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SPEAKER BIOGRAPHIES

General Stéphane Abrial, FRA AF (Ret.)

Deputy CEO, Corporate Office

SAFRAN Aerospace Defence Security (FRA)

 

Born in the South-West of France, General Stéphane Abrial began his military service in 1972.  He graduated from the French Air Force Academy (including one semester in the US Air Force Academy) in 1975.  He completed his pilot training in 1976.

 

He has extensive experience both as a fighter pilot and an operational commander.  He has a wide-ranging background that includes operations in coalition environments, at the tactical, operational and strategic levels.

 

He served as a flight commander in a unit of the German Luftwaffe from 1981 to 1984 and with a unit of the Greek Air Force in 1988.  In 1990 and 1991, he took part in Operations Desert Shield and Desert Storm for the liberation of Kuwait as Commander of the French Air Force’s 5th Fighter Wing.  From 1996 to 1999, he served at the NATO International Military Staff in Brussels.

 

General Abrial acquired broad experience in political-military matters through appointments to the private offices of the French Prime Minister and of the President of the Republic, and went on to serve as head of the French Air Defence and Air Operations Command in 2005, then as Air Force Chief of Staff from 2006 to 2009.

 

On 29 July 2009, he received the appointment by the North Atlantic Council as Supreme Allied Commander Transformation.  He was the first European to be appointed permanently as head of a NATO strategic command.  In this position, he worked with the 28 member Nations of the Alliance on strategic thinking, capability development, and education and training issues.

 

He retired in October 2012 and joined SAFRAN on 1 January 2013, as advisor to the CEO.  Since 1 July 2013, he is Deputy CEO, Corporate Office.

 

General Abrial is a graduate of the US Air War College, Montgomery, Alabama, in 1992, and of the French Institute for Advanced Studies in National Defence (IHEDN) in Paris, in 2000.

 

He has, among other distinctions, been elevated to the distinction of Grand Officer in the French Legion of Honour and was made Commander of the US Legion of Merit and of the Brasilian, Spanish, and Polish Orders of Merit.  He was also awarded the German Verdienstkreuz der Bundeswehr (silver) and many other foreign medals.

 
 

Dr. Alexander Alderson Ph.D

Director Marketing and Sales Western Europe

Saab (GBR)

 

Alexander Alderson joined Saab in 2012 after a 29-year career in the British Army. He is part of Saab’s marketing and sales team in Western Europe and he has specific responsibility for the training and simulation and C4I product and services portfolio in the UK and France. A graduate of the Army Staff College, the Joint Services Command and Staff College and the Royal College of Defence Studies, he holds a BSc in Geography, MA in Defence Studies and a PhD in modern history, and he has lectured and published widely on a broad range of defence and strategy-related issues.

 
 

Mr. Dennis Allen

Cyber Training Team Lead, CERT Cyber Security Solutions Directorate

Software Engineering Institute

Carnegie Mellon University (USA)

 

Dennis Allen is the Cyber Training Lead for the Software Engineering Institute’s CERT Cyber Workforce Development team.  He has received a B.S. degree in Computer Science from St. John Fisher College and the M.S. in Information Assurance from Norwich University.  Dennis has been with the Software Engineering Institute for over 8 years and has more than 20 years of information technology and security experience working with fortune 500 corporations, numerous government and military organizations, and many small businesses.  His active research areas include IPv6 security and developing innovative approaches to cyber education, training, and evaluation.  In addition to teaching the Applied Information Assurance graduate course for Carnegie Mellon’s Information Networking Institute, Dennis has delivered numerous professional training classes and presented at industry conferences such the MIS Institute’s InfoSec World.

 
 

Ms. Claude-France Arnould

Chief Executive

European Defence Agency

 

Claude-France Arnould has been Chief Executive of the European Defence Agency since 17 January 2011.

 

Previously, C.F. Arnould worked on defence matters in other EU positions. She headed the Crisis Management and Planning Directorate at the General Secretariat of the Council of the European Union between 2009 and 2010, and was Director for Defence Issues at the General Secretariat of the Council from 2001 to 2009.

 

Earlier in her career (1998-2001), C.F. Arnould worked as Director of International and Strategic Affairs at the French National Defence General Secretariat /Prime Minister.

 

Claude-France Arnould started her career as a diplomat, at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs, first in the North America Directorate (1981-1983), then in the Economic and Financial Affairs Directorate (1983-1986). After serving at the Private Office of the Minister for European Affairs, in 1987 she became Secretary-General of the French National School for Public Administration (ENA), until 1989. She was then appointed Deputy Director of European Community Affairs at the French Ministry of Foreign Affairs. From 1994 to 1998 she was First Counselor at the French Embassy in Germany.

