About us
Our Mission, Vision, and Values
Our Mission, Vision, and Values underpin everything we do.
Mission
To provide Australia with a modern, highly capable, integrated services and security organisation that can meet the full range of challenges and threats, current and emergent. We will contribute to the Australian national interest.
Vision
A Safer Australia
Values
Integrity and Humility
Inclusion and Team
Relentless Pursuit of Excellence
Agility and Adaptability
Service and Sense of Purpose
Our Pillars
These are the things that drive our business and set us apart
Sovereignty
Sovereignty
Economic Retention
Economic Retention
Enhanced Capability
Enhanced Capability
Veterans
Veterans
The Board
Tim McOwan AO
Tim McOwan is a former Commanding Officer of the Special Air Service Regiment, the Special Operations Commander Australia, the Head of Defence Staff in Washington DC and has worked in the intelligence and national security community for many years. He has over 45 years’ experience in leadership, planning and the command of operations combined with extensive leadership and management at the highest levels. His deep experience in planning unconventional military operations and intelligence operations in both the Australian Defence Force and the intelligence community has built judgement and skill in determining alternate, pragmatic solutions and a proven capacity for deep analytical thought. He is a recognized and effective leader with demonstrated highly effective leadership in both combat and at the strategic level.
Mick Donaldson
A Former Special Forces Patrol Commander (SAS Regiment). Successful business owner and MD. Highly experienced security professional and project manager. Extensive leadership and management experience within Australia and internationally.
Mick has a distinguished military background having served multiple decades in the Australian Regular Army and Army Reserve as well as service in the British Army. During his career Mick passed both the British SAS and Australian SAS selection courses. Mick saw operational service in a number of theatres during his time with the SAS to include the Sydney Olympic Games, East Timor, Solomon Islands, Iraq and Afghanistan. He has been awarded commendations for leadership in combat and gallantry. The majority of his career was spent in command and leadership roles to include SAS Patrol Commander and Team Leader. Mick continues to serve in Special Operations Command in a reserve capacity. Mick holds a Bachelor of Science, post graduate studies in counter-terrorism and is currently undertaking an MBA.
For the past decade Mick has achieved considerable success in the corporate and commercial arena to include Regional Security Director, Middle East, Africa, Central Asia, for a large US telecommunications company with responsibility for 68 countries including Iraq and Afghanistan. He has also advised CNN, Fox News, Al Jazeera and the ABC on security, life safety and risk management in hostile and post conflict environments. During 2005 Mick assisted in the successful conduct of both the Iraqi and Afghan general elections and spent time with the United Nations as the Regional Security Officer, Central Region, Afghanistan. Mick successfully led kidnap and ransom negotiations in Iraq resulting in the safe release of the hostage. He was also responsible for establishing several highly successful bespoke overseas start-up projects in challenging and resource constrained environments. Mick personally led several country evacuations in the Middle East during the early stages of the 2011 ‘Arab Spring’ regional upheavals.
John Barton
Experienced company director with 30 years of experience in financial services and wealth management sector, including 20 as director and Responsible Manager of multiple AFSL entities and roles across a broad cross-section of industries from not-for-profits, industry associations, robotics, drones, and cyber security.
Robert Tyson
Bob Tyson is a former career officer in the Australian Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade. Until 2015 he served as Ambassador to Kuwait, and prior to that as Ambassador to Iraq (2008-11), the Russian Federation (2005-08) and Saudi Arabia (2001-05). He was also Minister (Congressional Liaison) in the Australian Embassy, Washington, 1993-97, Consul-General in Honolulu 1989-93 and Deputy Head of Mission in Moscow 1984-87.
Bob has held senior positions in Canberra with the Department of Foreign Affairs and Trade, including as head of the Nuclear Policy Branch, and in the North America and Defence Branch of the Department of the Prime Minister and Cabinet. Between 1980 and 1983 he headed the Overseas Division of the Victorian Department of the Premier and Cabinet, and was Principal Adviser to the Premier on Inter-governmental Relations.
Since 2015 he has been a consultant and commentator on international developments, presenting to various organizations and conferences on Brexit, US elections, Russian history and politics, the Middle East, Australian foreign policy and, most recently, Russia’s invasion of Ukraine. He has assisted with training courses for the Australian Department of Defence and the governments of Thailand and Cambodia.
This background has provided Bob with a comprehensive understanding of foreign and defence policy in both Australia and the international environment. He has highly developed analytical skills and extensive leadership and management experience in a wide variety of very different situations.
Brett Sangster
A former partner with McCullough Robertson (Defence and National Security Practice), former EGM of Downer’s Defence Services and former Army Intelligence and Legal Officer and Commando. Brett has successfully established and built several Defence and National Security business units from scratch and also brings significant Corporate M&A experience to OSG.
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