Strategy in the aerospace and defense industry

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Date:

Thursday 23 February 2012 6:00pm - 8:00pm

Speaker:

Richard Deakin (National Air Traffic Services (NATS))

Venue:

Lawley Lecture Theatre, Kingston Hill campus

Series:

Strategy into Practice

The latest Strategy into Practice seminar brings in Richard Deakin, CEO of National Air Traffic Services (NATS) to discuss exploiting strategic trends in the aerospace and defence industry for sustainable business growth.

The discussion will include:

• A brief overview of NATS (National Air Traffic Services)
• The trends in the global growth of civil air traffic and the defence market
• How these trends can be exploited to create competitive advantage
• Summary of the NATS strategy development and analyses (i.e. How NATS exploited those trends)
• Q&As

On April 1st, 2010 Richard Deakin was appointed as Chief Executive Officer of National Air Traffic Services (NATS). He was previously Senior Vice President of Thales Group's Air Systems Division based in Paris, where he was responsible for a £1.8bn division covering air defense, ballistic missile defense, radar and air traffic management systems.

Richard has over 20 years experience of major programmes in the aerospace and defence industry sector with BAE Systems, TRW Aeronautical Systems and GKN Aerospace Services.

He joined British Aerospace in 1982 as an engineering apprentice and spent 17 years with the company in a variety of roles covering electronic warfare, manufacturing operations where he was Head of Airbus Wing Manufacturing for the single aisle product range, business development in the Asia Pacific region, and customer support. Amongst the positions he held, were as assistant to the then CEO, Sir Richard Evans and subsequently he moved to a position as VP Commercial Aerospace based at Farnborough.

Richard then moved to TRW Aeronautical Systems as European Operations Director where he ran 9 factories in the UK, France and Germany producing high precision aerospace systems such as power generation, engine digital control systems and fly-by-wire control systems.

Prior to joining Thales in January 2004 he spent several years as Group Director - Programmes with GKN Aerospace Services, where his responsibilities included the Airbus A380, Boeing 7E7 and F/A-22 programmes.

Richard’s initial position in Thales was as Managing Director of the Airborne Systems Business Group in the UK. Following a reorganisation of the company in June 2004, he assumed responsibility for the newly formed Aerospace Division, which comprised military and civil aerospace operations in the UK including ISTAR and UAV operations, along with Naval and Land EW and ground based surveillance radar systems.

A Chartered Engineer, Richard holds a first class honours degree in Aeronautical Engineering from Kingston University and an MBA from Cranfield School of Management. He is also a Fellow of the Royal Aeronautical Society, and was awarded an Honorary Doctorate in Engineering from Kingston University in January 2007.

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