Robert Hutchinson, Partner, Africa, Control Risks East Africa

Robert ‘Hutch’ Hutchinson leads & manages the Control Risks’ East Africa Business where he supports clients to be secure, resilient, and compliant in their market entry, operations, and growth across a footprint of ten countries. Hutch is based in Nairobi, Kenya, and specialises in advice to business leaders and investors on matters relating to enterprise risk, business resilience and crisis management.

Before joining Control Risks, Hutch served as a commissioned officer in the British Army, for ten years and served on active duty on three operational developments. Hutch’s career culminated, after Staff College, in developing cross governmental cyber policy.

Following his time in the military, Hutch worked in support a FTSE registered extractive company before joining PwC as their Africa Business Resilience Director supporting over 9,000 partners and staff across over 16 countries in the sub-Saharan region.

Highlights of Hutch’s experience include:

• Crisis management support to an extractive facing a multi-billion (USD) regulatory fine related to ESG matters.

• Developing regional enterprise risk management and business resilience programmes.

• Assessing, monitoring, and shaping market entry and operational risk management.

• Developing and delivering incident management and business continuity training to business leaders and Boards.