Julian Osborne

Chief Information Security Officer, VW Senior representative, NCSC

Julian has over 20 years’ experience working within SME and blue-chip companies within the brewing, health and automotive sectors.  He has a degree in Electronic Engineering from the University of Leeds and is a member of the ISO27001/2 UK User group. Although, currently focusing entirely on Information Security in his current role, he has a wealth of experience working in mixed environments providing consultancy to large public healthcare providers as well as IT operations, Software design and development, R&D, network design and implementation, and Security Architecture and Operations. He has a particular passion and focus on supplier assurance; securing the supply chain in a diverse multi franchise environment, and on innovation and disruptive technologies