Our
Team

With 12 years of military experience, and several years operating in commercial operations in the Middle East, Africa and Central Asia, Aaron brings a blend of both military and non-military subject matter expertise to proposals. Aaron founded Salentis in early 2006 and has worked on hundreds of bids globally. He currently serves as the Chairman of the Board of Directors

Following a 22 year military career and 11 years of industry experience, Charlie is a highly motivated and experienced business development consultant within the Space and Defense sector with a proven track record of winning — from strategy to contract. He has extensive business development contacts with Tier 1 suppliers and SMEs and a demonstrable B2B network. Charlie specialises in training solutions, Integrated Logistical Support solutions and digital training interventions for communications and information systems and platforms. As the business development lead for Salentis in UK and EMEA, Charlie works predominantly in the UK but draws on his global networks and connections. 

Jason has over 25 years corporate and commercial experience working for both multinational and privately owned companies. From Operations Manager to Group Development and Marketing Director servicing the Defense, Manufacturing, and Mining and resources markets. Being a strong believer in developing team performance and individual success, Jason has oversight of the day to day operations across Asia Pacific and is responsible for the delivery of services to our clients as well as the welfare and professionalism of our associates and staff. Jason directly supports projects as a Campaign Manager, Proposal Manager and content author.

Karen spent 15 years working in the corporate world before going freelance for the next 15! She has worked with many businesses including having been the Ops director of an IT consultancy and has run her own business coaching practice. She is now the Operations lead for Salentis UK and EMEA managing the back-office functions of the business. She also provides marketing support for Salentis International.

A creative professional, accomplished in graphic art and creative direction, project management, and strategic design with over 20 years of experience producing multi-hundred million and multi-billion dollar strategic projects; Jay brings dynamic artistic leadership and insight, driving project success for our global clients as our Global Design Lead. He guides our creative professionals to exceed expectations through visual solutions. Away from the hustle of client work and based in Florida, USA, he spends time auto racing and doing all things outdoors – hiking, biking, and golfing, with his wife Kasie, and three grown children. 

Philippa has spent more than 30 years in the graphic design industry, 6 of which were in South Africa, before starting her own business as a Graphics and Jewellery Designer. She has engaged in an array of design disciplines from branding and corporate, vehicle livery, exhibitions, fabric design to packaging. She now works alongside our Salentis UK team as Design Lead, working closely with Writers to produce clean winning bid documents, filled with clear and informative graphics.

Philippa has spent more than 30 years in the graphic design industry, 6 of which were in South Africa, before starting her own business as a Graphics and Jewellery Designer. She has engaged in an array of design disciplines from branding and corporate, vehicle livery, exhibitions, fabric design to packaging. She now works alongside our Salentis UK team as Design Lead, working closely with Writers to produce clean winning bid documents, filled with clear and informative graphics.

Phil specialises in graphic design tender support as a sub field of expertise in the graphic design industry. He has predominantly worked on large multi-hundred million and multi-billion dollar strategic tenders for over a decade, specialising in the defence sector for the last 5 years. He works closely with subject matter expert counterparts to produce the highest global standard of visually communicated content achievable; adding value by ensuring compelling communication of the solution is treated equally as important as designing the content to be visually engaging. He will not just ‘rebrand’ set content, but will seek to understand the content and maximise visual articulation.

Michael brings more than 34 years of engineering and proposal writing to every bid he works. Having supported more than 100 U.S. and other government procurements, he is well-versed in business development strategy, technical solutioning, proposal development, and the necessary steps to make Salentis clients the obvious choice for technical evaluators. His subject matter expertise areas include custom sensor design (e.g., fiber optics and electro-optical systems) and his writing experience includes classified cloud support services, telecommunications, SATCOM, training and simulation, and other state-of-the-art engineering innovations. He has supported clients in the U.S., UK, and Australia. 

