National Security Committee

Overview

Its focus is to address the strategic-level security concerns that impact the UK tech sector, and providing a forum for the Government’s national security community to engage with technology suppliers on industry engagement opportunities.

The National Security Committee is techUK’s authoritative voice on national security issues, and highlights the opportunity for the technology industry to offer solutions to them. The National Security Committee seeks to engage with relevant stakeholders in HMG, bringing them together with the technology industry to agree views and perspectives on a wide range of topics. These include promoting a community of open collaboration in what is typically a secret, complex and risk-averse environment and addressing the specific challenges of SMEs operating in the national security sector.

The National Security Committee will meet bi-monthly to discuss the above.

This is an elected committee - please get in touch with the team below if you want to learn more.

National Security Committee

Committee Member	Committee Representative	Company Role
Vodafone	Stephen Knibbs (Chair)	UK Head of Security and CISO, heading Secure CNI
Leidos UK	Alan Potter (Vice-Chair)	VP & MD National Security & Defence Division
Accenture	Madeline H. Lewis	Managing Director and UK Armed Forces Network Sponsor
Amazon Web Services	Mike Nayler	Senior Manager
Arqit	Daniel Shiu	Chief Cryptographer
Baker & McKenzie LLP	Ross Evans	Senior Associate
BT Group	Stuart Lyle	Senior Manager of Security Liaison & Industry Collaboration
Capgemini	Michael Willis
Capita plc	Jim Fox	Business Consultant Manager
CDS Defence & Security	Martin Nash	Head of Cyber Security and Information Assurance (CS&IA) Services
CGI	Patrick Hutchings	UK & Australia Sector Lead for Secure Innovation & Advisory
Clue Software	Matt Horne	Head of Policing & Government
CyberHive Ltd	Sarah Blundell	Chief Operating Officer
Electralink	Kulwinder Johal	Head of Information Security
Fujitsu	Paul Dickens	Public Sector UKI CISO, Enterprise Cyber Security
IBM	Giles Hursey
iProov	Campbell Cowie	Head of Policy, Standards & Regulation
QinetiQ	Simon Wilcox	Data Intelligence, Business Development Lead
SC Strategy	Dan Spacie	Senior Advisor - Defence and National Security
Sopra Steria	Neil Salter	Director National Security