Resilience Media Advisors

Editorial Board

Jessica Cecil

Jessica Cecil works both commercially and in the not-for-profit sector on the challenges new technology is throwing at the media and creative industries. She was a journalist at the BBC and Chief of Staff to four Directors-General. While there she also negotiated and led the Trusted News Initiative, the world’s only alliance of the biggest tech companies and news organisations, alerting each other fast to the most harmful forms of disinformation. As a Visiting Fellow at Oxford University’s Reuters Institute, she chaired a series of roundtables in 2023 where tech and news companies considered the implications – both good and bad - of Generative AI for the news industry. She is currently developing an innovative training programme for professionals fighting disinformation.

Jessica is a non-executive director at The Digital Catapult, a Trustee at Bristol University, and a Council Member at Chatham House.

Caroline Daniel

Caroline Daniel is a Partner at Brunswick Group, and specialises in technology, artificial intelligence and media, providing strategic communications advice to boards and senior executives at both FTSE100 companies and tech start-ups, for CEOs and founders. Her work includes advising on crisis situations, AI positioning, IPOs, leadership campaigns, financial transactions, and stakeholder engagement.

She spent 17 years at the Financial Times in leading editorial roles including as Editor of FT Weekend (2010-2016), Opinion Page Editor, White House correspondent, and technology writer. She has previously made multiple broadcast appearances as well as been a frequent moderator at tech and geopolitical events including Brilliant Minds, WebSummit, and CogX.

Caroline was a member of the BBC’s Editorial Guidance and Standards Committee, a BBC Board committee from July 2022-July 2026; is member of the Trilateral Commission, a global non-governmental discussion group of leading executives and politicians; and is a Trustee of the UK’s leading non-fiction prize and at The Trampery, a social enterprise in London.

Andrew Pike CBE

Andrew is the Founder of his own boutique advisory, public affairs and communications consultancy. Clients include leading names from national security and soft power. From 2021 until autumn 2023, he was Director of Downing Street’s GREAT Britain and Northern Ireland Campaign - the world’s most successful overseas prosperity and nation branding initiative.

Previously, Andrew was Director of National Security Communications at No 10 and the Cabinet Office. Among other things, he led the cross government communications response to the Russian poisonings in Salisbury and Gulf tanker crisis.

As GCHQ's first Director of Communications and Engagement, he led an ambitious and internationally unprecedented engagement programme designed to increase understanding of the crucial work the agency performs to keep people safe. 

A career diplomat by background, previous Diplomatic Service assignments have included Ireland, Poland, Vanuatu, Libya, Brazil and Yemen.  He worked for almost six years, from 2004 in New York as HM Consul with special responsibility for Northern Ireland and was main British government link with the White House, The Hill, and the US government. Before this, Andrew was head of communications for BBC England.

Advisory Board

Graham Chynoweth

Graham Chynoweth has experience as technology executive, venture investor, and U.S. Navy Reserve officer with deep expertise in innovation and startup ecosystems. He has served as CEO of a NASDAQ-listed company, led successful public and private capital raises, driven over a dozen M&A transactions, and helped foster defense innovation and dual use finance ecosystems through roles at NavalX and the Office of Strategic Capital. Graham holds degrees from Duke and UC Berkeley and currently serves on the board of NH Public Radio and as a council member at the Center for Global Competition and Innovation.

Sir Chris Deverell

Sir Chris Deverell founded Deverell Innovation Ventures in 2019. His advisory portfolio is centred on Innovation, Strategy, and Leadership, in both the public and private sectors. Chris is also an angel investor, as well as a Venture Partner in a San Francisco VC. He was recently a panel member for the UK Strategic Defence Review.

Sir Chris retired from the military in September 2019. In the rank of 4* General, his last role was as the Commander of Joint Forces Command and one of the UK Chiefs of Staff, responsible for UK Special Forces, Defence Intelligence, Operational Command and Control, Cyber, Space, Information Systems and Services, Defence Medical Services, Professional Military Education, Defence Force Development, Logistic Policy, and all UK Joint Operating Bases around the globe.

Chris Magazzeni

Chris Magazzeni is an Investment Director at Lakestar, where he leads investments across Aerospace, Defence, Industrialisation, and Resilience technologies throughout Europe. His work focuses on backing founders building critical capabilities for the future of European security and industrial sovereignty.

Chris began his career as an aerospace engineer, completing a PhD in partnership with Rolls-Royce at the University of Oxford, before moving on to work at the European Space Agency. Prior to joining Lakestar, Chris was a VC at IQ Capital, where he led the firm’s aerospace and defence investment practice.

In early 2023, Chris co-founded and now co-chairs the UK Defence Investor Network — a cross-sector community that convenes UK defence and security-focused VCs with senior military, political, and end-user stakeholders. The initiative aims to accelerate and inform capital allocation into national security innovation by fostering collaboration between the investment community and key decision-makers.

Charlie March

Charlie March manages Never Lift, a venture capital fund investing in companies that build, maintain and protect tolerance and democracy around the world. Previously, he has worked for 8vc and Thrive, venture capital funds in America, and Afiniti, a global AI company, where he ran the UK sales and strategy team. Additionally, Charlie remains involved at Goodwood, his family business, working on the future of the Estate.

Kadi Silde

Kadi Silde is the Director for European Engagement at Helsing, where her work is focused on EU, NATO and Europe’s Eastern Flank. Prior to that, she worked in various roles in NATO and the private sector, accelerating defence tech start-ups. She helped set up NATO DIANA (Defence Innovation Accelerator for the North Atlantic), as Head of the transition team, and subsequently as Chief Operating Officer.

She previously served as Undersecretary for Defence Policy at the Estonian Ministry of Defence in 2019-2022. She joined the Ministry of Defence in 2008, holding various positions including the director of policy planning. She joined Estonia’s EU Council Presidency team at the Estonian Representation to the EU in 2017, coordinating defence efforts and subsequently worked in the European Commission on defence industry initiatives such as the European Defence Fund.

Clayton Williams

Managing Director, IQT International

Dr Ilana Wisby

Dr. Ilana Wisby is a deep tech entrepreneur, quantum physicist, and seasoned CEO. As the founding CEO of Oxford Quantum Circuits (OQC), she took the company from lab-stage research to one of the world’s leading quantum computing businesses — raising over £100 million and launching the first quantum platform in a public data centre.

Ilana advises governments, startups, and national security bodies on quantum strategy, emerging technologies, and responsible innovation. She is passionate about building high-performing, emotionally intelligent teams.

She is currently developing a new venture at the intersection of the future of compute and open societal impact.