Dr Robert L Nowill Bob is Chair of The Board at The UK Cyber Security Challenge Ltd, and an independent Security Consultant and Advisor through Herne Hill Consulting Ltd. He is also a nonExecutive Director and Board Member of Information Risk Management (IRM) plc, and the Chair of the Institute of Information Security Professionals (IISP) Accreditation Committee. He was the Director for Cyber and Assurance at the BT Security Enterprise until the end of 2013. Before joining BT in 2005, Bob was the Director of Technology & Engineering and Board Member at the UK’s Government Communications Headquarters (GCHQ) and held a number of other roles there before that. His career has also included periods with UK MoD (Defence Procurement Agency and Research Agencies), in The Netherlands with The SHAPE Technical Centre, and research at Cambridge University Engineering Department. He graduated from Cambridge University (Trinity College), and subsequently read for a PhD also at Cambridge. He is a Chartered Engineer and Chartered IT Professional, a Fellow of the IET and of the BCS, and a Founder Fellow of the Institute of Information Security Professionals. Bob was named in the “Secure Computing (SC) Most Influential 2010” list in association with (ISC)2 as amongst the most influential people in information security. Bob is married to Dr Joanna Nowill, a Counselling Psychologist who runs The Cheltenham Trauma & Counselling Clinic, and they share three adult children and a rescue-Greyhound.
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