Explainer Series

What is foreign interference
and why does it matter?

May 2025

Nick Whitehead
Director and Principal Consultant, Apex Sentinel

Nick has over 20 years of leadership and management experience in the National Security sector. Now leading Apex Sentinel Group, a company specialising in countering foreign interference in the commercial environment, Nick complements and leverages the team’s extensive national security, diplomatic, defence, intelligence and commercial experience to assist clients to identify, assess, and mitigate the risks specific to them that arise from geopolitical factors and foreign interference.