Passionate about helping SaaS companies and startups build and scale. 

Experienced Chief Sales Officer (CSO) / Sales Director, I lead and support successful Enterprise and SMB SaaS sales teams to constantly deliver month-over-month growth, while increasing average deal sizes and minimising deal cycles and customer acquisition costs, even in the most challenging of environments. 

I help not only the business, but the teams I work with to grow and become better every day.

My specialities include;

Compliance Tech nerd, Business development, Sales Team development, Accelerating new brands, New logo sales growth, Delivering beyond expectations, Start-ups, Corporate development, Closing Strategies, Creative brand development, Product development, Content Marketing, Social Marketing, Responsible data use, SaaS, CyberSecurity, Data Protection, Privacy, IAPP Member, Cloud Computing, Channel sales, GRC, Storage, Communications, Big Data, GDPR, PCI, ISO, Data Security, AI Governance, risk management and compliance

Simon Neal

If you are operating in Germany, big NIS2 news today 💥 

If anyone would like help, guidance or just a quick chat to see how NIS2 or the upcoming UK CSR bill potentially impacts them, let me know 🙂 

#nis2 #euprivacy #eucompliance #infosec #risk #DataGuard #compliance #cybersecurity #cyberSecurityandResilience #CSR #nis2directive

📣 News just in from Germany: The Bundestag has voted to implement NIS2

A major step for cybersecurity across the country’s essential and important industries. Below are the key takeaways you need to know.  

If your company falls within the expanded scope, you may only have a few months to become compliant, potentially as early as January 2026.

Guiding more than 4,000 customers through their compliance and security journeys, our experts can guide you on how to tackle this new timeline. 

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NIS2 law voted on in Germany

Vorago Security

Principal Consultant

Auriga Consulting Ltd (Auriga)

Senior Consultant

Agenci

NewDay

End User Technology / Technical Infrastructure Projects

Produban

PRINCE 2 Practitioner certified project manager working on a number of transitional IT Infrastructure projects. Primarily responsible for integrating the legacy GE Money UK applications and infrastructure to the Santander data centres whilst causing minimal disruption to internal users and external high profile high street retail clients.

Current portfolio includes:
- Data Centre Migration
- Transitional Service Agreement migrations 
- Business wide desktop migration to new windows 7 platform
- IBM z/OS upgrades
- Financial Services payment acquirer gateway migrations

Project Manager - PRINCE2 - Software/Infrastructure Migration - Data Centre Relocation

Responsible for managing the application support teams for all web based middleware applications hosted by GE Money UK. 

•Established and maintain relationships with the business and internal IT staff 
•Interacted effectively with users and stakeholders at all levels of the business 
•Set and managed customer expectations for support activities 
•Worked closely with the relevant Global Application IT owners on all enhancement and project activities to ensure new relases cause no impact and are correctly handed over to service
•Established close alignment with the business to ensure that they feel IT is fully supporting them and working with them in partnership to drive the business forward 
•Met with the business users, stakeholders and executives of each application stream to provide update on current activities and share monthly accomplishments 
•Generated regular status reports to all stakeholders 
•Articulated business importance and value of the IT teams and worked as an ambassador for IT Support.
•Ensured recurring incidents and user comments were fedback to solutions teams for further releases.
•Managed third party suppliers team to ensure contractual SLA elements were met on budget and to specification 
•Motivated team to work together in the most efficient manner and foster inter team relationships 
•Worked closely with the senior management teams to ensure team goals remain aligned with IT strategy

Service Manager - ITIL - Application Support and Infrastructure Management

GE Money

Working as part of a small, highly experienced and dedicated team of Incident Managers, responsible for managing the resolution of all urgent and business critical (P1&P2) incidents effecting the bank. Working in high pressure environments and managing multiple teams to ensure incident resolution at the earliest opportunity to minimise business impact. Oncall 24/7 to provide professional, reliable business communication and updates on all outages, with communication at all levels from call centre associate to board level and the ability to translate technical jargon in to easy to understand languages for all levels to understand.

Incident Manager

Motorcyclist, triathlete and Info Sec Consultant all rolled in to one happy Yorkshireman.

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