Lt Col Guy Winter PhD

Guy joined 4 PARA as a student in 1992 and continues to serve in the Army Reserve. Most recently he has held SO1 LO posts in 16 AABCT. He mobilised with 1 PARA for Op TELIC.

He is an experienced private security manager and has worked in many colourful countries: He was CEO of IDG Security who looked after the United Nations; Director at Ambrey Risk, th eUK’s leading maritime security company; and Director Bids and Plans after being the Director Operations for Aegis, a company he joined in 2005 as the Regional Director Fallujah, Iraq. He has lectured at the UK’s Defence Academy on private security companies (ICSC, ACSC and HCSC) and was previously a SME to the US Dept. of Defence.

He is currently a founder and Director of Sapient Insight, a specialist business advisory company. He is also a founder of TurnKey, a US based business providing enabling services for US companies in Iraq and elsewhere.

Guy holds a PhD and a BSc in Psychology from the University of Leeds. His first job was for the BBC as their Senior Behavioural Scientist, he worked on many projects, most notably the BBC iPlayer, BBC interactive Wimbledon, BBC Homepage and CBBC and CBeebies websites. Guy has lectured and written several articles in peer reviewed journals.