Board of Management

Antonio Apruzzese

Director – Italian Postal and Communications Police

Dr. Antonio Apruzzese is Senior Executive of the Italian National Police. He has a Law university degree and is currently the Director of the Postal and Communications Police Service.

He has been in the Commissioned Officers rolls of the Italian National Police since September 1979, and boasts a long-lasting and rich experience in combating both common and organised crime. He joined the Postal and Communications Police in 2002.

Formerly head of the Compartimento of Bologna (Bologna Postal Police Field Office), he coordinated complex info-investigative activities concerning cybercrime and child pornography online.

Of particular relevance are the positive results achieved in combating the widespread new generation crimes focused on digital identity theft, which affect the system of financial transactions online and e-currency.

Dr. Apruzzese also coordinated manifold intelligence activities aimed at preventing criminal attacks on computer networks.

John Bilinski

Superintendent – Royal Canadian Mounted Police
Officer in Charge – Canadian Coordination Center for Missing and Exploited Children

John Bilinski joined the RCMP in 1976 and has spent his career in a number of locations in Canada and overseas. He has in excess of 10 years experience on the Montreal Drug Section as an investigator and undercover operator. He was transferred to Ottawa in 1988, where he worked in the National Drug Enforcement Branch coordinating investigations and training police officers. He was then transferred to Calgary Alberta where he worked as a senior investigator in an integrated proceeds of crime section.

In 1996, he participated in a United Nations Mission in Haiti training Senior Haitian National Police Officers. He was posted at the Haitian National Police Training Academy in Port au Prince, where he delivered a police Management Program designed to teach the principles of providing police leadership.

In 1998 he was transferred to Edmonton Alberta as the Operations NCO in the Edmonton integrated Proceeds of Crime Section. In 2000, he was transferred to Madrid, Spain where he worked as the Liaison Officer responsible for the effective exchange of police assistance in the Iberian Peninsula and seven countries in North Africa.

He was commissioned to the rank of Inspector and returned to Canada in 2004 where he headed the Commercial Crime Section in Edmonton Alberta. In 2007, Inspector Bilinski was transferred to the Canadian Police College in Ottawa where he was responsible for the Investigative Training program. In 2008, he was promoted to Superintendent and assumed the duties of Officer in Charge of the Canadian Police Center for Missing and Exploited Children.

Jonathan Eyers

Assistant Director for the INTERPOL Trafficking in Human Beings Sub-Directorate
Detective Superintendent – Australian Federal Police

Jonathan (Jon) Eyers is the Assistant Director for the INTERPOL Trafficking in Human Beings Sub-Directorate. This role is responsible for the development of the global strategy and operational support capabilities to all 188 INTERPOL member countries across human trafficking, people smuggling and crimes against children, including internet-based criminality.

Jon is a Detective Superintendent in the Australian Federal Police (AFP), currently on secondment to INTERPOL, and has over 20 years experience across a range of transnational organised crime types including narcotics, people smuggling, child exploitation and economic crime.

Jon has worked on a diverse range of multi jurisdictional taskforces including the Australian Crime Commission and the Victorian Police Service and has experience in covert surveillance and undercover operations.

Jon was the AFP’s Liaision Officer in The Netherlands with responsibility for all crime functionality affecting Australian interests in 20 European countries between 2003 and 2006.

He has also held the position of Manager Cairns Office for the AFP, responsible for all AFP assets and operations across all crime types in this jurisdiction. This role also encompassed the role of Airport Police Commander at Cairns International Airport, with Jon having multi agency command for all law enforcement/security coordination, emergency management, counter terrorist first response, strategic stakeholder engagement and community policing and investigations.

Jon has completed a Masters of International Business and also holds Graduate Certificate and Graduate Diploma awards in Public Policy.

Susan Lane

Senior Advisor to the Director of Homeland Security Investigations

Susan E. Lane is currently serving as Senior Advisor to the Director of Homeland Security Investigations (HSI), U.S. Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) and in 2011 oversaw the expansion of the HSI Cyber Crimes Center (C3).

