Ms Humble was most recently the Chief of Strategy at QinetiQ Australia, has held executive positions at BAE Systems and Nova Systems and is intrinsically connected to defence industry through her prior Board positions with the Defence Teaming Centre, University of Adelaide, Defence, Space and Cyber Advisory Board and current role as Non-Executive Director at Praetorian Aeronautics.
Aurizn’s Chairman, Andrew Tymms said he was delighted at the appointment of Ms Humble to the Aurizn CEO role.
“Rebecca brings to Aurizn more than 25 years of strategic, commercial and leadership experience in the defence industry, in Australia and international markets including the UK, Europe and the US.” Mr Tymms said.
“Aurizn is focused on engineering, operationalising and sustaining critical defence capability. Overall, our ambition is to become Australia’s leading specialist mid-tier defence company delivering defence capability and serving the warfighter in Australia and across our allied nation partners. We are privileged to be backed by Pemba Capital Partners, supporting our ongoing investment into capability development, creating cutting-edge products and synthetic and digital solutions and growing the capability of our workforce.”
“Rebecca’s deep defence industry insight, her steadfast commitment to growing sovereign capability, and her proven record in driving growth makes her ideally suited to lead Aurizn as we continue to invest and pursue our ambition to better serve our defence customer’s needs,” he said.
Rebecca Humble said: “I’m thrilled to be joining Aurizn at such a critical time. Australia’s defence industry has an essential role to play in delivering enhanced capability outcomes to the warfighter faster and more efficiently and the work the company is doing has never been more important.
“I am very fortunate to have pursued a career both in Australia and globally that has provided me with in-depth insight of the defence sector together with an understanding of the rapidly changing needs of our defence forces. I look forward to working with the talented team at Aurizn to strengthen our contribution to national security and support the development of a world-class sovereign industrial base.”
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About Aurizn:
Aurizn is an Australian owned company pushing the limits to deliver a more secure future. We focus on getting capability to the warfighter faster and more efficiently, supporting Australian and allied forces in achieving their mission through targeted capability development investment, delivery of advanced products, provision of operationally critical services, and an innovative approach to synthetic and digital solutions.
Aurizn is partnered with Pemba Capital Partners, a prominent investor in high growth, founder-led businesses.
