David Langhorn MBE

• Company Overview: The largest Human Resource Tech company in the world that uses advanced cyber techniques in support of matching job seekers with employers.
• Responsibilities: Designed and implemented global cyber-aligned physical security risk management programmes, championing capability development and ways of working improvements. Drove security risk maturity and ensured compliance with cybersecurity certification standards. Authored global security policies, standards, procedures and compliance systems to enhance organisational compliance. Developed protective intelligence services across the enterprise to fulfil stakeholder needs. Established and managed the Executive Protection programme to safeguard key personnel. Created Security Emergency Response Plans and led Security Incident and Threat Response efforts.

• Company Overview: A US/UK company providing security risk management, resilience and training services. Advisors to the United Nations on tourism infrastructure security.
• Responsibilities: Developed bespoke corporate security risk management programmes for hospitality companies lacking dedicated teams. Designed comprehensive training programmes covering various security subjects, including anti-terrorism. Authored articles on security, crisis management, and leadership for the Northpoint journal of a leading hotel company. Created a self-auditing platform for security and resilience for a digital risk management firm.

• Company Overview: The second largest hotel company in the world, with over six thousand hotels operating in over one hundred countries.
• Responsibilities: Directed global security programmes, including risk management, resilience, anti-terrorism, crisis response, protective intelligence and loss prevention. Security & resilience training design and delivery to the C suite and 300 security managers. Managed a corporate security team of 24 across four regions to deliver business-aligned security capability. Chaired Hotel Security Working Group for US State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council from 2015 to 2017.
  

• Company Overview: As above.
• Responsibilities: Designed and operated a global defensive intelligence programme to mitigate security risks.Collected, analysed, and reported on threats impacting IHG operations, including crime and terrorism.Facilitated adoption of 'Intelligence Led – Threat Based' security risk management strategies. Developed response plans for kidnap for ransom scenarios to enhance organisational safety.

Company Overview: Defence of the Realm.

Responsibilities: Facilitated Army objectives by leading and executing diverse intelligence and protective security functions. Led specialist intelligence operations within a Divisional staff position. Acted as Chief Instructor for specialist intelligence and subsequently intelligence and counter-intelligence training for Junior Intelligence Corps.