Peter McComish is an Independent Advisor/Member of the i24s Group Advisory Board and the Founder and Principal Consultant at GMS Group – a security risk management organisation with expertise in high-risk security environments and an industry leading specialist in gold and mine security consulting services. He is also the Executive Director of the Mining Security Working Group (incorporated in Canada) and a Member of the International Union of Geological Sciences, Initiative on Forensic Geology (IUGS-IFG).

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Peter has an impressive career history which includes serving as: the Senior Director Global Security at Barrick Gold Corporation; the Director, Project Manager (Product Security) at Global Risk Group and MLW Group; and the Officer-in-Charge of various crime units in the Western Australian Police.

 His expertise includes strategic security planning, security leadership, security and investigational team building, investigation management, intelligence programs, security policy and procedure development, security systems design and implementation, risk  and threat assessments, gold and product security, intruder management planning, critical incident management, organisational reviews, change management, security management training, and crime intelligence training.

Peter attended the Australian Federal Police Staff College, University of Melbourne’s Business School and most recently, Edith Cowan University.