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Crossword Cybersecurity PLC
19 March 2019
19 March 2019
Crossword Cybersecurity plc
Crossword Cybersecurity plc appoints former GlaxoSmithKline
& NHS CISO, Dr Robert Coles, as Chair of its new Advisory
Board
London, UK - March 19, 2019- Crossword Cybersecurity plc
(AIM:CCS, "Crossword"), the cyber security technology
commercialisation company, has today announced the appointment of a
new Advisory Board made up of senior figures from academia, the
corporate world and government. The new Advisory Board, chaired by
former GlaxoSmithKline & NHS CISO, Dr Robert Coles, will
provide a range of unique perspectives on cyber security that will
benefit Crossword clients and inform Crossword's product
development strategy.
Crossword's world class Advisory Board brings together:
-- Dr Robert Coles, Chair of Crossword's Advisory Board, former
Chief Information Security Officer of GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) and of
the NHS, with over 30 years commercial experience.
-- General Nick Houghton, Baron Houghton of Richmond, GCB, CBE,
DL, former Chief of the Defence Staff of the British Armed
Forces.
-- Professor Nick Jennings, CB, FREng, Vice-Provost (Research
and Enterprise) at Imperial College London, Professor of Artificial
Intelligence, and formerly UK Government Chief Scientific Advisor
for National Security.
-- Dr Una-May O'Reilly, Principal Research Scientist, leading
research in scalable machine learning, evolutionary algorithms, and
frameworks for large-scale knowledge mining, prediction and
analytics at Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab (CSAIL), Boston, USA.
The Advisory Board will meet on a quarterly basis and as part of
its responsibilities will:
-- Apply its knowledge and experience to current and future
trends and threats in the cyber security landscape, as part of
producing a client focused insight report.
-- Support ongoing assessment of research projects within
universities and research centres worldwide, to assist Crossword in
deciding where to build relationships and focus its resources and
attention.
Tom Ilube, CEO of Crossword, commented "Crossword is
exceptionally fortunate to be able to attract such a world class
group of senior industry figures to our new Advisory Board. We have
big plans for the future and being able to draw upon the guidance,
advice and networks of our new advisors will be invaluable."
Prior to his time at the NHS, Dr Robert Coles worked for
GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) from 2013 and was the company's Chief
Information Security Officer (CISO). Before GSK, Dr Coles served as
CISO for the National Grid and Merrill Lynch. Dr Coles is an
Honorary Professor at UCL and Visiting Professor at Royal Holloway,
University of London and has extensive links with major industry
information security networking groups and government security
agencies.
General Sir Nick Houghton was Chief of the Defence Staff of the
British Armed Forces, before retiring in 2016. Educated at
Sandhurst and Oxford, General Houghton commanded 1st Battalion The
Green Howards and an Infantry Brigade in Northern Ireland.
Following his retirement from the army, General Houghton, an
existing adviser to Crossword, became the 160th Constable of the
Tower of London and a Trustee of Historic Royal Palaces and joined
the House of Lords in 2017 as a crossbench peer, becoming Baron
Houghton of Richmond.
Professor Nick Jennings CB FREng worked for the UK Government as
the Chief Scientific Advisor for National Security from 2010 to
2015. Currently, Professor Jennings is the Vice-Provost for
Research and Enterprise, as well as a Professor in Artificial
Intelligence, at Imperial College London. Prior to joining Imperial
College, Professor Jennings was the Regius Professor of Computer
Science at the University of Southampton - the first holder of that
title in the institution's history. Jennings is an internationally
recognised authority in the areas of artificial intelligence,
autonomous systems, agent-based computing and cyber security.
Professor Jennings has been a Senior Adviser to Crossword since
2016.
Fellow academic, Dr Una-May O'Reilly joined the MIT Computer
Science and Artificial Intelligence Lab, Boston, as a Post-Doctoral
Associate in 1996. Dr O'Reilly is the Founder and Principal
Research Scientist of the AnyScale Learning For All (ALFA) Group at
MIT-CSAIL. ALFA conducts research projects in artificial
adversarial intelligence related to cybersecurity, MOOC data
analytics, and data-driven medical modeling. As well as her
academic prowess, O'Reilly brings to the board her extensive
international connections.
Contacts
Crossword Cybersecurity plc Tel: +44 (0) 20 3953 8460
Email: info@crosswordcybersecurity.com
Tom Ilube, Chief Executive Officer
Mary Dowd, Finance Director
Grant Thornton (Nominated Adviser) Tel: +44 (0) 20 7383 5100
Colin Aaronson / Jamie Barklem /Niall McDonald
Hybridan LLP (Broker) Tel: +44 (0)20 3764 2341
Claire Louise Noyce
Media contact
Lorena Duke, Ginger PR Ltd Tel: +44 (0) 19 3248 5300
Email: Lorena@gingerpr.co.uk
About Crossword Cybersecurity
Crossword Cybersecurity plc (AIM:CCS) is a technology
commercialisation company focusing exclusively on the cyber
security sector. We work with research intensive European
university partners to identify promising cyber security
intellectual property (IP) from research that our industry partners
tell us meet emerging real-world challenges.
Our specialist cyber security software engineering team works
with our university partners to develop research concepts into
fully-fledged commercial products, that we then take to market. Our
consulting team works with clients to address their cyber security
challenges - by providing strategy, assessment and risk management
services.
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