MarchwardServices

People

Who leads the work

Danny leads Marchward’s assignments, bringing in specialist associates where the work requires them. Clients know who will deliver the work and who is responsible for it.

Danny

Major, Royal Marines (Retd)

Founder and Director

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Twenty-one years in the Royal Marines, commissioned from the ranks. Then thirteen years advising governments and running deployed teams.

1992 – 2013 · Royal Marines

Twenty-one years, commissioned from the ranks. Operational service in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Macedonia, Kosovo, Sierra Leone, Iraq and Afghanistan. Left as a Major, Officer Commanding the Surveillance and Reconnaissance Squadron.

Specialisms

Operational planning, signals intelligence, counter-insurgency analysis, and force and personnel management. Countering organised crime and gang criminality.

2013 – present · Defence and security advisory

Senior advisory appointments to United Kingdom government departments, including the Conflict, Stability and Security Fund, now the Integrated Security Fund, and the Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office. Also to commercial clients. He has run a national strategic defence review in southern Africa. He has advised governments on border security in the Democratic Republic of the Congo, Ghana, Togo and Chad, and served as a military adviser in northern Sudan. In the Democratic Republic of the Congo he organised and delivered public order and pre-election security training to more than two thousand police officers. He currently mentors senior officials inside a government’s national security decision-making framework.

Programme delivery

Recruits, contracts and manages deployed personnel under host-nation law, and carries responsibility for contract management and capability delivery.

Borders and the Levant

Mentored senior and junior officers on the security of the Syrian border regions of Lebanon. Has visited the Turkish border and worked alongside major commercial technology providers on the detection of irregular crossing. Served as an officer on United Kingdom Strategic Defence and Security Reviews during his military career. That is where the method on this site began.

The network behind the firm

Three decades of military service and advisory work have built a network of practitioners across government, commercial organisations and host-nation forces. We select associates whose experience fits the assignment and identify them to you before deployment.

  • Military

    Former officers and senior ranks from the Royal Marines, the British Army and allied forces. Operational planners, intelligence staff, instructors and logisticians. Serving personnel are approached only through their chain of command, and never for work that would sit beside their duty.

  • Land

    Border and site security, patrol and forward basing, reconnaissance and surveillance, ranger training, and vehicle and route management in austere environments.

  • Sea

    Maritime and littoral operations, coastal and port security, riverine patrolling, and maritime surveillance and interdiction.

  • Air

    Rotary-wing and fixed-wing operations, aerial surveillance and reconnaissance, air mobility in support of ground forces, and aeromedical evacuation.

  • Police

    Former officers across public order, investigation, intelligence, firearms and organised crime, together with specialists in police training design and community policing. Serving officers are approached through their force, not privately.

  • Legal

    Lawyers and former prosecutors working on the lawful authorisation of security powers, evidence that survives challenge in court, and the design of oversight and complaints mechanisms.

  • Technology

    Surveillance, detection, communications and data practitioners, including people who have worked on the supplier side and can tell you what a system actually does as distinct from what the brochure claims.

Building the team to the requirement

We staff every job against the requirement, not against the skills we happen to have. Where we identify a need, we fill it with a qualified and experienced practitioner in that discipline, working alongside us rather than under us. So a police officer does the policing work. A prosecutor does the prosecution work. A lawyer does the legal work. We select associates against the requirement, vet them to a standard you accept, and name them to you before they deploy. We do not substitute people without your written agreement.