Warfighter Podcast

A graduate in Aeronautics & Astronautics from Southampton University, Colin previously served in the Royal Navy, and has over 17 years’ experience in the defence industry.

On leaving the armed forces, Colin joined Leonardo Helicopters, working on the assembly line supporting the build of AH-64, Merlin and Lynx aircraft at Leonardo Helicopters. From there he moved to the training division where he led the design, development, and implementation of advanced mission training systems. He was responsible for development of the EDA Helicopter Tactics training system.

Colin went on to establish the UK office for Bohemia Interactive simulations and became the group COO, working across the UK, Europe and North America offices. Colin left Bohemia in 2015 and now works with a number of training and simulation organisations in key leadership positions, supporting their growth in the UK, Europe and North America.

British Army Officer turned technology entrepreneur; In 2014 Tom deployed to Helmand Province, Afghanistan, providing British rotary wing support (in close partnership with the US Marine Core Aviation Wing) to coalition forces.

Since leaving the military Tom has used his passion for taking business ideas and innovations from “zero to one” and has founded start-ups in the digital media and defense technology sectors. Most recently, as the Chief Product Officer at SimCentric, Tom has been the driving force behind combining, COTS, Virtual Reality HMD’s with the world leading open source Unreal Engine to provide point of need dismounted combat training solutions to Militaries and Governments worldwide.

*Click the YouTube icon below to see Tom in action on the BBC's technology program: BBC Click*