Chas Saunders

Highlights

His main responsibilities with the Group include IS strategy, policies and standards; security awareness, education, assessments and risk management; gap analysis and benchmarking; risk, threat and vulnerability detection, prevention and response. Chas also specialises in Information Security governance, security assessments, third party supplier risk management, security auditing, security awareness both professional and personal, and security/IT psychology

His career started in 1999 at HSBC as a technician on AS400 and mainframe computers. Whilst there, Chas also gained a solid understanding and passion for the security side of IT. Following this, he then spent a number of years both at JPMorgan Chase and Royal Bank of Canada undertaking various Information Security and risk related roles. Prior to JTC and whilst at Stonehenge Fleming, Chas worked as a Security Architect which largely consisted of the development of an Information Security governance structure and the implementation of industry recognised frameworks.

In their spare time

Although much of his spare time is spent preparing his children for adult life, when not being the grown up, Chas is also able to spend more time trumping his friends at poker, exploring the wilderness of geocaching, being part of team sports, eating delicious food (and then begrudgingly going to the gym in an attempt to burn off the calories) and watching many different genres of films.