Foram Brown - Executive Search For Aerospace & Defense

As an Engineering Leader, I understand the challenges you face.

I build executive teams for venture and private equity-backed companies in Aerospace & Defense.

I focus on placing C-Suite, EVP, SVP, and VP leaders in Engineering, Product and Technology.

95% of the leaders placed have been women or from an ethnic minority.

83% of placements have been completed within 6 weeks or less, transforming teams and driving growth.

Ready to build your leadership? Let’s connect and build the future together.

Email: info@forambrown.com
Phone or Text: +14086002785

Chief Executive Officer

Alstom

Led an engineering team of 230 through the $6B Bombardier & Alstom merger.

Vice President of Engineering

Bombardier Transportation

Managed a global team of 230 engineers.

Delivered train projects worth over $1 billion. 

Hired over 30 leaders, managers, engineers and specialists.

Improved engineering cycle by 20% by vertically integrating design and manufacturing. 

 Managed budgets exceeding $150 million annually.

Led product line standardization, ensuring compliance with safety regulations.

Fostered innovation, achieving multiple patents and a 15% boost in reliability.

Rolls-Royce

Led the Ultra-Fan engine prototype development (Advance3).

Managed 125 Power Transmission components, delivering on a £35M budget.

Oversaw a global team of 120, streamlining engineering, supply chain and manufacturing.

Hired Engineering Program Managers, Contractors and Specialists to deliver on Time, Quality and Cost.

Developed strategies with 90% of UK suppliers for efficient delivery.

Ensured FAA and EASA compliance, achieving full component sign-off.

Director of Engineering

Led a global team of 50 engineers and specialists.

Supported department leaders with identifying gaps and hiring.

Delivered engine component upgrades within a £2.8 million budget.

Managed compliance with ISO9001 and FAA/EASA standards for all modifications.

Senior Engineering Program Manager

Led a team of 18 to achieve FAA/EASA certification for Trent 1000, a $15 million milestone.

Hired 2 test specialists and 1 certification specialist.

Managed a team of 12 specialists post-Qantas Flight 32, delivering a robust engine protection solution.

Coordinated global fleet testing for Trent engines, optimizing test bed availability and capacity.

Test Team Lead

Grew the team from 7 to 10 and developed FADEC for the Trent XWB engine, ensuring readiness for the first run.

Coordinated with Airbus and partners, meeting standards (ARP4754, DO-160, DO-178, DO-254).

Integration Team Lead

Developed FADEC and health monitoring system requirements, meeting ARP4754A, DO-178, and DO-331 standards.

Managed the architecture evolution process, ensuring compliance with DOORS requirements.

System Engineer

AstraZeneca

Managed Building Management Systems (BMS) for the entire Charnwood facility.

Engineering Success Through Diverse Leadership | Empowering Companies with Top-tier Talent | Fueling Innovation, Growth & Positive Impact.

You’re stretched thin, aren't you?

* Your engineering deliverables are late.
* Your customers are unhappy.
* Your outsourcing partners are delivering poor quality.
* Your time is consumed by firefighting instead of building.

As an engineering leader, I know how relentless it can feel. 

The pressure to deliver on Quality, Time, and Cost is unrelenting, and hiring or building the right team often feels like just another impossible task on an overflowing to-do list.

That’s where I come in.

I help Aerospace, Space & Defense companies solve their toughest leadership challenges through consulting and executive search.

🚀 As a consultant, I work alongside you to:
↳ Step into fractional leadership roles like VP, COO, or CTO to stabilize and drive business forward.
↳ Improve engineering delivery by identifying bottlenecks and implementing sustainable solutions.
↳ Solve outsourcing issues by ensuring quality and timelines are met.

🚀 As an executive recruiter, I:
↳ Find and place the transformative leaders who can scale your business, drive growth, and deliver results.
↳ Leverage a Systems Engineering approach to ensure every hire is aligned with your mission, not just your job description.

I’ve helped leaders like you:
🚀 CEOs like Andy secure a COO who raised $100M in funding.
🚀 SVPs like Sarah fill critical VP of Engineering roles in 4 weeks.
🚀 CEOs like Lauren find a CTO for a hydrogen tech startup.
🚀 Investors like John hire a CEO in just 6 weeks.

You don’t need to tackle these challenges alone. 

Whether you’re firefighting delivery issues, building a leadership pipeline, or scaling for growth, I’m here to help you solve the immediate problems and create a path forward.

Let’s explore how I can help you transform your team, deliver results, and get back to focusing on what really matters. Reach out today & let's get started!

Cheers,
Foram

Email: info@forambrown.com
Phone or Text: +14086002785

Foram Brown

You’re leading the company. You’ve got the vision, the traction, the team.
But something’s slowing down—and it’s not because you’re doing it wrong.
It’s because you’re still doing it 𝗮𝗹𝗹.

