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Managing Director
Richard Hussey AFNI, MSyI
Richard served a full career in Warfare Branch of the Royal Navy where he held several specialist security appointments. On leaving the service in 2003, and with the implementation of the ISPS code less than a year away, he was ideally placed to start a second career as a maritime Security Consultant. As such, he was heavily involved in implementing the code, delivering initial ISPS compliance to numerous Port Facilities and ships worldwide. In the 17 years since, he has gained extensive experience in effectively applying objective risk assessment methodologies to determine and reduce risks to Port Security throughout east and west Africa, the Middle East, Far East, the Caribbean and South America, as well as Europe and the UK.
In this time, Richard has also trained over two thousand PFSOs, CSOs, SSOs and PDSD candidates. He founded the London based Wavetrain Ltd in 2006 and runs regular PFSO courses onboard HQS Wellington and worldwide. Regular clients include the UK Ministry of Defence, New Scotland Yard (CT-PSO), UK Dept for Transport maritime Security Inspectors, USCG International Inspectors and the Royal Navy, as well as most of the multinational port operators and major Oil & Gas companies. As a consultant trainer, he has also delivered ISPS training as a lecturer on behalf of the IMO, the European Maritime Safety Agency (EMSA), the Organisation of American States (OAS) and the Maritime Academies in Accra, Ghana, and Warsash, UK.
In Addition to ISPS Compliance and Training, Richard has a broad range of competencies across the maritime sector and appears as an expert witness in legal cases related to piracy and maritime crime.
Chief Operating Officer
Dr Andy Beale MSc, FSyI, FCMI, GIFireE
Andy joined Wavetrain Group in 2022 having started his career in the Royal Navy as a marine engineer. After which he became a full-time professional fire officer in the UK. Andy has been a crisis and response consultant for ten years working independently, and with security companies such as, Constellis, Olive Group, GardaWorld & Crisis24 on protective security improvement activities, business continuity management, organisational resilience and crisis response projects. He held high-level security clearance and has multi-agency Gold Command management experience of extraordinary incidents including terrorism, civil disorder and major flooding in the UK; he was Cabinet Office Briefing Room (COBR A) trained. It is because of his uniformed strategic command roles that Andy has significant experience of UK national and local government emergency and security responses.
He also has broad experience of industry and commercial sector emergency planning, terrorism response, crisis management, environmental response, and hazardous material spill, including nuclear, chemical, biological, radiological and explosives (CBRN[e]) incidents. Andy has extensive experience in disaster and crisis management having been deployed to major overseas incidents including in war zones as a team leader with international disaster response teams for DFID & the UN. He regularly provides advice on strategic planning and decision-making processes to C Suite and company Boards. He is a Port Facilities, Company & Ship Security officer, a BSI qualified Lead Auditor for Business Continuity, an ENTO Internal Verifier and an IOSH qualified health and safety manager.
He is the Highly Commended Award winner of the International Emerald/EFMD Outstanding Doctoral Research Awards, a graduate of the Civil Service Top Managers Programme and is a Fellow of the Security Institute, Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute and is a Freeman of the Worshipful Company of Security Professionals and a Freeman of the City of London.
Senior Consultant & Trainer
Murdo Mackenzie
Murdo is a trainer on MCA approved STCW courses, a lead auditor for ISO 9001 Quality Management Systems and is a medical first responder. His consultancy skills are based on his academic management and leadership training. He is an experienced former Royal Marine Sergeant Major in the UK Amphibious Forces who has operated coastal craft independently, as well as part of international teams in the Arctic, the tropics, and as far south as the sub-Antarctica. On leaving the military he was trained on the newly introduced International Ship and Port Security Code.
He has several years' experience working with the press before he made a welcome return to the maritime sector. Working on a variety of vessels with multinational crews he managed security on a number of seismic surveys with multiple vessels, wrote maritime security plans for strategic energy facilities as well as port facilities, audited training in Central America for the Organisation of American States and has collaborated with preparing and presenting search and rescue projects. He also led maritime security teams and has worked on modern drill ships and platforms in the energy sector. His work has taken him to almost all of the Middle Eastern countries; he has worked in the Far East, East and West Africa, and the Caribbean. He spent time advising senior management of KPI-COSTAIN on a complicated assignment in Northern Iraq (Kurdistan). Running confidence building sessions with senior individuals in hostile environments. He has also worked with various media companies. As a Safety and Security Advisor [SSA] for APTN, NBC, Reuters, New York Times he was responsible for risk assessment of countrywide news gathering operations. Also he worked as a SSA for TV production in Spain for UK based production companies. Murdo was a Lead Evaluator for an Organisation of American States Project to increase port security capacity and capability in Central America and a shore side representative of an offshore UXO project for the Iraqi oil industry in Kuwait.
All of these skills and experiences combined make Murdo a very sought after trainer and Wavetrain is pleased to have him onboard.
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