Dr Neil Andrew Smith, MBCI, PhD, BSc

Director

 

Experience and expertise:

Neil has built up a wealth of experience since moving to the Business Continuity and Crisis Management industry in 2004. He has worked across a wide spectrum of financial services businesses in the UK and overseas. He specialises in the delivery of strategic training at board level and authorship of exercises.

Neil is noted for the innovative content of his training and his entertaining conference speaking engagements.

He is currently specialising in the financial sectors in Europe and in particular helping regulated businesses large and small implement the regulatory regime around Operational Resilience.

Neil set up Teide Resilience Ltd in 2023 after nearly twenty years in the corporate world working for blue chip companies such as Lloyds Banking Group, Tesco Plc and Close Brothers merchant banking.

 

Education and former background:

  • Educated to degree level in Business Information Systems (BSc)

  • Member, Business Continuity Institute

  • Doctorate in Risk Management

  • Delivery of Business Continuity, Incident Management and Operational Resilience for clients including Lloyds Banking Group, Tesco Bank and Close Brothers merchant banking

  • Speaks conversational German, Spanish and Urdu

  • Run hundreds of engaging and rewarding crisis management scenario exercises for companies all around the world
  • Conducted many resilience audits, helping clients identify weaknesses and putting remediation plans in place

 

What makes Teide Resilience different?

Named after Neil's favourite mountain walk in the Canary Islands, Neil found that for small and medium sized businesses, implementing the range of resilience needs can be prohibitively expensive, yet is a regulatory requirement for most financial services regulated firms.  

Neil set up Teide Resilience to be a lower cost alternative to some of the larger industry players, to offer a bespoke package through proven industry experience.  

We're not the easyJet of the resilience world though!  Working with Teide Resilience, you'll get our fullest attention and we'll build a package tailored to your own needs.  The main difference you'll notice is our lower cost for your business.