Brian McIlravey

Brian McIlravey

Before joining PPM in 2001, Brian was a police officer with the Waterloo Regional Police Service in Ontario, Canada and a Senior Investigator in the Corporate Crime division of one of Canada’s largest private investigation firms. His first role with PPM was as a Product Manager, but his passion for guiding clients on the set-up and use of our software quickly led to a promotion to Vice-President of Business Development & Professional Services. In this role, Brian established the company’s Consulting & Training division and was one of the key influencers behind the design of Perspective—PPM’s next-generation incident management software—when it was introduced in 2005. With extensive experience in the incident management and Investigation industry—including both public police and private sector—Brian is a leading authority, educator and speaker on security information management and the technology that drives it. He is Board Certified in Security Management as a CPP (Certified Protection Professional) and an active member of the Toronto Chapter of ASIS International. Brian also serves on the executive of ASIS’s Information Security Technology Council and on the advisory board of the Cloud Best Practices Network, an educational forum for Canada’s cloud computing thought leaders and consumer advocates. Named Co-CEO in 2009, Brian leads PPM’s strategic planning and product direction, and he directly oversees our partnership program and integration initiatives.