Kevin Shaw

Kevin Shaw served 34 years in the Royal Navy in a wide variety of appointments as both a communications and data engineer supporting global military operations in NATO, International and Joint Service organisations. In his earlier career, he led research in both Position Navigation and Timing (PNT) and Communication Satellite Technologies, moving on to manage SKYNET Satcom Service delivery and subsequently exploit commercial space-based services. On leaving the Navy, he moved back to mainstream satcom services for Defence as the SKYNET 6 Programme Director and subsequently in a technical and strategic advisory role, designing the assured systems architecture required to support mobile warfighters of the next 2 decades. A Chartered Electrical Engineer with a PhD in Electromagnetic Propagation at Extra Low Frequencies, he considers himself a well-rounded communications engineer.