Gareth Jones

Director at Crisis Interface

Speaker

Gareth is an independent advisor specializing in operational and cyber resilience, corporate crisis management and continuity. He is an experienced ‘subject matter resource’ providing advisory/assurance services. He has a very wide experience across a wide span of sectors and countries.

In the past 2 decades Gareth has been involved in over 150 programmes and projects in FS, commercial organizations, CNI and government. Examples of significant roles would be:

• Resilience lead designer for Bank of England RTGS replacement (CNI technology payments system - processing over £400 billion daily)
• Financial services 3rd party assurance programme design and delivery
• Assurance review of mass payments system continuity
• Crisis management operating model design, programme and exercises for over 10 FTSE organisations and many other smaller FTSE 250/DOW organisations
• Design of training and implementation for AMA Capital Adequacy programme for an international bank
• Lead designer for the UK national command and control 5-day live exercise for the London 2012 Olympics command and control system
• Resilience lead on £500 million technology replacement programme for a FTSE100 investment bank, including accelerated solution design

Gareth’s international consulting experience has been gained as an independent and as a principal advisor for KPMG, Ernst & Young and Marsh Risk Consulting (MMC) clients. Gareth is also a volunteer with a fledgling NGO called ALLFED, which focusses on systemic and existential food risks. This work is planning for risks that are generally outside national government appetites or perception and is something very different to more operational planning. He is keenly interested in emerging, new and novel risks and blogs about these issues. He is concerned about modern technology practices, cyber, AI and the ‘war in space’ and the impact on society.

Prior to this commercial experience Gareth served for 21 years in the UK Royal Air Force Regiment (Survive to Operate Branch) retiring as a squadron leader in 2001. His Air Force service was varied, and he gained strategic experience as the Royal Air Force lead for nuclear, biological and chemical defence during operations in the Gulf and as an air defence commander. He maintains an interest in CBRN matters and is concerned about the application of biotech to weapon development.

He holds a masters degree in risk, crisis and disaster management (Leicester University). He has held relevant professional memberships over an extended year period and contributed to BS/ISO standards. Further information and content on Linkedin