Intelligent Defence – Maximising Smart Power and Public Value

Nick is an experienced international software entrepreneur and venture capitalist. He started his career with one of the leading UK software houses before setting up his own software and consultancy company in the mid-1980s. He spent eight years at the venture capitalist 3i as sector head for software and internet investments.

Since 2007 Nick has acted as advisor to some venture capital funds and also has advised and invested in a number of early stage technology companies.

From 2011 to 2015 he also chaired Accumuli plc, an AIM listed cyber security integrator. He is also an advisor to Growthpoint Technology Partners UK Limited, the UK subsidiary of the Menlo Park headquartered technology investment bank.

In September 2018 Nick joined Amadeus Capital as a partner in the latest early stage fund.

Professor Michael Mainelli FCCA FCSI FBCS co-founded Z/Yen, the City of London’s leading commercial think-tank and venture firm, in 1994 to promote societal advance through better finance and technology. A qualified accountant, securities professional, computer specialist and management consultant, educated at Harvard University and Trinity College Dublin, Michael gained his PhD at London School of Economics where he was also a Visiting Professor. He is a non-executive director of two listed firms and a regulator, Alderman of the City of London for Broad Street, Emeritus Professor & Trustee at Gresham College, Fellow of Goodenough College, trustee of several charities, and Master of the Worshipful Company of World Traders. His most recent security publication is Long Finance’s 2018 “Cyber-Catastrophe Insurance-Linked Securities On Smart Ledgers”.

Carl Miller is a technology author and researcher.

His first book is The Death of the Gods: The New Global Power Grab. An examination of the new centres of power and control in the twenty-first century, it was published by Penguin Random House in August 2018. In 2012 he co-founded the first UK think tank institute dedicated to studying the digital world at Demos, and has written for the Economist, Wired, New Scientist, the Sunday Times, the Telegraph and the Guardian. He’s also a Visiting Research Fellow at King’s College London.

(U/ /FOUO) Ms. Noble is the Special United States liaison Officer, London. As the senior NSA cryptologic representative in the United Kingdom, she serves as the key interlocutor between NSA and GCHQ, and interacts regularly with key UK intelligence and cyber security leadership. Through her membership on the U.S. Embassy London core Country Team, she collaborates with counterpart senior UK-based U.S. agency representatives in the Security and Intelligence arena.

(U//FOUO) Ms. Noble began her career at the National Security Agency in 1987 as a cryptologic linguist in multiple languages. She served in a field assignment from 1993-1999 during which time she completed one overseas tour and multiple long-term temporary duty assignment s supporting operational and executive protect ion close support requirements. Ms. Nob le served as a Technical Director and Operations Chief, and has held a number of division and off ice level positions, responsible for leading strategic planning, acquisition and operational programs. Ms. Noble has also served as the Deputy Chief of the Collection Strategies and Requirements Center and focused on optimizing the cryptologic system in response to a variety of national security intelligence requirements; the Global Capabilities Manager for the Office of South Asia where she was responsible for leading the SIGINT analytic workforce for the South Asia mission area; and the Director of the Special Collect ion Service. Most recently, Ms. Noble served as the Deputy Director for Data Acquisition, responsible for the overall management of the SIGINT data acquisition process.

(U//FOUO) Ms. Noble is certified as a Collection Officer and has completed a Joint Duty Assignment. She has received three National Intelligence Meritorious Unit Citations, two
Joint Meritorious Unit Awards, the Tordella Award and most recently the Exceptional Civilian Service Award (ECSA).

(U//FOUO) Education: Ms. Noble graduated from the University of Maryland in 1985 with a Bachelor of Arts Degree in Spanish Literature. She graduated from the Russian Language Program at the Defense Language Institute, Monterey California in 1980, and from the Basic Arabic Language Program at NSA/CSS in 1990 . In addition, Ms. Noble attended the Institut de Francais, Villafranche-surmer, France, in 1977 and graduated from this program with an advanced level certificate.

