EP 092 Mike Bluestone MA CSyP, FSyl, Executive Director Corps Consult: ‘The Security Journey of a Lifetime’

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Mike Bluestone MA CSyP FSyI

I am an award-winning Chartered Security Professional with over 35 years’ experience in the private security sector. I served as Chair of the Security Institute from 2008 to 2013 and was subsequently appointed Emeritus Chair.

I have had military experience in the UK and overseas and held senior positions in security management including Head of Security for a national community charity. I hold an MA in Security Risk Management awarded by Loughborough University and am a member of the London Resilience Academic Partnership. I am an Associate Member of the Association of Security Consultants and a former member of the Governing Council, as well as being a former Vice–Chair of ASIS UK Chapter 208.

Over the past three decades I have developed courses for both security and non-security personnel and in 2005 founded the Central Academy of Security Excellence (CASE).

A key part of my work involves advising corporations in both the public and private sectors on a range of security risk and resilience related issues and I have provided security training courses for a number of major corporations and HM Government departments.

I have written numerous articles on corporate security and related topics, and in 2007 I produced a Good Practice Guide to Security Management for Facilities Managers. I have lectured at the American Intercontinental University, the Foretags University in Sweden, as well as at the UK Defence Academy, and presented at a number of UK and overseas security seminars and conferences.

I am a regular Judge for the UK Security Excellence Awards and am the approved trainer in Security Management for the Institute of Workplace and Facilities Management, and aMember of the Security Strategy Group of the British Standards Institute. I was Panel Leader for producing BS16000:2015 ‘Security Management and Operational Guidelines’, a role which led to my appointment as the Chair of a Technical Committee.

In the summer of 2023, I was appointed as Registrar of the Register of Chartered Security Professionals and a member of the Registration Authority (CSPRA). I am a Governor of Stanmore Further Education College; President of the Corps Veterans Association; and a Vice-Chair and Trustee of AJEX Veterans charity. In my ‘day-job’ I am the Executive Director of Security Consulting with Corps Security.

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