David McNicol-Jones

Permanent member of the The UN Foundation Leadership Council: Humanitarian & Life Saving Awards, a board of leaders & experts who determine the winners of these prestigious UN accolades. The unique perspective & valuable insights of the board, establishes this recognition as one of the highest honours in the international social sector

The Leadership Council is composed of a diverse group of recognised experts selected from around the world to represent governments, industry experts, academia, for-profit corporations, global NGOs, media professionals, non-profits, community foundations, philanthropists, private foundations, policymakers, public figures & social entrepreneurs

I bring the following to this prestigious group:

• Expertise in strategic governance, compliance, resilience, enterprise risk and security, international organised crime, safety, environment, international standards, crisis & business continuity
• Relationships based on service delivery with nation states, official agencies, NGO's, Charities and Foundations worldwide
• Relationships based upon trust with indigenous & original peoples worldwide
• Understanding of the use of ancient wisdom to inform contemporary practices, combined with the power, scale & utility of artificial intelligence, machine learning and human agent collectives, not least to make use of big data, deep learning and to democratise access and service delivery across complex boundaries (geopolitical, economic, cultural, religious & more)

AS CHAIRPERSON:
- Provide specialist support & guidance to the Board of this non-profit

- Lead on strategic governance, compliance, resilience, enterprise risk and security, safety, environment, international standards, crisis & business continuity

- Setting strategy with the executive team, including appointment, development & line management of the senior leadership team
- Complex delivery of programmes with stakeholders at strategic level, including executive officer roles for senior government, not-profit organisations, commercial groups, academia & the military specifically in:

> North & South America

> The Global South (Africa, Latin America, Caribbean, Asia, and Oceania

> ASEAN nations (Brunei, Cambodia, Indonesia, Malaysia, Philippines, Singapore,Thailand, Viet Nam)

> India, Nepal, Hong Kong, China, Australia, New Zealand)

> GCC (Gulf Cooperation Council) member States (Saudi Arabia, Bahrain, Kuwait, Oman, Qatar, United Arab Emirates)

> The European Union, including United Kingdom

Representing the org on international platforms

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CHIEF EXECUTIVE OFFICER:
As CEO my primary responsibilities included:

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Corporate responsibility & accountability for:
- Finance, £10m + per year, multi-organisations

- Personally raising £20m GBP from public & commercial sources
- Establishing international organisations from scratch
- Global Governance, Risk, Compliance & Org Reporting
- Leadership on continuous performance improvement
- Collaboration with the Board & Non-Executive team
- Ethics, diversity & standards champion
- Commercial development programme
- Complex Programme Management
- Enterprise risk accountability
- Global partnerships

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Services to clients including:

- Strategic advisor to partners, senior leaders & heads of departments in global brands. All aspects of strategic governance, compliance, resilience, enterprise risk (especially with regards to extreme climatic events, international organised crime, multinational & multi sector partnership working), security, safety, environment, international standards, crisis & business continuity

- Line management of & accountability for the performance of senior leaders in the executive team, healthy & safety, environment, finance, IT, enterprise risk, resilience, legal & legislative risk, training, procurement, partnerships

- Management of globally distributed facilities, staff & clients

- Provision of complex search & rescue services worldwide

- Provision of hospital services (air, land sea) worldwide

- Multi-agency / nation incident command & control

- Understanding & management of complex risk

- Rapid emergency needs assessments & advice

- Health, safety, security, welfare & environment

- Crisis & incident response, planning & training

- Enterprise risk management (ERM)

- Liaison: nation state stakeholders

- Personnel safety & security

- Facility physical security

- Cyber security

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During the initial acute phase of the COVID19 Pandemic, I :

• Supported UK Government with capability & capacity delivery for COVID19
• Provided panning, strategic risk & resilience in the public & private sector by combining risk, resilience, crisis & disaster management experience with leading academic, industry, military & third sector methodologies
• Delivered immediately actionable, pragmatic solutions in support of the UK National Resilience Portfolio
  
