Tim Curtis is a risk and crisis management consultant with more than 20 years of management experience as a strategic planner and organisational leader, with a pedigree from the Australian Special Air Service (SAS) Regiment.
He designed and implemented the Australian counter terrorist response arrangements for the Sydney 2000 Olympics. In 2001, Mr Curtis was a principal adviser to the Government of Sierra Leone. Following this, he was personally selected to raise a sensitive and time-critical Australian national counter terrorist capability (2002). In 2004-2005, Mr Curtis consulted to major resource and services companies on crisis and risk management before holding the appointment of director of the Joint Electoral Operations Centre in 2005 within the United Nations for the Afghanistan Parliamentary Elections where his primary responsibility was ensuring a safe electoral process involving more than 1 million electoral staff and 14 million voters.
From 2006-2014, Mr Curtis was the managing director of a group of 42 companies based from Dubai providing medical, security, logistics, aviation and consulting services with an annual turnover of AUD100m. In conjunction with an insurance partner, his risk and crisis management client list included 20% of Fortune 500 Companies.
Mr Curtis is a highly-regarded thought leader on the reduction of operational risk and the management of critical incidents. His international clients continue to include manufacturing companies, health and insurance organisations, gaming and entertainment companies, mining, oil and gas companies, engineering services, high net-worth individuals, government and non-government organisations. He continues to advise clients involved in some of the highest profile critical incidents and corporate crises globally.
