Until recently head of r&d security worldwide at GlaxoSmith-Kline, Geoff Whitfield has decided to go it alone and form his own security consultancy.
Geoff Whitfield Consulting will specialise in risk assessment, corporate security strategy, design, review and implementation, physical, electronic and manned security, executive protection and intelligence/electronic surveillance countermeasures.

Having joined Glaxo Group Research back in July 1988, Geoff helped to steer Glaxo's r&d strategies through two major mergers, first with Wellcome and, of late, with SmithKline Beecham. The Security Department increased six-fold under his tenure, with Geoff being directly responsible for a £12 million budget and 460 in-house and contract security staff working at 31 sites worldwide.

Geoff is currently chairman of The Security Institute, and a life vice-president of ASIS International's UK Chapter 208.

Geoff remains a long-serving and highly valued member of Security Management Today's active Editorial Advisory Board. All of us working on the industry's leading journal for security professionals wish Geoff every success with his new venture.

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