Cranfield is a specialist UK post-graduate university that is a global leader for education and
transformational research in technology and management.
Simon is director of Cranfield University’s defence and security division, a member of the University’s
senior management team and managing director of a services spin-out company from the
University. Simon is also the chairman of the UK’s Academic-Resilience, Intelligence and Security
Community, and a non-executive director and advisor to numerous technology start-ups.
Simons current academic work sees him involved in national security risk assessment and its
relationship to resilience planning. Alongside this Simon looks at the effect of ‘disruptive’ technology
to Homeland Security as well as skills and education programmes for Government.
Prior to this Simon was the strategy and business development director for the international arm of
Boeing’s Phantom Works, the advanced prototyping arm of the Boeing Company. Simon also spent
many years working for the British Government in advanced research and development.