Aileen was appointed co-director of Home Affairs & Criminal Justice Value for Money Studies at the National Audit Office in February 2003. Since then, she has directed studies into the success of the Home Office’s drive to reduce crime, in particular vehicle crime; into the effectiveness of electronic tagging; the efficiency and effectiveness of NOMS, including most recently NOMIS and the Management of Short Term Custodial Sentences and into the implementation of the New Asylum Model by the UK Border Agency. Previous experience, apart from in the NAO, includes two years in the Cabinet Office, including the PMDU and serving as Delivery & Public Sector Reform Coordinator to the Minister for the Cabinet Office.
Andrew Heather, the Director of Sales for Europe, has 25 years of IT experience in sales management, engineering, and technical service roles. He moved to Tripwire from a leading UK Systems Integrator where he was responsible for a Data Centre Solutions business. Previously Heather was the UK sales manager at Opsware and held a number of sales roles at Network Appliance, Sun Microsystems and IBM.
James Quarles is Dell’s Director of Marketing for Public Sector, EMEA. In this capacity he leads the team responsible for understanding and crafting solutions which advance the mission of schools, hospitals, government, defence and research institutions across the region.
Prior to this role he was the Director of Solutions Marketing for EMEA, leading messaging, press and analyst outreach, programs and P&L management for Dell’s server, storage and advanced services businesses. He also was Director of Marketing for Business Intelligence, owning customer profiling and relationship CRM deployment, and previously Marketing Director for the South-East Region, with product, brand and communications responsibilities for Italy, Poland, Czech Republic, Greece, Slovakia and South Africa.
James joined Dell in 1999 in Austin, Texas, and has also held positions in Corporate Strategy, Product Marketing, and EMEA Pricing Management.
Before Dell James worked in marketing at Tivo Inc. and as a management consultant at AT Kearney. He holds a BS in Mechanical Engineering from the University of Virginia and an MBA from the Kellogg School of Management at Northwestern University. James and his wife live in London.
After graduating in French and Politics at the University of Leicester, Nick Gargan joined Leicestershire Constabulary in 1988 and performed a variety of uniform and detective roles, including a secondment to the National Criminal Intelligence Service where he was based in London and Paris. He became a Assistant Chief Constable in 2006 and held both local policing and crime portfolios within Thames Valley Police. He joined the National Policing Improvement Agency as Deputy Chief Executive on 1 January 2010. He is ACPO lead for Intelligence and has been an active member of ACPO Crime Business Area since 2006.
A former Major General in the British Army, he joined BT in November 2006 from the Lend Lease Corporation, where he was the Director of Corporate Affairs for the UK, Continental Europe and the Middle East.
Since leaving the Army in 1999, he has followed a business career spanning support services, construction and real estate development.
He is currently a non-executive director of the Salisbury NHS Foundation Trust, Chairman of the Regular Forces Employment Association and non-executive Chairman of Debut Services Limited, a joint venture between Bovis Lend Lease and Babcock Infrastructure Services, the company building and maintaining the new accommodation for single servicemen and women in the British Armed Forces.
William Hughes was appointed Director General of the Serious Organised Crime Agency in August 2004. Prior to this he was the Director General of the National Crime Squad, during which time he led the organisation in tackling serious and organised crime.
His career in the police force started in 1975 with Thames Valley Police. He rose through the ranks to become Assistant Chief Constable in West Yorkshire Police from 1991 to 1997. Bill then served as Deputy Chief Constable in Hertfordshire from 1997 to 2000 before joining the National Crime Squad. He is the UK Head of Delegation at European Police Chiefs Task Force.
In 2006, Bill joined the Employers’ Forum on Disability President’s Group.
He was awarded the Queen’s Police Medal (QPM) in the 2001 Queen’s Birthday Honours list and latterly the Commander of the British Empire Medal (CBE) in the 2009 Queen’s Birthday Honours.
Dr. Ian Levy is a Technical Director with a wide remit and range of responsibilities at CESG, the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance and part of GCHQ.
Christopher Hope joined the Daily Telegraph in October 2003, and has since been their business correspondent, industry editor, home affairs correspondent, home affairs editor, and now Whitehall editor. He has also been published in the Guardian and the Sunday Telegraph.
Mrs Jan Berry is the former Chairman of the Police Federation of England & Wales. Jan was the first female chairman in the 90 year history of the Police Federation, having been elected to the position in May 2002. Having gained a reputation for being professional, balanced and a free thinker, Jan is widely recognised as an effective public speaker and media commentator.
Jan has taken up an appointment as an Independent Government Advisor to champion the reduction of unnecessary bureaucracy in the police service.
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