Speakers

Brigadier Nick Mackenzie was commissioned into The King’s Own Royal Border Regiment (one of the antecedent regiments of The Duke of Lancaster’s Regiment) in 1998.  He has served at Regimental Duty in both the Armoured and Light Infantry role in Catterick, Warminster, Canada, Germany and Cyprus.  He has served on operations in Northern Ireland as a Company Operations Officer and as a Company Commander with the 3rd Battalion The Yorkshire Regiment on Op HERRICK 11.
As a staff officer, he has served with 1 (UK) Armoured Division as the SO3 Operations, this included a tour of Iraq on Op TELIC 7 and 8.  On promotion to Major in 2006, he was employed in a post which saw him deliver Urgent Operational Requirements to Iraq and Afghanistan.  After sub-unit command he was posted to The Army Directorate for Operations and Contingencies; as the lead SO2 for overseas operations.  He also spent time as the Chief Instructor at the Infantry Battle School in Brecon.
He was appointed as the SO1 Current Operations in Headquarters 3rd (UK) Division in 2014.  He commanded the Army Training Regiment (Winchester) from Sep 16 to Apr 19, after which he spent time as short period as SO1 Training Operations in HQ ARITC.
In Aug 19, he was promoted to Colonel and assumed the role of Assistant Director Recruiting in HQ ARITC.  In Apr 23, he joined the DPers Directorate in the role of Assistant Head Personnel Strategy.  He assumed the role of Hd Training, Skill, Learning and Development in the Defence People Team in Jul 25.