Russell Shackleton

Russell Shackleton is a Certified Fraud Examiner, Certified Internal Auditor, has an MBA from Henley Business School and is a graduate of the Financial Times Non-Executive Director Diploma programme.

For the past 5 years he has worked as an independent Risk Management, Corporate Governance and Anti-Fraud advisor and trainer for his boutique consulting business, and as a Non-Executive Director with the boards of early phase and medium sized private businesses.

With a career spanning four decades in international business, for public and privately owned corporate entities, consulting firms and as an entrepreneur; he has established and lead Internal Audit departments, carried out investigations, and transformational programmes such as pre and post-acquisition due diligence, ERP implementations or the design and implementation of enterprise wide governance programmes to comply with regulations such as PCI, GDPR, Sox and J-Sox. Russell has gained a deep understanding and unique perspective of how internal and external factors impact the evolution of risk, and financial crime upon organisations and their stakeholders; and how they can best capture and develop the strengths of their people and processes to meet these challenges whilst respecting and enhancing their culture.

Drawing on his extensive experience in sectors as diverse as manufacturing, retail, energy, health care, industrial services, and logistics he helps firms to understand and manage their risk and governance challenges so as to meet current and future legal, regulatory and stakeholder expectations across the organisation in areas including succession planning, supply chain risk, sustainability, fraud and information security through capability assessment, improving transparency, developing pragmatic internal controls, whistleblowing and associated reporting so as to aid them in achieving their objectives and profitability.

Russell is a regular speaker and contributor on Governance, Risk and Internal Control topics in the media.