Our people work as operational leads, area managers, crowd managers, block managers, event control managers, controllers and loggists, each one bringing a different piece of the picture together on the ground.
Select was founded in Brighton in the year 2000 and we have supported events across the UK and internationally ever since.
Our team has worked together for decades and that closeness runs through everything we do. We trust each other completely, and that trust is what lets us move as one team, not a group of individuals working alongside each other.
Select is a proud member of the United Kingdom Crowd Management Association (UKCMA), the recognised UK body for crowd management and event security.
Our founder and Managing Director, Anne Marie Chebib BA (Hons) PGDip, chairs UKCMA and leads a board drawn from the country’s largest crowd management and security operators.
She is the principal author of Safer Crowds, Safer Venues: Good Practice for Crowd Management in UK Performance and Licensed Spaces and of Words Matter: The Language of Crowds. She is lead author of the crowd management chapter of the Purple Guide, the principal guidance for outdoor events in this country, and editor of several other chapters relating to crowds.
She has appeared on The Security Briefing, asking why crowd safety is still treated as a tick box exercise. On the Event Safety Podcast she discussed crowd safety in smaller venues and why service is the primary function of crowd management. On Safety Sistas she examined training standards and competency across the sector. She speaks at industry conferences including the Event Production Show and the ILMC Production Meeting. She also represents the industry on consultation committees, roundtables, inquiries and panels with government and stakeholders.
In 2026 she sat on the independent judging panel for the UK Outstanding Security Performance Awards.
The 2026 conference opened with a keynote panel hosted by Anne Marie, with Figen Murray OBE, Brian Dubiski and Ken Johnson: three people who each lost a child at a live event and who have each spent the years since working to make events safer.
Our Logistics & HR Manager, Terri-Sian Lugosi, leads on equity, diversity and inclusion for UKCMA, represents the Association on wider advisory groups and drives its mentoring work, welcoming new people into the profession.
In the early days the work was stewards and security staff: doors, venues and the events that fill a seaside city every summer. Over time, our clients began asking for different things. Increasingly it was not simply people on the ground but the thinking behind them: how a crowd would move, where it would gather, what would happen if something went wrong. This took us into specialist crowd management, consultancy and event control, which is where our work sits today.
The journey has taken us everywhere, from royal events to major festivals, large scale marches and high profile arts commissions. When Covid closed the events industry down, our teams supported the NHS and local councils, and we backed Light It In Red, the #WeMakeEvents campaign that turned more than 700 buildings red to fight for the survival of live events.
Some client relationships have been with us from the start and have grown with us as we have grown with them. One example is Brighton & Hove Pride, which began for Select in 2001, supplying staff for the Parade and the Park.
Twenty five years on, we deliver the Parade, run the Zone Ex plan for the park and the wider city, and support multi-agency Silver. It's the clearest illustration of how our work has changed, yet the heart of the company remains the same.
Our MD and founder, Anne Marie Chebib, served as Secretary of UKCMA for over 15 years before becoming its Chair in March 2024. In 2021 she co-founded GCMA, taking that experience international. In 2024 she wrote Safer Crowds, Safer Venues, published by UKCMA and now part of the guidance the industry works to, and in 2026 UKCMA's involvement in Martyn's Law carried through to the statutory guidance.
Select was founded in Brighton in December 2000, and we’ve supported events across the UK and internationally ever since.
