Tim is an executive leader with extensive knowledge and experience of Australia’s submarine program and Defence and Industry strategy.

Tim is a mechanical engineer who served in the Royal Australian Navy as a submarine officer, and commanded both a Collins class submarine and an Anzac class frigate. From 2016-2020, he led the submarine capability enterprise through a period of unheralded submarine availability and high levels of workforce growth as the Director General Submarines and Head of the Submarine Profession. Tim also played an early and instrumental role in the formation of AUKUS security partnership.

Tim brings the insight, charisma and leadership necessary to drive the transformation and uplift of Australian industry to support the operation of nuclear powered submarines.