Shaun Hipgrave

Shaun Hipgrave is Director Protect and Prepare, two of the Ps from the UK Counter Terrorism Strategy CONTEST.  He was the former Head of the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSARC) in the OSCT of the Home Office which he set up from scratch from 2016 and is the policy area for working with academia and the private sector as well as the unit that runs the HO Security and Policing show every year. Shaun has been working in the security sector for over 25 years.  After serving in the British Army he joined Northumbria Police where he served for 13 years, mainly in investigation and intelligence roles.  In 2003 he moved to the private sector joining FTS, a services and software forensic telecoms company focused in the criminal justice space.  After a spell as head of international development he took over as FTS managing director.  In 2012 he moved to IBM where he worked in the analytics solutions business.   As well as his private sector career, Shaun has been heavily involved in supporting the security sector through trade bodies.  Prior to joining the Civil Service, Shaun spent six years as the VP of the security sector board for ADS as well as a member of the RISC executive, an organisation that is now the main conduit between JSARC and the private sector/academia.  Shaun is married with two girls:: Maisie 11 and Georgia 9.  He is a sports enthusiast especially rugby and cricket but is being slowly converted to an avid junior netball and hockey Dad.