New head of Saab Grintek Defence revealed
25 November 2015
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Trevor Raman.
Defence and security company Saab announced Trevor Raman as the next president and CEO of its South African operations company, Saab Grintek Defence (SGD). Upon adopting the role from 1 March 2016, he will be based at the company’s facilities in Centurion. His predecessor, Magnus Lewis-Olsson, has taken up the position as Saab’s Head of Market in Europe, Middle East and Africa.
Raman is currently general manager of the research and development department at Armscor, a role he has fulfilled since August 2013. Among his more remarkable accomplishments, he was seconded to Sweden as the ILS Programme Manager for Gripen in 2001. In 2005 he was promoted to Senior Manager Technical and the Gripen programme manager, responsible for the entire Gripen weapon system development, production and implementation. On completion of the Gripen programme in 2011, Raman was appointed Senior Manager Technology Management and Analysis, responsible for the execution of the Defence Research and Development fund. He spearheaded the committees responsible for Armscor‘s intellectual property and technology development policies, defence technology collaboration requirements and defence intellectual property.
Raman is also an Armscor representative in the India/Brazil/South Africa (IBSA) Defence Related Industry and Institutes collaboration initiative, and serves on various defence committee working groups. In August 2013, he was entrusted with the restructuring of the Armscor R&D department and the integration of Armscor Defence Institutes into Armscor Corporate.
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