The heart and soul of MAST events – the MAST conference – is organised by an international committee of authoritative and highly respected senior government, academic and industry leaders (the ‘MASTers’).

The committee will set and administer unprecedented, high standards for the MAST conference. The resulting programme – featuring topics and papers agreed by committee consensus – will deliver a unique forum within which specialists can discuss and debate prominent maritime technology and operations issues (not covered by any other event) and work together to solve common problems.

MAST guarantees exclusive access to the world’s leading thinkers on maritime and joint-operations capabilities, concepts and technology.

The committee

Chairman

Fabrizio Martello
Senior Advisor – Finmeccanica
Italy

Past Chairman

Rear Admiral Bertil Bjorkman
Former Defence Attaché to United States and ex-Director Produktion FMV (Swedish Defence Materiel Administration)
Sweden

Founding Member

Jean-Luc Lambla
Corporate Engineering Director – Thales Group
France

Executive Advisors

Don McCormack
Technical Director – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
United States
Admiral Kate Paige
President, Mark India LLC & Special Advisor to U.S. Strategic Command’s Strategic Advisory Board, US MoD
United States
Admiral Ennio Piantini
Director General Naval Armaments (Retired), Italian Navy
Italy
Admiral J. Guy Reynolds
President – Naval Submarine League
United States
Fleet Vice-Admiral (ret’d) Xavier Rolin
Naval Advisor to Chairman/CEO – Thales Group
France
Dr. John Sirmalis
Technical Director (Retired) – Naval Undersea Warfare Centre NAVSEA
United States

Integrated Systems Committee Chair

Rear-Admiral (ret’d) Bertil Bjorkman
Ex-Director, Produktion – FMV (Swedish Defence Materiel Administration)
Sweden

Surface Committee Joint Chairs

Thierry Brizard
Vice President, Research & Technology – Thales Naval Systems
France
Dr. Hans Dieter Ehrenberg
Head of Marine Systems Development, Defence & Communications Systems – ATLAS Elektronik
Germany

Undersea Committee Chair

Dr. Paul Lefebvre
Technical Director – Naval Undersea Warfare Center Division Newport
United States

Committee Members

James van Antwerp
Technical Director – Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Division Keyport)
United States
Rear Admiral Charles J. Beers
Vice President – Maritime Systems – Lockheed Martin Corporation
United States
Professor Rafael Hervias Bellido
Professor of Naval Combat Systems – Politechnical University of Cartagena and Escuela Tecnica Superior de Armas Navales
Spain
Jerry Bradshaw
Technical Director, Undersea Technology – Raytheon
United States
Patrick Carnie
Maritime Platforms Strategy Manager, QinetiQ
United Kingdom
Alain Carof
Technical Director, DSIS Information & Security Systems Division – DCNS
France
Janis Cocking
Chief Maritime Platforms Division – DSTO
Australia
Matthias Conrad
Senior System Engineer – L3 Communications ELAC Nautik GmbH
Germany
Rear-Admiral (Armaments) Jacques Cousquer
Head of Naval Systems & Architectures – DGA
France
Captain Jan Dobkowski
Deputy Director, Research & Development – R&D Marine Technology Centre
Poland
François-Marie Duthoit
R&T/Innovation Director – DCNS Group
France
Captain Radamanthys Fountoulakis
Director, Naval Educational Directorate – Hellenic Navy General Staff
Greece
Captain Kunio Fujisawa
Senior Manager, Radio Application Division – NEC Corporation
Japan
Professor René Garello
Professor, Image & Information Processing & IEEE/OES-MTS JOAB Chair – ENST Bretagne
France
Lyn-Markus Giersch
Office for Defence Procurement (Naval branch) – BWB/Ministry of Defence
Germany
Dip-Ing Hendrik Goesmann
Head of Naval Division – Gabler Maschinenbau GmbH
Germany
Rear-Admiral Ret’d Jan Jaeger
Manager – Admiral Consulting
Norway
Patrick Keyzer
Business Developer Maritime Operations – TNO Defence, Security & Safety
The Netherlands
Professor Qihu Li
Institute of Acoustics
People’s Republic of China
Dr. Miles Libbey
Director Advanced Solutions – Lockheed Martin MS2
United States
Rear-Admiral François-Régis Martin-Lauzer
Director, NATO Undersea Research Center
Italy
George McNamara
Chief Development Officer – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
United States
Thomas Meurling
Vice President, Solution Concepts – Reson Global Group
United States
Dr William Miceli
Office of Naval Research (ONR) Global
United Kingdom
Bill Mildon
Vice President, Technology – Ametek
United States
Matt Miller
Director, Mine Defense Systems – ITT Corporation
United States
Bernie Myers
Adjunct Scientist – ONR
United States
Col NS Ng Seng Leong
Progam Director – Underwater Warfare, DSO
Singapore
Francesco Noschese
Technical Director, Orizzonte Sistemi Navali
Italy
Patricia Woody
Department Head, C/90 – Naval Surface Warfare Center
United States
Ralf Siegfried
Head of Systems Engineering – L-3 Communications ELAC Nautik
Germany
Dr. Delbert (Ace) Summey
Technical Director – Naval Surface Warfare Center (Panama City)
United States
Timothy Troske
Technical Director – Port Hueneme Division, Naval Surface Warfare Center – NAVSEA
United States
Rear-Admiral Stephane Verwaerde
Deputy Chief of Staff – Plans and Programmes – French Navy
France
Captain Bo Wallander
Director New Project Development – Saab Microwave Systems
Sweden
Dr David Wyllie
Associate – AADI
Australia
George Zvara
International Program Coordinator – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
United States

Conference Administrators

Warren Edge
Business Director – Evolutionary International Events
United Kingdom
Jackie Baron
Business Director – Evolutionary International Events
United Kingdom

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Project Specialist Principal, Lockheed Martin, USA

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