Simon Allen

Experience

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  A Multinational Security Group (Olive)

  Dec 2005 - Dec 2006

  Project Director (Qatar)

  Senior Project Manager working for the Crown PrinceResearched and Co-Authored a study into National SecurityResident in Qatar for 1 year

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  The Inspirational Career Company

  Jan 2006 - Jan 2009

  Co-Founder and Director

  The Inspirational Career Company took careers roadshows to schools and held seminars for 6th Formers about to leave. It provided 6th formers with the information they needed to make informed decisions about future career paths and the preparation required to set themselves up.

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  Aegis Defence Services Ltd

  Jan 2008 - Nov 2010

  Company Divisional director (Operations); Company Executive Management Board member; Operational Programs Director; Training; Human resources (recruiting - assessment and selection, deployment of operations personnel to projects worldwide); Future plans; logistics Based in Baghdad but with remit to travel around the whole of Iraq from Mosul to Basra and from West Anbar to Maysan province. Directing the program to provide security to US Army Corps of Engineers rebuilding the country after the war.The contract was worth $475m over 2 years.

  • Director of Operations

    Jun 2009 - Nov 2010

  • Program Director and General Manager (Iraq)

    Jan 2008 - May 2009
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  Hawki Worldwide

  Aug 2011 - Jun 2016

  Chief Operating Officer

  Security operations and training worldwide. The management of risk in order to maintain business continuity.

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  The Etches Collection

  Jul 2016 - Feb 2017

  CEO Etches Collection and The Kimmeridge Trust

  CEO of charitable trust responsible for £5m eco-museum and conference facility housing the unique collection of marine reptile fossils of the Kimmeridgian Stage. Opened in October 2016. See www.theetchescollection.org

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  Art4Army

  Jul 2017 - Oct 2018

  Project Director

  Organised a charity fundraising contemporary art exhibition for ABF, The Soldiers’ Charity in Dorchester 27 Sep - 2 Oct 2018 raising £30k in 5 days.

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  Independent Monitoring Board HMP Guys Marsh

  Aug 2018 - now

  Chairman
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  Freelance, self-employed

  Mar 2019 - Oct 2022

  Security and Defence Consultant

  Security projects in the Middle East (Jordan, Iraq, Gulf) Africa (Nigeria) and Asia (Afg)

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  Independent Monitoring Boards

  Aug 2019 - Oct 2022

  Vice Chair
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  The Worshipful Company of Pewterers

  Oct 2022 - Jul 2023

  Upper Warden Pewterers Company

  Responsible for planning and delivering events to mark the 550th Anniversary of WCoP