About Us

Event Intelligence Event Intelligence was created in 2007 to offer public and private event organisers a complete due diligence service, that includes risk assessment, security coordination, auditing, fraud and crime prevention advice.

Event Intelligence has most recently worked at a number of international sporting events, such as Wimbledon, Rugby Internationals, the British International Motorshow, and music festivals such as Glastonbury, Leeds, Reading, Latitude and The Big Chill.

Peter James

Managing Director

After graduating from University in Wales Peter spent 18 years with the Metropolitan Police spending the majority of his career attached to the Fraud Squad, Serious Fraud Office and the National Crime Squad. Peter has extensive operational experience as an international Detective and Financial Investigator achieving numerous successful convictions and the recovery of assets to his credit, for which he received a number of commendations for his work.

Peter left the police service in 2004 to take up the position of Senior Investigator with Nardello Schwartz & Co an international corporate investigation firm at their London office, working on a number of diverse investigations including fraud, bribery, financial investigation and asset tracing.

Whist working with Nardello Schwartz, Peter worked on many prominent investigations in South America, (a high profile telecommunications fraud and corruption investigation), Eastern Europe and Azerbaijan (Government corruption investigation) and a Pharmaceutical Fraud in the Caribbean.

For the last 7 years, Peter has been the Crime Reduction Manager at the Glastonbury Festival, where they have achieved a significant reduction in crime. Peter and has also coordinated security at other UK events.

Peter formed Event Intelligence Ltd in 2007 after identifying intelligence gaps with organised crime infiltrating the sports and event industries. He has supplied clients with solutions and advised fraud prevention measures to combat criminal activity and reduce crime at events and music festivals.

Peter has been engaged as the principal Security Consultant on several critical infrastructure projects, including Threat Risk and Vulnerability (TRV) assessments for a number of leading hotel chains. Peter is currently working as a Consultant on a major overseas political bribery and corruption investigation.

Peter is a member of the Association of Certified Fraud Examiners and the Association of British Investigators.

pjames@event-intelligence.co.uk

Oliver Steele-Perkins

Technical Director.

Oliver graduated from the University of Glamorgan with a First Class honours degree in Construction Management, his work in this sector as a Project Manager exposed to him the need for temporary security to construction sites to protect against the increasing risk of theft and vandalism.

He advises on the deployment of physical and temporary security devices for external applications; he is the co-founder of Freight Secure LLP who provide Commercial Vehicle Operators with Security Solutions.

As a Director at Event Intelligence he is responsible for the development and management of new projects.

Colin Holder

Consultant

Colin retired from the Metropolitan Police as a Detective Sergeant after a 30 year career during which time he served on the Flying Squad and Fraud Squad as well as several other specialised postings.

For much of the last ten years of his service with the Police, Colin was seconded to the Serious Fraud Office, where he participated in several specialised investigations involving international arms and oil shipping frauds. He is considered to be one of the world's leading experts on 'Advance Fee' fraud and 'Identity Theft' fraud and is a published author on the subjects. In 2001 he created and wrote the 'Metropolitan Police Fraud Alert' web-site www.met.police.uk/fraudalert.

During his service, Colin conducted multi-million pound fraud and money laundering investigations in over 25 countries, and was the recipient of numerous Police commendations for his work. Post retirement he created www.c6-intelligence.com the premier 'KYC' and 'Money Laundering' compliance database used by the majority of the world's leading Financial Institutions as well as re-inventing his Fraud Squad partnership with Peter through Event Intelligence.

cholder@event-intelligence.co.uk