BAE SYSTEMS - Key Persons


Andrew Gresham

Andrew is the Managing Director for Defence Delivery

Anne Healey

Job Titles:
  • General Manager
Anne Healey was appointed to the role of General Manager, Group Business Development - Canada in April 2014. Her role is to provide a focus for the needs of the Canadian Armed Forces and working to accomplish this through links with local partners, suppliers and prime contractors.

Ben Hudson

Job Titles:
  • Chief Executive, BAE Systems Australia
Ben is the Chief Executive Officer at BAE Systems Australia

Bob Dunlop

Bob is our Business Development Manager in support of the Royal Canadian Navy's Submarines and Surface Ships. Bob also provides support and advice for other major programs in Canada where the company has interests.

Brad Greve - CFO

Job Titles:
  • Group Finance Director
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Charlotte Marshall

Job Titles:
  • External Communications Manager

Chris Grigg

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director
  • Senior Independent Director

Cliff Robson

Job Titles:
  • Group Managing Director, Air
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Crystal E. Ashby

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director

Dame Elizabeth Corley

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director

David Armstrong

Job Titles:
  • Group Managing Director, Digital Intelligence

Dr. Charles Woodburn - CEO

Job Titles:
  • Group Chief Executive Officer
  • Member of the Board of Directors

Dr. Ewan Kirk

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director

Dr. Jane Griffiths

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director

Ed Gelsthorpe - Chief Legal Officer

Job Titles:
  • Group General Counsel

Gabby Costigan

Job Titles:
  • Group Managing Director, Business Development

Gerard O'Reilly

Job Titles:
  • Regional Customer Officer
Gerard leads our business in Asia Pacific (APAC) and is responsible for all aspects of our customer relationships including sales, service delivery and ongoing customer support across our financial services customers in the region. He has been with BAE Systems since 2005 working with our clients in the Financial Services sector and he relocated to Melbourne from Ireland in 2007 to help establish our business in the region. Gerard is a full-time working father of three, and enjoys playing soccer competitively. He holds a UEFA B licence accreditation for soccer which is helpful in the coaching he does with junior teams at his local club.

Glynn Phillips

Job Titles:
  • Group Managing Director Maritime and Land

James Fox

Job Titles:
  • Regional Customer Officer / EMEA Region
James leads our business in Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA) and is responsible for all aspects of our customer relationships in region. This includes sales, service delivery and ongoing customer support across the financial services customers in EMEA. He has spent 15 years at BAE Systems focused on serving financial services customers, and more than 22 years in the technology and software industry. James has previously worked in software product and consultancy businesses delivering real-time technology across government and commercial markets.

Julian Cracknell

Job Titles:
  • Chief Technology & Information Officer

Michael Salas

Michael is the Chief Information and Digital Officer

Mike Foster

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, Financial Services
Mike joined the company in November 2019 from IT services and consulting business, DXC, where he was the Global Account Manager for the Royal Bank of Scotland Group, and prior to that he was the General Manager of the FS sector at Fujitsu. He has a wealth of experience in senior executive and sales leadership roles, working with US, EMEIA and Japanese IT technology companies in the private and public sectors. Mike has specific international industry experience in the banking and insurance sectors, and has developed an extensive network of senior executive relationships following roles at Fujitsu UK&I, CSC, Logica (now CGI), Hewlett Packard UK and InfoTech Enterprises Europe. Mike is married with 3 daughters and lives in Brighton.

Nick Anderson

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director

Nick Haigh

Job Titles:
  • Head of Global External Communications

Nicole Piasecki

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director

Peter Fisher

Job Titles:
  • Product Director
Peter is responsible for the financial services product portfolio and leads our product management and product marketing functions. He has over 25 years of technology portfolio management experience, having held leadership roles in 4Finance, an online consumer lending company. Peter has also spent 19 years working for Nokia, heading up the product management and portfolio planning team of Nokia's digital service and applications business.

Rob Carroll

Rob has been involved with Canadian Naval projects for almost his entire career. He's been with BAE Systems since 1999 and in 2007 moved to his current position leading the Canadian Submarines business as General Manager of BAE Systems Projects (Canada) Ltd.

Simon Barnes

Job Titles:
  • Managing Director, BAE Systems Saudi Arabia

Sir Roger Carr - Chairman

Job Titles:
  • Chairman of the Board of Directors

Stephen Pearce

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • Non - Executive Director

Tania Gandamihardja - CHRO

Job Titles:
  • Group Human Resources Director

Tom Arseneault

Job Titles:
  • Member of the Board of Directors
  • President & Chief Executive Officer of BAE Systems, Inc

Will Selby

Job Titles:
  • Sales Operations
Will is responsible for ensuring the global sales team have the tools and knowledge required to help our financial services clients improve and maintain their financial anti-crime platforms and cyber security capabilities. He has spent the last 5 years working in the financial crime and compliance sector, in varied roles including Business Operations and Project Management, (and is passionate about delivering on our goal of helping customers detect and prevent financial crime).