Maj Gen (Rtd) John Holmes
DSO OBE MC

Chairman

John is a retired British Army Officer who spent the majority of his service with the SAS and who held all the principal commissioned appointments from Troop Commander to Director Special Forces. This included two years as the Special Forces Liaison Officer at the British Embassy in Washington DC. During his career in the Army, John earned awards for gallantry and leadership in Northern Ireland, Iraq and Sierra Leone.

Upon retirement, John worked with the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq to raise a 15,000 strong Oil Protection Force. He also completed a study for the Metropolitan Police into how the civilian security sector can assist in counter-terrorism operations.   

He presently sits on the Board of a number of UK intelligence and security focussed companies including SAFA – HOLMES, which is a ‘high-end’ consultancy focussed on Emerging Markets with an emphasis on Africa. 

James
Langford

Founder and Chief Executive Officer

James is the Founder and CEO of Amulus, working with our clients to ensure their duty of care obligations, to keep employees safe are fulfilled. Quite simply, his mission is to save lives.

James began his career as a British Army officer and went on to build a successful career as a leading global security, risk and crisis management expert, within both the public and private sectors.

His extensive on the ground experience and his intimate knowledge of the realities and risks of maintaining business operations in high risk and hostile environments, gives our clients unparalleled comfort, when planning to ensure the safety of employees, even in the worst-case scenario.

James has personally managed numerous high profile and complex security issues including; the Arab Spring, the Petroleum Centre terror attack in Saudi Arabia, the Mumbai hotel attacks, re-entry into Iraq post the US-led invasion and several kidnap for ransom cases across the Sahel in North Africa.

Having gained a reputation for his in-depth knowledge of the global geo-political risk landscape, he is frequently invited as keynote speaker on the topic at major global security conferences, as well as closed-door sessions with both the UK and US military and intelligence services.

Alasdair Rodgers

Senior Advisor

Alasdair Rodgers is the Director Consulting at Amulus Ltd. He is an experienced consultant in the security and resilience domain and programme manager.

In his early career he was an Army Officer in the Royal Corps of Signals, specialising in covert counter terrorism operations in Northern Ireland.

After 16 year’s service, and reaching the rank of Major he resigned his commission to work as a consultant project managing special projects for the defence and security agencies.

He spent 9 years at QinetiQ and became the MD of its Security and Special Projects division, numbering some 500 people. Where he led security and intelligence capability programmes, for both the UK security agencies and also commercial providers of critical infrastructure services, particularly in energy and financial services.

He joined Ove Arup and Partners as practice lead on security master planning. Working on assignments covering nuclear safety, ‘safe cities’ and security design for the 2012 Olympics.

He has advised governments in the Middle East (UAE, Qatar, Kuwait and Saudi), on how to protect critical infrastructure and improve national resilience. He was retained to advise the head of the GIP in Saudi (Prince Bandar) on modernisation of his service. He also was CEO of a UK company that deployed a revenue protection solution for the government of Egypt. This solution was based on an excise duty stamp with an integral track and trace capability, this helped reduce the trade on counterfeit tobacco products by c50% in 3 years.

He has considerable technical understanding in stand-off threat detection, cyber security, network monitoring, anti-counterfeit and data mesh/AI solutions. He is an experienced enterprise architect, a professionally qualified project manager and has an MBA from Cranfield University.

Jonathan Frost

Director
Head of Operations

Jonathan is a joint co-founder and heads up operations activities at Amulus and oversees our relationships with vendors, working closely with international customers.

He brings over 25 years of International business, logistics and trading experience to Amulus, as well as a wide range of international relationships with companies across a broad industry spectrum. He has been investing in and working within the Central & Eastern African region since 2014 and founded companies in Rwanda and DRC involved in conflict free minerals.

Jonathan started his career as a commercial property surveyor, but quickly moved into the then rapidly expanding mobile telecoms market where through his own company, he could leverage his skills in fast moving consumer driven products. In the mid 1990’s he sold his business to a large multi-billion US Nasdaq listed Company where he then ran their Pan-European Business for 3 years.

Upon exiting that business, he set up and ran his own private investment vehicles from Monte Carlo focusing primarily on real estate, specialist trading opportunities, renewable energy and water filtration.  From such activities, a number of these businesses have had successful exits either through a trade sale or a primary listing.

