Dave Gordon Email & Phone Number

Bristol, United Kingdom

Leading the team responsible for all Business Development and Future Programmes in the UK reporting directly to the Rolls-Royce Defence Board. Negotiating major support contracts, shaping policy and turning strategy into action through the launch of a number of new programmes beyond our traditional core business including decarbonisation technologies.

Bristol

The Rolls-Royce Heritage Trust promotes and preserves the history and engineering excellence of Rolls-Royce. I'm proud to be Chairman of the Bristol Branch which covers the products and history of the Bristol and Bristol Siddeley companies as well as the famous names of de Havilland, Blackburn and Napier.

Bristol, United Kingdom

Leading a team of 400+ on multiple sites responsible for the design, development, production and sustainment of the propulsion system which provides the vertical lift capability to the F-35B Lightning II STOVL variant. The Rolls-Royce LiftSystem is a multi-billion $ programme serving international customers and requires me to balance a firm focus on day to.

South West England

Board Member for Rolls-Royce on the trade association that champions and supports the interests of the Aerospace, Defence and Space industry in the south west of England.

My remit was to double the size of the Defence Services business in ten years. This required taking a global view of the defence market to identify sources of value, leveraging strategic relationships with key customers and partners and turning growth strategies into executable programmes. This included bringing to market innovative service initiatives.

Developed a Fixed Wing Sector Strategy to align current industrial capabilities with MOD’s future needs, highlighting where existing capabilities needed to be sustained, new capabilities developed, and assessing how the sector structure might evolve over time and be influenced by MOD’s future plans. Led the combat air programme support function delivering.

Lead a team of 60 personnel based on multiple sites in the UK and US to deliver the concurrent development, production and sustainment commitments for the JCA (UK term for JSF) programme to schedule, performance and budgeted cost (£4B over ten year period). Developed a strategy to prepare the RAF infrastructure and enterprise to receive, operate and.

Washington D.C. Metro Area

Lead 30 UK personnel based at 6 sites in the US to support and influence delivery of the JSF programme whilst also meeting UK Customer requirements. Negotiated the JSF Production, Sustainment and Follow-on Development MoU which formalised the business arrangements between the 9 JSF international partners for the total project lifecycle. Represented UK.

UK And Germany

I first joined MOD in 1991 as a fast stream graduate engineer. Since then I held a series of increasingly senior positions to include: Assistant Director Intelligence Simulation and Information Systems, Head of Information Superiority in the Future Business Group, Principal for Land Digitisation, and head of the NATO Eurofighter and Tornado Management.

Meng, Mechanical Engineering

Business Management