
Tom Bodkin
DIRECTOR AND CO-FOUNDER
Tom has extensive experience providing innovative and creative risk and location management solutions to TV and Film in remote and hostile environments.

Ben Major
DIRECTOR
Ben is an adventurer, explorer and survival expert who has led over 40 expeditions and projects throughout the world in all environments.

Sally Fitton
PROJECTS DIRECTOR
Sally was the BBC High Risk Advisor for Current Affairs and the World Service and deployed to Iraq, Afghanistan and the West Bank. She has supported the Natural History Unit’s BAFTA-award winning

lachlan bucknall
PROJECTS DIRECTOR
Lachlan served for 11 years as an infantry officer in the British Army where he trained and led people in some the harshest of operating environments in the world.

DR NIALL AYE MAUNG
MEDICAL DIRECTOR
Niall is the medical director for Secret Compass and oversees our medical policy, practices and procedures. He has also supported TV projects on location.

trevor smith
HCPC PARAMEDIC, IOSH QUALIFIED SAFETY ADVISOR
Trevor is a registered Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) paramedic and qualified Risk Management Consultant who has extensive

james ross
HCPC PARAMEDIC, IOSH QUALIFIED SAFETY ADVISOR
As a registered Health and Care Professions Council (HCPC) Paramedic, James has extensive experience working in a variety of roles both in the UK and

Tom mclay
HCPC PARAMEDIC, SAFETY ADVISOR
Tom has extensive experience working within a range of challenging pre-hospital and hospital based environments throughout the world as a registered Health and Care Professions (HCPC)

charlotte haldane
DOCTOR & SAFETY ADVISOR
Charlotte is a highly qualified and competent medical professional and expedition leader. She trained initially in Emergency Medicine, and is now a full-time Pre-hospital Care Doctor and HEMS Consultant, working for

matthew barratt
SAFETY ADVISOR
Matthew is an experienced Mountain Leader and climber. He has led expeditions in many different corners of the world, including Spitzbergen, Rwenzori, the Altai mountains and Caucasas range.

waldo etherington
SAFETY ADVISOR
Waldo is an expert climber, rope rescue and technical rigging specialist with extensive experience operating on remote location expeditions. He has led tree climbing expeditions to remote and unexplored tropical

alex bigwood
SAFETY ADVISOR
Alex has 15 years of military expertise, partly in Special Forces. He has been leading expeditions and instructing wilderness related courses for

Dave lucas
SAFETY ADVISOR
Dave has spent over 65 months on expeditions in 85 countries from Europe and Asia to Africa and Latin America. He thrives on exploring for unclimbed areas

mike mawhinney
SAFETY ADVISOR
Mike is a certified safety and security professional with a wide range of commercial operational experience. His knowledge is based upon real world operations in a number of challenging environments.