Andy Williams is the new chairman of the UK chapter of the security management body ASIS International. He’s the London-based head of security at Nomura International, the Japanese investment bank. A former Met and City of London Police man, he worked in contract guarding before the move to the corporate side. He was a speaker at the Professional Security conference Security TWENTY 13 in London in July. He took the chair from Mike Alexander at the chapter AGM on December 11, hosted at Nomura’s Thameside offices. MIke remains on the ASIS committee.
Mike Alexander and Andy Williams are pictured left to right at the ASIS UK winter meeting on Wednesday.
Other members of the ASIS UK committee are: Donna Alexander; Jude Awdry, Graham Bassett, James Butler, Helene Carlsson, Crawford Chalmers, David Cresswell, Steve Emmins, Peter French, Dawn Holmes, Mike Hurst, Alan Jenkins, Graham Le Fevre, Mike McDonagh, Craig Pickard, Dr Peter Speight, Richard Stones, Sharon Williams and Allison Wylde. The ASIS UK patron is the Liberal Democrat peer Baroness Harris of Richmnond.
Speaking to Professional Security at the end of the meeting, Andy Williams said that he hoped to carry on the excellent work that Mike Alexander and the other pervious chairmen had done over the years. He said that one of his main aims was to foster further improved relations with sister security management organisations, and to ensure that they collaborated where they had the same aims and objectives, while recognising that each organisation had its own aims and objectives. Among exhibitors and attenders at the quarterly meeting were Emma Shaw of the counter-surveillance consultancy Esoteric, the chairman of the Security Institute.
Andy singled out the ASIS UK mentoring scheme, aimed at new young professionals coming into the security industry, so that newcomers could develop their careers, using the experience and knowledge of many serving ASIS members.
Speakers at the event were Dr Mark Button of the University of Portsmouth, on the cost of fraud; Grant White of Intercontinental Hotels; and Tim Williams, of the political and security risk consultancy Stirling Assynt, on Egypt and its neighbours after the overthrow of the Muslim Brotherhood government.
Next meeting of ASIS UK is on March 20. For the ASIS UK event calendar visit http://www.asis.org.uk