 

Ms. Arnould has been "Ministre plénipotentiaire" (French Ministry of Foreign Affairs) since June 2001. She is a graduate of the Ecole normale supérieure, the Ecole Nationale d'Administration (ENA) and the Institut d’Etudes Politiques (IEP) de Paris. She also holds an agrégation in Classics and a degree in art and archaeology.

 

Claude-France Arnould has been awarded the Officier de l’Ordre National du Mérite and Officier de la Légion d'honneur (France), the Bundesverdienstkreuz Erster Klasse (Germany), and the Gran Cruz del Mérito Militar (Spain).

 
 

Lieutenant General Markus J. Bentler, DEU A

German Military Representative to NATO and the EU Military Committee

 

Lieutenant General Markus Bentler was born in Paderborn, Germany on 16 May 1953.

1972   Joined the Bundeswehr, assigned to 4th/Light Infantry Battalion 41, Göttingen, Germany
1972 - 1979   Officer training, university education in pedagogics, and assignment as platoon leader
1979 - 1984   Company Commander, 3rd/Light and Mechanized Infantry Battalion 42, Kassel, Germany
1984 - 1986   27th General Staff Officer Course at the Bundeswehr Command and Staff College, Hamburg, Germany
1986 - 1987   ACOS G 2, 2nd Mechanized Infantry Division, Kassel, Germany
1987 - 1989   ACOS G 3, Armored Brigade 6, Hofgeismar, Germany
1989 - 1992   Deputy Army Attaché, German Embassy, Washington, D.C., USA
1992 - 1994   Commander, Mechanized Infantry Battalion 12, Osterode, Germany
1994 - 1996   Assistant Chief of Branch, Armed Forces Staff (Fü S III), Federal Ministry of Defense, Bonn, Germany
1996 - 1999   Chief of Personal Staff to the Chief of Staff, Bundeswehr
1999 - 2000   National Defense University/National War College (Master’s Degree), Washington, D.C., USA
2000 - 2001   Staff Officer, Army Forces Command, Koblenz, Germany
2001 - 2004   Commander, Mountain Infantry Brigade 23, Bad Reichenhall, Germany
2002 - 2003  

Commander, Multinational Brigade Southwest, and National Contingent

Commander, 6th German KFOR Contingent, Prizren, Kosovo

2004 - 2006   Commandant, Army Officer School, Dresden, Germany
2006 - 2009   Commander, 10th Armored Division, Sigmaringen, Germany
2009 - 2010   COM KFOR, Pristina, Kosovo
2010 - 2012   Commander, Response Forces Operations Command, Ulm, Germany

Since 2012

 

German Military Representative to the NATO and the EU Military Committee

Decorations:

Silver Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr

Gold Cross of Honor of the Bundeswehr

Bundeswehr Bronze Foreign Duty Medal (KFOR)

Bundeswehr Silver Foreign Duty Medal (KFOR)

Non-Article 5 NATO Medal

National Commemorative Cross (Italy)

The Legion of Merit – Degree of Officer (USA)

The Defence Joint Forces Honour Medal (Italy)

The Military Medal for Service in Kosovo (Republic of Kosovo)

Austrian Bundesheer Medal of Military-Appreciation

 
 

Air Commodore Vincent Carré

Deputy Chief Futures Preparation

French Air Force Staff

 

Born the 07th of October, 1963 in Forcalquier (Alpes Haute Provence)

Married, two children

French Air Force Academy in 1983

Fighters pilot’s wings in 1987

1983 - 1986   Air Force academies
1987 - 1992   Operational pilot in the ER 01.033 « Belfort », Strasbourg (Mirage F1 Recce)
1992 - 1994   Commanding officer in the ER 01.033 « Belfort », Strasbourg – Reims
1994 - 1997   Deputy Commander then Commander of the 2nd Training Sqn « Montmirail » of the Air Force Academy, Salon-de-Provence
1997 - 1998   Defense Staff College, 5th promotion, Paris
1998 - 2001   Deputy Commander then Commander of the EC 05.330 « Côte d’Argent », Mont-de-Marsan
2001 - 2003   Deputy Commander then Commander of the “Rafale” fleet division of the SIMMAD, Brétigny-sur-Orge
2003 - 2005   Chief of “Fighters and Equipments” division of the Capability Development Office of the Air Force Staff, Paris
2005 - 2006   Deputy Chief Manager « Plans and Policies » of the Air Force Staff, Paris
2006 - 2009   Commander of 118th Air Base, Mont-de-Marsan
2009 - 2012   Chief of Capability Area Management of the Joint Staff, Paris
2012 - 2013   “Chargé de mission” for the Deputy Chief “plans” of the joint chief of Staff, Paris
2013   Deputy Chief futures preparation of the Air Force Staff, Paris
     
OPERATIONS    
   

102 war missions in seven detachments (Chad – Iraq – Former-Yougoslavia).

