Jon is Director, Security and Resilience Sector at ADS Group, the UK trade association for the aerospace, defence, security and space industry. He also acts as Secretary to RISC, the coalition of trade associations in the sector. In addition to strengthening relationships between the security industry and government, Jon also leads for ADS on special projects overseas.

Jon has a background in border and aviation security international liaison roles, and prior to joining ADS enjoyed a distinguished career in government, including with the Home Office, Department for Transport and on the Foreign & Commonwealth Office platform working at UK Embassies around the world. His last role in government was heading operations and international at the Joint Security and Resilience Centre (JSARC) within the Office for Security and Counter Terrorism.