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TCC PROFILE
Rear-Admiral (ret.) Bertil Bjorkman
Committee Members
(Ex) Director, Produktion – FMV (Swedish Defence Materiel Administration)
Sweden
Bertil Björkman, born 1947, works today as a consultant focusing on marketing, organisation development and crises management. In addition he is a member of EDI Advisory Board, the board of Södertörns University, the board of the Vasa Museum fundraising organisation, the board of The Royal Academy of War Sciences and the board of AFCEA Sweden. He is also assigned to MAST technical committee.
Rear Admiral Björkman graduated from the Royal Naval Academy in 1971. During the 70’s he spent most of his time in various positions onboard surface attack units but also on icebreakers.
After graduation from the Defense and Staff College in 1984 he spent the following five years in the Navy HQ and the Joint Staff mainly in positions related to plans and policy.
After two years as commanding officer of a corvette squadron he was assigned to the Naval Command College, US Naval War college in Newport Rhode Island.
Back in Sweden he was appointed as commanding officer 1.submarine flotilla and thereafter as Director Plans and Policy, Navy Headquarters.
In 1996 he was promoted to Rear Admiral as he took the position as Director Naval Material Command in FMV (Defense Procurement Agency) where he only served for one year before he headed a major review on the FMV organisation. He was later Director Procurement in the new joint organisation.
In 2000 he took the position as Defense Attaché at the Swedish embassy in Washington DC where he stayed until he retired from the Armed forces in July 2005.
Rear Admiral Björkman is a fellow of The Royal Academy of War Sciences and chairs its’ Department of Naval Sciences. He is also a fellow of The Royal Academy of Naval Sciences and was its’ President for two years.
Rear Admiral Björkman is married to Marianne, dentist, and they have two sons.
The Committee
Chairman
Don McCormack
Technical Director – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
United States
Founding Members
Executive Advisors
Dr. John Sirmalis
Technical Director (Retired) – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
United States
Surface Committee Chair
Undersea Committee Chair
Dr. Paul Lefebvre
Technical Director – Newport Division – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
United States
Joint Systems Committee Chair
Committee Members
James van Antwerp
Technical Director – Naval Undersea Warfare Center (Division Keyport)
United States
Jerry Bradshaw
Technical Director, Undersea Technology – Raytheon
United States
Thierry Brizard
Vice President, Research & Technology – Thales Naval Systems
France
Janis Cocking
Chief, Maritime Platforms Division – Defence Science & Technology Organisation
Australia
Johan Hägg
Director Naval Operations – Saab
Sweden
George McNamara
Chief Development Officer – Naval Undersea Warfare Centre NAVSEA
United States
Thomas Meurling
Vice President, Solution Concepts – Reson Global Group
United States
Bernard Myers
Adjunct Scientist – Office of Naval Research (ONR)
United States
Urias da Rosa Novaes
Consultant Submarines Systems, Director of Defence Systems – Atech Tecnologias Críticas
Brazil
Patricia C. Woody
Department Head, Machinery Research and Engineering, Carderock Division – Naval Surface Warfare Center
United States
George Zvara
International Program Coordinator – Naval Undersea Warfare Center
United States
Conference Administrators
Jackie Baron
Business Director – MAST Events Ltd
United Kingdom
Warren Edge
Business Director – MAST Events Ltd
United Kingdom
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