Promotions

2012   Air Commodore
2002   Colonel
1998   Lieutenant-Colonel
1994   Major
1989   Captain
 
 

Mr. Arnaud de Péchy

Regional Sales Director Europe West/South

RUAG Defence, RUAG Schweiz AG (CHE)

 

(not available).

 
 

Mr. Christoph De Preter

Chief Commercial Officer

Luciad (BEL)

 

Christoph De Preter is Chief Commercial Officer at Luciad, reporting directly to the Group CEO.  He is responsible for Luciad’s worldwide business. 

Christoph obtained a J.D. magna cum laude from the Catholic University of Leuven (Belgium) in 2000, and also studied at the Catholic University of Brussels (Belgium) and the Humboldt University of Berlin (Germany).  Prior to joining Luciad in 2009, Christoph was Senior Counsel in the Defense and IT departments of the Washington D.C. law firm Crowell & Moring.  Christoph also served for 4 years as Assistant Professor at the Interdisciplinary Center for Law & IT at the Catholic University of Leuven.

Christoph is a member of the Academy of Scientific Authors (Belgium) and of AFCEA.

 
 

Prof. Dr. Rob de Wijk

Director

The Hague Centre for Strategic Studies (NLD)

 

Rob de Wijk is the founder and non-executive director of HCSS. He studied Contemporary History and International Relations in Groningen, and wrote his PhD dissertation on NATO's 'Flexibility in Response' strategy at the Political Science Department of Leiden University. Mr. de Wijk started his career in 1977 as a freelance journalist and later became lecturer in International Relations at Leiden University's Political Science Department. He also worked at the Ministry of Defense, where he was instrumental in the restructuring of the Dutch armed forces in the early nineties. Other positions he held, include director of the Clingendael Security and Conflict Programme and Professor in the field of International Relations at the Royal Netherlands Military Academy. Currently, he is not only the director of HCSS, but also Professor of International Relations at Leiden University, chairman of the National Security Think Tank (Denktank Nationale Veiligheid) and columnist for the national daily Trouw.

 
 

Colonel John Doody (Ret.) FBCS FCMI CITP IISP MIOD

Interlocutor Services Ltd. (GBR)

 

John Doody is Director of Interlocutor Services Limited, a company established in 2003 to promote Information Assurance and Cyber Security issues both nationally and internationally, the company offers a range of services including Marketing, Communications, Public Speaking, Strategy Reviews, Information Assurance and Information Technology, these services are geared to the strategic level within government and industry. Prior to this John served at CESG/GCHQ for 10 years in the appointment of Head of Information Assurance Customer Services. He has a wealth of knowledge across the whole spectrum of Information Assurance and Cyber Security. In this latter appointment he was a major contributor to CESG’s move to a commercial business footing and promoted a strong external customer relationship and marketing effort. He holds the unique role of having been an Information Assurance Customer (MOD), a member of the National Technical Authority for Information Assurance (CESG) and now a supplier of Cyber and Information Assurance services.

John has also has had a major role as a Non Executive Director within 2 security company as well as providing Strategic Advice to a number of major UK and US IT Security companies. John’s current major role is as the Global Strategic Cyber Security Adviser to Ultra Electronics Limited where he reports directly to the CEO on Cyber Security matters. In this role he has supported a number of successful bids for security programmes.

John is a retired officer of the UK Royal Corps of Signals, a Corps in which he served for 33 years retiring in the rank of Colonel. He is a qualified engineer and has held a number of strategic engineering appointments in the UK Ministry of Defence including system support to PTARMIGAN and WAVELL, the army’s tactical communication and CIS systems, Director in the Procurement Executive as Project Manager for Army Electronic Warfare, Battlefield Target Engagement System (BATES), Air Defence CIS system (ADCIS) and WAVELL and has worked in the R&D environment working on Electronic Warfare Simulation. He has served in many operational theatres including loan service with the Trucial Oman Scouts in what is now the UAE.
John has chaired many international committees dealing with Information Assurance, communications and interoperability. John is well known on the national and international Information Assurance and Cyber Conference circuit where he has chaired many events and has given many talks on Cyber and Information Assurance. John is a founder member of Infosecurity Europe and has attended every show as a speaker, exhibitor and panel chair. Recently he accepted the role of TV event interviewer; the interviews can be seen on the Infosecurity website.

John is a past President and Vice-President of AFCEA UK WEST Chapter and served as a Member at large for AFCEA London in the early 90s. John is also a member of the BCS Community of Security Expertise, a member of the IISP Accreditation Committee and supports the Information Assurance Advisory Council (IAAC).
John is well known in the Cyber and Information Assurance domain having had 54 years experience in defence, government and industry and brings a wealth of knowledge to the Cyber and Information Assurance debate. He is a passionate Cyber and Information Assurance Evangelist.

