Team Members

Chief of Staff for the Defence, Security, and Resilience Bank (DSRB) Development Group. PhD candidate at Imperial College London, inaugural Lord David Sainsbury Scholar. Advised UK government, DCMS, Parliament and regulators.

Commissioned into the British Army in 1986. Culminated in Chief of Defence People (equivalent to Global HR Director for Defence). Wrote the Review of Defence’s approach to Climate Change and Sustainability. Chief Executive of the Scar Free Foundation.

Chartered Accountant and Corporate Treasurer in financial services. Non-executive director and Audit Committee Chair of UK Export Finance, Governor and Audit & Risk Chair at Westminster University. Focused on how regulation can support sustainable growth.

A lead government relations and strategic policy adviser in the defence and space sectors. Early career spanned operational programmes across the Middle East, Southeast Asia and East Africa. An accomplished linguist — fluent Arabic and German.

Head of Legal at SMBC Bank International plc (Sumitomo Mitsui Financial Group) and Chairman of the International Trade and Forfaiting Association (ITFA). Helped draft the Uniform Rules for Forfaiting and the Standard Definitions for Techniques of Supply Chain Finance.

Trustee for several charities and board advisor across financial and AI organisations. Previously COO for CDP, COO/acting CEO for the Charities Aid Foundation, COO/Deputy CEO at OSTC. 15 years at HSBC as COO/CSO and as Chairman in Taiwan and Singapore.

Founder and CEO of Legation Strategies. Former Assistant Secretary of the United States Air Force under President George W. Bush, with worldwide responsibility for $38 billion in installations, logistics, environment and energy programs.

The UK’s first Chief of Defence Logistics and Support (2019–23), a c£14bn/annum enterprise across 60,000 staff. Now advising Sizewell C. Architect of Project Prometheus, the large-scale deployment of solar farms across the Army estate.