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.