John is a member of the 2012 Infosecurity Europe Hall of Fame.

 
 

Mr. James E. Edge

General Manager

NAGSMA (invited)

 

James E. Edge became the General Manager for the NATO Alliance Ground Surveillance (AGS) Management Agency (NAGSMA) on 21 January 2013. Mr. Edge leads a diverse team of 50 specialists fielding a system that provides real-time ground battle management and intelligence information from the world’s largest Unmanned Aerial Vehicle.

 

He is responsible for technical and functional integrity of the program through effective resource allocation, financial analysis, strategic planning and exploitation of cutting-edge technology. Mr. Edge oversees contracts in excess of €1.2 billion; he justifies and manages the agency's multi-million Euro annual operating budget.

 

Prior to taking up duty with NAGSMA, Mr. Edge was the Director of International Business at a U.S. engineering and technical service company. There he led the company to its first international contracts and partnerships with European companies. Mr. Edge served NATO prior to the current post as well when he was the Deputy General Manager of the NATO Air Command and Control System Management Agency; NACMA. Under his leadership, NACMA began an upgrade to the baseline system to include critical missile defense capability, entered the multi-year replication (production) phase of the program, and completed a reorganization of the agency that positions NACMA as the leading acquisition agency for NATO's joint and air C2 systems well into the next decade.

 

Mr. Edge's unique combination of business acumen, operational expertise, and diplomacy has resulted in international partnerships for achieving interoperability certifications with Allied forces across a broad spectrum of JISR and air C2 systems. Mr. Edge was the Deputy Director for Strategic Aircraft Systems in the Office of the Under Secretary of Defense, Acquisition, Technology and Logistics, at the Pentagon. He was the Military Advisor to the United States' National Armaments Director for the NATO AGS program. Mr. Edge served with distinction as an operational flight test navigator at the Air Force Flight Test Center. As a program manager at the Aeronautical Systems Center, he led foreign military sales of F-16 aircraft through the Secretary of the Air Force for International Affairs.

 

Mr. Edge earned the Defense Superior Service Medal and is a recipient of the David Packard Excellence in Acquisition Award. He holds a MS in National Resource Strategy from the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, an MBA from Golden Gate University, and a BS in Engineering Technology, from Texas A&M University. He holds Defense Acquisition University Level III certifications in Program Management and Test and Evaluation. He is a Master Navigator with 2700 hours of flying primarily in B-52 and B-1 aircraft. Mr. Edge retired from the United States Air Force on 31 December 2005, in the rank of Colonel.

 
 

Mr. Jean-Paul Faure

Product Strategy Manager for Secure Optical Transport Solution

IP Transport Division

Alcatel-Lucent (FRA)

 

Jean-Paul Faure is Product Strategy Manager, “Secure optical transport solution”, IP Transport division, Alcatel-Lucent, with a particular focus on secure solution for Metro and Data Center interconnection applications.

 

From 1994 to 1998, he worked at the National Office for Aerospace Research (ONERA) on non-linear optical imaging for military applications, and in 1998 he received for this work a PhD in physics from the University Pierre et Marie Curie (Paris).

 

In 1999, he started his career as a research engineer at Alcatel’s ‘Corporate Research Center’, working on optical switching technologies and flexible photonic node architectures for Metro and backbone networks. He later joined the Optics Product Division, contributing to the development of multi-reach transmission platform, and in 2007, he joined the terrestrial Product Line focusing on high bit rate transmission, first at 40Gb/s, then at 100Gb/s. At that time, he was involved in the Alcatel-Lucent 100Gb/s market introduction, as well as early field trials and 100Gb/s deployments with key customers.

 

He holds a Master’s Degree in physics from the University of Paris-Sud (Orsay) in 1992.

 

Author and co-author of 12 patents, several international publications and invited papers, he is member of the Alcatel-Lucent Technical Academy since 2006. He received the ‘Bell Labs President’s Award’ for his contribution to the 100Gb/s Coherent innovation program in 2010, and was appointed ‘Distinguished Member of Technical Staff’ for his contribution to optical transport in 2014.

 
 

Mr. Tom Goodman, CISSP

Business Area Manager, Mission Assurance Solutions

General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc. (USA)

 

Tom Goodman is the Business Area Manager, Mission Assurance Solutions, for General Dynamics C4 Systems, Inc.  In this role, Mr. Goodman is responsible for managing several programs supporting the US intelligence community as well as coalition activities, including the Battlefield Information, Collection, and Exploitation System – Extended (BICES-X) Federated TNE Infrastructure (FTI) for the US BICES-X Program Management Office under the NATO BICES Group Executive (BGX).

