Michael Blyth is a former Royal Marine Commando officer and has held/holds commercial vice president appointments both in operations as well as business strategies within two major international risk consulting and security companies. He has eighteen years of experience and a master's degree in security and risk management. He is highly experienced in providing corporate risk mitigation and vulnerability assessments, crisis management plans, and a wide spectrum of security documents within high-risk environments for ambassadors, major oil and gas programs, communications network corporations, government organizations, development agencies, and a myriad of construction activities, effectively placing risk management into the context of a client's commercial activity and budget constraints. He speaks on security and risk throughout the world, has been published in several security industry magazines, and has lived or worked in over thirty countries.