David King CMI GCGI MIET

Regarded leadership in defence, market development and business growth. Director experience across a range of defence and aerospace technologies and services with a combined total of 36 plus years with the Royal Air Force, Metrics, Airbus, Raytheon UK and Thales. Extensive international experience in winning and delivering defence solutions and services and has spent the last 12 years working in the Middle East (Saudi Arabia, Qatar, UAE, Oman, Jordan). Successfully won and led the customer engagement and oversight for a range of $multi-million programmes in UK, Europe and Middle East and North Africa. Led the establishment of Middle East defence Joint Ventures and Offset and IKIP opportunities and solutions, establishing strategies and business winning teams to ensure success. Highly regarded senior relationship management professional in the Middle East. In addition to defence programmes responsibilities, I was responsible for UK MoD and Government Customer Relationships across the MENA region. Capabilities Business Winning Strategy • Leadership • Market Development • Multi-national Leader/Mentor • influencing. Defence Transformation • HRH & Ministerial CRM • Stakeholder Management • Partnering & Ventures • Aircraft and Defence Systems Subject Matter Expert • Tactical and strategic ISR •Product Marketing • Business Corporate Governance • Risk Management and problem solving • Training and instructional expert • IT literate – MS Word, Power point • CRM tool proficient – Salesforce • Cognos • Capture Management• Sales and Customer Management • Earned Value Management • Risk Management• CRM• Leadership• Team Leadership• Sales• Relationship Management• Key Account Management.