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Membership of the Company is drawn from the security industry in its widest sense and includes leading security professionals from the industrial and retail sectors, serving and retired members of the police and armed services, security consultants, academics, heads of security for corporate businesses, investigators, and electronic surveillance companies.

The Clerk - Adrienne Harper

Phone: +44 (0) 1256 395036‬
36 Queens Rd, North Warnborough, Hampshire, RG29 1DN

Ashley Fernandes
Trustees Only

Ashley Fernandes

Ashley is the Chair of Trustees having been appointed from 1st Feb 2024. Ashley is the Executive Director for Corporate Security Services at ICTS UK & Ireland, part of the…

Andrew Knights
Trustees Only

Andrew Knights

Andrew is Chief Executive of the Knights Security Group with a career of over 30 years in the Security sector. Andrew has run a variety of companies in the security…

Susan Jones
Trustees Only

Susan Jones

Sue joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1979 and retired in 2019. She held a wide variety of posts in London and served overseas in Singapore, West Berlin and…

Devon A. Johnson
Trustees Only

Devon A. Johnson

Devon is a consultant at Red Penguin Marine, one of the world's premier marine and subsea cable engineering consultancies. She has advised the Ministry of Defence on the UK's High…

Ian Dyson CBE QPM DL
Trustees Only

Ian Dyson CBE QPM DL

Ian retired in 2022 from a 38-year career in policing, the last 6 as the Commissioner of the City of London police. In that role he was the National Police…

Bill Collier
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Bill Collier

Bill is the Hall and Facilities Manager to a City of London Livery Company, as well as the Lead trainer for Clear Choice Training and is one of the National…

Joseph McGee
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Joseph McGee

Joseph McGee served in Kent Police, as a Specialist Firearms Officer concentrating on Hostage Release, Instructing and was a Tactical Advisor supporting all levels of firearms command and control. He…

Rob Atkin MBE
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Rob Atkin MBE

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John Davies
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John Davies

A graduate in Chemistry from University of London, John Davies began his working life at British Aerospace Military Aircraft Group in 1979. In 1981 he moved to Litton Industries Inc…

Nicolas Markantonis
Trustees Only

Nicolas Markantonis

Nick is a civil servant and has worked in a number of departments including the Cabinet Office, Ministry of Defence, Home Office, and Ministry of Justice. Nick joined the Worshipful…

Kate Bright CSyP
Trustees Only

Kate Bright CSyP

Kate Bright is a Chartered Security Professional and award-winning entrepreneur with nearly 30 years’ experience across private client security, Family Office advisory, and security governance. She began her career in…

Peter Fraser-Hopewell CMG MBE
Trustees Only

Peter Fraser-Hopewell CMG MBE

Peter was Head of Group Security for Enrichment Technology (ETC) Company Limited from October 2008 to January 2019. ETC Ltd operates in the Nuclear Power industry manufacturing, transporting and installing…

Mike Lees
Court Assistants

Mike Lees

Mike Lees MSc CSyP FSyI works as the Lead Technical Specialist (formerly Head of Protective Services) at Barnsley Hospital NHS Foundation Trust. His current role oversees security management, business continuity,…

Paul Lavery
Court Assistants

Paul Lavery

Tel Folkman
Court Assistants, Standing Committee Chairs

Tel Folkman

Tel is the Senior Security Consultant at Horus Security Consultancy Ltd. He is a former Warrant Officer Class 1 in the British Army’s Intelligence Corps and retired in 2009 after 22…

Ashley Fernandes
Court Assistants, Trustees

Ashley Fernandes

Ashley is the Chair of Trustees having been appointed from 1st Feb 2024. Ashley is the Executive Director for Corporate Security Services at ICTS UK & Ireland, part of the…

Barrie Stewart
Court Assistants, Past Masters

Barrie Stewart

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Don Randall
Court Assistants, Past Masters

Don Randall

Don Randall served with the City of London Police from 1969-1995, with specific emphasis on fraud and counter terrorism.  Following 13 years at JPMorgan Chase as Managing Director, he joined…

Edward Semple
Court Assistants

Edward Semple

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David Lee
Officers of the Court, Wardens

David Lee

David currently works as a Speak Up & Investigation Manager for Vodafone. During his career he has worked in a number of roles involving investigations, notably around fraud investigations, risk…

Ian Crossley
Court Assistants, Standing Committee Chairs

Ian Crossley

Ian Crossley is the Head of Operational Resiliency for a UK based payments company, responsible for insider threat, physical security and business continuity. Ian joined the WCoSP in January 2016,…

