A passionate speaker, entrepreneur and self-proclaimed geek, the founder and CEO of BluescreenIT, CyberHubs and Hacked progamme, a Cyber Security Strategist, Virtual Chief Information Security Officer and lifetime security guru.

With over 20 years’ experience in information security, Michael has worked in leading private and public organisations, critical infrastructure and military within their information security strategy, governance and compliance and carried out services such as secure design, vulnerability assessments and penetration testing in his previous tech days.

Michael is also part of several strategic boards within the digital industry and is the Chairman of the Digital Policy Alliance’s Security skills and partnerships group for the UK and a recently elected board member of Plymouth Growth Board.

Within his role as chairman of the national DPA security skills and partnerships group, Michael is now working with multiple organisations and government molding future national policy within cyber security skills and partnerships.