The Video Surveillance Report 2022

Revealed: The IFSEC Global security & fire influencers 2018

After consultation with a panel of highly respected judges, we’re delighted to reveal the IFSEC Global security & fire influencers 2018.

The roll call of influencers across the security and fire industries is broken down into seven categories – which you can click on below to reveal the final rankings.

We defined ‘influence’ in the following ways:

Someone who has played a key role in driving technological innovation
Someone who has been a driving force in changing regulation, standards/guidance or best practice
Someone whose insights/opinions are widely respected and which are influential in shaping debate around industry issues
Someone who has been instrumental in the success of the organisation or business they lead or are employed by
Someone who has helped to raise the industry’s profile or been an influential voice in the national media

The process

The process consisted of two stages. First, we invited nominations from the IFSEC Global audience and beyond. Then, a panel of judges, drawn from across the industries and barred from featuring in the list themselves, assigned points to each nomination based on the persuasiveness of the nomination, their research into the nominee and their own knowledge of the nominee’s contributions to their field. The judges were also permitted to submit nominations themselves, which were then scored by the other judges.

Ultimately, ‘influence’ cannot be measured objectively, but each year we believe we’re making the process a bit more exhaustive – and we’ll do so again next year. Doubtless, there are industry figures whose absence from the list you might find baffling. But if you feel someone deserves recognition then we suggest that you nominate them next year!

We’d like to thank Grant Lecky, co-founder of the Security Partners Forum, for his tireless efforts as lead judge. Lecky, who himself featured in IFSEC Global’s list of top influencers in 2014 and 2017, appointed the panel of judges (which you can also view below) and coordinated the nominations and judging process. Thanks also to Bonnie Butlin, also co-founder of the Security Partners Forum and number one in last year’s international thought leader rankings, for helping to coordinate the process.

Grant Lecky commented: “I want to thank IFSEC for this great honour and privilege of serving in this capacity. Having won my share of awards and accolades – including having been named to the IFSEC Global Most Influential list on more than one occasion – I think now is the perfect time to ‘send the elevator back down’, so to speak, and help highlight those across the UK and the rest of world who are making a difference in the security and fire domains.”

IFSEC Global security & fire influencers 2018 – the categories

Security tech leaders

Security management

Security thought leadership

Security executives

Cybersecurity

Fire safety

System design, installation & integration

Judging panel 2018

Lead judge: Grant Lecky

Grant, an Expert Network Member (Risk & Resilience) at the World Economic Forum, won no fewer than five prestigious accolades last year alone, including a spot on the Canadian Who’s Who and an Outstanding Achievement in Global Cybersecurity (OAGCS) Award from the Ontario College of Management and Technology.

As well being named the 10^th most influential professional in the security management category in IFSEC Global’s 2017 rankings (and 12^th overall in 2014), Grant was included in Security Magazine’s Most Influential People in Security in 2012.

View Grant’s LinkedIn profile to find out about his other accolades and accomplishments.

Don Randall MBE, senior adviser, Pilgrims Group

Judging categories:

Security management, cybersecurity UK

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The Video Surveillance Report 2022

Revealed: The IFSEC Global security & fire influencers 2018

After consultation with a panel of highly respected judges, we’re delighted to reveal the IFSEC Global security & fire influencers 2018.

The process

IFSEC Global security & fire influencers 2018 – the categories

Judging panel 2018

Lead judge: Grant Lecky

Don Randall MBE, senior adviser, Pilgrims Group

Mike Howard, CSO, Microsoft

David Burrill, co-founder, Burrill Green

Theresa Payton, CEO, Fortalice

Wendy Bashnan, Deputy Assistant Secretary General for Security, NATO

Baroness Neville-Jones, chairman, British Joint Intelligence Committee (JIC)

Jason Brown, national security director, Thales

Victoria Ekhomu, MD, Trans-World Security Systems Ltd & School of Management & Security

Denis Lauretou, Head of Security & Safety, chez Banque de France

Carol Osler, Senior VP, head of financial crimes, fraud management, enterprise project management

Steve Durbin, MD, ISF

Mike Hurst, vice chairman, ASIS UK chapter

Francisco Poley Herrera, security director, European Federation of Security Directors

Lynn Mattice, MD, Mattice & Associates

Yvan De Mesmaeker, Secretary general of the European Corporate Security Association

Diana Burley, executive director & chair, Institute for Information Infrastructure Protection

Una Riley, CEO, iAudit Consultants Ltd

GB Singh, editor, Security Today & Security Update

Izabela Albrycht, chair, Kosciuszko Institute & CYBERSEC

Steve Lasky, editorial director, Southcomm Security Media Group

Peter Houlis, MD, 2020Vision Systems

Rachaell Saunders, CEO, National Protective Services

Ahmed Qurram Baig

Cath Goulding, head of IT security, Nominet

Ian Moore, CEO, FIA

Pauline Norstrum, MD, NetVu Ltd

Tacito Leite, director of security, Indra

Lynwen Connick, CISO, ANZ Banking Group

Dr Robert Docherty, MD, Flame Risk Solutions

Categories of influencers

How do we define influential?

Installers (fire and security)