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Ian King
Chief Operating Officer UK/Rest of the World
Ian King joined Marconi in 1976 as a graduate entrant. He spent the next ten years in manufacturing at the company’s defence electronics manufacturing operations in Scotland and Portsmouth. From 1986-92 Ian was Finance Director of Marconi Defence Systems, a business specialising in missiles, avionics, airborne radar and electronic warfare. There he introduced programme management and project reporting systems, which were adopted as the Marconi Electronic Systems standards. As Finance Director of Marconi Electronic Systems from1992 to 1998, Ian controlled major acquisition and joint venture transactions, including Ferranti, Space, Sonar, Alenia Marconi Systems and the US acquisitions of Tracor and Hazeltine. During this period he was appointed a non-executive director of the Canadian Marconi company, a publicly quoted North American company, and director of Marconi’s two Anglo/French joint ventures in Space and Sonar. Ian was the first Chief Executive of Alenia Marconi Systems, the joint venture between Marconi and Finmeccanica of Italy formed in December 1998. Main activities of this £1.2bn company are ground and naval radar, missiles systems, air traffic management, command and control, simulation and synthetic environments, engineering, software, systems design and manufacturing. On completion of the BAE SYSTEMS/Marconi merger at the end of November 1999, Ian moved to the position of Group Strategy and Planning Director. There he reported to Chief Executive John Weston and was responsible for development of the group strategy, delivery of the new integrated strategic plans and budgets and group transactions activity. Ian was appointed to the post of Group Managing Director for Customer Solutions & Support (CS&S) at the start of 2001 responsible for growing a support and services business in the UK and international markets. CS&S supported customers' military capability in areas such as supply chain solutions and logistics management; spares; maintenance, repair and overhaul; upgrades; technical information services; training; facilities management; and manpower services. In addition to leading the CS&S business, Ian was responsible for the integration of the Alvis business into a new Land Systems business following its acquisition in September 2004. In January 2007 Ian was appointed as a Director of BAE Systems plc and took up the position of Chief Operating Officer for the UK and Rest of World organisation, responsible for all UK and RoW businesses (excluding our US-led businesses). The UK and Rest of the World organisation employs approximately 45.000 employees, across five operating groups including the Company’s joint ventures and Home Market Operations. |
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