Centurian Media is delighted to unveil John Mason as Keynote Speaker for the SJUK Leaders in Security Conference 2026, in association with HID, taking place 24 June at The Manchester Deansgate Hotel, Manchester, UK.
The event will once again bring together 250+ of the region’s most senior security, risk, crisis management and resilience professionals for a day of high-level networking and discussion.
John Mason is the CEO of PPL, the sophisticated electronic trading and placing platform that sits at the heart of the Lloyds of London speciality insurance market.
It enables brokers and underwriters to quote, negotiate and bind complex non-standard risks that range from international shipping fleets, vital to global trade and energy, to unique events with ‘black-swan’ potential.
Over 80% of the risks placed in London trade across the PPL platform.
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Prior to this John was a Managing Director at the London Stock Exchange Group (LSEG), responsible for the underlying data platforms that support super-fast data aggregation.
These process up to quarter of a million updates a second disseminated to over 250,000 desktop environments in real and non-real time. He has also held senior positions at Thomson Reuters, Refinitiv and Bloomberg.
During his career John has worked with Defence to provide strategic analysis of geopolitical, economic and security risk. He has advised policy teams and helped create a new capability within the MoD to combat economic threat.
His SJUK Leaders in Security Keynote Address will examine the financial environment as a key element of UK critical national infrastructure, exploring the diversity and increasing frequency of threats to the UK and considering how the UK might mobilise to address them.
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