Managing Director
Brian holds a BSc degree from the University of Cape Town and Diploma
in Business Management.
He has been involved in business and Information Technology since
1970, and has consulted in Business Continuity since 1986. He is the
founder of the Caridon Group, based in Australia and South Africa, and
providing Business and Systems Consulting, with specialist skills in
Governance, Compliance and Risk. He has served for over 17 years in
total as a management Consultant with three of the Big-4 consulting
houses, providing support to client management on business systems
issues including Security, Business Continuity, Risk and Impact
Assessments, Organisational Restructuring and Strategic Planning.
These projects were in various industries, including Financial
Services (FSI), Telecommunications, the Public Sector and Mining.
Brian has been a guest lecturer in Knowledge Management at the Tshwane
University of Technology. He is also the facilitator and author of
training courses from the Caridon Academy in Business Continuity
Management, Knowledge Management and Contract Risk Management.
As a consultant, Brian has managed and executed some of the most
extensive BCMS implementation projects in Southern Africa, including
crisis management planning, team development and BCMS evaluations and
exercising. Client projects include major financial institutions,
mining and manufacturing, telecommunications and technology companies.
Brian is registered and certified with PECB and has been delivering
their internationally accredited Auditor and Implementer Certification
courses since 2013. These include Lead Auditor and Lead Implementer
certifications forISO9001 (Quality), ISO 22301 (Business Continuity),
ISO 27001 (Information Security) and ISO37001 (Anti-Bribery MS).
His experience in Management Systems implementations and BCMS is
extensive, and includes the riole of project manager or the lead
consultant for the implementation of the country-wide BCMS for
international bank and the state transportation entity covering road
rail shipping, and pipeline operations, as well as a major
metropolitation municipality.
Other projects in the public sector for the implementation of an
integrated management system comprising Compliance, Risk and Business Continuity.
His experience in Contract Risk Management systems was developed
through the consulting support and implementation of the policies and
procedures as well as the installation of an automated Contract
Lifecycle Management system for several Southern African
organisations. Of relevance was the implementation of such a system
at the largest Health Insurance organisation on Southern Africa.
His continued services to customers in the ISO Standards field
include training and Management Systems Implementation, Audit and
Certification for various ISO standards. These include:
ISO22301 Business Continuity
ISO27001 Information Security
ISO9001 Quality Management Systems
ISO37001 Anti-Bribery Management Systems and
ISO18788 Security Operations Management Systems
Brian has been a founder member and Fellow of the Business Continuity
Institute since 1994 and is a registered BCI Mentor. He served as
Chairman of the SADC Chapter of the BCI from 2013-2019 and as a member
if the ISO TC292 Working group.
