A highly experienced leader with 25 years operational and strategic service in the British Army. He has brought extensive battlefield experience in austere and alien environments to the boardrooms of the Ministry of Defence and British Army. Now a qualified and experienced leader of Government Major Change Programmes, capability strategy formulation and multi- billion-pound military equipment delivery projects.

A tank (armour) Officer by background, Nick has commanded from Troop to Battlegroup, served on tanks and many other armoured vehicles, deployed on operations in Iraq, Afghanistan, Kuwait and Cyprus, and been recognised for Meritorious Service by
Governments of both UK and USA.

Following a successful operational career, he was promoted to Colonel (later Brigadier General) and joined the General Staff, the senior officer cohort responsible for running the Army under its head, the Chief of the General Staff. Working in the Ministry of Defence and Army Headquarters, Nick has specialised in acquisition and transformation programmes.

He has amassed experience in major re- organisation, capital acquisition & service delivery programmes. Within this he has extensive experience in requirement setting, benefit
definition and navigating government approvals. He has also worked at Portfolio level where he has developed both a passion for and understanding of how to align strategy and the change programmes that seek to implement it.

Nick as enjoyed graduate and post-graduate education at the Victoria University of Manchester, King’s College, London and University of Oxford, Saïd Business School.