Richard Brookes

As Sales Director for IDGA, my role is to lead the sponsorship team, who are responsible for managing partnerships with US Defense Industry companies. My focus is to ensure that these sponsorships deliver optimum value to Industry and meet their requirements, with our events serving as a unique platform to educate key decision-makers, align their messaging, and enable them to strengthen strategic partnerships with the military/ federal and DoD customer. I am also responsible for driving the commercial growth of all IDGA events, where maintaining continued Industry support through high-quality delivery, while also cultivating new partnerships remain my highest priorities.

Throughout my 17 year career with IDGA’s sister organization Defence iQ, I have developed a passion for the sector. Previously working across individual domains for air, land, sea, space, and cyber domains, I am now responsible for leading the wider global defense portfolio’s entire sponsorship team. This has led to the forging of some remarkable business partnerships with market-leading stakeholders including, Raytheon Intelligence & Space, Lockheed Martin, Boeing, L3Harris, Booz Allen Hamilton, SAIC, Northrop Grumman and CAE.