Mr. Goodman has over 35 years of experience in the area of information assurance and has held senior positions in defense, healthcare, wholesale distributing, and wireless industries.  He has held senior technical and business development positions in a variety of organizations, including military, civil service, and private sector entities.  Some of his past accomplishments include the implementation of facial recognition technologies for use by law enforcement personnel supporting the 2002 Winter Olympic Games; design and implementation of secure mobile enterprise applications for the White House and the United States Coast Guard; and implementation of managed care support applications for the Department of Defense TRICARE program.  Mr. Goodman is also a veteran of Operation Desert Shield and Desert Storm.

Mr. Goodman is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional and holds a concentration as an Information Systems Security Management Professional.  Mr. Goodman is also certified as an InfoSec Operations Analyst with the Department of Defense.

 
 

Mr. Martin Hill

Vice Chairman of NATO Industrial Advisory Group

Key Account Manager for Thales for NATO and EDA

 

Martin Hill is currently the Key Account Manager for Thales for NATO and the EDA and is based in Brussels.  He is responsible for group relations and business development with the institutions and also has an active role with the national delegations from the eleven countries where Thales has a significant footprint.

 

In 2013 he was elected as Chairman of the NATO Industrial Advisory Group (NIAG) following four years as the Vice Chairman of and after having spent some three years as an active member of the UK delegation to NIAG.

 

In 2000 he was in Paris with Thales Naval France where he was responsible for the US market and implementing a sale of a Thales radar to an export customer under the FMF programme.

 

In 1996 he became Managing Director for Thomson CSF (now Thales) in Malaysia until 2000.  He was responsible for order intake and overseeing the industrial interest of the Group in country. 

 

In 1987 Martin Hill joined Shorts Brothers in Northern Ireland and worked in the in the sales and marketing and strategy departments of their missile division.  He was part of the Shorts team, which conducted the joint venture negotiations with Thomson CSF in 1991 to 1992.

 

Martin Hill was educated in the UK and served in the Royal Navy for some eighteen years.  He served in nuclear and conventional submarines including 18 months as the Gunnery Officer on HMS ANDREW (the last submarine to carry a 4 inch gun in the RN).  His last two jobs were operations officer of HMS HERMIONE and teaching at the School of Maritime.

 
 

Mr. Jean-Youri Marty

Deputy Director Capability, Armament & Technology

RPAS Programme Manager

European Defence Agency

Jean-Youri Marty is deputy Director Capability, Armament and Technology and RPAS Programme Manager at the European Defence Agency which he joined in September 2013.

He was previously assistant Director at the department of industrial affairs in the French Armament Procurement Agency (DGA). From 2008 to 2011 he was a Counselor for armament matters to the French Ambassador to the Political and Security Committee of the European Union.

Prior to this position, he served in the French Ministry of Defence in technical and management positions on several armament programmes in aeronautics and space fields.

Jean-Youri graduated as a military engineer in 1993.

 
 

Prof. Dr. Holger H. Mey

Advanced Concepts

Airbus Defence and Space (DEU)

 

Holger H. Mey, born in 1958 in Flensburg, Germany, works with Airbus Defence and Space, Unterschleissheim near Munich, Germany.

 

Before joining then EADS Defense & Security, which became CASSIDIAN in June 2004 and is now Airbus Defence and Space, Prof. Mey worked for 12 years as a self-employed security policy analyst and consultant in Bonn, Germany. Among many other functions, Prof. Mey served as President & CEO of the Institute for Strategic Analyses (ISA) in Bonn, Germany. Over many years, he was a frequent TV and radio commentator, publisher, and lecturer. Dr. Mey is an Honorary Professor at the University of Cologne, Germany.

 

Prof. Mey began his professional career 1986 as a Research Associate at the Stiftung Wissenschaft und Politik (Foundation for Science and Politics) then at Ebenhausen, Germany. From 1990 to 1992, he served as a Security Policy Analyst on the Policy Planning Staff of the German Minister of Defense. From 1992 to 1994, already self-employed, he became the Security Policy Advisor to the Chairman of the Defense Committee in the German Parliament. In 1992, he founded the ISA and became Chairman and Director. Prof. Mey directed and conducted over 30 studies for various Ministries and Government Agencies.

 

He is a member of many international and national foreign and security policy associations, including the International Institute for Strategic Studies (IISS, London) and the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Auswärtige Politik (the German Council on Foreign Relations, DGAP), Berlin.

 

Prof. Mey published well over 150 articles in major security policy journals, newspapers, and books. He is editor, co-author and author of many books, including "Deutsche Sicherheitspolitik 2030", Frankfurt: Report Verlag, 2001 (English version: "German Security Policy in the 21st Century", New York / Oxford: Berghahn Books, 2004).

