Ross Bailey

For two years, Ross Bailey has led Hewlett-Packard’s Defence Intelligence and ISR campaign, which seeks to enable a single intelligence enterprise and now encompasses big data analytics.

He joined HP following a Royal Air Force career in which he became recognised as an innovative and influential leader in the fields of intelligence and ISR in the air and joint domains. Starting out as an aircraft engineer, he then spent over 20 years as an imagery analyst and intelligence officer, with much of the 1990s deployed in support of Balkan and Iraq air policing. Notable operational tours included: CENTCOM immediately after 9/11 as MA to the UK commander; Chief Intel Chief to the UK commander for the 2003 Iraq Campaign; UK Chief Intel for the Deputy Commander ISAF in Kabul.
In 2005, Ross led the development of the Joint ISTAR Concept, which had the temerity to suggest a pan-DLOD approach to the ISTAR ‘big-data’ challenge and which materialized as Project SOLOMON. His commands included Tactical Imagery-Intelligence Wing, the combined Station Commander RAF Digby and Commander Joint Service Signals Organisation and the Air Warfare Centre, as acting Commandant throughout the 2011 Libyan campaign.