Who we are

NAAFI employees are uniquely structured to support its purpose, with 3 dedicated and professional groups of staff:

148 Squadron, Expeditionary Force Institutes, Royal Logistic Corps, (EFI).

Managed by NAAFI; EFI are unique. Serving in uniform, EFI staff work alongside Forces personnel on deployment, where civilian contractors are not usually authorised to go.

Naval Canteen Services (NCS)

Also managed by NAAFI, NCS is an organisation dedicated to serving side by side with Forces personnel on Royal Navy ships around the world, again where civilian contractors are not usually authorised to go.

NAAFI civilians

The majority of these are dependants of Armed Forces personnel, and support permanent services in areas such as Germany, Northern Ireland and The Falkland Islands, many of whom volunteer for deployment when required.

Click on the People Profiles to learn more.

The MOD does not own NAAFI; NAAFI is a seperate legal and trading entity but it is accepted that, the MOD has the ability to exercise some control over NAAFI through the NAAFI Council.

The NAAFI Council is made up of Senior Officers of the three Armed Forces and the MOD. The NAAFI Board report to the NAAFI Council.

Sir Ian Prosser

Non-Executive Chairman

Sir Ian joined the Board as Chairman in October 2008. Knighted in 1995 Sir Ian, a chartered accountant has a long and distinguished business career mainly in the brewing and hospitality industry. Previous roles have included Chairman and Chief Executive of Bass PLC and also Chairman of Intercontinental Hotel Group. He has been a Non Executive Director for Boots, Lloyds TSB and Non Executive Deputy Chairman of BP Plc. Sir Ian was awarded a degree of Doctor of the University of Birmingham in 2001, and is also a member of the CBI President's Committee.

James Wilde

Deputy Chairman

James joined the Board in October 2006 having held senior executive roles within the support services sector including the position of Chief Executive Officer of Rentokil Initial. He is currently Chairman of ATPI Cayman Limited, Allied Glass Group Limited and Nirvana Equity Limited, and a Non-Executive Director of AFI Holdings Limited.

Lieutenant General Sir W R Rollo KCB CBE

Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Personnel & Training)

Commissioned into the Blues & Royals in 1977, Lieutenant General Bill Rollo spent a short but intense period as a tank and rifle troop leader, followed by a series of regimental appointments. Attending the Army Staff Course at Camberley in 1987 he was later appointed Military Assistant to the Assistant Chief of the General Staff before returning to the Staff College as an instructor. In 1994 he took command of the Household Cavalry Regiment, completing a tour in Bosnia and assumed command of 4 Armoured Brigade deploying to Macedonia then Kosovo. Returning to the UK in 2000 he was appointed Director Royal Armoured Corps then Director Military Operations in the MoD during the period of planning for operations in Iraq. Later appointed Deputy Adjutant General and commanding the Multi National Division (South East) in Basra, he became Deputy Commanding General Multi National Force – Senior British Military Representative to Iraq. Serving as Adjutant General, Headquarters Force Development & Training in Land Forces, he was then appointed Deputy Chief of the Defence Staff (Personnel and Training) in July 2010.

Air Marshal Sir Stuart Peach KCB CBE BA DTech DLitt FRAeS RAF

Chief of Joint Operations (CJO), Permanent Joint Headquarters (PJHQ)

Air Marshal Sir Stuart Peach joined the Royal Air Force via a University Cadetship at the University of Sheffield in 1977 graduating in Geography, Economics and Social History. He attended the Royal Air Force Staff College Bracknell in 1990 and served as Personal Staff Officer to, in succession, the Deputy Commander Royal Air Force Germany, Commander-in-Chief Royal Air Force Germany and Commander Second Allied Tactical Air Force. Following a Master’s Degree in Philosophy at the University of Cambridge, he was Director Defence Studies (RAF) before becoming Assistant Director of the Higher Command and Staff Course at the Joint Services Command and Staff College. He was Commander British Forces (Italy) 1999-2000 and NATO Air Commander (Forward) in Kosovo in 2000 before serving as Commandant UK Air Warfare Centre and Assistant Chief of Staff (Intelligence) Strike Command from 2000 to 2003. He has been Chief of Joint Operations since March 2009

