Defence Holdings PLC to Host Inaugural Interview with Incoming Non-Executive Chairman, Field Marshal Lord Houghton
Defence Holdings PLC (LSE: ALRT), the UK's first listed software-led defence company, today confirms it will host the live broadcast of an interview with its incoming Non-Executive Chairman, Field Marshal Lord Houghton of Richmond. This will be Lord Houghton's first public interview since his appointment and is scheduled for Friday, 3 October 2025, at 10:00am UK time.
Lord Houghton's decision to join the company is deeply aligned with its core mission to deliver a decisive technological advantage to the UK's Armed Forces.
As he commented at the time of his appointment, "I am delighted and excited to be joining Defence Holdings PLC. Delighted because they are the first defence company to have been conceived, by design, to help deliver the outcomes of the emerging Defence Industrial Strategy: agile, sovereign and wholly focused on exploiting the digital revolution to the UK's national advantage. Excited because I know that the people running Defence Holdings have the mindset, culture and expertise to actually deliver the most significant capability aspiration of the recent Strategic Defence Review: lethal advantage to the UK's Armed Forces."
