The candidate is responsible for leading a team of eight people to define and deliver a cyber security strategy that protects the company in line with the risk appetite of the Board. Reporting to the CTO, with a dotted line into the CEO, he manages a £1.5m annual budget. He is responsible for ensuring the company maintains compliance to SOC2, ISO 27001 and Cyber Essentials Plus. He restructured an underperforming team into a high-performing team now seen as a business enabler. He hired the team from apprentices up to senior managers across information security governance, penetration testing and security operations and has developed them through certifications including CISM, CRISC and CompTIA Network+, the candidate is also responsible for revenue generation through the company’s security product offering, iTrent Shield. Having developed this from scratch in 2021 – from proof of concept through marketing to pre-sales – the offering has three products with total sales of over £2m.