Management

Chairman & Group Advisory Council Member

The Hon Nicholas Soames MP

Nicholas Soames has been a Conservative Member of the British Parliament since 1983. He was Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 1994–1997 and is a leading expert on Anglo–American defence matters. He was Shadow Secretary of State for Defence and a member of the Shadow Cabinet between November 2003 and May 2005. From 1967–1972 he was an Officer in the British Army. He sits on the Council of the Royal United Services Institute.

Chief Executive Officer & Group Advisory Council Member

Graham Binns

Graham Binns joined Aegis Defence Services Limited as Chief Executive Officer in June 2010. He served for 35 years in the British Army; his last appointment was as the Commandant of the Joint Services’ Command and Staff College.

He has commanded at every level, from platoon to division, and has operational experience in Northern Ireland, Bosnia, Kosovo and Iraq.

In the late 1990s he was Chief of Crisis Plans Branch, Headquarters Allied Forces Southern Europe, in Naples where he led a team responsible for operational level Balkans planning and served as Chief of Staff Headquarters Kosovo Force to an Italian General. His tenure as Commander 7th Armoured Brigade involved operations in the Balkans and the Middle East. He commanded the brigade during the attack into Iraq in 2003. As Assistant Chief of Staff Commitments at HQ LAND he coordinated deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan and was responsible for the provision of Military Support to UK counter terrorist and crisis operations. He attended The Royal College of Defence Studies in 2006. His time in command as General Officer Commanding 1(UK) Armoured Division included a deployment to Iraq in 2007-8. He assumed his previous appointment as Commandant Joint Services Command and Staff College in August 2009.

Director & Group Advisory Council Member

Brigadier James Ellery, CBE

James Ellery is a former British Army Officer with extensive experience of International Affairs. In 2000 he was appointed CBE for his leadership of the new United Nations Mission in the Democratic Republic of Congo. Before joining the Board of Aegis London, he was a senior adviser to the Coalition Provisional Authority in Iraq, and latterly established and ran the 700–strong security framework operation for US Government-funded reconstruction. He returned to Aegis in November 2006 after a year as Head of the United Nations Mission in Southern Sudan.

Non–executive Director & Group Advisory Council Member

Lieutenant General Sir Graeme Lamb KBE, CMG, DSO

Graeme Lamb is a widely respected front line soldier with extensive operational experience. He has commanded on operations at all levels including Lieutenant General which has seen him deployed on all 5 Continents in an advisory, command and leadership role conducting complex regular and irregular Multi-National and Inter-Agency operational activities. He completed his service as The Commander of the UK Field Army. Since returning from full time service with the UK Armed Forces, he has been working for the United States Department of Defence as The Special Advisor to Commander ISAF on Counter Insurgency in Afghanistan and as a Special Advisor to G3 - The Good Governance Group.

Non–executive Director & Group Advisory Council Member

The Right Honourable The Lord Paul Boateng PC DL

Paul Boateng has some 30 years experience in public life in the law, politics and diplomacy. He recently completed a four year term as British High Commissioner to South Africa (2005 - 2009). He was the Member of Parliament for Brent South Constituency from 1987 to 2005 and served as a Cabinet Minister and Chief Secretary to the Treasury between 2002 and 2005. His other government posts include Minister in the Department of Health, Minister of State in the Home Office (Police & Correctional Services) and Financial Secretary to the Treasury. He became a Privy Councillor in 1998. He was admitted as a Solicitor in 1975 and called to the Bar in 1989.

Paul has an extensive knowledge of Africa, where he spent much of his childhood. He has worked on African issues as a Vice Moderator of the World Council of Churches, and as the Prime Minister’s Special Envoy during the sittings of the Africa Commission. He is a frequent writer, broadcaster, and public speaker on the development, financial and governance aspects of globalisation, and holds a number of Honorary Doctorates from Universities in Britain, Ghana and the US.

Director and Company Secretary – UK Corporate

Jonathan Newman

Jo Newman’s career encompasses 18 years in the international banking sector, substantially in the Far East with Jardine Fleming, and thereafter some 18 years involved in a variety of Consultancy roles in the UK, within Financial Services and Corporate business management.