Robbie Boyd is a Defence Security and Resilience Bank Development Group senior leader and CEO of Encompass BV. His 40 years of experience in Defence, Industry and Security includes over a decade on combat operations at every level and experience as a practitioner at the strategic and grand-strategic level. A soldier, innovation industry senior leader, NED and Strategic Advisory Board member for several European Defence and Innovation companies, he is a regular contributor to the United Kingdom’s Defence Academy, RUSI (where he holds a Fellowship) and IISS. He is a Senior Fellow at OPEWI; Europe’s War Institute.
Before establishing Encompass, he led Gartner’s consulting across NATO and EU Defence as a Managing Partner. Prior to that he was a Brigadier General in the British Army, serving as the principal political/military advisor to the Chair of NATO’s Military Committee, NATO’s most senior military appointee.