Louise is an enthusiastic communicator with over 20 years of editorial and publishing experience, including 5 years working in Defense Publishing first as Assistant Editor on World Defense Systems, a RUSI publication and then as Content Developer at Jane’s Information Group. Having diversified from her editorial background, she has since spent over 5 years working in Project and Programme Management Offices within MOD or other defence related organizations (Niteworks, ELS, DSTL).

She is now a permanent member of the UK Salentis bid writing team.

After performing the ins and outs of The Salentis Way® on multiple projects as the Proposal Coordinator, Taylor has settled into leading and coordinating both business support and administration and workforce operations for the Salentis Americas region since mid 2017. She has an in-depth understanding of our business within the region and the support functions required to keep the machine running. With a Bachelor of Arts in Communication Studies, she helps to keep Salentis current, effective, and persuasive.

Carrie comes to Salentis with more than 12 years of management and recruiting experience. With a passion for people, she has had a hand in building successful staffing experiences for large corporations like Starbucks and You Move Me, keeping turnover to a minimum. Having sourced a variety of talent from entry level to leadership positions, Carrie is adept at recognizing and identifying potential, core values, and specific skills within Salentis project candidates.

Her adaptability to the wide spectrum of content with which Salentis works, means she is excellent at curating teams for our clients with the right skill and personality mix for maximized efficiencies, high-quality outputs, and a little fun on the job. Carrie brings her experience to Salentis facilitating streamlined development processes in personnel lifecycle management, continuous improvement, and maintaining the core values of The Salentis Way® throughout day-to-day associate operations.

With over 23 years of military experience, specialised in Combat Systems, Tactical Data Links and Joint C2, Clinton is an expert in Navy, Joint and Coalition operations from the perspective of C4ISREW as an operator, supervisor, manager and instructor. Clinton is experienced in managing large-scale strategic ASDEFCON programs and specialises in Australian Industry Capability (AIC) strategy development, helping align companies to the enhanced AIC contractual framework. When not managing or writing proposals Clinton can be found on his family’s farm, usually fixing fences!

Cameron holds a BA in cognitive science and has undertaken export control research. He has held executive and technical roles in project management, systems engineering, quality assurance and executive management. He has experience as a writer, researcher and consultant in information, military and space technologies, technical regulation, and in complex systems. Cameron has been involved in Australian space projects over the last 20 years, including rocket and spacecraft development projects, launch operations at the Woomera Prohibited Area, hypersonic research and the award-winning Antarctic Broadband project to provide broadband communications to Antarctica. He is now a proposal specialist with Salentis International.

With over 30 years of military experience, including several posts teaching in world-recognized leadership schools, Gavin has a deep knowledge of the Defense & Government Services sector, and is a subject matter expert in the design, development, and delivery of training. He honed his senior level business management skills in the UK public health sector before joining Salentis as a writer. After gaining experience of the business, he is now the General Manager for the UK and EMEA region. Gavin oversees business operations across the region bringing a strong ethos of integrity, teamwork, and inclusive leadership to the role.

With more than 32 years of military service, Maj Gen (ret) Jim Jones, “Rev”, brings a deep understanding of requirements and programs within the defense industry and is a subject matter expert in the joint application of airpower and operational level command and control.

As a prior consultant within the defense industry, he provided strategic advice to various major defense corporations to help ensure they were properly positioned to win recapitalization/procurement contracts for major weapon systems.

He currently assists the Salentis executive team and our clients in identifying credible pursuits and the optimal proposal strategies.

With 13 years of proposal development experience, Mindy has a deep understanding of what it takes to win. As a Salentis co-founder, co-developer of The Salentis Way®, and the Chief Technical Officer, she is now enabling teams globally to achieve maximized quality and value for Salentis clients on every project. With more than 120 projects under her belt, worth more than US$100B, she works with Salentis teams in the Americas, Asia Pacific, and UK-EMEA with one goal in mind: to create a compliant, compelling bid that makes our clients the obvious choice.