Jim Ramswell
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Jim Ramswell
Senior Business Development Manager - UK Defence Sector, S&T | QinetiQ
About the Speaker
Dr Jim Ramswell is a Senior Business Development Manager for Directed Energy applications in QinetiQ, a defence and security company delivering mission-critical solutions. Following his research into the application of ultrafast lasers to time dependent spectroscopy he entered Defence where he has had a varied career. He has spent 7 years within the Capability Directorate of the UK’s Ministry of Defence (MOD), delivered consultancy across the MOD, worked on numerous maritime programmes with the Royal Navy and driven and delivered investment in BAE Systems’ LDEW programme.
In 2021 Jim joined QinetiQ who had been developing high power coherently combined laser systems for over 20 years, including as part of the Dragonfire team. Jim’s role straddles technology and business strategy, ensuring these align and that QinetiQ’s laser products intersect market demand at the appropriate point.
In 2024 the Dragonfire Minimum Deployable Capability programme, the first European LDEW programme of record, was announced, including QinetiQ’s coherently combined laser source. More recently, in 2026 QinetiQ launched the HELENA line of laser source products and £20m internal investment to support the manufacture of these products.
