Michelle Porteus Chief People Officer
Ollie Whitehouse Chief Technical Officer
Ollie is Chief Technical Officer at NCC Group responsible for the Group’s technical strategy, research, product and development functions. Ollie is ultimately tasked with ensuring that NCC Group is well placed with capability and technology to exploit market opportunities now and in the future. In FY22 Ollie was the Executive sponsor of the Gender resource group. Joining the Group in 2012, over the past 25 years Ollie has worked in a variety of cyber security consultancy, applied research and management roles. Ollie is Chair of a science advisory council to the UK government and is an adviser on matters of cyber security to several government departments.
Michelle is the Chief People Officer and responsible for all aspects of the Group’s people strategy, leading on our global talent strategy to attract, develop and retain our talented teams by maximising their engagement and potential. She also co-sponsors all inclusion and diversity initiatives with Yvonne Harley, Global Director of Sustainability and Corporate Affairs. Joining the Group in 2019, Michelle has spent the last two years as the HRD of the UK, Spain and APAC region, as well as supporting the global functions. Michelle is a fellow of her professional institute and has a broad range of experience in both consulting and in-house roles leading transformation and organisational change. Her sector experience spans financial services, retail, manufacturing and pharmaceutical, public sector, utility and transport infrastructure.
Ian Thomas Managing Director, Assurance UK and RoW
Adrian Ah-Chin-Kow Interim Global Managing Director, Software Resilience
Ian joined NCC Group in December 2018 and is responsible for the Group’s UK and RoW Assurance division and acts as Executive sponsor for Global Professional Services and for the LGBTQIA+ community. Prior to that he was UK MD at Sopra Steria for two and a half years, following a successful interim career working for a number of global businesses and private equity backed firms, in Managing Director and Sales Director positions. He was at Cable&Wireless for eight years, where he ran global service assurance and the wholesale and public sector divisions. Ian’s early career includes 14 years at British Airways.
Adrian joined NCC Group in February 2020 as Software Resilience’s Commercial Director and was responsible for sales, marketing and product development. Adrian moved into his current role of Interim Global Managing Director, Software Resilience in March 2022. Prior to joining NCC Group, Adrian spent seven years at Insight, a Fortune 500 IT solutions provider. He joined Insight as its UK Corporate Sales Director before moving to become EMEA Director of Cloud Programmes, a role which focused on building Insight’s cloud services revenues through the development of new product and services, predominantly hosted in Microsoft Azure.
NCC Group plc — Annual report and accounts for the year ended 31 May 2022
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