You’ve outgrown the leadership model that got you here.
The one where clarity flows from the top, and every decision routes through you.

That model breaks at scale.
Especially now—when the world is moving faster than ever, and control systems are quietly collapsing.

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The companies that thrive next won’t be the most optimized.
They’ll be the ones where clarity moves faster than chaos.
Where decision rights are encoded.
Where leadership is distributed.
Where alignment scales—without you becoming the bottleneck.

That’s where I come in.

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I coach high-ambition leaders who are outgrowing the playbook.
Whether you’re running a scaling startup, a legacy family business, or a high-growth company—
you’re starting to sense that what got you here won’t take you forward.

You’re not just looking for tactical advice.
You’re building for what comes after the age of optimization—
where awareness, speed, and clarity at the edge are what drive performance.

Together, we replace control with coherence—so your company moves faster, with less drag, 𝙖𝙣𝙙 𝙢𝙤𝙢𝙚𝙣𝙩𝙪𝙢 𝙙𝙤𝙚𝙨𝙣'𝙩 𝙙𝙞𝙚 𝙞𝙣 𝙢𝙚𝙚𝙩𝙞𝙣𝙜𝙨.

Clients often see up to 𝟐.𝟓𝐱 𝐟𝐚𝐬𝐭𝐞𝐫 𝐞𝐱𝐞𝐜𝐮𝐭𝐢𝐨𝐧 after working together—not because they work harder, but because they stop trying to lead everything themselves.

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This isn’t mindset work.
It’s mental infrastructure for leadership in a nonlinear world.
It’s how you stay ahead when everything around you is shifting.

If that’s where you’re playing—I’d love to talk.

Joseph Logan

One of my core values is curiosity. And there's one place curiosity thrives:


Dialogue.

As much as I love writing and publishing the products of my curiosity, there's an obvious truth: one-way messages are not dialogue. Not the powerful kind.

That's why I've begun hosting a Q&A each Thursday at 10am MT (link in comments). The pieces I write over on 🚇 🥞 are provocative, and if I'm doing it right, they prompt more questions than they answer. I want to hear those questions.

What I'm writing about these days is business, AI, and consciousness. Some of the topics over at the other place are about what's going to happen with jobs, how companies are going to look different sooner than you think (and how to get ahead of the curve), what's most likely to happen with AI and society beyond the hype, and how the intentional cultivation of expanding consciousness is becoming essential to thriving.

Thank you to the people who have engaged with the big, complex problems. I hope you'll join the dialogue this Thursday.

Building adaptive orgs and leaders at Jumpsuit

Hard to believe it's been six months since I deep-dived the data on AI job displacement in The Last Normal Year. I had no intentions of making grand predictions--just finding signal in the noise and making a few guesses about timing and direction. Roughly right is better than precisely wrong.

Today I posted a retro on The Expansion Effect. What the model got right, where it was off, what I didn't anticipate. Top takeaway: we're ahead of schedule. The trendlines are moving faster than anticipated, and they're more subtle than I projected. But there's no uncertainty about the direction.

Job loss is scary. No way to sugarcoat that, and no interest, either. But it's likely to be a passage into a much brighter future for (some) companies and possibly most workers. Seeing that requires lifting our heads from how things are, our fears and anxieties, and leaning into trends rather than snapshots. A few patterns to watch:

- Most companies are going to have fewer employees
- Most workers are going to be more self-directed
- Remember flash mobs? You're about to see flash organizations
- Management morphs into shared protocols
- Labor elasticity and portfolio careers will be the new normal

This moment is fluid, but not for long. Today's experiments will begin to lock into new norms. Much of that gets sorted this year.

Link ( 🚇 🥞 ) to the deep dive in the comments.

If you're feeling confused and sluggish, I have some ideas about why.

For all the innovation we're gobbling up, there's one constraint most companies haven't yet questioned: the underlying operating system. And that's the one that limits everything you run on it.

Think about running Claude Code on Windows XP and you get the gist.

Today's piece on The Expansion Effect ( 🚇 🥞 ) goes beyond nifty ideas like decentralized design and conscious leadership (both useful but alone insufficient) to bring a sharp focus on why your upgrades aren't working--and how to change that.

Link's in the comments, and I'll be hosting a Q&A on Thursday at 10am MT to discuss how we evolve smartly, what happens next in the employment landscape, and how this moment is different from anything in the "best practices". Comment "thrive" below for an invite.

Hosting a Q&A on 𝗔𝗜 𝗜𝘀 𝗖𝗼𝗺𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗬𝗼𝘂𝗿 𝗝𝗼𝗯 𝗔𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗔𝗹𝗹 today at 10am MT. We'll talk about what the signals are indicating about job loss and timing, surprises I missed in my August 2025 projections, and what you can do to remain relevant in an AI-dominant work environment. Here's how to get in: https://lnkd.in/gJJQXQRj

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