisis response and recovery.

Alicia has been seconded to clients to help deliver a regulatory cyber transformation programme, focusing on target operating model and employee training and awareness and a GDPR implementation programme focusing on data mapping and identifying critical data points. In response to the increasing threat against critical national infrastructure and industrial control systems, Alicia assisted a global oil and gas company in an innovative 4 year programme to identify and protect their critical assets whilst maturing their response and recovery capability in the event of a catastrophic cyber event.