Richard Applegate
Lieutenant General Richard Applegate CB, OBE, is a retired British Army officer.
In his last military appointment he was the first Chief of Materiel (Land) in the Defence Equipment and Support organisation and a member of the leadership board of the British Army for 3 years, latterly as Quartermaster General. Applegate left the UK armed forces in 2010.[1]
Sunday Times sting operation
In 2012, Applegate was one of a number of retired senior army officers targeted in a sting operation by Sunday Times journalists posing as representatives of a Korean drone manufacturer.[2]
Affiliations
- Elbit Systems (UK) - chairman
- Design Blue/d30 Ltd - director
- Ferranti Technologies - director
- UAV Tactical Systems Ltd - director
- Eagle Strategic Consulting - managing director.
- Newton Europe - senior adviser
- Atkins - senior adviser
- Hewlett-Packard Defence - senior adviser
- Renaissance Strategic Advisors - senior adviser[3]
Notes
- ↑ Heropreneurs appoints distinguished soldier and businessman as patron, Heropreneurs, accessed 14 October 2012.
- ↑ Galloping Greed of the old warhorses, Insight, Sunday Times, 14 October 2012, pp.13-15.
- ↑ Heropreneurs appoints distinguished soldier and businessman as patron, Heropreneurs, accessed 14 October 2012.
