Michael leads Proofpoint's Compliance, Archiving and Digital Risk management function for EMEA where he supports customers, regulators and technology experts to apply advanced technology to meet Enterprise's needs to better compliance, information and cost management.

He's an experienced and award-winning leader, author and researcher. For almost 25 years, Michael has been working to understand decision making and apply that knowledge to affect real-world change.  He started his career at IBM Research and after almost 15 years working in financial services.  Today he is senior director for Compliance & Digital Risk Management at Proofpoint, one of the world's leaders in people-centric protection.  He also leads the Seahorse Data Research Programme, an open-source community research project into the nature of data and data interoperability.

He studied Computer Science at the Waterford Institute of Technology, was awarded his masters from the Smurfit Business School and his doctorate from Cranfield University.   He also won the gold medal for research from the Institute of Chartered Accountants for his research into applying Neural Networks to investment decisions making.

He has published two books on Merger and Acquisition management and one on Photography, a life-long passion.  He lives near London with his wife and three children.