James Norwood

James is a former Royal Navy Officer and high‑impact executive leader with over 25 years of military and commercial experience across Defence, Maritime, Energy, and Infrastructure. Known for building and scaling high‑performance international teams, he has delivered sustained double‑digit growth and led major transformations across globally regulated sectors. His achievements include doubling the value of an AIM‑listed engineering and technology PLC, serving on the board of a £400m FTSE 100 business unit, and—as Vice Chairman of Defence Holdings PLC, listed on the LSE main market—helping drive the growth of the UK’s first pure‑play defence AI company from a market cap of £800k to £80m in just six months. He is currently CEO of Voyant, a University of Liverpool spinout advancing sensor‑enhancement algorithms and data‑fusion technologies for defence and national security. James holds an MBA from Imperial College London and an LLM in International Corporate and Commercial Law from King’s College London.