Craig Parker

Craig Parker is a senior information security and risk leader with over 25 years of experience across global financial services, retail, and digital commerce environments. He brings a calm, pragmatic, and deeply credible leadership style, shaped by decades of operating at the intersection of technology, regulation, and business resilience.

Craig currently serves as Information Security Officer at Investec Bank, where he leads global security operations across the UK, Ireland, the USA, India, South Africa, and the Channel Islands. In this role, he is responsible for protecting complex, multi-cloud environments and enabling secure growth across diverse regulatory and operating landscapes. His expertise spans security architecture and engineering, vulnerability and threat management, data protection, and identity and access governance, with a strong focus on practical risk reduction and operational excellence.

Previously, Craig was Head of Cyber Security at Selfridges Group where he defined and delivered group wide security strategy and compliance programmes across luxury retail brands. Earlier in his career, he served as a senior leader in Information Security and Risk Management at Ladbrokes and built and shaped the team ground up while leading enterprise-wide security and regulatory compliance in a highly regulated and fast-moving environment.

Craig is known for his ability to translate complex security challenges into clear, actionable insight for both technical and non-technical leaders. He brings a balanced, people centred approach to security leadership, empowering teams and stakeholders to make better decisions while strengthening organisational resilience.

He holds an MSc in Information Security from Royal Holloway, alongside CISSP and CISM certifications, and is widely respected for his adaptability, clarity of communication, and steady leadership in driving security maturity across complex organisations. As a Non-Executive Director (Advisory Board Member) at Zyn Global, Craig brings deep operational experience, cross industry perspective, and trusted counsel to support the company’s mission to build a more secure, resilient, and human centric digital future.