Richard is the lead Partner in Ernst & Young's (EY's) APAC Cybersecurity practice. He has spent almost half of his twenty-five year career in the IT sector focused on cybersecurity.
Richard specialises in helping clients understand and protect themselves from the risk of cyber incidents. His areas of expertise include cyber risk management, emerging cyber threats, cybersecurity technologies including analytics and automation and managing cyber incident response.
Richard has advised executive teams in a number of industries, focusing on those that have significant intellectual property to protect, a significant risk of brand damage from a cyber incident, or whose core operations require them to have large volumes of personal data or are heavily dependent on the internet.
Richard speaks regularly to boards, the press and at professional events. He is frequently interviewed on television.
Richard is based in Sydney but operates throughout the Asia Pacific region.