I spent 20 years at Killik & Co, an FCA-regulated wealth management firm operating across 11 UK locations. I joined as a support analyst and spent the next 12 years in senior leadership, including as IT Director with board accountability for technology strategy, cybersecurity, and operational resilience.
That progression matters more than the title. I've worked at infrastructure level, overseen a managed SOC, negotiated major supplier contracts, and sat in the boardroom explaining technology and cyber risk under regulatory scrutiny. This isn't general technology consulting. It's the specific experience of running IT inside a regulated firm, under scrutiny, where getting it wrong has consequences.
Across those roles, I led an SD-WAN and infrastructure overhaul that reduced critical downtime by 70 percent, deployed MFA and a managed SOC that reduced phishing incidents by 50 percent, and co-authored the firm's first AI acceptable use policy and governance framework. I managed an AED 20 million budget and built a stable technical team with average tenure above 15 years.
I relocated permanently to Dubai in 2026 and hold an IFZA consultancy licence. I work directly with a small number of clients at any one time. The FCA and DFSA frameworks are different, but both require firms to evidence control, articulate risk clearly, and recover from disruption without material impact.
There are no GCC client case studies on this site yet. What's here instead is a documented record of what I delivered at Killik & Co, under FCA scrutiny.
Credentials
- 20 years, Killik & Co - London wealth management, FCA-regulated
- 12 years senior leadership, IT Director from 2022 with board accountability
- IFZA consultancy licence, UAE
- Member, ISACA
- Professional Member, BCS (MBCS)
- BSc (Hons), Kingston University
- Operational resilience programme design and delivery
- AI governance framework - inaugural policy at regulated firm
- SOC oversight and incident response management
- DFSA, CBUAE, ADGM regulatory frameworks
