A Fellow of the Institute of Strategic Risk Management, Alex specialises in counter espionage and Royalty protection, and especially the psychology of security and protection.
Having worked for Royal families, international firms and private families, Alex has a unique view of people's perspective of security and risk.
Highlights
You know, nobody wants to talk about espionage, nobody wants to talk about security, not really.
Education’s not for everybody. It’s only in the last 10 years that I’ve come back to education you know, and started actually really wanting to learn.
I think I just didn’t feel like I belonged and I think I needed something like a work environment to be in, something with a different style of discipline.
Luckily there are paths for young people that just don’t do education very well.
I was lucky that I was given opportunities and being around the right people really helped.
You’ve got to take risks to run a business. You can’t run a business and just take the easy path all the time.
One of my strongest points is that I always look to the future. I always look at the horizon, look what’s coming, look what the next trend is, what the next threat is.
Security is all about people, places and technology but people are the weakest link in all of that.
I’m a great believer that security should be part of everybody’s job. It shouldn’t be an add-on.
There’s always a sunny side of the street. You might not think it but you might not even be on it, it might be the other side but there is always a sunny side of the street.