Andrew Lenaghan, Senior Consultant

Andrew is a networking and IT security professional with over 15 years of experience. He is a specialist in advising fintechs on their compliance with UK and EU IT security regulatory requirements.

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Andrew is a senior IT security consultant with extensive experience supporting organisations across the UK, Europe, and the US. He has also served as a technology consultant for the R&D division of a leading UK consumer electronics company. Before joining Flawless Money, Andrew was a security specialist at Oxford University, working for the Computer Emergency Response Team (OxCERT), where he was responsible for incident response, developing incident classification schemes and playbooks, and worked on disaster recovery and business continuity planning.

He has contributed as a member of the EPC’s Euro Retail Payments Board’s Working Group on SEPA migration issues, and previously chaired the fraud and security subcommittee of a leading trade body for electronic money.

Earlier in his career, Andrew was a principal lecturer and a founding member of the network and communications research group at Kingston University. He has published over twenty papers and patent submissions in wireless networking, network security, location-based technologies, and pattern recognition. He also serves as a programme committee member and has been a keynote speaker at the IEEE Cyber Science series of conferences.

Andrew holds a doctorate in artificial intelligence, with a focus on visual cognition and the application of pattern matching algorithms to handwriting recognition. He also earned an MSc in Human-Computer Interaction and a BSc in Computer Science, and is a member of ISACA (The Information Systems Audit and Control Association).