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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.
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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.
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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
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Previous roles
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2023 - 2024
CISO
Thames Water
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2022 - 2023
Group CISO
Wessex Water
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2022 - 2023
Cyber Director
Deloitte
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2020 - 2021
Specialist Advisor
NCSC (National Cyber Security Centre)
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2017 - 2023
Cyber Security & Data Privacy Consultant
Various
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2015 - 2017
Associate Director (Cyber Risk)
Deloitte
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2012 - 2015
Manager (Information Security)
KPMG
Background
Education
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2017
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
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2017
PRINCE2 Practitioner
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2015
Certified in Risk and Information Systems Control (CRISC)
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2015
Certified Information Systems Auditor (CISA)
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2014
Certified Information Security Manager (CISM)
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2013
Certified Information Privacy Manager (CIPM)
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2013
Certified Information Privacy Professional Europe (CIPP/E)
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2012
Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP)
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2012
ISO/IEC 27001 Information Security Management Systems Lead Auditor
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2011
MSc, Business Analytics & Consulting
Warwick Business School
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2006
BSc (Hons), Geography
Edinburgh University
In the news & on stage
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