(U//FOUO) Personal: A native of St. Thomas, U.S. Virgin Islands, Ms. Noble currently resides in London.

Stephen Phipson is the Chief Executive of EEF, the manufacturers’ organisation. EEF is the representative voice of UK manufacturing, with offices in London, Brussels, every English region and Wales.

Stephen previously held the position of Head of the Defence and Security Organisation within the Department for International trade delivering support to UK defence and security businesses seeking to export and develop joint ventures and partnerships overseas, as well as to overseas defence and security businesses seeking to invest in the UK. Prior to this Stephen held the position of Director for Security Industry Engagement within the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism at the Home Office where he was the Senior Responsible Owner within Government for the UK security industry and had responsibility for securing a new generation of G2G security agreements with priority overseas partner nations.

In addition to senior roles within the UK Government, Stephen has spent 35 years in Industry and has held senior roles within the Electronics, Defence and Security industries. He was Chief Executive of Stadium Group plc and prior to this spent 15 years with Smiths Group plc latterly as President of Smiths Detection, one of the world’s leading threat detection businesses, exporting to more than 100 Government agencies around the World. This followed several years as Group Managing Director of Smiths Interconnect, manufacturing electronics subsystems and components for the Global Defence, Communications and Security markets. Stephen has also held senior management positions with Radiall, Philips and Plessey. Stephen served as the inaugural Chairman of RISC, VP Security for ADS and Chairman of the Security Commission of ASD.

Teresa Shea is Executive Vice President and Director of IQT Technology where she oversees In-Q-Tel’s technology investment and adoption. Ms. Shea joined IQT after her career with the National Security Agency, where she served in numerous key positions including as the director of signals intelligence. She is the recipient of several honors including the Department of Defense Medal for Distinguished Civilian Service, the National Intelligence Distinguished Service Medal, and two Presidential Distinguished Rank Awards. Teresa is a graduate of Georgia Institute of Technology (BSEE) and Johns Hopkins University (MSEE).

Air Marshal Edward Stringer is the Director General of Joint Force Development, and DG Defence Academy, within Joint Forces Command. For those familiar with military terminology he is the de facto ‘J7’ for the UK’s Military Strategic Headquarters. For those not so steeped, he owns the conceptual element of UK fighting power: concepts & doctrine, training & education, exercise & experimentation, lessons learned & innovation. Before that he was Assistant CDS (Operations) in the MOD in Whitehall, essentially the MOD’s operations director – from UK flood-relief to the Deterrent. Previously he had been ACAS, the RAF’s Assistant Chief, responsible for all policy interaction with MOD and for the RAF Board’s business. He arrived there from seeing the inside of the Pentagon as CDS’ Liaison Officer to the Chairman of the Joint Chiefs. A previous Commandant Air Warfare Centre and head of RAF Intelligence he has had operational commands in Libya, Afghanistan, Iraq and the Balkans. A one time Jaguar pilot and weapons instructor (QWI) he first saw action in the Gulf War in ’91 and in the no-fly zone (NFZ) operations that followed.

Francis Tusa has been a leading defence journalist and analyst for nearly 30 years. Having started working at the Royal United Services Institute for Defence Studies in 1987, and there setting up the Middle East Defence programme, he has subsequently worked for a wide range of written and broadcast outlets including Sky News, CNN, the Guardian, and many BBC channels. Within the defence media, he worked as UK and then European Editor for Armed Forces Journal International, and has written Janes, Flight International, Defense News and Aviation Week and Space Technology, as well as numerous Asian/Middle East defence magazines. He set up his newsletter, Defence Analysis, in 1998, and it has become a unique resource for defence data, intelligence and analysis, providing unrivalled information on defence budgets, industrial budgets and politics, and global defence markets. Another first was setting up Military Logistics International, the first – and only - magazine devoted to defence support/logistics.