Jonathan’s strengths are global networking and relationship building with a strong bias for execution and delivering results. 

Sam Goldstone

Director

Sam joins the board of Amulus as a Co-founder and Director, bringing 20 years of international experience as a professional investor and entrepreneur. He has successfully invested and actively participated in a wide range of business interests including; software, IT, real estate, financial services, aviation, media, insurance, and business related services.

Conor Coakley

Head of Strategic Partnerships

Conor is the Head of Strategic Partnerships for Amulus. He is responsible for the growth and development of the business via our channel partnership programme. In addition, Conor is also responsible for commercial and contractual matters from fabrication, delivery and operation of Robus.

Conor brings over 10 years of international experience in commercial management and business development, and has been engaged in some of the world’s largest, complex and remote projects in the oil and gas, mining, nuclear, power generation, utilities, petrochemical and infrastructure sectors across the Middle East and Africa.

Conor’s international career began with a leading EPC Contractor in commercial management on various projects, before joining a consultancy providing commercial, contracts, schedule and risk management services. Conor brings a wealth of knowledge and experience to our team and for our clients to develop an understanding of their aims and objectives, and to establish a coordinated strategy.

Conor has an LLM (Law) from the University of Aberdeen, and BSc in Construction, Economics and Management from Technological University Dublin. He is a Member of the Chartered Institute of Arbitrators and a Member of the Chartered Institute of Building.

Conor’s strengths and attributes are his pragmatic commercial and business approach to find solutions to issues which may arise at any stage of the fabrication, delivery and operation of Robus and in coordination with our clients.

Anna Hensel

Global Advisor

Anna is a global advisor at Amulus where she brings her experience, relationship networks and skills necessary to be successful in frontier markets.

Anna has more than 25 years of executive experience in Africa, Asia, Middle East and the Former Soviet Union. She worked in business development, external affairs and corporate strategy within the energy, private security, defence and logistics sectors. Anna’s expertise includes advising corporate stakeholders on policy and commercial initiatives impacting business operations.

Most recently, Anna worked with a Big 4 forensics practice in the Middle East and Europe. She focused on forensic engagements with law firms and corporates, with a background in sanctions related investigations and due diligence work. Anna also has extensive experience working for two major oil companies where she headed an upstream business intelligence team, as well as led their international external affairs efforts.  Other experience includes supporting extractive clients (oil and gas) and governments with risk management and protective security solutions in high risk jurisdictions during her six year tenure at a top tier private security and risk management firm.

Anna is a graduate of the School of International Service at the American University. She was awarded the Konrad Adenauer Foundation Fellowship for graduate studies at Ludwig Maximillians University in Munich.

Dara Jennings

Business Development Manager

Dara is a highly experienced international business account manager. He has spent many years working in the Telecom & Software sectors where he opened and then managed some of the world’s largest corporation accounts.

Traveling several times to Nigeria and West Africa as well as Russia, Dara’s focus was mainly in the Oil & Gas and the Mining sectors. He provided Risk and Safety Enterprise systems from Emex. This experience gives him a unique insight to the security challenges & threats these sectors face today.

James Langford

Chief Executive Officer

James is a Co-founder and the Managing Director of Amulus, working with our clients to ensure their duty of care obligations, to keep employees safe are fulfilled. Quite simply, his mission is to save lives.

James began his career as a British Army officer and went on to build a successful career as a leading global security, risk and crisis management expert, within both the public and private sectors.

His extensive on the ground experience and his intimate knowledge of the realities and risks of maintaining business operations in high risk and hostile environments, gives our clients unparalleled comfort, when planning to ensure the safety of employees, even in the worst-case scenario.

James has personally managed numerous high profile and complex security issues including; the Arab Spring, the Petroleum Centre terror attack in Saudi Arabia, the Mumbai hotel attacks, re-entry into Iraq post the US-led invasion and several kidnap for ransom cases across the Sahel in North Africa.

Having gained a reputation for his in-depth knowledge of the global geo-political risk landscape, he is frequently invited as keynote speaker on the topic at major global security conferences, as well as closed-door sessions with both the UK and US military and intelligence services.