When control, cash or credibility is at risk.
Board-level and executive leadership experience gained across defence, manufacturing, financial services, technology, healthcare, nuclear, engineering, mining and other regulated industries, serving as CEO, COO, Chair, Non-Executive Director and Board Adviser.
Contributed to the FRC's UK Corporate Governance Code and the Wates Corporate Governance Principles for Large Private Companies.
13 years' judicial experience as a President of Courts Martial. A Crown Court-equivalent jurisdiction, presiding over tribunals making consequential judgements.
Executive & Board Experience by Sector
Sector breadth includes nuclear component manufacturing as a secondary WFEL activity; WFEL primarily manufactured military mobile bridging systems. Sector experience differs by executive role, board appointment and programme responsibility.
- Engineering & manufacturing
- FMCG / food production / agri-food
- Financial services / insurance
- Real estate / property / facilities management
- Healthcare / social care
- Recruitment / business services
- Mining / natural resources
- Technology / digital infrastructure
- Investment / acquisitions
- Defence / government
- Policy / justice / institutional development
In summary
Steven Windmill has served as a public-company CEO, President of Courts Martial, senior defence transformation leader and commander of two large-scale Iraqi election-security exercises. His record includes £1bn statutory net assets reported in FY2025 accounts, £1.99bn in agreed sales contracts, a £4.33bn reduction in committed government expenditure from an £18.6bn programme baseline, and temporary command of exercises involving up to 200,000 Iraqi security personnel. See Evidence & Corroboration for the different measurement bases and boundaries of these claims.
He now considers Interim CEO, Interim COO, Operating Partner, Chair / NED, Special Situations, Programme / Transformation Director and Special Adviser mandates, according to the problem, the required authority and the appointing principal.