27 years industry experience in the IT and Security Industry working with major companies including BT Telconsult, AT&T, Livingston, Lucent, Ernst & Young, & KMPG as a principal security architect. Successfully founded a European systems integration company, Riviera Networks in 2000 as a major player in design & consultancy of leading vendor network & security based solutions. Co-founder and CTO of another successful company called Global Locating Systems that developed the 1st ever GSM enabled luggage tracking device which won worldwide awards at VentureBeat in San Francisco & SIMposium competition in Malaysia in 2011. Developed over 15 granted patents in the domain of mobile & OT/IoT over many years.