The CSL Team

Ed joined CSL in 2015 with more than 20 years’ commercial & management experience across multiple sectors in both FTSE 100 & early stage businesses. Most recently he was at BT where he ran SME Enterprises, a trading unit comprised of several individual businesses, with revenues in excess of £120m pa. Prior to that he helped launch and run SME Ventures and was part of the team that successfully delivered BT Sport.

Before joining BT he was the Commercial Director for IOME, a VC backed telecoms start-up, and a Senior Strategy Consultant for Cap Gemini Ernst & Young. He has an MBA from Cranfield University.

Tom has over 20 years’ experience in a variety of senior finance roles in TMT and professional services. Most recently he was CFO at Cordium, an international regulatory compliance business serving the financial services industry, which he supported through a private equity exit. Prior to that, he spent 11 years in strategic communicates including 8 years at FTI Consulting. Tom is a chartered accountant.

Steven has over 25 years’ experience in technology leadership roles across a broad range of industry sectors including Telecoms, Internet Security, Fintech and Legal Technology. Throughout his career he has managed Engineering and Operations organisations responsible for large scale, highly secure SaaS platforms. Most recently he was CTO at Rimilia (acquired by BlackLine) and before this CTO of HighQ (acquired by Thomson Reuters) – helping to transform each organisation and support successful strategic acquisitions.

Simon founded CSL in 1996 and continues to be heavily involved. He is also Chairman for the British Security Industry Association (BSIA) and Skills for Security, as well as a board member of the National Security Inspectorate (NSI) and BAFE.

Phil has over 30 years' experience of the Security Industry having owned and established a number of security companies in various sectors. After gaining a business degree in Canada he joined Automated Security Holdings ASH (parent company of Modern Alarms).