About me

Hello. I’m Adam.

My pronouns are he/him/his.

I’m a seasoned technologist with experience being a CISO, CTO, DPO, Data Nerd, SysAdmin, mediocre developer.

I’ve taken companies through growth (and exits), security maturity journys, and picked up a few certificates, awards, accolades over the years.

I’m trying to not say things “are obvious”, which is part of the purpose of this blog — to share some battlescars. One thing I think we could do better as an industry is share more.

In some shape or another, I’ve worked with:

• ISO 27000 family
• PCI-DSS
• PayUK
• FCA Handbook
• MAS TRM
• SOC2
• GDPR
• AI Act
• DORA
• NIS2
• UK DPA
• Investigatory Powers Act
• Fincrime
• NIST AI RMF
• CIS
• OWASP
• MITRE ATT&CK
• ITIL

I like

• lego
• diversity
• Oxford comma and semicolons
• nature
• offline relaxation
• tech
• fantasy
  • swords/shields
  • dragons
  • witches/wizards
  • magic
  • fantasy
• good anime (especially Studio Mir)
• trains
• travel

I’m an advocate for mental health awareness and reducing the amount of events that put booze as a selling point.

I’m an Advisory Council Member of the Open Rights Group — a (leading) digital rights advocacy group.

For fun, I’m the Inclusion & Accessibility Leads for a biennial event, EMF