SRM is an end-to-end, intelligence-led approach to identifying, understanding, monitoring and acting on risks specific to each client. It enables proactive security, faster crisis response and adaptive security programs for clients, leveraging Securitas’ unique ability to integrate physical and digital security, and is an engine for future growth for Securitas.
Structurally, this brings together Pinkerton, the recently acquired open-source intelligence and threat-intelligence company Liferaft, and Securitas’ existing Risk Intelligence unit under the leadership of Matt Ellis, who is appointed President Security Risk Management and member of Group Management.
At the same time, Securitas combines the development of its digital platform and AI capabilities with the IT organization, under the leadership of Hillevi Agranius, Group CIO and member of Group Management. Together, SRM and the digital platform form the strategic engine of an intelligence-led model: SRM connects insights to action, and the digital platform is the infrastructure through which it is delivered.
In conjunction with this transition, Marthin Althén, President Securitas Digital and member of Group Management, will leave Group Management. All other Group Management members continue in their current roles. These changes are effective April 1, 2026.
“I am delighted to welcome Matt Ellis to Securitas. Matt is an outstanding thought leader who has built one of the most sophisticated global security and risk programs in the industry. His experience from highly complex, global security environments in a tech-forward organization makes him exceptionally well-suited to build and scale this important new business. I would also like to sincerely thank Martin Althén for being an active and essential contributor to Group Management over the past decade”, says Magnus Ahlqvist, President and CEO of Securitas.
About Matt Ellis
Matt joins from Amazon, where he served as Director of Global Corporate Security, having joined the company in 2017. In this role, he led worldwide security strategy and operations across more than 570 sites, supporting over 350 000 employees globally, and helped bring together intelligence, investigations, crisis management, and security operations across programmes.
Prior to Amazon, Matt held senior regional security leadership roles at WeWork and Cameron/OneSubsea, and earlier led international investigations in private practice. He began his career as a Commissioned Officer in the British Army.
Matt holds an MSc in Security and Risk Management from the University of Leicester and is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst.
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