 
 

Mr. Gavin Millard

EMEA Technical Director

Tenable Network Security (GBR)

 

Gavin Millard is the EMEA Technical Director for Tenable Network Security. He has worked alongside medium and large enterprises enabling them to address their technology and process challenges for the last fourteen years. Having trained as an ethical hacker, his deep understanding of how attackers approach a breach has empowered him to help hundreds of companies achieve and maintain a known and trusted state for their IT infrastructure. 

 

Gavin is regarded as a thought leader within security, often commenting publically or speaking to audiences about best practices, solving the issues concerning breaches, metric based security and operational efficiency.

 

Previous to joining Tenable, Gavin worked with Tripwire Inc. for over nine years as the EMEA Technical Director, running the Systems Engineering team, helping drive the product roadmaps and working closely with customers to maximize their investment in security. Before Tripwire, Gavin worked in the EMEA security channel with Computerlinks, tasked with consulting on emerging security technologies.

 
 

Mr. Jens Nielsen

Senior Vice President, Head of UAS

Airbus Defence and Space (DEU)

 

Jens Nielsen was born in Svendborg, Denmark, on 28 Sep 1962.

In the Summer of 1990 Jens Nielsen obtained his MoS in Aeronautical Engineering at the Technical University of Munich and he is enjoying soaring since 1986.

 

Between 1994 and 2005 Jens Nielsen worked for the companies BMW Rolls-Royce, Fairchild Dornier and Diehl Avionik in various engineering and project management positions.

Jens Nielsen joined the Electronics Business Unit of EADS Defence and Security in 2005, where he was within the A400M program Chief Engineer and Engineering responsible before he was promoted to Senior Vice President for Mission Avionics and later for Integrated Systems. Since July 1st 2014 he is heading the UAS segment of the new Airbus Defence and Space Division.

 
 

Prof. Dr. Torsten Oltmanns

Partner and Director of Global Marketing & Communications

Roland Berger Strategy Consultants (DEU)

 

Torsten Oltmanns, born in 1964, studied economics at the University of Cologne and, at the same time, trained as an economic and political editor at the Cologne School of Journalism. Torsten Oltmanns is now Partner and Director of Global Marketing & Communications at Roland Berger Strategy Consultants in Berlin and London. He is responsible for marketing at the firm's 50 offices in 36 countries and advises companies and the public sector on strategic positioning issues. Torsten Oltmanns lectures in marketing and communication at the University of Innsbruck and is a visiting fellow of the University of Oxford.

 
 

Mr. Wolfgang Röhrig

Programme Manager & Project Officer Cyber Defence

European Defence Agency

 

Wolfgang Röhrig is the Programme Manager Cyber Defence of the European Defence Agency (EDA). He was born in 1966 in Germany and entered the German Navy as officer candidate in 1985. After completing his studies at the University of the Federal Armed Forces in Hamburg with the degree of MBA in 1990 until 2006 he served in several officer’s positions aboard ships and in staffs of the German Navy and the German Joint Services including several operational deployments (NATO Operation "Sharp Guard", NATO Operation "Active Endeavour", Coalition Operation "Enduring Freedom"). Since the mid of the 1990ies he specialized beside command & control (CJ3) on communications and information systems support (CJ6).  From 2006 to 2010 he worked as staff officer for the CIS Directorate of Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers Europe (SHAPE), being responsible for the entire spectrum of maritime CIS requirements. Between 2010 and 2012 he served as Senior Staff Officer for national and international cooperation on Information Assurance & Cyber Defence at the German Armed Forces IT-Office (IT-AmtBw), Koblenz.  He bears the military rank of Commander. Since March 2012 he is appointed to EDA and became programme manager cyber defence at the beginning of this year.  In his current position he is inter alia responsible for the identification of capability gaps with respect to cyber defence in EU-led military operations, and the development and implementation of solutions for closing these gaps through cooperative projects with EU  member states.

 
 

Mr. Kent R. Schneider

Executive Vice President and Chief Operating Officer, SolPass, LLC

President and Chief Executive Officer, SolPass International LLC (USA)

  

Kent R. Schneider, SolPass LLC’s executive vice president and chief operating officer, brings over 45 years of experience in C4ISR, information technology and cyber security, particularly identity management and access controls, to his role.  He comes to SolPass from the Armed Forces Communications and Electronics Association (AFCEA), where he was international president and chief executive officer for seven years.

 

Mr. Schneider is a 26-year veteran of the United States Army Signal Corps.  He was involved in the early years of Army information technology and focused his career on developing, integrating, and managing command, control, communications, computers, and intelligence (C4I) networks and systems.

