Meet the clearBorder Team

Christopher Salmon is clearBorder’s Chief Executive and strategic lead. He works closely with clients to optimise cross-border supply chains, shaping consultancy offerings, overseeing delivery quality, and ensuring clients receive insightful, actionable guidance. Christopher is also instrumental in promoting clearBorder’s wider value across industry and government. With a background spanning business, politics, and defence, Christopher served as Senior Adviser to UK Cabinet Ministers during the country’s EU exit – helping to shape policy and operations around customs, SPS, export controls, and Northern Ireland trade. He has since led major border innovation programmes including the Ecosystem of Trust and the UK’s Single Trade Window. He’s advised clients across food and drink, defence, manufacturing, retail, infrastructure, and beyond.

Khyati works directly with clients to streamline complex, cross-border supply chains – making sure goods move smoothly, compliantly, and cost-effectively. With a background in strategy consulting and hands-on experience at clearBorder, she brings deep expertise in SPS controls, retail goods, supply chain design, and more. She’s advised clients across nearly every sector – from global retailers to food manufacturers entering the UK market – and regularly collaborates with UK government programmes on trader behaviour and border policy. Fluent in Hindi and fuelled by variety, Khyati brings cultural fluency and a love of practical problem-solving to every project. In her own words – “life’s too short to be bored.”

Sarah leads clearBorder’s export control consultancy, bringing 25+ years of experience across customs and export control compliance. A trusted advisor on dual-use goods, ITAR, sanctions, and governance frameworks, she helps clients smoothly navigate the world’s most complex export corridors. Known for turning regulatory complexity into commercial opportunity, Sarah works across sectors including defence, photonics, quantum, space, and more. She’s advised governments on national security, shaped UK–US compliance programmes, and built cross-border trade frameworks in the Middle East and North America. Outside work, she’s a keen gardener (when the sun is shining!), and when it’s cold, you’ll find her gaming on the PC – usually in Azeroth.

Dorian Rosca is a seasoned customs specialist with nearly a decade of experience in freight forwarding and trade compliance. At clearBorder, he helps clients minimise risk and delays by applying licensing regimes, special procedures, and accurate tariff classifications. His sector expertise spans dual-use goods, organic imports, and regulated manufacturing. Fluent in Romanian and conversational in Spanish, Dorian brings a culturally aware approach to international trade. He’s known for his curiosity, rigour, and love of problem-solving. Away from the desk, he’s a history buff, football player, film fan, and music lover – with a playlist that runs from Strauss to Metallica.

Ian is a specialist in export controls, with deep expertise in the International Traffic in Arms Regulations (ITAR). At clearBorder, he helps clients across defence and aerospace navigate complex licensing frameworks, build internal governance, and export with confidence. With over 12 years in international trade, including senior roles at BAE Systems and programme security leadership in Saudi Arabia, Ian brings real-world experience from both government and industry. He’s worked extensively across the UK, EU and EMEA – and once found himself in a cycle race with Sir Bradley Wiggins. (He didn’t win).

As Chief Marketing Officer at clearBorder, Anna leads our communications, strategy and positioning – ensuring our insights reach the people who need them. With over 25 years of experience across global brands like Samsung, HP and Vodafone, as well as boutique consultancies, she brings a wealth of cross-sector marketing expertise. Anna is driven by curiosity and collaboration: relishing the opportunity to learn new sectors and shape how an organisation communicates. An avid reader – of fact and fiction – she always has a book (or several) on the go, and never leaves home without one!

Ugne is the organisational heartbeat of clearBorder. With a background in hospitality, serviced offices and tech, she ensures projects run smoothly and operations stay on track. From logistics to internal systems, she supports our consultants so they can focus on delivering real value for clients. Calm, reliable and solutions-focused, Ugne is the go-to person for making things work – quietly improving efficiency and enhancing the client experience behind the scenes. Originally from Lithuania, she also speaks Russian and Spanish. Outside work, she’s a keen volleyball player who brings the same energy and coordination to every part of her role.

Mary is clearBorder’s chairwoman, responsible for providing a sounding board for the CEO and internal team and assuring corporate governance. Mary has extensive expertise in risk, governance and strategy, having worked at senior levels across the public and private sectors. Her government career spanned law enforcement, counter terrorism and national security, latterly as Director General for Crime, Policing and Fire in the Home Office. On leaving government, Mary joined McKinsey & Company, serving government and private sector clients around the world. She now holds a number of non executive director and trustee roles in public and private sector organisations and works as an independent consultant.

Anikó leads clearBorder’s Horizon Scanning and Strategy practice. She helps businesses cut through the noise around shifting trade policy, regulation and geopolitics – turning complex developments into actionable intelligence for business leaders. Anikó spent 13 years in the Hungarian foreign service, with postings in Tokyo, Brussels and London, advising at deputy-ministerial level on trade and investment. She has since spent six years advising corporates and investors on the changing political and policy landscape across the EU, UK, US and beyond, working across sectors including technology, financial services, pharma, energy, retail, manufacturing and logistics. Deeply experienced in how the trading world works, Anikó enjoys helping firms look beyond immediate challenges and prepare for what comes next. Outside work, she spends as much time as possible outdoors with her young family – walking, cycling, riding and occasionally wild swimming.

What’s your current role, and what do you do to help clients? I help businesses build export control and trade compliance programmes that work in practice, not just on paper. I start by getting to know the whole business, how it makes decisions, and where its products, people and customers sit. Then I design or review the compliance programme so that it fits in and runs smoothly day to day. What’s your background in international trade / compliance / policy and what areas of expertise or focus do you bring? I have more than 25 years’ experience in international trade and export control. My areas of expertise include: Export control and international trade Financial, sectoral and comprehensive sanctions Anti-bribery and corruption Automating compliance in systems such as SAP Sensitive countries and end users Security-classified technologies I take an active part in the wider trade compliance community. I serve on the Aerospace Defence & Space (ADS) Export Group and the ADS Business Ethics Network Steering Committee, and I am a member of techUK’s Trade and Customs Compliance Group. I am also a member of the Chartered Institute Of Export & International Trade. These roles keep me close to the latest policy changes and to what other businesses are facing, and I bring that insight to my clients. What kind of businesses / sectors have you worked with to date? I began my career in defence and aerospace at the Defence Evaluation and Research Agency (part of the MoD, later QinetiQ), managing overseas trials of military aircraft, missiles, unmanned aerial vehicles, radar and electronic warfare. I have since worked at General Dynamics (land vehicles, aircraft and communications), Safran (military aircraft, unmanned aerial vehicles and torpedoes), Inmarsat (defence and commercial satellite communications, aircraft, vessels, launch vehicles and spacecraft) and Deloitte (military and commercial technologies, nuclear and aerospace). What do clients typically rely on you for? Clients rely on me to solve problems, automate processes, build compliance teams, write clear policies and procedures, and make compliance part of how the whole business works. What motivates you in your work? / What do you particularly enjoy about your work? I’m passionate about what I do. I find my work meaningful, and it has never been more relevant than in today’s political climate. Do you speak any languages or bring regional / cultural insights? I am proud to be Welsh. Say something about yourself beyond work. Outside work, I lean into my artistic side. I’m an avid reader and love live music, from classical and jazz to swing and rock. I enjoy art and theatre, I love to paint in oils and drawl, and I am a keen gardener. My greatest passion is racing a yacht with my crew around the Bristol Channel.