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Jonny Pelter

As featured on BBC News, The Times radio, Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Telegraph, Jonny is an ex-pro sportsman and senior CISO. He is now a Founding Partner at CyPro where he is revolutionising cyber security for SMBs and high-growth companies.

Accreditations

  • Certified Information Privacy Manager
  • Certified Information Privacy Professional, Europe
  • Certified Information Systems Auditor
  • Certified Information Security Manager
  • Certified Information Systems Security Professional
  • Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control
  • ISO 27001 Lead Auditor
  • PRINCE2 Practitioner
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About

Building cyber resilience that scales

Jonny is a senior CISO (Chief Information Security Officer) with over 20 years experience in cyber security, having worked closely with NCSC and GCHQ. Jonny has held a number of senior CISO roles within Critical National Infrastructure (CNI) organisations, most recently leading and building the team at Thames Water with a £127m budget.

He is from a consulting background at KPMG and Deloitte, having led Deloitte's Security Assurance and Compliance service line in the UK for a number of years and has experience running large security and data privacy transformation programmes in global FTSE100 firms.

Jonny maintains CISM, CISSP, CISA, CRISC, CIPM, CIPP/E, Prince2 and ISO27001 accreditations and has featured as a media commentator on cyber security topics for the likes of BBC News, The Times radio, Daily Mail, The Guardian and The Telegraph.

Worked with

az
bgi
british gas
cigna
deloitte
euroclear
jpm
kpmg
lme
m & g
ns & i
royal london
rsa
schroders
shell
ubs
virgin trains
william hill

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Bringing cyber security to SMBs

At a glance

Areas of Specialism

Focus
Building resilience in SMBs, start-ups, scale-ups and high-growth companies
Experience
20+ years in cyber security
Sectors
Insurance, Banking, Pharma, Retail, Manufacturing, CNI, Utilities, Public, FMCG, Oil & Gas, Defence, Telecoms, AdTech, FinTech, Transport, Universities
Personal
Father of two, pilot in training, gym, trail running, New England IPAs

Now

Current role

2023 - Present

Founding Partner

CyPro Consulting - Cyber Security Consultants for High-Growth UK Businesses

cypro.co.uk

Career

Previous roles

  1. 2023 - 2024

    CISO

    Thames Water

  2. 2022 - 2023

    Group CISO

    Wessex Water

  3. 2022 - 2023

    Cyber Director

    Deloitte

  4. 2020 - 2021

    Specialist Advisor

    NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre)

  5. 2017 - 2023

    Cyber Security & Data Privacy Consultant

    Various

  6. 2015 - 2017

    Associate Director (Cyber Risk)

    Deloitte

  7. 2012 - 2015

    Manager (Information Security)

    KPMG

Background

Education

  1. 2017

    Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

  2. 2017

    PRINCE2 Practitioner

  3. 2015

    Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)

  4. 2015

    Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)

  5. 2014

    Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)

  6. 2013

    Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)

  7. 2013

    Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E)

  8. 2012

    Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)

  9. 2012

    ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor

  10. 2011

    MSc, Business Analytics & Consulting

    Warwick Business School

  11. 2006

    BSc (Hons), Geography

    Edinburgh University

In the news & on stage

Press & media

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Jonny Pelter speaking on stage
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