Board Director Henry Atkins

Henry Atkins is an experienced and award-winning professional engineer with a broad career history spanning automotive manufacturing at General Motors Holden, applied academic research at the University of Adelaide, professional consulting, and Defence contracting.

He has a patent for work on the 2016 Rio Olympic Team Australia Track Bicycles and is the Co-Author of academic papers on the subject of Aerodynamics in Cycling. He has experience working closely alongside stakeholders from business development, managing bids, project management, through to delivery of products and services in field. Henry has been responsible for the development of a product strategy to deliver fit for purpose rugged electronics directly to the Australian Defence Force, Defence Industry prime contractors and Australian SMEs. In his current role Henry works for a leading Adelaide based C4ISREW consultancy in a capability development role and a startup working on novel sUAS payloads.

Henry is personally invested in the future success of the Australian Defence Industry and has a passion seeing Australian innovation delivered to the hands of the warfighter.

Henry is committed to ensuring that Australian industry receives the best support possible from both the public and private sector to maximise the opportunities available to SMEs in Australia. He believes an industry advocacy body with board members who represent the best interests of Australian industry will provide the strongest possible chance for our industry to grow and thrive.

Henry was elected to the board in October 2024.