 

Upon retiring from the Army in 1994, Mr. Schneider became the director of C4I Initiatives at PRC.  His subsequent positions included defense systems director of Advanced Programs; general manager, Maritime and Ground Systems; vice president and general manager, C3I Systems; senior vice president and general manager, Defense Systems sector; and president, Defense Systems division.

 

Through acquisition, Mr. Schneider joined the Northrop Grumman Information Technology sector in 2001, where he served as president of the Defense Group; president of NGIT Global, the international arm; and vice president of business development.

 

Mr. Schneider earned a bachelor’s degree in management and economics from Augusta College, and a master’s degree in information systems management from the University of Southern California.  He is also a graduate of the National War College.

 
 

Lieutenant Colonel Wolfgang Schneider, DEU AR (Ret.)

Senior Managing Consultant – Defense & Security, Global Business Services

IBM Deutschland GmbH (DEU)

 

Lieutenant Colonel (retired) and graduated Industrial Engineer

 

Career History:

1985 – 2007 German Armed Forces (Bundeswehr):

 

  • Started as a conscript and regular soldier signed up for two years
  • Moved into an officers career in the Airforce
  • Officer training (1987/88)
  • Study at the University of Bundeswehr Hamburg (1988-1992)
  • Education, training and operations as Tactical Air Controller, Air Surveillance Officer, Fighter and SAM Allocator and as responsible Master Controller inside the Control and Reporting Center in Freising (1992-1999)
  • Desk officer in the German Airforce Regional Command South, Messstetten (1999/2000)
  • Company commander Tactical Air Control Company 221, Messstetten (2000/2001)
  • General Staff Officer Course at the Command and Staff College of the Federal Armed Forces, Hamburg (2001-2003)
  • Branch head Modeling and Simulation within the Bundeswehr Center for Transformation, Ottobrunn (2003-2006)
  • Referent at the Air Force Staff of the German MOD (2006/2007)

Since 2007 IBM Germany

 

  • Industry Consultant Public Sector for Defense and Intelligence

 

Key Skills:

 

  • Command and Control / C4ISR
  • Joint Intelligence, Surveillance, Reconnaissance (Joint ISR)
  • Leadership and Management
  • Battle Management Functions
  • Network Enabled Capabilities / Network Centric Operations
  • Modeling and Simulation, Operations Research
  • Cooperation within NATO and EU
  • Solution architectures, especially Operational View
  • Project Manager

 

Some projects:

During military career:

 

  • Drafting of the Concept Modeling and Simulation within the Bundeswehr
  • Participation in the Concept Network Enabled Capabilities within in Bundeswehr
  • Chairman of the EU working group on analytical support to the military capability planning process of the EU

During time at IBM:

 

  • Participation and project management of several research and technology studies around sensor integration, service oriented architectures, cloud technology for the forces and analytics
  • Program Management and conceptual lead for information correlation projects within the area of Joint ISR
 
 

Mr. Bruce Schneier

Chief Technology Officer

Co3 Systems (USA)

 

Bruce Schneier is an internationally renowned security technologist, called a "security guru" by The Economist.  He is the author of 12 books -- including Liars and Outliers: Enabling the Trust Society Needs to Survive -- as well as hundreds of articles, essays, and academic papers.  His influential newsletter "Crypto-Gram" and blog "Schneier on Security" are read by over 250,000 people.  Schneier is a fellow at the Berkman Center for Internet and Society at Harvard Law School, a program fellow at the New America Foundation's Open Technology Institute, a board member of the Electronic Frontier Foundation, and an Advisory Board member of the Electronic Privacy Information Center.  He is also the Chief Technology Officer of Co3 Systems, Inc.

 
 

Lieutenant General Robert M. Shea, USMC (Ret.)

President and CEO

AFCEA International HQ (USA)

 

Lieutenant General (Ret.) Robert M. (Bob) Shea most recently served as the Executive Vice President, Strategic Solutions, for Smartronix, Inc. Hollywood, MD.

 

Prior to leaving active duty, Shea served as the Director, Command, Control, Communications and Computer Systems (C4 Systems), The Joint Staff. He was the principal advisor to the Chairman, Joint Chiefs of Staff on all C4 systems matters within the DoD.

 

His command positions included Deputy Commander, U.S. Forces Japan; Commander of the Marine Component, Joint Task Force Computer Network Defense; Director of the Marine Corps Command and Control Systems School; and Commanding Officer, 9th Communications Battalion, I Marine Expeditionary Force during Desert Shield and Desert Storm. He also served as the Commanding Officer of two communications companies.

 

Among Lieutenant General Shea's previous staff assignments are Director for C4 for the Marine Corps; the Chief Information Officer of the Marine Corps; Director of Intelligence for the Marine Corps; the Director for Command, Control and Communications (J6) for the United States Pacific Command; and various other staff positions in the Marine Corps and Joint community.

