I’m currently Head of Financial Services and Insurance (FSI) for NCC Group leading our go to market sector strategy and end to end client engagement team. Prior to this I spent 10 years at CGI where I headed up growth for their Insurance business as well as running CGI’s Retail and Corporate Banking business in the UK with full P&L responsibility. This encompassed CGI’s payments capability, open banking offerings including overlay services, collections, anti-financial crime and trade finance applications as well as managed IT services and legacy modernisation delivery. It’s a fascinating time to be in the FS and Insurance market and I’m fortunate enough to be invited to industry panels to speak on subject matters such as cyber security trends, debt management in the pandemic, approaches to digital transformation and the potential of open finance for the UK financial services market.

James started in cyber security, purely by accident, in 2008. Initially working on PCI DSS and ISO 27001 compliance projects with private sector clients before becoming a QSA in 2012 and joining NCC Group in 2013.

James is a Director within NCC Group’s Consulting and Implementation practice working primarily with private sector clients in industries including FSI, TMT, professional services, and retail.

James’ focus is on building cyber security programs to help organisations improve their cyber resilience. James is also part of our Strategic Advisor team and regularly speaks at client events, including NCC Group’s CISO Council.

Mick Flitcroft has over 30 years of security and leadership experience across various sectors. He is an Executive Principal Consultant within NCC Group’s Professional Services and is also the Global Lead for Government Compliance services across the whole business.  He is responsible for delivering a wide range of cyber security and information assurance consultancy that includes security architecture and design reviews, creation of security strategies, defining risk methodologies, undertaking various risk management activities and the creation and delivery of service/product accreditation and compliance programmes.

Mick is also a delivery lead for large scale engagements and is responsible for the ICS/OT, SCADA and IIoT service delivery across NCC Group as well as ISA 62443 global offerings. 

Daniel has recently joined UK Finance as a principal for Cyber and Third Party Risk. He joins from Deloitte's Risk Advisory practice where he was a Senior Manager in Cyber, Data and Digital, primarily supporting Banking and Capital Markets firms on their recovery and resilience capabilities and addressing regulatory policies such as UK Operational Resilience and the EU DORA.

Prior to this he spent 4 years working as part of the FCA's Technology, Resilience and Cyber department, assessing firm's technical capabilities across technology and cyber and helping shape the resilience regulatory agenda on operational resilience, incident response and cross-authority and cross-sector engagement.