AP Global Cybersecurity About Us

About Us

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AP Global Cyber is part of the AP Global Consulting Ltd management consultancy based in London, UK.

Our mission is to help clients improve the awareness of cybersecurity in their organisations and mobilise teams to protect and defend their critical infrastructure. We have four pillars in our work: strategy, technology, process and people.

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We have four pillars in our work

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Leadership Team

Angela Patel

Angela Patel

Founder, MD and Global Operations Director

Angela Patel NCSP is an executive leader, an entrepreneur, a non executive director and mother. She is a global operations director, an expert in IT, digitalisation, HR, Risk, Compliance, Regulation and strategic organisational transformation, with a particular focus on Cyber and Financial Services. She serves as Global Operations Director of Cybersecurity Professionals ltd, an organisation which enables opportunity for education and inspiration for the current and future generation of cybersecurity professionals worldwide. With over twenty seven years experience in the City, she is a PRINCE 2 Practitioner and a qualified NIST Cyber Security Professional (NCSP).

Angela has delivered over 50 programmes of cross functional change of up to £14.5bn, overseeing large budgets and teams of up to 70 people, of global financial transformation within controlled regulatory and compliance environments. She has extensive regulatory knowledge with a proven track record in MIFID, EMIR, Basel III, GDPR, SOX and ESMA compliance within PRA, FCA, ESMA, SEC, FINRA, HKMA, PIPA, MAS frameworks.

She has served as a school governor in the London Borough of Redbridge, where she helped lift a school out of special measures. Having been a non executive director with Hornbeam Academy Trust, a multi-academy, specialy needs trust, Angela currently serves as a non executive director with Age UK. She operates a Fiscal Policy and Macroeconomics Mentoring Service as well.

The core AP Global Team of Consultants is below offering combained experience of over 175 years in the Financial Services Industry. We have a shadow team of 20 City Associates with experience across Retail Banking Systems, Desktop as a Service and Front to back IT and systems integration, as well as connections to a global partner network where we can bring on resources and augment teams within 24 hours notice.

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Steven Cockroft

Steven Cockroft MSc

Vendor Partnership Director

Paulo Pina

Paulo Pina

Head of Projects and Business Transformation

Dr Attilio Grandani

Dr Attilio Grandani

Head of Security Operations Centre

Anand Bhawsar

Anand Bhawsar

Head of B2C Transformation

Kate Makuen

Kate Makuen

Strategic Advisor FinTech and Financial Services

Wahid Azad

Wahid Azad

Project Manager Special Projects