Kiw is currently Spark’s Head of Security, with close to 21 years’ experience in a technologically diverse, telco-centric environment. Kiw’s key areas of expertise are network security and incident response, with extensive experience across a variety of security domains. Kiw has 10+ years of team and technical leadership experience, and he is pragmatic, hands-on, and has a good sense of humour. He moved into a Security leadership role in early 2015.

Kiw’s extensive experience includes:

• Building a Security Operations Centre (SOC) from a single resource to one of the largest (45+ to date) and most mature SOC in New Zealand;
• Leading in defining security roadmap and strategies, both for Spark Group, subsidiaries, as well as many Spark-managed security services customers;
• Leading and responding to many nationwide critical severity security incidents.

Kiw has a Bachelor of Engineering degree from Auckland University and is also certified in many industry-recognised security certifications (eg. CISSP, GCFW, CEH, CCSE).