Meet Some of Our Dedicated Team
Leadership
Ian Harragan
Director
Ian’s role is focused upon growing the capability of the Senior Management team to ensure the business can look forward to being well led into the future.
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Louise Beattie
Chief Operating
Officer
Louise joined i-confidential as it was just starting its journey in 2010. Now, as our Chief Operating Officer, she leads the senior management team, ensuring the company delivers on its business strategy, operates effectively, and adheres to its values.
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Simon Lawrence
Director
Simon is our principal consultant and splits his time between client engagements, developing our consultancy offerings, and guiding the management team on all things technical.
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Nicola Huskie
Chief Commercial
Officer
Nicola oversees and manages all commercial aspects of the company’s operation. Her primary focus is business growth, profitability, and maintaining a strong customer base. She has responsibility for the Sales and Account Management team and manages the Talent Acquisition function.
Colin Fraser
Director
Colin’s role has included acting as interim CISO and technology leader for some of the UK’s largest financial institutions. He now acts as a consultant supporting our clients, as well as individually advising and mentoring a number of cyber and technology executives.
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Elaine McKechnie
Head of Cyber
Security Consultancy
Elaine is a senior leader in cyber security, specialising in GRC lifecycle enhancement with a focus on people over tools.​ Passionate about fostering a strong security culture, Elaine brings extensive experience from major financial institutions like HSBC and Virgin Money, excelling in enhancing security frameworks and delivering innovative solutions.
Security Consultants
Brian Boyd
Senior Security Consultant
With over 25 years’ security experience, Brian has extensive skills in planning and delivering security architecture, cyber security, and the running of security platforms and functions, primarily within large financial organisations.
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With a substantial knowledge of control frameworks (including ISO27001, ISF SoGP, NIST, SOX, HKMA, MAS) Brian leads most of our control and risk assessments.
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Toju Dediare
Senior Security Consultant
With 15+ years’ experience in information / cyber security and operational risk management, Toju specialises in the development of risk and control frameworks, regulatory compliance, and data privacy strategies.
As a CIPM and an ISO27001 Lead Auditor, Toju brings a rigorous approach to aligning cyber security with business objectives. She is also an APMG Change Management Practitioner.
Calum Michie
Senior Security Consultant
Calum supports i-confidential's clients to transform their risk and control management frameworks and operating model, enabling them to better understand, manage and reduce their top technology and cyber risks.
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Emily Barker
Senior Security Consultant
Emily is a skilled cyber security professional, with eight years of hands-on consulting experience. Specialising in managing comprehensive reviews, she also has expertise in cyber defence, risk management, vulnerability management, and governance.
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With a 1st class degree in Cyber Security, and graduating from the Empowering You: Women to Lead Cyber Security programme, Emily is committed to continuous professional development.
Katy Fraser
Senior Security Consultant
Katy’s role as a project lead has seen her drive implementation of different projects in a number of large financial services organisations.
She is responsible for liaising between technical and business audiences, using her experience and knowledge to broker relationships between the two.
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Max Johnston
Junior Consultant
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Max has a solid foundation in cyber security, holding both an HNC and HND in the field. Alongside work, he is currently undertaking a graduate apprenticeship degree in Cyber Security at Edinburgh Napier University.
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Max’s skill set includes networking, data security, risk management, and digital forensics. He helps the consultancy team deliver projects for major clients, ensuring deadlines are met to high standards.
Richard Harragan
Senior Security Consultant
In Richard’s roles as either a specialist consultant or project manager, he delivers many of our offerings to a number of large financial services organisations, ensuring the highest quality output is produced for clients.
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Employee Owned
i-confidential is proudly employee owned. A key driver for this was to help secure our future. It also recognises the fact that our people are our business.
Employees, via an Ownership Trust, now represent an 85% shareholding in the company. Day-to-day management has moved away from the company's founders and is now in the hands of a senior management team led by our Chief Operating Officer, Louise Beattie.
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As an employee-owned business everyone has a voice. Governance and communication is transparent, with decisions on how we shape our strategy discussed company wide. Our two employee-elected trustees, Nicola Huskie and Calum Michie, sit on the Trust Board to help ensure this.
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Being an employee and an owner is a big responsibility, but it means we all have a stake in i-confidential and can shape a clear vision for our long-term future.
Employee-elected trustees Nicola Huskie and Calum Michie
Vision, Mission, Values
Our Vision
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By empowering our people to deliver great client outcomes, we want to be recognised as a leading provider of cyber security and risk services.
Our Mission
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Helping cyber and risk leaders protect their organisations.
Investing in our people to ensure they always deliver great results.
Developing strong, lasting relationships as the foundation for our success.
Our Values
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We treat people with integrity and respect.
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We give everyone a voice and a responsibility to use it.
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We focus on building trust with people.
We encourage a healthy work-life balance.
We are not perfect, but we strive for excellence.
