Sector credentials

Defence and Dual-Use

Executive credibility for defence technology and dual-use companies that need to qualify with complex institutional buyers, build trust across ministries and primes, and turn technical capability into operational delivery.

2

REPMUS deployments, 2023 and 2024, on site

6

Person team deployed across two sites

2

Referenceable defence purchase orders

Direct evidence.

  • REPMUS, Portugal, 2023 and 2024. Deployments across two consecutive editions of the allied maritime exercise, with a six-person team operating at two sites, working in a command-centre environment on multinational data interoperability.
  • A multinational defence organisation. Delivered under a paid purchase order.
  • Navantia. Delivered under a paid purchase order, alongside a joint engagement with Microsoft connecting geospatial, cloud and institutional requirements.
  • Maintained a multi-year engagement with the Dutch Ministry of Defence across staff, land-forces and IT-command levels, including vetted-site access and participation in a national supplier dialogue.
  • Built approximately 30 documented exchanges with the Dutch Ministry of Defence over three years across staff, land-forces and IT-command levels.

Further defence and government orders were delivered under confidentiality and can be discussed within an appropriate setting.

Some defence and sovereign customers are described generically for confidentiality reasons.

Best suited mandates.

  • CEO or COO of a defence-technology or dual-use company preparing for institutional procurement.
  • Managing Director of a defence-adjacent business building ministry and prime relationships.
  • Board, NED or advisory roles where dual-use strategy, security constraints and procurement realities meet.

Selected relationships and delivery.

  • Senior relationships across Portuguese defence institutions, European primes and former Dutch intelligence leadership.
  • European Defence Fund innovation missions to France and Spain.
  • REAIM, the international summit on responsible AI in the military domain.

Scope

Specific experience in visualisation, situational awareness, real-time data and interoperability in C4ISR-adjacent settings.

Board-level leadership, proven in institutional markets.