About Us

John Wick
After retiring from the military, John Wick founded ISSL and has been fundamental to the development of its core disciplines. Melding together the many aspects of security and insurance has provided a unique offering to clients. He continues to develop new products and services to reflect the current challenges faced by ISSL's clients and would be customers.

Adrian Sutcliffe (Sooty)
Adrian Sutcliffe gained his maritime security skills while serving in the Royal Marines and with the UK’s strategic maritime interdiction unit. This expertise is complemented by his business and commercial experience. He has played a significant role in developing ISSL's “Defence Against Piracy” (DAP) programme. Amongst his other responsibilities, Adrian executes International Ship and Port Security (ISPS) courses for Lloyds Register, in addition to various other ISSL security activities.
Adrian is located in the ISSL Singapore office.

Graham Isaacs
Graham Isaacs served as a Police Officer in the UK and retired with rank of Detective Chief Inspector. His service was mainly with the CID and his experience covers the management of investigation of all aspects of crime, from minor offences to major investigations. He has particular experience in the management of undercover operations.

Michael Chandler

Michael Chandler, having taken relatively early retirement from the military has used his skills in a variety of recent conflict situations, countering terrorism, managing security requirements and coordinating stabilisation issues. He has Chaired the Monitoring Group mandated by the UN Security Council to oversee the implementation of sanctions imposed against the Taliban and al-Qaeda network: He continues to be actively involved with matters arising from trans-national terrorism, especially the financing of terrorism; with integrated border management; national security policies; improving inter-agency coordination and with the nexus between organised crime and terrorism. Michael is located in the ISSL representative office in Germany.

Kashif Moazzam
Kash has extensive background in software development, distributed networks, reverse engineering and project management. He has successfully run his own software development company which specialised in designing and developing secure data solutions for government systems, as well as corporate gaming. In addition to providing secure technology solutions he has experience in data analysis and information flow. Having worked on several ISSL investigative projects his unique background has helped the company further develop its internal investigations methodology, data collection, and analysis, as well as new delivery methods for the content to our clients.

Oliver Prior
Oliver Priors’ career was as a Lloyds’ broker, where he specialised in financial institutions and financial lines insurance. Oliver researched and developed various new lines of insurance, including alternative risk transfer, captive insurance companies and operational risk for financial institutions. He is also the author several consultation papers produced for the bank for international settlements relating to operational risk in The New Basel Capital Accord.