Charles White is the founding Director of The Cyber Scheme, established and contracted to NCSC in 2013 as an alternative examinations scheme. Charles was previously Chief Executive Officer and Founder of Information Risk Management (IRM). His primary expertise lies in corporate strategy, transformation, and cyber risk management. Charles was instrumental in forging close ties between IRM and the UK’s National Cyber Security Centre, NCSC. Charles formerly worked within the telecoms market specifically in voice and data integration at Future Telecom, a company he listed on the London AIM market in 1996.