Air Marshal A D Pulford CBE RAF

Air Member for Personnel & Deputy Commander-in-Chief Personnel

Air Marshal Andy Pulford was commissioned into the Royal Air Force in 1977 joining No 72 Squadron. He has commanded in every rank and has seen operational service in Northern Ireland, the Falkland Islands, Lebanon, the Balkans and the Gulf. His appointments have included command of the Support Helicopter Tactics & Trials Flight, the Royal Air Force & Army Air Corps Operational Requirements desk officer, a tour in the British Army’s doctrine organisation and two years as Personal Staff Officer to the Chief of Air Staff. He was Officer Commanding Royal Air Force Odiham for two years which included large scale deployments to Afghanistan and Iraq. He was Directorate of Air Resources & Plans in December 2003 and promoted to Air Commodore, in August 2004. He was appointed Air Vice-Marshal in February 2007 and later assumed the post of Assistant Chief of the Defence Staff (Operations) in October 2008. He took up his current role on 31 August 2010.

Vice-Admiral C P R Montgomery

Second Sea Lord (2SL)

Charles joined the Royal Navy in 1973, spending 3 years in service at Sheffield University where he gained an honours degree in Electronic and Electrical Engineering. As a Principal Warfare Officer, he was the Underwater Warfare and Operations Officer in HMS AMAZON and then the Naval Assistant to the Commander-in-Chief Fleet and the Commander-in-Chief Channel at the joint, RN and NATO HQ. He has served in command with HMS HERMIONE and HMS BEAVER, undertaking operational deployments to the Gulf, Asia Pacific and North Atlantic. Responsibilities have included formulating central Defence policy in the maritime domain and outside NATO; and generating the Royal Navy’s Strategic Plan. As a Commodore his appointments included 3 years as the Director of Naval Personnel Strategy, commandment of HMS COLLINGWOOD and the Maritime Warfare School. As Rear Admiral he became the Naval Secretary and Chief of Staff (Personnel), before being appointed Second Sea Lord and Commander-in- Chief Naval Home Command in July 2010.

Lieutenant General M F N Mans CBE

Adjutant General (AG)

Lieutenant General Mark Mans was commissioned into the Corps of Royal Engineers in 1974. He has seen regimental service worldwide and has held a variety of high level appointments including Assistant Chief of Staff Plans Land Command, Deputy Commanding General Multi-National Corps - Iraq, Deputy Adjutant General and Military Secretary. He assumed his current appointment as the Adjutant General in December 2009, subsuming his previous responsibilities of Commander Regional Forces, in December 2009. He was made a CBE in June 2005 and is a Colonel Commandant of the Royal Engineers and the Colonel Commandant of the Adjutant General’s Corps. He is a Chartered Fellow of the Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development, a Fellow of the Chartered Management Institute, Vice Patron of the Ulysses Trust and a member of the Scientific Exploration Society. His interest is sport and he is a Deputy President of the Army Rugby Union, President of Army Volleyball, President of Royal Engineers Boxing and Vice President of Royal Engineers Cricket.

Gavin Barlow

Director General, Service Personnel Policy, Ministry of Defence

Gavin joined the MOD in 1987 and occupied the role of Assistant Private Secretary to the Minister of State for the Armed Forces from 1989 to 1991. This was followed by appointments in the Office of Management & Budget’s Central Resources & Programmes division and the Overseas Secretariat, covering secretariat and policy aspects of operations and military assistance in Cyprus, the Middle East and North Africa. He then joined HQ QMG (Army Logistics) in Andover in October 1997, before taking up the position of Administrative Secretary, Sovereign Base Areas Administration in Cyprus from January 1999. In July 2002 Gavin returned to the Head Office as Director Policy Planning, leading on the development and presentation of UK national defence policy, before becoming Director General Management and Organisation from September 2006 to October 2007. He has been Director Service Personnel Policy at the MOD since November 2008.

Ms Helen Sawford

Head Commercial, Commands & Centre, Ministry of Defence