After a distinguished 35 year Army career, Stephen has undertaken a variety of advisory and NFP board roles. Stephen Is Chairman of CI-ISAC Australia, a NFP company providing Cyber Threat Intelligence sharing services to critical Infrastructure owner and operators and facilitates leadership and management workshops for Ethos CRS, a Canberra-based training company.  During his Army career Stephen was an intelligence and capability development professional his final seven years as a Brigadier spent leading intelligence analysis and capability development programs. From 2017 to 2020 Stephen was the accountable officer for three Joint Programs: Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance (ISR), Electronic Warfare (EW) and Cyber; in the last case building the foundations for the ADF's cyber capability.

An Arts graduate with multiple Masters degrees, he is passionate about the application of new technologies and techniques to provide capability advantage and of the power of sharing data and intelligence within trusted communities.  He is a graduate of the AICD Company Director's Course, the Harvard Kennedy School and is certified as a Managing Successful Programs (MSP) practitioner.