The ICL Team
The Directors and Senior Management of ICL have many years' experience of top level
management within the security industry:
Philip Hall – Operations Director
Philip Hall has been involved in the Security Industry for over 30 years. In 1975
he joined the Metropolitan Police and in 1982 he started working in the freelance
area of Investigations, close Protection and manned Security.
Philip is a Physical Security Consultant. He was employed in Brunei in the 1990’s
running a private guard force comprising of over 500 staff on behalf of the Brunei
Royal Family.
Having gained experience all over the world within the manned guarding industry
he returned to the UK in 1999 and has since been working in the contract uniformed
security industry. He worked for Executive Secure Services in 2000-2002 as an Operations
Manager responsible for a portfolio of over £3 million, in running these companies
and operations he introduced a wide range of innovations and improvements.
Philip is a Director of UK Business Watch Ltd and ICL Security Ltd. Since joining
ICL in 2007 he has overseen turnover climb from £800,000 p.a. to a forecasted
turnover of £4 million p.a.
Adrian Peckham BSc FCA – Director and Company Secretary
Adrian qualified as Chartered Accountant 1988. He spent 10 years following qualification
working in industry in Financial Director roles within service businesses, including
contract cleaning.
He returned to private practice in 1998 and became a partner in a firm of Chartered
Accountants. He has several business interests including being a shareholder and
director in Install CCTV Limited, UK Business Watch Limited and ICL Security Limited.
Adrian has worked in the security businesses since 1999, and is responsible for
the financial aspects of each business. Adrian claims responsibility for recruiting
Phil Hall, despite Darren Elvin being the introducer!
Adrian continues to give commercial business advice on a day to day basis through
the accountancy practice to a wide variety of owner managed businesses.
Austine Ihimekpen – Contract Manager
Austine joined ICL in 2009 as a security consultant and brings with him a wealth of
experience gained over the last 15 years of running his own manned guarding company.
Austine has overall day to day responsibility for the site operations of the company.
He has a vast and diverse experience within the security industry which ranges from
corporate to commercial and construction provision.
James Kane – Contract Manager
James entered the security industry from the age of 18, gaining valuable knowledge with
Alarm/CCTV Installation and working alongside armed response units in South Africa.
In April 2008 James joined ICL Security working in Operations, Out of Hours Control
Room Management and took on a Contract Manager role in 2010.
James is responsible for clients based in Surrey, corporate clients in and around London
and special operations (one recent example being the assisted retrieval of three tons of
copper cable from an undisclosed location).
Chris Edgar – Office Manager
Chris has worked within the security industry for almost 15 years after re-commencing
work further to raising a family and prior to that working within the banking industry.
She worked her way up from Administration Assistant to Office Manager also managing
client accounts such as the Metropolitan Police, large Blue Chip companies and prestigious
London Hotel groups. Her experience has been predominantly within Electronic Security
but she has worked closely with Guarding Companies. Joining ICL's team a short while
ago in October 2008 as Office Manager, Chris is continuing in her role to not only
manage the administration department but to continue with and focus on business
development/customer liaison and more recently has taken on the role of Quality
Manager to monitor/maintain our newly accredited BS EN ISO 9001: 2008.
Gavin Gregory – Operations IT & CCTV Analyst
Gavin joined ICL Security Ltd in January 2008, taking on a critical support role assisting
the Operations Department and Management of the company on a day to day basis. Gavin is
also responsible for the IT, CCTV Remote Video Receiving Centre and all technical aspects
of the company.
Having valuable past experience developing IT solutions for the security industry, he has
successfully implemented a large number of modern upgrades, effectively streamlining the
operations of ICL. These projects include a custom built Incident Logging and Reporting
application, and including a new Client Access Web Portal.
Gavin is normally the main point of contact for our Clients with regards their CCTV
monitoring needs and he liaises with our keyholding and patrol Clients in the Surrey area.
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