ALARM Scotland seminar

Lesley Allan

Partner, Kennedys

Lesley is a Partner in Kennedys' Celtic Team. Her practice focuses on public sector, third sector and blue light issues. She regularly acts for local authorities, care service providers, educational, and charitable organisations. Lesley has acted for clients in a wide range of social care and safeguarding issues, including claims related to moving and handling, management of challenging behaviours, historical abuse claims, and fatal accident inquiries. Lesley has represented clients in the Scottish Child Abuse Inquiry, and advised clients on potential engagement in the Redress Scheme, which offers an alternative to litigation for survivors of historical child abuse.

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Arunava Banerjee

Cyber Risk Consulting Lead, Zurich Resilience Solutions

Arunava (Arun) is the Cyber Risk Consulting Lead for Zurich Resilience Solutions at Zurich Insurance UK, where he spearheads the cyber risk and resilience consultancy proposition for both insured and non-insured clients helping them to enhance cyber resilience as well as navigates the complexities of cyber insurance market. He also provides cyber underwriting assurance for large and complex risks.

With over 18 years of experience, Arun specialises in cyber risk quantification, cyber strategy, and cyber resilience consultancy. He holds a master’s degree in business and management, along with certifications in CISM, ISO27001:2013 Lead Implementer, PRINCE2 Practitioner, and ITILv3.

Arun is a frequent speaker at industry conferences such as AIRMIC, CIPFA, ALARM, and the e-Crime and Cybersecurity Congress as well as write insight for major publications including ISACA.

He has been nominated for the "Evangelist of the Year Award" at the Scottish Cyber Awards 2025.

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Alan Gray

Head of National Cyber Security and Resilience, Scottish Government

Alan Gray is the Head of National Cyber Security and Resilience for The Scottish Government. A Security leader with over 15 years of experience within government, professional and public sector organisations, Alan has managed a wide range of security activities from strategic capability development to operational response. Previously as Chief Information Security Officer for the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, with responsibility for the cyber security of all core technologies and services both at home and across posts and embassies worldwide, he was also a member of the Government Security Board as representative for the CISO community across government. Drawing on past experience in National Security, academia, central government and the private sector, Alan has joined the Scottish Government to drive the consolidation and expansion of Scotland’s cyber security and cyber resilience activities, and to lead the Scottish Cyber Coordination Centre (SC3). 

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Rahel Hailemichael

Account Executive, Gallagher

Rahel is currently an Account Executive within the Technology & Cyber Liability Practice in Gallagher’s London Specialty department. Rahel has spent the last four years of her career at Gallaghers placing complex cyber risks into the London Market, mainly focused the UK/international mid-market space.

 

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Harry Schone

Data Science Co-ordinator, Police Scotland

No bio provided

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James Wall

Director - Cyber & Technology Practice, Gallagher

James is currently a Director within the Technology & Cyber Liability Practice in Gallagher’s London Specialty department. James has spent the last eight years of his career at Gallagher's, originally as a placement broker for complex cyber risks into the London Market. He has since progressed and is the UK/International team Gallagher Specialty running a team of six placement brokers and Account Executives.

 

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