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Jan retired from the British Army as an Infantry Colonel, after a career which included both significant operational experience and extensive procurement and equipment development expertise. Jan was competitively selected for the full, year-long Division 2 weapons technology course at the Royal Military Academy of Science, followed by postings as a senior technical officer in operational theatres and the Ministry of Defence, where he analysed and led on complex procurement issues for Ministers and the Army Board, with responsibility for introduction of new equipment across the British army. After 2 years as strategic and policy director at the UK’s tri-service Defence Academy, Jan’s final military role was as an adviser to the MOD, leading policy development in what was then the UK’s only cross-departmental strategic think-tank - the Advanced Research and Assessment group. Following his military career, Jan lectured at Cranfield University at postgraduate level.

Having relocated with his family to Australia, he has spent the subsequent decade working with Arican in an advisory role on a range of high-value Federal and State government contracts, both as part of bid teams, and in a leadership role. These have spanned Defence, Home Affairs, Construction and Service Delivery engagements.

Jan has an MSc in Design of Information Systems from Cranfield University, and holds the award of Member of the City and Guilds Institute in the UK (MCGI) – the institute’s highest professional award for strategic leadership and organisational innovation. He brings extensive practical experience and deep theoretical knowledge to his areas of responsibility and is Arican’s subject matter expert for Australian Industry Content (AIC) and risk management advice.

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Peter’s first career was as an Infantry officer in the British Army. He is a graduate of the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst, and the Army Staff College at Camberley, including the technical staff course. His 27- year service concluded with Strategy and Policy roles in the Ministry of Defence. He emigrated to Australia in 2008.  His initial commercial role was as the Operations Manager for a Defence and Security Technology services and materiel provider, for which the primary customer was the Department of Defence. 

Peter has worked with Arican for over a decade, providing advice at the strategic and operational levels, mainly to Defence Industry clients, as well as new entrants into the sector, delivering or bidding into Defence.

Broadening experience, latterly, he has managed the Asia Pacific market in terms of strategy, business development and operations for a global engineering services provider, focussing on the floating energy production sector. 

He is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors International Directors’ Course.

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James leads the Arican UK business. In a similar vein to Arican’s Pete Shaw in the North American sector, he supports UK contractors looking to market entry and business opportunities in the defence and national security sectors in Australia. Additionally, with Arican colleagues, he provides support to Australian and US businesses seeking market entry assistance in the UK.

In 2022, he retired from the British Army as a Major General. His last post was Director Land Warfare with responsibility for leading, organising and managing the Army’s delivery of training across the UK and determining the Army’s future training transformation. Previously he was Commander British Forces Cyprus and Administrator of the Sovereign Base Areas in Cyprus. His diplomatic experience also involved being the UK's Military Attaché in Washington DC. He has a deep aviation background having been an officer in the Army Air Corps.

He is a graduate of the UK Defence's Higher Command and Staff Course, and is now based just outside Salisbury, Wiltshire.

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A graduate of the Royal Military College, Duntroon and former Infantry and Intelligence Officer in the Australian Army, Stephen (Steve) offers Arican’s clients strategic level

service insights, alongside 40 years in executive leadership and management roles in Defence, Government and the Private Sector. 

Steve has extensive national security knowledge as a senior Intelligence Officer and has advised Government on geopolitical and strategic risk to inform Cabinet decision making. Notably, he has held senior analyst level positions in national intelligence agencies, International Policy (as a member of a Defence White Paper Team) with the Department of Defence and has served as a Senior Adviser to the Assistant Minister for Defence Industry, Science and Personnel and the Minister for Veterans Affairs. 

Having also worked extensively in the Information Technology sector, winning transformational contracts (over $100m) for large Tier 1 companies across Federal and State Government, Stephen excels in contract negotiations and creating sustainable long term revenue streams for the companies for which he has worked. To complement his work experience, he holds a Bachelor of Arts, UNSW (History/English) and a Master of Arts, ANU (Strategic Studies).