Charles Newhouse

Charles joined BAE Systems Head Office in 2000 as Head of e-Business Strategy following the company's investment in the creation of Exostar, the aerospace and defence industry e-marketplace (co-founded with Boeing, Lockheed Martin, Raytheon and Rolls-Royce). At the beginning of 2005 he moved to become IT Director, Head Office & Shared Services. In his 3 year tenure of the post delivering services to 2,000 users, he achieved a 25% reduction in the operational IT budget whilst improving service delivery (40%) and customer satisfaction (15%).

Since 2008 Charles has been focussed on developing and implementing the strategy for BAE Systems midrange infrastructure service, services platform and identity management programmes; culminating in his recent appointment into his current role. Enterprise IT Services is a c£100M pa business providing 36,000 users desktop, network, collaboration, midrange infrastructure, e-commerce and consultancy services. Prior to this worked for GEC Marconi Electronic Systems in a number of engineering related roles. Charles has an MEng in Electronic Engineering.