Paul Burke, served in the Royal Navy (RN) from 1986 as a warfare officer in SSNs, an SSK and SSBNs. He was awarded an OBE for operations in the Gulf War and held various shore postings between 2006 and 2017. He was awarded a CBE in June 2019 and retired from the RN as a commodore in November 2019. Paul joined BMT as the Submarines Business Development Manager in July 2020.