Tim Holman is a 30-year veteran of cybersecurity and has held consulting roles at IBM, Panasonic, British Airways, Lloyds TSB, ICL (Fujitsu), Dimension Data, and Trustwave. He was the recipient of the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP) for Security Award in 2004, 2005, and 2006, and in 2014 he was awarded a fellowship from the ISSA. Tim Holman sits on the ISSA-UK board and is the ISSA-UK President.

The ISSA is a not-for-profit, international organisation of information security professionals. The goal of the ISSA is to promote management practices and education that will ensure the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of information resources. As part of the UK Chapter, the ISSA-UK helps to achieve this mission through events in the UK to bring the ISSA-UK membership together, to discuss the latest trends, and threats and how we as an industry are helping to deter those threats.