Lord (David) Willetts served as the Member of Parliament for Havant, as a Paymaster General in the last Conservative Government and as a Minister for Universities and Science, including responsibilities for Space.​

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Also, David created the Newton Fund whilst Science Minister to promote science and research capabilities.

Mischa Dohler is a full Professor in Wireless Communications at King’s College London, driving cross-disciplinary research and innovation in technology, sciences and arts. He is a Fellow of the IEEE, the Royal Academy of Engineering, the Royal Society of Arts (RSA), the Institution of Engineering and Technology (IET); and a Distinguished Member of Harvard Square Leaders Excellence.

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He is a serial entrepreneur; composer & pianist with 5 albums on Spotify/iTunes; and fluent in 6 languages. He acts as a policy advisor on digital, skills and education issues. He has had ample coverage by national and international press and media.

Simon advises the leadership teams and boards of companies on how they communicate value to their investors and key stakeholders. His experience includes defence contracting, border management infrastructure, manned security, and the technology and support services sectors.

 

Simon stood for Parliament at the 2010 and 2015 general elections. He is a Member of the Order of the British Empire, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Arts and a Freeman of the City of London.

Jim is an experienced businessman with extensive knowledge in cross domain intelligence architectures and solutions. He is the founder of a successful technical ISR product development company and has partnered with global military and intelligence organisations in North America, UK, Europe, AMEA, and SEA.

 

Jim’s experience building a global specialist defence manufacturing and operational support business has involved winning multi-million £ government contracts. Jim is also experienced within the operational sphere, having conducted and led a high number of nationally strategic covert special forces operations.

Jeremy served in the Royal Marines and Special Forces for over 30 years. His diverse military career has left him with a broad range of useful skills including extensive experience of understanding and working with people in multi-cultural environments, and operating in often stressful and complex situations spanning peacekeeping, combating organised crime, countering terrorism and war fighting. 

 

Jeremy held a broad range of command appointments in the UK Special Forces and wider Royal Marines. He has been responsible for brokering and establishing political, legal and administrative arrangements to enable a variety of complex military operations in the UK and abroad and for managing the individual and collective training requirements for large numbers of personnel in support of a wide range of activities. He was involved in all of the UK's major conflicts since 1981 and was awarded the Conspicuous Gallantry Cross for his role on field operations.

 

His more recent broad commercial experience has seen him planning and executing complex security risk mitigation tasks for both private and multi-national clients in Europe, Africa, Latin America and the Far East.