
Nick Charnley
Location
Basel-Stadt
Expertise
Intelligence, Security and Crisis Management
About
Experienced security professional
A skilled investigator, intelligence and security risk manager with a broad range of corporate and operational experience in public and private sectors. Specialises in the management of, and intelligence support to, security investigations, and the design, deployment and maintenance of end-to-end security risk and crisis management programmes in multinational organisations and high-threat post-conflict environments. Strong presentation, partnering and mentoring skills gained from over 20 years leading cross-functional intelligence, security, investigation, risk and crisis management teams, underpinned by a solid academic and executive background in technical and scientific subjects, and a Warwick MBA.
Skills
Building Security
Close Protection
Crisis Management
Critical Incident Debriefing
Critical Incident Response
Cross Functional Relationship Building
Cross Functional Relationships
Event Security
Executive Protection
HUMINT
Personal Security
Personnel Security
Risk Management Consulting
Risk Management Plans
Risk Management Tools
Security Intelligence
Travel Security
Open for
cofounder
fulltime
parttime
mentoring
Work Experience
Syngenta Crop Protection AG
2017-03 - 2022-07
Head of Security Intelligence
Basel-Stadt
fulltime
Leading the global security intelligence team for the world's largest agribusiness company • Provision of strategic direction, doctrine / methodology and tools to the Corporate Security team to enable the team’s intelligence support to anti-illicit trade investigations – including research, data visualization and link analysis – and the production of periodic and ad hoc intelligence briefs assessing incidents or events that may negatively impact the company’s strategy • Global head of personnel security programmes, covering travel security, international assignees, crisis management for employee security and executive protection • Owner and developer of the company’s security risk management process to safeguard critical physical assets • Development and maintenance of risk indices and heat maps to aid prioritisation and decision-making for the Corporate Security and Compliance teams, including counterfeiting, cargo security and personnel / travel security • Initiator and pivotal team member of a project to integrate emergency and crisis management across the organization and train executives and other senior leaders on the roles they play • Initial advocate, department champion and project manager for the global roll-out of the company’s mass communication system for critical incident management, personnel alerting and accounting, and crisis communications • Leader of the team's annual security risk reporting to global risk management functions
Syngenta Crop Protection AG
2014-01 - 2017-03
EAME Regional Security Manager
Basel-Stadt
fulltime
Responsible for leading the corporate security strategy Europe, Africa and Middle East • Managing security programmes – such as training, risk assessments, incident response and investigations – covering physical security, personnel protection, anti-illicit trade / counterfeiting and information security • Subject maVer expert on security and risk management for a Network of Excellence
Syngenta Crop Protection AG
2011-10 - 2013-12
Head of Security Risk Management
Basel-Stadt
fulltime
Central member of the Global Corporate Security team • Developed and implemented the team’s intelligence management process in order to consistently and systematically monitor, assess and disseminate products to report on the threat posed by a variety of individuals and groups, and how this may affect the company’s sites, personnel, products and information • Led asset and people protection at the global level, managing diverse programmes including private security provider procurement and management, executive protection, site security requirements, international assignee and travel security, including many instances of providing emergency support
Aegis Defence Services
2005-03 - 2011-09
Security Consultant
Remote
fulltime
Director of Intelligence from November 2009 to July 2011, overseeing the intelligence capability for a Private Security Com- pany (PSC), supporting the largest Iraq reconstruction security contract. Prior to this was the Regional Intelligence Officer for Northern Iraq, commander of an operational headquarters, Senior Intelligence Analyst and Deputy Director of Intelligence. • Management of a networked international team of 40 professional analysts in support of the United States Army Corps of Engineers and the PSC community, providing daily and weekly written intelligence summaries, threat briefings and bespoke products on the security, socioeconomic and geopolitical situation • Daily liaison with military and government agencies, to promote and encourage the passage of intelligence between organisations and provision of advice on effect-based reconstruction operations