Ms. Lane served as the ICE Attaché in The Hague from 2009-2011, covering ICE issues and HSI investigations related to the Netherlands, Luxembourg, Nigeria and the European Police Agency (Europol). From 2007-2009, Ms. Lane was the Director of Intelligence for ICE.

From 2004-2007, Ms. Lane was a unit chief for the HSI National Security Division, serving first as the unit chief for the HSI National Security & Threat Protection (NSTP) Unit, which was responsible for providing oversight and guidance to HSI agents assigned to Joint Terrorism Task Forces across the nation, and then as unit chief for the newly created HSI National Security Integration Center (NSIC), which collocated operational and intelligence personnel to identify actionable national security intelligence.

Earlier in her career she was the first supervisor of the Los Angeles Seaport Investigations group, Group Supervisor for a Financial – Money Laundering Investigations group in Los Angeles, spent three years as a senior special agent assigned to the San Diego Financial Task Force and before that served as a US Customs special agent assigned to El Centro, California, where she specialized in investigating criminal organizations involved in smuggling narcotics into the United States.
She holds a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Political Science from the University of San Diego.

Malcolm Burgess

Assistant Commissioner: Investigations and International Services – New Zealand Police

Malcolm has been a member of Police for 35 years. He started his service in Auckland, where he was posted after recruit training in 1976. He joined the Criminal Investigation Branch (CIB) in Auckland. He spent 11 years in Auckland prior to promotion to a Detective Senior Sergeant’s position in Palmerston North in 1987. He returned to Auckland in 1990 and ran a succession of Robbery Task Force enquiries over the next three years.

In 1993 Malcolm was promoted to Nelson as the City Area Commander and District Crime Manager, positions he held for the next 4 years. In 1997 he took up the position of Area Commander for Hamilton City in the Waikato. He held that position until his promotion to Detective Superintendent: Southern.

Malcolm became the Detective Superintendent: Southern in April 2002. He was based in Christchurch, with an overview of major crime issues for the South Island. Between May 2004 and March 2007 he led the Police response to the Commission of Inquiry into Police Conduct. He also completed specific high profile national investigations, including the first investigation and successful prosecution of a New Zealand Member of Parliament on charges of corruption and perverting justice.

In addition to his investigative roles, in early 2005 he commanded the 6th NZ Police contingent to Thailand to assist with disaster victim identification in the wake of the Asian Boxing Day tsunami. Later in 2005 he travelled to the United Kingdom to attend Henley Business College and the London Business School as a recipient of the Foreign and Commonwealth Office Aotearoa Fellowship. In 2009 Malcolm was invested as a Member of the New Zealand Order of Merit (MNZM) in the Queen’s Birthday Honours for services to policing.

In November 2009 Malcolm was appointed to the role of Director of the Organised & Financial Crime Agency New Zealand, based in Wellington. The agency was established in 2008 to provide a “whole of government” response capability to target national and transnational organised crime. In May 2011 Malcolm took up the role of Assistant Commissioner: Investigations and International Services. In addition to his oversight of organised crime, Malcolm now has executive responsibility for Criminal Investigations, Cyber crime, National Security, Financial Crime Group, International Services and the Pacific Island Chiefs of Police Secretariat.

Malcolm is married to Sally. They have two sons, aged 19 and 20 years of age. His leisure interests include masters rowing, fly-fishing, golf, following family sporting activities and reading.

Nasser Salem Saif Lekhreiban Al Nuaimi

Major General – Ministry of Interior for the United Arab Emirates

General Nasser was born in Al Ain in 1967 and grew up in the city before joining the police for the Emirate of Abu Dhabi in 1986.

His police career includes work in the traffic investigation and criminal investigation departments and the training and development department before he moved to the General Headquarters. He was promoted to be the General Director of the Office [Diwan] of His Highness, the Minister of the Interior. In this role he oversaw the development of a department for Strategic Development in both the Abu Dhabi Police and the Ministry of Interior. He is currently General Secretary to His Highness the Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Interior of the UAE.