Shea earned a M.A. from Central Michigan University. He also attended The Basic School, Advanced Communications Officers' Course, the Marine Corps Command and Staff College, and the Industrial College of the Armed Forces, National Defense University.

 

Lieutenant General Shea is a Director on two corporate boards, an executive partner with a private equity corporation, and an advisor/consultant to several telecommunication and defense corporations. He also has served on study panels for the National Academies and the Defense Science Board.

 

Lieutenant General Shea's awards include: Defense Distinguished Service Medal, DoD Superior Service Medal with gold star in lieu of second award, Legion of Merit with gold star, DoD Meritorious Service Medal, Meritorious Service Medal, Navy Marine Corps Commendation Medal, and Navy Marine Corps Achievement Medal with two gold stars. He is also a recipient of the North American IT Leadership Award from the Rocky Mountain Chapter of the AFCEA and a Federal 100 Award winner.

 
 

Ms. Pamela Warren, CISSP, CIPP

Director Government & Industry Solutions

Palo Alto Networks (USA)

 

Pamela Warren is the Director of Government & Industry Solutions at Palo Alto Networks. She has spent her entire career in the security industry, serving both the U.S. intelligence community and the private sector. During her tenure in private industry, she was McAfee’s Cybercrime Strategist and Director of Critical Infrastructure Protection initiatives and has worked on other key government initiatives for companies across Silicon Valley. Throughout her career, she has engaged government leaders, industry CIOs, Chief Privacy Officers and the law enforcement community to help facilitate the exchange of innovative ideas on the global issues of cybercrime and data loss. Pamela regularly speaks at industry events, has served on many industry and government security forums, and was honored with the Executive Women Forum's “Women of Influence” award for private industry.  She holds a Master’s degree in telecommunications from the George Washington University, and is a Certified Information Systems Security Professional (CISSP) and Certified Information Privacy Professional (CIPP).

 
 

Mr. Matthew Wood

Account Manager, European Defence Team

ESRI (GBR)

 

Matt Wood has worked in the GIS field for over 16 years, with experience in the civil engineering, humanitarian demining and defence domains. Since 2004, he has worked for ESRI Inc. Initially based in the Washington, DC office, he supported customers in the US Department of Defence. In 2007, he moved to the UK, and became a member of the ESRI European Defence Team, supporting the successful implementation of GIS in Defence Enterprises across Europe.

 
 

Lieutenant General Wolfgang Wosolsobe

Director General

EU Military Staff

 

Born in 1955, Lieutenant General Wolfgang Wosolsobe started his military career in 1974 at the “Theresianische Militärakademie” in Wiener Neustadt, Austria and was commissioned as an Infantry Officer in 1977. Assignements as company commander (infantry) and instructor at the Military Academy followed. 

He attended the General Staff Officers Course of the Austrian Armed Forces (1982-1985) and during two following years occupied a post as defence planner. 

In 1987 and 1988, he joined the French “École Supérieure de Guerre Interarmées” and the “Cours Supérieur Interarmées” which offered him the full range of joint staff training and a good command of the French language.  

Two additional years as defence planner (1989-1990) were accompanied by functions as lecturer for strategic management methods at the Austrian Defence Academy and as Chief of Staff of the Territorial Command of Salzburg. 

In 1991, he joined the Austrian Diplomatic Mission in Geneva as a Military Advisor for Disarmament. This 15 month period in Geneva offered, beyond a first experience in multilateral military diplomacy, a broad range of contacts with other Geneva based institutions, including the Graduate Institute for International Studies. 

His international career continued with the assignment as Defence Attaché (colonel) to France, from 1992 to 1997. 

Back to Austria, he took over command of the Austrian Special Forces for the period 1997-1998, where he joined the efforts of his predecessors to pave the way for the international employment of this force.

After his return to the MoD, he was appointed Director for Military Policy in 1999, a post which he occupied until 2005, promoted to Brigadier General in 2001. 

During these 6 years, he contributed to shape the international posture of the Austrian Armed forces they have maintained until today. During the defence reform process, conducted during this period, BG Wosolsobe largely contributed to the adaptation of Austria’s defence policy to new realities, particularly ESDP.  

This laid the groundwork for his appointment as Defence Policy Director during the Austrian presidency of the EU-Council in 2006. From there, he joined Brussels as Military Representative in 2007 and was promoted to Major General in June of the same year.  

During his period as MilRep, he served as Dean of the EUMC in 2009 and 2010.  

In 2012, he was elected to the post of DGEUMS as of 28 May 2013. In March 2013, he was promoted Lieutenant General.

 
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