Mark Hughes

BT Group Security

Mark is the Director, BT Group Security, a position he assumed in October 2005. He is responsible to the Board for all aspects of day to day security and continuity in BT. This involves ensuring that BT has the right policies and procedures to keep BT’s assets – whether physical, logical or information - secure from attack; to counter fraud and also to minimise disruption in the event of an incident. This includes BT's civil resilience obligations.

Mark joined BT in 2002, assuming responsibility for a number of ventures including the partnership with Government for the Criminal Records Bureau in Scotland and other Government contracts. He then ran the operations for a sales division in the Major Customer market sector, focussing on BT’s core services. Prior to BT, Mark was the Commercial Director of MWB Business Exchange. He was also a Captain in the British Army for seven years.

He is a non executive board member of the National Security Inspectorate, a member of the Senior Strategic Steering Group of the Centre for the Protection of National Infrastructure (CPNI) and was the co-chair of the Security Information Service for Business Overseas (SISBO). He also sat on the board of trustees of the Hammersmith Hospital Charity in London.

Mark’s interests outside of work are mainly focussed on his family. However, he is also a keen sailor, skier and diver and has run five marathons.

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