Gerard Foley
Executive Advisor
Ged is an experienced Aerospace & Defence C-Suite Executive with over 40 years’ experience in the commercial, federal government, and private sectors in Australia and internationally.
He offers clients visionary leadership, innovation, transformation, revenue growth and enhanced operational efficiency through a comprehensive, experience-based toolkit. He provides strategic, unbiased advice that aids in organisational decision-making focused on diagnosing threats and prescribing strategies to address them.
He has a proven track record identifying, analysing and simplifying key elements of highly complex problems and articulating effective solutions. As an agile thought-leader experienced across many government agencies and commercial organisations, Ged thrives in B2B, B2G and G2G contexts.
As a strategic technologist, veteran and industry specialist, he leverages deep technical mastery with strategic and financial acumen, political influence and policy knowledge to achieve outstanding results.
Ged is a graduate of the Royal Military College Duntroon and the Australian Defence Force Academy. He holds an honours degree in electrical engineering from the University of New South Wales and a master’s degree in Defence Technology from Cranfield University, U.K. He is a Fellow of Engineers Australia, a Chartered Professional Engineer, and is listed on several international and domestic engineering registers.