Crawford Chalmers
Court Assistants

Crawford Chalmers

Crawford concluded a 33-year career in the Metropolitan Police CID at the end of 1998, with a final appointment as Head of Intelligence Coordination with the National Criminal Intelligence Service (NCIS)…

Frederick Carter
Court Assistants

Frederick Carter

Frederick read modern foreign languages before gaining a first-class honours degree in engineering and an International Affairs MA from King’s College London. Frederick joined the Company in March 2018 and…

Jeremy Batchelor
Court Assistants

Jeremy Batchelor

Richard Sweetman
Honorary Court Assistants

Richard Sweetman

Richard joined the Guild of Security Professionals in 1999 shortly after it had been formed. He was made a Freeman of the Company in 2001 and became a Freeman of…

Andrew Knights
Officers of the Court, Trustees, Wardens

Andrew Knights

Andrew is Chief Executive of the Knights Security Group with a career of over 30 years in the Security sector. Andrew has run a variety of companies in the security…

Tim Molden
Court Assistants, Standing Committee Chairs

Tim Molden

Tim is Head of Security & Licensing for Capital Arches Group, responsible for Security and Licensingfor a large franchise of 31 McDonald’s restaurants in London. Prior to this he was…

Susan Jones
Officers of the Court, The Master, Trustees

Susan Jones

Sue joined the Foreign & Commonwealth Office in 1979 and retired in 2019. She held a wide variety of posts in London and served overseas in Singapore, West Berlin and…

Peter French
Court Assistants, Past Masters

Peter French

Peter French MBE was the Past Master 2007 to 2008. He is a Principal Founder and was our Master at the inauguration of our Livery Company and former Trustee of…

Richard King
Court Assistants

Richard King

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Wes Harper
Officers of the Court, Wardens

Wes Harper

Wes is the founder and Managing Director of Harper Morgan, a Management Consultancy dedicated to clients in the international security sector. Wes began his professional journey after qualifying as an…

Paul Ramsay
Court Assistants

Paul Ramsay

Paul is the General Manager of CDVI UK. He also leads the marketing team for the group business. CDVI is a global manufacturer of leading edge access control security solutions, offering…

Tricia Boswell
Other

Tricia Boswell

Tricia has an administrative background having worked for a variety of organisations in the City of London ranging from the Inland Revenue to stockbrokers and merchant banks. In 1989 Tricia…

Adrienne Harper
Other

Adrienne Harper

Adrienne took up the position of Clerk in January 2021. Prior to joining the Company, Adrienne spent 27 years working in social housing for a variety of local authorities and…

Josef Khan
Officers of the Court

Josef Khan

Josef is the Co-Founder of a software company specialising in the development of enterprise application solutions, with a particular focus on enterprise content, information, security, and data management systems. In…

Air Cdre Stephen Anderton
Past Masters, Court Assistants

Air Cdre Stephen Anderton

Stephen Anderton is a Court Assistant and Past Master of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals. He was the Master 2017-18. Formerly a career officer in the Royal Air Force…

Russell Penny
Court Assistants, Past Masters

Russell Penny

Russell is the Founder and Managing Director of Denarius Consultancy and is the UK and International Security Consultant to Constellation Generation. Russell is the Master of the WCoSP, an Apprentice…

Paul Miller
Past Masters

Paul Miller

Paul is the Managing Director of National Monitoring with over 45 years’ experience in specifying and designing technological security measures, processes and systems to enhance the safety of vulnerable people…

Yasmeen Stratton
Past Masters

Yasmeen Stratton

Yasmeen Stratton is the Director of global recruitment consultancy SSR Personnel Corporate Security & Risk and Vice Chair of the OSAC UK Country Council, Steering Committee. She was appointed Master…

Michael Barley
Past Masters, Court Assistants

Michael Barley

Michael was Master of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals from June 2019 to September 2020. It was at this time the global pandemic hit us all and dramatically changed…

Stephen Emmins
Past Masters, Standing Committee Chairs

Stephen Emmins

Stephen (Steve) was the 21st Master of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals, having been elected in May 2021 and installed as Master in July 2021. Steve has been in…

Michael Thwaites
Officers of the Court

Michael Thwaites

After a career in the Metropolitan Police specialising in international and organised crime, Michael spent the best part of two years as an international police adviser training the Iraqi Police…

Claire Palmer
Court Assistants

Claire Palmer

Claire joined the Company in 2015, and became a Liveryman in June 2019. She is a self-employed barrister practising from 5 Essex Court based in the Temple (just inside the…

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