Kym Osley

Kym brings to the Board over 45 years’ experience in the Defence Force and Defence industry. He has undertaken Defence strategic procurement and capability planning for the Defence Force as well as personally leading major Defence capability programs, including the $17B F-35 Joint Strike Program for Australia. Kym was Australia’s senior Air Force representative to the UK, and later was the senior Defence representative in the US engaging with the US military as well as with international major Defence companies. Kym flew operationally as a fast jet aviator in aircraft including the F-111, Phantom and F-18 and commanded at all levels through to two-star rank. He was deployed to the Middle East where he directed air operations for the Coalition with responsibility for over 400 aircraft and 25,000 staff.

In his Reserve military capacity he has also led many overseas industry delegations to engage with overseas primes and military organisations to generate export contracts. Kym also worked for six years as a senior member of the Canberra PricewaterhouseCoopers firm where he was a strategic adviser to Defence for the $270B Force Structure Plan 2020 and led a team that planned the establishment of Defence Space Command. In 2019, Kym was awarded a Defence Industry Service Commendation by the Minister for Defence for his contributions to Defence and Defence Industry over many years.