

Bec McKeown
Director of Human Science, JP MSc CPsychol AFBPsS FHEA
Immersive Labs
Bec has significant academic experience of delivering scientifically-robust research for regulatory, industry and government sectors, including the UK Ministry of Defense. The knowledge and insights gained from this research has given Bec a unique perspective on the ways humans react in times of crisis. She works at both operational and strategic levels, with a focus on situational awareness, decision-making and problem-solving in complex environments.

Kev Breen
Director of Cyber Threat Research
Immersive Labs
Kev Breen is the director of Cyber Threat Research at Immersive Labs where he researches new and emerging cyber threats. Prior to his civilian life Kev, spent 15 years in the military serving as a Radio Technician and Trunk Comms Specialist before transitioning to a Cyber Security Analyst, specializing in Malware Analysis. After leaving the military, he continued to work in Cyber Security running a CIRT team for a defense contractor before joining Immersive Labs. Outside of his work life, Kev can be found publishing or contributing to Open Source tools and projects or reading a Sci-Fi book.

Max Brady
Incident Response Management Consultant
Immersive Labs
Max Brady is an Incident Response Management Consultant for Immersive Labs, working to help business leaders to enhance their crisis response capability within their organization. Prior to Immersive Labs, Max worked at The Bank of Montreal as the Crisis Management Lead for the EMEA region. Max has a wealth of experience delivering in crisis management guidance to the enterprise organizations. Prior to his role at Bank of Montreal, he delivered crisis management exercising and training to the Executive Committees of a number of global financial institutions across Europe the Middle East and North America.

Dan Potter
Director, Operational Resilience
Immersive Labs
Dan worked at Citi for over 15 years, gaining significant expertise in the design, delivery and management of resilience related disciplines including crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery (including cyber), third party resilience and exercising. Dan regularly engaged with regulators, clients and boards and held a number of industry positions including Co-Chair of the Bank of England Sector Exercise Group (SEG) and leading various projects for the Cross Market Operational Resilience Group (CMORG).

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Bec has significant academic experience of delivering scientifically-robust research for regulatory, industry and government sectors, including the UK Ministry of Defense. The knowledge and insights gained from this research has given Bec a unique perspective on the ways humans react in times of crisis. She works at both operational and strategic levels, with a focus on situational awareness, decision-making and problem-solving in complex environments.

Kev Breen is the director of Cyber Threat Research at Immersive Labs where he researches new and emerging cyber threats. Prior to his civilian life Kev, spent 15 years in the military serving as a Radio Technician and Trunk Comms Specialist before transitioning to a Cyber Security Analyst, specializing in Malware Analysis. After leaving the military, he continued to work in Cyber Security running a CIRT team for a defense contractor before joining Immersive Labs. Outside of his work life, Kev can be found publishing or contributing to Open Source tools and projects or reading a Sci-Fi book.

Max Brady is an Incident Response Management Consultant for Immersive Labs, working to help business leaders to enhance their crisis response capability within their organization. Prior to Immersive Labs, Max worked at The Bank of Montreal as the Crisis Management Lead for the EMEA region. Max has a wealth of experience delivering in crisis management guidance to the enterprise organizations. Prior to his role at Bank of Montreal, he delivered crisis management exercising and training to the Executive Committees of a number of global financial institutions across Europe the Middle East and North America.

Dan Joined Immersive Labs in 2022. He previously worked at Citi for over 15 years, gaining significant expertise in the design, delivery and management of resilience related disciplines including crisis management, business continuity and disaster recovery (including cyber), third party resilience and exercising. Dan regularly engaged with regulators, clients and boards and held a number of industry positions including Co-Chair of the Bank of England Sector Exercise Group (SEG) and leading various projects for the Cross Market Operational Resilience Group (CMORG).

As director of multimedia content strategy at CyberRisk Alliance, Bradley Barth develops content for online conferences, webcasts, podcasts video/multimedia projects — often serving as moderator or host. For nearly six years, he wrote and reported for SC Media as deputy editor and, before that, senior reporter. He was previously a program executive with the tech-focused PR firm Voxus. Past journalistic experience includes stints as business editor at Executive Technology, a staff writer at New York Sportscene and a freelance journalist covering travel and entertainment. In his spare time, Bradley also writes screenplays.