Craig Cowan

Craig Cowan was educated at Campbell College, Belfast and the Royal Military Academy, Sand hurst before being commissioned into the Royal Engineers in 1984. He served as a combat engineer and diving supervisor in Germany, Canada and UK for the next 8 years. In 1992 he graduated from the Army Survey Course, Royal School of Military Survey and joined 512 Specialist Team Royal Engineers (STRE) serving in the United States, the Republic of Maldives, and Zimbabwe. He then served: in Germany(and Bosnia) with Headquarters 1 (UK) Armoured Division; in UK with 42 Engineer Regiment; as a Squadron Commander at the Joint Air Reconnaissance and Intelligence Centre (JARIC); in the Directorate of Military Operations in UKMOD. He served as Chief Geographic Officer, Joint Force Command, Naples and as the Geospatial lead in the Defence Intelligence Staff (MOD, Whitehall) before taking up a post with the Defence Intelligence Liaison Staff North America in Washington DC in April 2008. During this tour he served as a UK liaison officer to NGA and completed a tour in Afghanistan before leaving the Army as a Lt Col in October 2011 and joining Exelis VIS in a Business Development role focused on Defence and Security.