Paul's Background
Paul is a globally recognised leader in technology and operations resilience, with exceptional experience, insight, and expertise in developing operationally robust and regulatory compliant resilience strategies, operations, and organisations.
He has leadership experience in technology and technology risk, within international banking as well as regulatory experience including leadership of UK domestic regulation development at the Bank of England's Prudential Regulation Authority. this involved leading specialist supervision of non-financial risks, and coordination of several international initiatives.
Mr Williams led development of operational resilience regulations in UK Financial Services, which substantively informed International Financial Services Regulations, and British Standard 65000 on organisational resilience.
He has led development of public/private partnership initiatives from inception, through to delivery of robust operational frameworks, based on public/private cooperation. These include sector-wide exercising and crisis response capabilities. Mr Williams was founding chair of several cyber collaboration groups, focused on public/private collaboration on cyber threat intelligence, as well as leading a group of European Regulators to collectively author a key paper exploring the potential for systemic cyber risk and the appropriate responses. Mr Williams was founding member of the G7 Finance Ministers and Central Bank Governor’s Cyber Experts Group, latterly taking on the role of co-Chair with the US Treasury Department.
During his extensive career in Technology Infrastructure leadership, he led global technology infrastructure teams in London, USA and Asia, to deliver efficient and resilient infrastructure strategies, to satisfy divergent business demands. His career included leadership of a wide-scale infrastructure resilience delivery project with a value running to £000m’s.
Paul is also President of the EIS Council, a Commissioner on the UK’s National Preparedness Commission and has participated in NATO, RUSI and various other domestic and international conferences.
Our Core Team
Adam Wallace-Scott
Adam Wallace-Scott
Adam Wallace-Scott
With over 20 years of experience in IT resilience testing, business continuity planning (BCM), and crisis management, Adam has established himself as a leader in the field. Through his company, he identified a critical gap in the market, larger consultancies’ inability to deliver tailored, responsive, and innovative BCM solutions. This in
With over 20 years of experience in IT resilience testing, business continuity planning (BCM), and crisis management, Adam has established himself as a leader in the field. Through his company, he identified a critical gap in the market, larger consultancies’ inability to deliver tailored, responsive, and innovative BCM solutions. This insight has allowed him to build a successful business serving clients across various sectors, offering bespoke solutions that meet their specific needs.
Adam employees and collaborates with a network of industry experts to continuously refine and enhance his approach to business continuity management. He attributes his success to a client-centred philosophy, focusing on understanding customer requirements and guiding them toward the most effective and appropriate solutions. Phoenix Resilience is delighted to have Adam ss a Senior Advisor, brining his experience and expertise to our clients.
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Adam Wallace-Scott
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