General Nasser is chairman of a number of high level committees dedicated to developing and improving policing throughout the United Arab Emirates (UAE). He has been instrumental in establishing a centre in Abu Dhabi to trace those individuals pedaling on-line pornography involving children in the Middle East and he is the UAE representative on the international Virtual Global Taskforce (VGT), the first Middle East country to join.

General Nasser holds a Bachelor of Law degree from the UAE University and a Master of International Law from the American University, Washington DC. He is currently continuing his studies, for a PhD in the field of child development strategies in the UK.

Away from public service General Nasser is passionate about animal welfare, animal rights and species protection. He established a private zoo, which is involved in a number of captive breeding programs of endangered wildlife. He has established links with the world famous Chester Zoo in England and is developing his zoo as an educational resource for schools in the Emirate.

General Nasser is married and has a young family.

Neil Gaughan

National Manager High Tech Crime Operations – Australian Federal Police (Chair)

Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan joined the Australian Federal Police (AFP) in 1984 working in a variety of general policing and investigative roles in the AFP’s community policing area prior to 1998.

In 1999 Neil left the AFP and joined the Australian Taxation Office (ATO) working in the investigations, fraud control planning and risk management fields.

In 2004 Neil returned to the AFP to work in the Protection portfolio, where he was promoted to the role of Manager Close Protection in 2005. While working in Protection, Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan had responsibility for the AFP’s close protection activities as well as the national witness protection program and delivered AFP outcomes for APEC 2007 and World Youth Day 2008.

In August 2008 he moved to the position of Manager High Tech and Child Protection Operations, with overall responsibility for all cyber investigations undertaken in the AFP, with a particular focus on critical infrastructure protection and child exploitation investigations.

Assistant Commissioner Neil Gaughan was promoted to National Manager High Tech Crime Operations (HTCO) in December 2009. HTCO provides the AFP with an enhanced capability to investigate, disrupt and prosecute offenders committing serious and complex technology crimes. It also provides technical and surveillance capabilities in a close support role for all AFP Operations.

Neil has tertiary qualification in public administration, public policy and risk management.

Peter Davies

Chief Executive – UK Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre

Peter Davies holds the ACPO Lead for Child Protection and Abuse Investigation (including child abduction) and is the Chief Executive of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection (CEOP) Centre bringing with him over 20 years experience in front line and strategic policing roles.

Appointed to his role in November 2010, Peter joined CEOP from Lincolnshire Police where he had worked for many years in child protection, most recently as Assistant Chief Constable with particular responsibility for Protective Services. This involved leading a number of national and international significant crime enquiries encompassing the distribution of indecent images of children, domestic extremism, fraud and serious organised crime, including leading force involvement with CEOP’s expert teams as well as multi force deployments and other partners.

Peter joined Lincolnshire Police in 1999, from Thames Valley Police, as East Division Commander. He was appointed Assistant Chief Constable in 2003. Among his responsibilities in that role were child protection, serious crime investigation and extensive partnership work to safeguard children and vulnerable young people. He recently completed a secondment to Nottinghamshire Police focusing on improved crime reduction and detection and has held national responsibilities on behalf of ACPO for several years

Troels Oerting

Assistant Director – Europol, Operations Department

Previous posts of Assistant Director Troels Oerting at Europol include Deputy Head of Information Management and Technology Department. He has held posts in Denmark including Director, Head of Operations, Danish Security Intelligence Service; Director, Head of SOCA (Serious Organized Crime Agency).

Assistant Director Troels Oerting has resumed the role of Chairman of the HENU (Heads of Europol National Units) – Europol; Chairman of the PTN cooperation (Nordic Police Task Force Cooperation) – Europol and Chairman of the DK National Commissioners special advisory group on OC.

He has also held the role of Head of Delegation from DK in Police Chief Task Force, International working group (IWG) in UC agents, EU working group on witness protection and is currently a member of the delegation for Baltic Sea Task Force on OC.