Jonathon Band
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Sir Jonathon Band is a former senior member of the Royal Navy and the Ministry of Defence, he now holdings directorships at cruise company Carnival Corporation and defence and technology company Lockheed Martin UK.
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Career
Band is a former high ranking officer in the Royal Navy, serving between 1967 and 2009. He was promoted to lieutenant in January 1974, commanded the HMS Soberton in 1979, served as flag lieutenant to command-in-chief fleet during the Falklands War, promoted to commander in June 1983, defence staff in the Ministry of Defence in 1985, promoted to captain in 1988, served as assistant director of Navy Plans and Programmes in the Ministry of Defence from 1991, returned to the Ministry of Defence as assistant chief of naval staff in 1997, vice admiral of the Royal Navy in 2000, deputy commander in chief in 2001, admiral in 2002 and finally serving as First Sea Lord and Chief of Naval Staff at the UK Ministry of Defence, between February 2006 and July 2009.[1][2]
In April 2010 he was appointed a non-executive director at Carnival Corporation & plc. The appointment was approved by ACOBA "subject to the condition that, for 12 months from his last day of service, he should not be personally involved in lobbying UK Government Ministers or Crown servants, including Special Advisers, on behalf of his new employer, the normal automatic three-month waiting period being waived.[3]
Affiliations
- Non-executive director, Carnival Corporation, April 2010[2]
- Director, Carnival plc, April 2010[2]
- Non-executive director, Lockheed Martin UK Limited[2]
- Patron, MTB 102 Trust[2]
- President, Royal Navy Volunteer Band Association[2]
- President, Royal Navy Rugby Union[2]
- President, Royal Naval and Royal Albert Yacht Club[2]
University
- BA Social Sciences, University of Exeter[2]
Notes
- ↑ Jonathon Band Linkedin, accessed 27 November 2014
- ↑ 2.0 2.1 2.2 2.3 2.4 2.5 2.6 2.7 2.8 Jonathon Band Bloomberg Businessweek, 27 November 2014, accessed 27 November 2014
- ↑ Eleventh Report 2009-2010 Advisory Committee on Business Appointments, accessed 27 November 2014
