Paul is the Chief Information Security Officer at Barclays Europe, Barclays Europe Country Lead Ireland, Managing Director of Security Operations and Intelligence and a Director of the Cyber Defence Alliance in the City of London. Paul has been working in the area of Cyber and Fraud since 1996 and has been leading on a Cyber, Fin Crime and Cyber Fusion programme at Barclays.
Joining Barclays in 2015, Paul is founder and the leader of Barclays’ global suite of Joint Security Operations Centres in the UK, USA and India. As part of his global role, Paul leads the Security Operations team which includes; Joint Security Operations Centres, Group Cyber and Strategic Intelligence teams, Cyber Crime and the Security Education, Outreach and Awareness function.
Paul joined Barclays from the European Cybercrime Centre in The Hague where he was Head of Cybercrime Operations and Intelligence at Europol, European Law Enforcement Agency. While in this post Paul coordinated joint USA and EU Law Enforcement operations against the botnet infrastructure of organised cybercriminal gangs, darkweb paedophile networks and internet fraudsters.
Paul was founding chairperson of the Europol’s European Cybercrime Training and Education Group (ECTEG) and he was also founding Vice-Chair of the European Union Cybercrime Task Force (EUCTF), a group made up of all the Heads of Police Federal Cybercrime Units across the EU.
Paul is a graduate of UCD, where he was also co-founder of the UCD Centre of Cyber Security and Cybercrime Investigation.