IAN GODDEIAN GODDEN
CHIEF EXECUTIVE, SBAC

Ian Godden is the Chief Executive of the Society of British Aerospace Companies and took up his appointment on 1 August 2007.

Ian is widely experienced in the industry and has worked in the USA and Europe as an engineer, management consultant and entrepreneur. For the last 20 years he has been heavily involved in the international aviation, aerospace and defence industry on a wide range of strategic affairs, having consulted for many of the major US and European corporations.

Ian has held leadership roles in strategy consulting, including UK Managing Partner of Booz Allen and Hamilton and as a member of its worldwide aerospace and defence practice. He was also UK Managing Partner of Roland Berger, the Munich-based European Strategy Consultancy, and a Senior Adviser to the Parthenon Group, the Boston-based strategy consultancy.

During the 1990s Ian worked for the UK, US, South African, Dutch and German Governments on various aspects of their defence policies. Additionally in his career to date he has held a number of non-executive board positions the most recent being with Havelock Europa Plc, E2V Technology Plc and Glenmore Energy Inc.

Ian is married with two children and in his rare moments of spare time he enjoys sailing and writing.