Robbie Boyd

Brigadier Robbie Boyd (Retired) is a senior defence, security and finance leader specialising in mobilising commercial capital for defence, security and resilience across NATO, the EU and allied partners.

He is Chief Executive Officer of Encompass BV, an independent strategic advisory firm focused on enabling commercial banks and institutional investors to support defence innovation, security capability and resilience. Encompass works with governments, NATO and EU institutions, primes, start ups and scale ups, providing discreet, high-level advisory support on investment, strategy and transformation.

Boyd brings together bespoke teams of senior leaders from the military, academia, policy, politics, innovation and finance across North America and Europe to address complex strategic challenges. He advises start up and scale up companies as a Non Executive Director and Strategic Advisory Board member, and serves as Managing Partner delivering defence and security transformation advice across NATO’s 32 Allies, 35 Partners and EU institutions.

With decades of experience operating at the highest political and military levels within international organisations, Boyd is widely recognised for his work on defence finance innovation, deterrence, coalition building and international security. He is a member of the Alphen Group, a contributor to the International Institute for Strategic Studies, a Fellow of the Royal United Services Institute, and a lecturer at the UK Defence Academy on leadership in supranational organisations.

He is also a senior leader within the Defence Security and Resilience Bank Development Group, advancing treaty based approaches to long term defence capability funding.