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Nick Charnley

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

Workplace
Head of Security Intelligence
Location

Basel-Stadt

Employement type

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

Workplace
EAME Regional Security Manager
Location

Basel-Stadt

Employement type

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

Workplace
Head of Security Risk Management
Location

Basel-Stadt

Employement type

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

Workplace
Security Consultant
Location

Remote

Employement type

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