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Providing leadership to a multi-national board & workforce of full time part time, consultants & volunteers worldwide, making expert use of good governance, risk management, organisational resilience, compliance and the effective deployment training, services & cutting edge technology to:

- Emergency services & special project teams in the UK, EU, USA, GCC, MENA, OCEANIA, APAC regions

- Multinational companies, high & ultra net worth / private family offices

- Private banking institutions, also sovereign wealth & nation state funds

- British & friendly nations royalty & diplomatic families

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Consultancy, services, products & training including:

- Enterprise Risk Management (ERM)

- Corporate risk management & response

- Health, safety, security, welfare & environment

- International organised crime & terrorist groups

- VIP & dignitary protection training & operations

- Litigation support. investigations & legal services

- Facility security full spectrum training & operations

- Governance, including complex reporting & standards

- Resilience planning, standards, systems, best practices

- Personal security, full spectrum training and operations

- Information security, including cyber & counter-surveillance

- Emergency services: police, fire, ambulance (land-sea-air)

- Business continuity, crisis planning & response options

- Intelligence, investigations & counter-threat programs

- Artificial intelligence & machine learning platforms

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General duties included:

• Line management & development of department heads, including the Chief Operating Officer, Directors of Finance, Risk, Human Resources, Operations, Training & in-house Legal Counsell
• Maintaining trusted working relationships with heads of state, partner agencies, stakeholders, academia, industry & clients
• Initiating international hiring & training of industry-renowned candidates as department managers to drive organisational development, aligned to the strategic plan developed in collaboration with the Board (operationalised through Programmed which I established with the Senior Leadership Team)
• Overseeing budgetary & financial activities, implementing strategies to scale the business & our impacts
• Leading the implementation of the enterprise wide risk strategy, reporting & presenting to board members on a monthly & annual basis
• Reviewing individual departments & programmes performance, working with leadership to improve processes, procedures & practices
• Building & maintaining a high-performance culture to deliver excellent service to clients
• Drafting & leading on operational mandates & policies, starting with defining our customers, our desired end states (impacts), our market, risks, partnership & leveraging opportunities
• Developing and leading a successful business culture focused on employee wellness, welfare & performance, & the desired end states for our clients
• Driving the implementation of new market expansions to propel the business forward & adapt to rapid market (world) changes
• Strengthening service delivery & training operations by proactively managing & optimising use of resources & gaining industry gold standard accreditations
• Negotiating partnerships, alliances & collaborations, with terms of business & acquisitions to increase our business base, solidify market presence & diversify our offerings

I act as expert advisor to the UK Office of the Prime Minister, Cabinet Office including COBR (Cabinet Office Briefing Rooms), Foreign Commonwealth Development Office (FCDO), Senior Ministers & specialist departments.

I provide expert advice & leadership for business continuity, specialist crisis, response, resilience, security, stability & capacity building, including long-term programmes & projects which aim to support & nourish the culture & life blood of communities through grass root organisations involved in sport, the arts & mental health fields. This includes horizan scanning, partnership working with governments, NGO's, charities, academia, official agencies, industry, law enforcements & the military, on initial threat & risk intelligence, pre-hospital care & response, mental health of deployed staff & local agencies, air, land & sea mobility, life support & stabilisation for UK Territories & vulnerable nations in crisis & conflict.

Specialist in addressing the causes & effects of international organised crime, extreme climatic events, with insights into trauma informed practice & the role of mental health, wellness & development at the individual & community level, to promote & sustain national resilience.

The strategic imperative is to champion host nation sovereignty & to empower original & indigenous people at all levels, to foster real resilience & draw out the inherent wisdom contained in those cultures.

I take a lead on cutting edge projects including the development, deployment, assessment & utilisation of Ai (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning), and HAC (human agent collaborations), with some of the leading universities in the world, & private multi-national entities.

