PAUL DUTTON
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Paul served in the British Army for 18 years. Commissioned into the Gloucestershire Regiment he saw service around the world in most of the trouble spots in which the British Army operated. He then served with the Royal Gloucestershire Berkshire and Wiltshire Regiment as a commander of a company of soldiers and left the Army in 2005 having run the predeployment training of British Army units preparing to go on active operations in Iraq, Afghanistan and in support of the UN.
He took his expertise in defence training and experience of being a customer to companies supplying to the MoD and joined Mabway. They successfully delivered Leadership and Culture Change training to 25,000 railway personnel across the country, which was then expanded into the construction industry. As a consultant, he successfully ran a programme for the MoD to provide the context for military training; this included a generic scenario to underpin all training and the outsourcing of the ‘human terrain’ – the mass of people required to represent a society amongst whom the British Army will operate.
Other projects have included the setting of Nusbacher Associates, assisting G4S tender for major security contract with one of Britain’s largest banking groups, assisting small companies to tender for work within the defence industry and providing subject matter expertise to Gulf Cooperation Council military staff colleges.
CHRIS AYRES
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Chris Ayres is a former Royal Navy Warfare Officer with over 20 years sea-going experience in executive roles at all levels in a variety of British Warships. He retired in 2013 after 37 years of service.
As a senior Officer he served, for 3 years, in the deployable Joint Force Headquarters Staff as the lead planner. In that role he saw operations in all the major crisis points in the late 1990’s – Central Africa, Middle East, Balkans and the Far East. Following that appointment he used his knowledge and experience to great effect at the UK Defence Academy as a member of the Directing Staff of the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He then served in a number of appointments in the UK: as Commander of a major Naval Air Station; at the Defence Procurement Agency at Abbey Wood and on the Naval Staff in London before concluding his service in the British Loan Service Team in Kuwait.
During his time in Kuwait he was the senior lecturer at the post graduate level international military academy, the Mubarak Al Abdullah Command and Staff College (MAJCSC), where he educated 300 senior military officers in professional skills over a period of 4 years. As the lead officer he designed the syllabus and was responsible for the efficient production of all supporting paperwork and professional delivery of the course to the students.
Since retiring he has worked within the security / risk consultancy sector, successfully running a major international Private Security company’s operations in Kuwait. As a private contractor, he has providing Subject Matter Expertise (Maritime and Joint) to Joaan bin Jasim Joint Command and Staff College in Qatar and to the UK Permanent Joint Headquarters annual workup exercises. He became a partner in ITS in February 2015.
TIM WORDSWORTH
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Tim Wordsworth is a former British Army Officer with 39 years of experience gained in an extensive range of command and staff appointments on national and multinational tours and operations. He retired from the army in March 2019 in the rank of Colonel. As a Gunner officer he spent his formative years as part of the British Army of the Rhine before branching out into peacekeeping operations with NATO in the Balkans in the mid-1990s and the United Nations in Cyprus in 2001. In 2003 he deployed to the Middle East with Multinational Forces involved in the stabilisation of Iraq. In 2006 he had the unusual distinction of commanding troops from his Regiment deployed on operations simultaneously in three different theatres: Iraq, Afghanistan and, once again, Cyprus.
Having qualified as an Instructor in Gunnery in 1991, Tim spent three years teaching the planning for, and application of, Joint Fires up to divisional level, before going on to command a Close Air Defence Battery and, ultimately, an MLRS Regiment. On conclusion of regimental service, be began to specialise in operational level planning and training. In 2011 he was assigned to NATO's Joint Force Command Naples, arriving on the commencement of operations to protect civilians in Libya. He subsequently ran the J5 Operational Assessment Branch during Operation Unified Protector. On conclusion of operations he ran JTFC Naples' J7 (Training) Directorate for all the workup training and deployment on its NATO certification exercise Trident Juncture. His final three years in the British Army was spent on Loan Service in Kuwait, as the Director of Studies, Mubarak Al Abdullah Joint Command and Staff College (MAJCSC). In this role he was responsible for all aspects of the design and delivery of a psc(j) level course.
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On retirement, Tim took up a consultancy role in the Joint Operational Training arena and recently became a partner in ITS(Global) with whom he is delivering courses to overseas countries including Bangladesh, Nigeria and South Korea. Part of his remit for ITS is to assist in the delivery of Joint Operational Planning Courses at the UK Permanent Joint Headquarters.
THE TEAM
We are a team of consultants and associates with considerable subject matter expertise in the planning and conduct of defence and security operations.
DOM MORRIS
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+44 (0) 7500894702
Dom’s passion lies in planning and building dynamic, evidence-led Fusion campaigns fit for the 21st Century, where constant competition spans physical, information and cognitive domains. He believes that evidence-led contests must adopt and integrate fastmoving technologies to deploy and cohere winning Fusion capabilities.
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Dom has worked as a Fusion Practitioner for the British government for 16 years. He has analysed, designed, delivered and evaluated interventions in West and North Africa, Europe, the Middle East and South Asia for HMG, USAID, OECD and EuropeAid. His practitioner experience is underpinned by a Masters in Political Science and Conflict.
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Dom took a sabbatical to stand for Parliament in 2014-15. Whilst unsuccessful, the experience highlighted the centrality of the information and cognitive domains and the technologies available to influence them. He saw how information campaigning now often dominates the physical, exaggerates the say-do gap, and the potential of behavioural science and big data to deliver Fusion campaigns against constant competition.
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Most recently Dom led development of the first permanent Fusion Capability within a military HQ. Chilcot prescribed the creation of 2* Standing Joint Force Headquarters Group (SJFHQ). Dom worked with the Commander to build a deployable, standing, joint, inter-agency HQ capable of deploying and delivering the military’s contribution to Fusion at the Operational Level. Proof of concept was delivered on Operation RUMAN and the MOD has since signed off on a permanent Fusion capability.
