Executive Vice-Chairman: Michael Cunningham OBE

Joined the Royal Air Force in 1965 where he flew on Canberra, Buccaneer and Tornado Squadrons. He left the RAF in the rank of Group Captain at the request of the Saudi Government to act as senior advisor to UK Ministry of Defence and British Aerospace ('BAe'). Within BAe he was promoted to Director of The Defence Systems Division. In 1993, he left BAe to pursue his own business interests whilst retaining a UK Government contract to remain available as senior advisor to the Royal Saudi Air Force. He carried out a comprehensive review of former Soviet technologies on behalf of the Russian Space Ministry, for which he was awarded the order of Yuri Gargarin in 1993. He continued to work in the area of Defence Conversion and, in 1999, selected software technology from the UK Ministry of Defence for development in the commercial market. He financed the launch of the technology within a commercial framework, and today, with further investment from senior corporate partners and major funds, the new company is in revenue.  In recent years, through a new subsidiary company, Sustainable Project Development Group, he brought together a range of innovative technologies. Mr Cunningham was honoured by the Queen with the award of the MBE in 1975 and the OBE in 1985.