In this video David Burrill OBE, former head of intelligence and security for land forces in the Falklands Campaign, discusses the failure and its consequences of corporate security departments not getting their voice heard in the boardroom.
Speaking in the Keynote Theatre at IFSEC 2018, he also examines the value that full-time representation in the boardroom brings and how to make it happen.
A member of the British Army Intelligence Corps for 32 years Burrill was also chief instructor for all Royal Navy, Army and some Royal Air Force security training, head of intelligence and security for the first British Corps, commander of the British armed forces interrogation and de-briefing organisation, chief of staff of the British defence intelligence and security centre and deputy director of the Intelligence Corps.
He retired early from the army to become Chief Security Officer at BAT Industries, now British-American Tobacco. But between 2004 to 2009, he remained Deputy Colonel Commandant Intelligence Corps, and in January 2016 became Chairman of the Trustee Board of the (British) Military Intelligence Museum.
Educated at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, the Open University, and the Army Command and Staff College, he has been a Defence Fellow at King’s College, London University and Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personal Development, the Chartered Management Institute, and the Security Institute.
He has been a leader in a number of Public Private Sector Partnerships (PPP) involving UK government departments, the US State Department, the European Union, the World Customs Organisation, INTERPOL and the World Intellectual Property Organisation. He was the principal architect of the Security Information Service for Business Overseas (SISBO), a British equivalent of the US State Department’s Overseas Security Advisory Council (OSAC), and was its first business co-chairman. David delivers lectures to business, academic and military audiences around the world.
Awarded the OBE, by the Queen in 2003, for services to international security, he has also been honored with distinguished achievement awards from The US Department of State (for OSAC of which he was the first foreign Alumnus), the International Security Management Association, of which he was the first non-North American President, ASIS International, the Association of Security Consultants and the American ‘CSO Journal’. He is an Emeritus Member of the UK’s Risk and Security Management Forum (RSMF) and is one of the first people to be CRISC certified by ISACA.
He has authored two books with Kevin Green, his business partner: Value from Security (2011) and Crossing the Line (2012). Two more titles – Security Career Transitions and Elastic Truth – are scheduled for publication in 2018.