THALES : Millar Crawford appointed Chief Operating Officer for Thales's Ground Transportation Systems business
September 17, 2014 at 12:05 pm
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Millar Crawford has joined the Ground Transportation Systems business led by Thales Senior Vice President Jean-Pierre Forestier. He will serve as Senior Vice President, Chief Operating Officer, with responsibility for all the Global Business Unit's business lines.
As Thales's global business in the ground transportation sector continues to grow, Millar Crawford will oversee successful customer delivery of the many transportation contracts awarded to Thales in recent years. At the same time, he will lead the deployment of Thales's performance programme within the ground transportation sector.
Millar Crawford joined Thales in 1981. His experience with the Group includes management roles ranging from engineering and purchasing to project management and operations, as well as several executive management positions. He has gained extensive international experience in the United Kingdom, France and Canada serving military as well as civil markets.
Until August 2014, Millar Crawford was Chief Operating Officer of Thales Australia.
Thales is one of the European leaders in manufacturing and marketing of electronic equipment and systems for the defense and security, aerospace, and transportation sectors. Net sales break down by product group as follows:
- defense and security systems (53.4%): C4I defense and security systems (control and monitoring systems, communication, protection, cyber-security, and other systems), defense mission systems, naval systems, electronic war systems, drones, air operation systems (air defense, air surveillance), ground defense systems and missiles;
- aerospace systems (28.4%): avionics equipment (cockpit, cabin multimedia, and simulation equipment), space systems (satellites, payloads, etc.);
- digital identification and security solutions (18.2%).
Besides, the group owns a 35% stake in Naval Group (manufacture of naval equipment for defense and nuclear energy sectors).
Net sales are distributed geographically as follows: France (29.5%), the United Kingdom (6.6%), Europe (24.8%), the United States and Canada (14%), Asia (9.4%), Near and Middle East (6%), Australia and New Zealand (4.4%) and other (5.3%).