Social Engineering Workshop – TISA

The session will be given by Gary Pitts.

Gary has been a compliance professional for over 30 years. He started his career at Lautro and the Personal Investment Authority and has held positions including Threadneedle, Henderson (where he managed the N2 transition), Head of Compliance at hedge fund Brevan Howard and Head of Compliance Europe, Mid-East, Africa and Japan for a boutique investment bank. Since 2013 he has run his own regulatory and training consultancy, Tetractys, with offices in the UK and Ireland. Tetractys emphasises the importance of governance as a key driver of good compliance outcomes. He delivers open and bespoke training and external board effectiveness assessments alongside his consultancy work. Gary has a particular interest in cybersecurity governance and the impact of digitalisation and artificial intelligence on compliance and business processes.

Gary has held FCA controlled/senior manager positions at FSA/FCA regulated firms since 2001, has been a director of regulated firms in the UK and South Africa and is also a Central Bank regulated person in Ireland, and is a compliance officer for the National Futures Association and SEC registered firms in the US. Gary is a Fellow of the Institute of Leadership, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and holds an MBA from the Open University Business School and Masters degrees from the Universities of Oxford and London. He is a practising expert witness working towards Certified Expert Witness status. He sits on the regulatory advisory board of the Journal of Securities Operations and has also held a number of charity board positions.