Management Information

Group Advisory Council & Boards of Directors

The Group Advisory Council and Aegis Group’s Divisional Directors comprise industry professionals, some of whom are experienced at the highest levels of political/military engagement, both nationally and internationally. Others are former high-ranking military officers and industry executives with impeccable careers and achievements. Brief biographical descriptions of each member are provided below.

Chairman (Non-executive) - Group Advisory Council

Field Marshal The Right Honourable Lord Inge KG GCB PC DL

Peter Inge has experience at the highest levels of political/military engagement both nationally and internationally in a long and distinguished military career that included appointments of Chief of the General Staff (professional head of the British Army) and Chief of the Defence Staff (professional head of the United Kingdom’s Armed Forces). He is a Knight of the Garter and Privy Councillor and served on the Butler Committee, which examined the use of intelligence during the Iraq War of 2003. He is an adviser to Investcorp and BAE Systems, and a consultant to OWR AG (Germany).

Group Advisory Council Member – Founder Shareholder

Lieutenant–Colonel Tim Spicer OBE

Tim Spicer is the visionary behind Aegis’s strategic development. During his 20 year military career he saw active service in Northern Ireland, the Falklands campaign, the Gulf war and Bosnia, as well as serving in the Far East, Cyprus and Germany. Tim’s key appointments included Chief of Staff of an Armoured Brigade, Instructor at the Army Staff College, Staff Officer at the Directorate of Special Forces, Military Assistant to General Sir Peter de la Billiere, Military Assistant to General Sir Michael Rose in Bosnia and Commanding Officer of 1st Battalion Scots Guards. In 1992 Tim was awarded the OBE for operational service in Northern Ireland.

During his military career he developed extensive knowledge of intelligence, counter terrorism, protective security and media relations. Since 1996 he has been at the forefront of the development of the private security industry worldwide and has been a very significant contributor to the debate over the industry’s global contribution to government security initiatives. Since leaving the Army he has had a broad exposure to the wider industry sector and has refined the focus of Aegis from lessons learned over 10 years. In 1999 he set up his own private security consultancy which ultimately led to the establishment of Aegis Defence Services Ltd in 2002 alongside three co–founding partners. Since that date he has overseen the rapid growth of the company, and the breadth and quality of its range of services.

In addition to Aegis’s generic expansion and growth, he led and won the $300m prime US Government tender in 2004 to provide core reconstruction security support services in Iraq. This contract was the largest ever US government contract awarded to a UK company in this sector.

Group Advisory Council Member - Founder Shareholder

Mark Bullough

Mark Bullough is a founder shareholder of Aegis and, together with his three co-founders, oversees the strategic development of the Aegis Group worldwide. He was Managing Director during the first eight years of Aegis’s existence and was primarily responsible for driving the growth and development of the business. In addition he supervised and directed the sales and marketing function with a particular focus upon client needs and service development and was the company’s primary interface with the marketplace and for client relations. His business experience has encompassed twenty years of managing start up and high growth merchant banking and other businesses in the Middle East, the Subcontinent, the Soviet Union and South East Asia and he aggressively uses the knowledge, relationships and understanding forged during these years, to the benefit of Aegis.

After spending 8 years in the British Army, where he served on operations in a close team with Tim Spicer, his co-founder, as well as spending two years detached service as Equerry in the Royal Household, he subsequently joined the merchant bank, Flemings, where he swiftly built a new business in the Middle East, generating significant revenue streams during the eight years that he lived and worked in the Gulf. Returning to London and on promotion to Director he formed a number of joint ventures in the Soviet Union in a personal venture with third party investors. In 1991 he moved to Bombay where he established the first foreign investment banking operation and built it to a premier position during his five years in India. After a posting as a strategic planner at the Jardine Fleming head offices in Hong Kong, simultaneously overseeing development of Group business in India, Pakistan and Sri Lanka, he moved, as a Group Executive Director, to Kuala Lumpur where he managed a variety of Malaysian businesses, once again establishing the premier investment banking brand in that country.

He left Flemings shortly after its acquisition by Chase Manhattan in 2001 and co-founded Aegis shortly thereafter.

Group Advisory Council Member – Founder Shareholder

Jeffrey Day

Jeffrey Day is the founder shareholder who has been responsible since the business started for directing and managing all aspects of commercial management, business administration, regulatory compliance, finance, legal and procurement, and provided the key commercial experience and strategic focus upon the management disciplines required for a very high growth company. As Joint Managing Director of the company he was primarily responsible for all aspects of internal management and direction whilst his co-founders faced outwards on operations and business development. As the company has developed, and in particular since the award of its US government contract in Iraq, where he led the contractual negotiations, he has overseen Aegis’s increasingly sophisticated financial, legal and compliance activities and maintained oversight over all regulatory, commercial and contractual issues.

An experienced Chief Executive and board member of various private companies in diverse sectors (textiles, electronics and engineering) he has wide experience of start ups, strategic development, acquisitions and disposals. A dynamic entrepreneur with broad business experience gained over the past thirty years, he has also operated as a non-executive director alongside institutional investors and as a trustee of private investment trusts.

He co-founded Aegis in 2002.

Group Advisory Council Member – Founder Shareholder

Dominic Armstrong

Dominic Armstrong is President of Aegis’ Advisory Division, which has developed a reputation for excellence worldwide and is increasingly quoted as an authoritative commentator on risk and security. His background is in investment banking in Europe and Asia specialising in research, strategy and economic analysis.

He spent 14 years in investment banking, based both in Europe and Asia, for Robert Fleming and was a Head of Research and Investment Strategy for Jardine Fleming in Asia where, between 1994 and 1998, he built and ran the No. 1 rated international research team in Malaysia, covering all aspects of geopolitical and macro economic analysis leading up to and during the Asian “meltdown” of the late 1990s.

In 1999 he moved to ABN AMRO in Singapore as Managing Director and Head of Research of ABN AMRO Asia Securities where he built and managed teams of independent research analysts covering SE Asian equities in the wake of the Asian crisis, as well as being responsible for writing and marketing investment strategy to the leading global institutions.

Dominic became one of the four founder directors of Aegis Defence Services Limited in 2002, as the Head of Aegis Advisory, specialising in research, intelligence gathering, analysis of commercial risk and in interpreting and guiding the politics of international deal-making.

Group Advisory Council Member (Non–executive)

General Sir Roger Wheeler GCB CBE

Roger Wheeler had a long and distinguished military career. As Chief of the General Staff, the professional head of the British Army, he brings to Aegis experience of the highest levels of political/military engagement both nationally and internationally. He is a member of the Advisory Board of Thales UK and the Serious Organised Crime Agency. He is a Former Constable of HM Tower of London.

Group Advisory Council Member (Non–executive)

Sir John Birch KCVO CMG

John Birch has extensive experience of diplomatic and international affairs gained in a long and distinguished career as a diplomat, which included appointments as UK Ambassador to the United Nations and to Hungary. He was Director of the British Association for Central and Eastern Europe from 1995 to 2004. He is Vice–Chairman of the Council of University College London, Chairman of the Advisory Board of the School of Slavonic and East European Studies and a member of the Royal Institute of International Affairs.

Chairman – UK Corporate & 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 – UK Corporate & Group Advisory Council Member

Major General Graham J Binns CBE DSO MC

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.

Non–executive Director – UK Corporate & Group Advisory Council Member

The Right Honorable The Lord 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.