Upon request from UK Government & partners I support:

- Legal frameworks, governance & risks in complex/multiple jurisdictions

- Training course design, delivery, assessment & overall authority

- Conducting of complex multi-national training & exercises
- Crisis & command expertise for British Overseas Territories

- Integration with other services required by the Authority

- Pre-hospital emergency medical care, response & rescue
- Rapid assessments to inform strategic decision makers
- Empowerment of local & regional stakeholders
- Local aviation assets (fixed wing & rotary)
- Air, sea & land last mile delivery
- Heavy lift (long range) aviation

Provider to American Express through all of APAC (Asia Pacific region) for Allied Universal on the Life Safety Programme for American Express (Axp), as a contract held by Protector Services group (PSG). Providing a comprehensive resilience solution for major cities where the client operates.

Key responsibilities include:

- Programme reporting & contract management

- Ensuring the safety of 280,000 personnel in Asia

- Stakeholder & heads of departments management

- Providing expert resilience, risk & compliance services

- Provision of emergency response to Asia Pacific region

- Recruitment & management of multinational staff in Asia

- Ensuring compliance of dispersed organisations, multi-nations

- Advising on organised crime, human trafficking & fraud operations

- Employment law for employees in challenging jurisdictions

- Protection of clients assets in excess of 1 billion USD

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American Express:
Founded in 1850, Amex is 1 of the 30 components of the Dow Jones Industrial Average. Business Week & Interbrand rank American Express as the 22nd most valuable brand in the world, estimating the brand to be worth US$14.97 billion. Fortune listed Amex as 1 of the top 20 Most Admired Companies in the World
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Allied Universal®:
Headquartered in Santa Ana, California, Allied Universal is an American provider of security systems and services; janitorial services; and staffing. The company was formed in 2016 by the merger of Santa Ana, California-based security and janitorial services company Universal Services of America, and Conshohocken, Pennsylvania-based security firm AlliedBarton Security Services
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In December 2020, Allied Universal extended a successful $5.1 Billion takeover offer for British security firm G4S, creating a combined company employing more than 750,000 people globally with revenues of more than $18 Billion USD

Expert emergency services commander leading research into effective innovations in command support & incident command training & best practices for multi agency responses to major incidents including terrorist attacks, extreme climatic events, impacts & causes of international organised crime, making use of:

• Trauma informed practices, positioning positive mental health & individual resilience centrally to policy at nation state level
• Good practices developed over 20 years
• Lessons learned from local populations, especially in vulnerable countries
• Innovations in artificial intelligence, machine learning and imagery from space and aerial platforms

Operational leader in the worlds 3rd largest Fire Rescue Service, the London Fire Brigade (LFB)

Selected as 1 of 12 out of 6'000 operational firefighters for LFB's first ever fast track programme to higher ranks

Offered the opportunity to train for & to obtain the role of Chief Fire Officer of London Fire Brigade.

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Service:

• Firefighter to Group Commander (Divisional Officer / Army Colonel equivalent), leading specialist units responding to full spectrum emergencies through London, including terrorist attacks

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Specialist Nationally Qualified (Fire Services College) Trainer:

• Breathing Apparatus Rescue Instructor (BAi)
• Road Traffic Collision Rescue Instructor (RTCi)
• Recruits "Firefighter Development" Instructor (LFB)
• Pre-Hospital Trauma Management (Royal College Surgeons)
• Developing Firefighters, Crew & Watch Managers assessor
• Equality input for 110 operational fire stations
• Police & NHS crews, for special operations rescue
• Fire Education: young offenders & 999 instructors
• Youth engagement (the LiFE project) delivered nationally in the UK

Firefighting duties at Cleveland Fire Brigade, plus

• Advanced Acute Emergency Care Instructor
• Station Physical Training Instructor (PTi)
• Road Traffic Collision Rescue
• Breathing Apparatus Rescue
• 1st Aid Instructor

Commendation for Recruit Training Support