Glenn Cashmore
Sleaford,Lincolnshire
Summary
Senior signals intelligence advisor with 10 years experience of analytical leadership, threat monitoring, and stakeholder engagement. Specialist in evaluating threat actor behaviours and emerging adversarial threats to UK MOD personnel, operations, and critical assets. Proven track record leading multi-national intelligence teams, authoring operational doctrine, and delivering high-stakes briefings to senior military personnel and key stakeholders. Adept at translating complex intelligence to the layman in order to enable effective decision making in dynamic, high-tempo environments while strictly adhering to legal, regulatory, and policy frameworks.
Overview
2
2
Languages
1
1
Certification
2
2
years of post-secondary education
2027
2027
years of professional experience
Work history
Operational Government Communications Officer(GCO)
HM Armed Forces
Cheltenham, Gloucestershire
11 2025 - 08.2026
- Monitored and managed multiple intelligence sources in order to provide timely indicators and warnings to deployed UK military personnel.
- Worked with deployed forces to identify threats and create a layered response to real adversarial threats.
- Provided Signals Intelligence (SIGINT) and Communications Security (COMSEC) advice to UK MOD operations to mitigate against compromise.
- Coordinated intelligence and surveillance assets in support of UK military operations.
- Disseminated and sanitised intelligence reporting, in accordance with government policy, ensuring compliance but also enabling decision makers.
- Captured intelligence requirements of operational commanders and coordinated analytical support in response.
- Through sound understanding of government of policy surrounding the handling, retention and dissemination of signals intelligence, ensured compliance regarding the MOD's use of it.
- Supported effects operations and government contingency responses as necessary.
- Trained, managed, oversaw and mentored military and civilian GCOs as required.
Lead analyst
HM Armed Forces
Digby, Lincolnshire
04 2024 - 11 2025
- Supported development of UK Over The Horizon Targeting (OTHT) experimentation, utilizing previous expertise (trade & service) to adapt US practices for UK implementation.
- Lead analyst for UK's first OTHT experimentation team, oversaw engagement with single service SMEs for opportunities to test and exercise OTHT techniques within all domains.
- Diplomat and ambassador for UK MOD, participating in multi-national planning conferences and tri-lateral working groups, directly informing decision-making at two-star level and above
- Acted as a UK OTHT instructor, developing SOPs, TTPs, and training aids to enable swift integration of new team members in niche tradecraft.
- Conducted software R&D, testing and liaison with US contractors to enable bespoke design and functionality, in line with UK MOD requirements.
- Supervised OTHT analysts, oversaw core tradecraft, providing mentorship of SIGINT principles, ensuring analytical work is conducted in accordance with government/MOD policy.
- Contributed to OTHT implementation by developing plans, strategies, and methodologies that support rapid integration of the capability.
- Compiled and delivered briefs to key decision makers within the UK military to accelerate understanding of OTHT Vision.
Lead analyst
HM Armed Forces
Digby, Lincolnshire
12 2022 - 04 2025
- Lead analyst on MOD's largest SIGINT team working in support of UK government's highest priorities. Responsible for 20 multinational, multi-discipline in a team of 70 personnel.
- Translated critical intelligence requirements into analytical output through key stakeholder engagement.
- Effective communication and clear direction resulted in analytical team contributing to 100's of intelligence reports disseminated to FVEY readers, some reaching the highest levels of UK and US government.
- Provided analysts with the opportunity to pursue personal development. Organising training and facilitating interactions between the analysts and the SMEs.
- Effectively operated suitable software applications IOT meet all operational requirements.
- Liaised with internal and external partners IOT inform and support operational tasking and maintain oversight of collection requirements.
- Personally responsible for the career management of 5 military personnel in the form of mentorship, career guidance and appraisal reporting.
- Took ownership of the team's entire target knowledge repositories, managing some of the UK's most sensitive equity.
- Held the highest levels of developed vetting continuously for 10 years.
Pashto Linguist
HM Armed Forces
Digby, Lincolnshire
04 2019 - 12 2022
- Provided linguistic support to FVEY and UK MOD operations in Afghanistan.
- Continued maintenance of linguist skill in order to remain current and operationally effective.
- Delegated tasking to junior analysts and linguists in support of operational requirements.
- Conducted quality control checks of junior member's translations.
- Maintained and updated knowledge repositories to ensure compliance with government policy.
Electronic warfare operator
HM Armed Forces
Haverfordwest, Pembrokeshire
03 2017 - 04 2019
- Deployed and maintained cutting edge tactical collection assets on operations and at home.
- Commanded up to 8 junior members on operations and exercise. Maximizing collect and ensuring efficient dissemination.
- Contributed to tactical decision making through awareness of adversary tactics, techniques and procedures.
- Managed complex databases of intercepted communications for future reference and analysis.
- Improved team efficiency through rigorous training and development programmes. Ensuring operational effectiveness is maintained.
Combat engineer
HM Armed Forces
Catterick, North Yorkshire
11 2001 - 01 2016
- Provided combat engineer support (demolitions, gap crossing, watermanship) to battle group operations. Commanded teams of up to 8 personnel, ensuring that tasks are completed to deadlines.
- Maintained standards of team members through continuous training and awareness of current tradecraft.
- Ensured health and safety was maintained during operational activities,
- Commanded battle group armoured engineering assets. Commanded crews of 4 in the deliver of armoured engineer tasks, effective management of this critical asset ensured that all battle group objectives were met.
- Maintained personal standards whilst ensuring subordinate discipline and standards are maintained.
Education
Bachelor of Arts - Intelligence and International Relations
Staffordshire University
Stoke-on-Trent 01.2020 - 04.2022
Skills
- Analytical leadership and structured problem-solving
- Multi-source information synthesis and assessment
- Effective stakeholder engagement
- Tradecraft innovation
- SOP and doctrine development
- Cross-functional and inter-agency collaboration
- Instruction and mentorship
- Foreign language proficiency
- Decision making
- Effective communication
Certification
BTEC National Certificate in Building Studies - BTEC
Level 5 Certificate in Leadership and Management -The City and Guilds of London Institute
Chartered Management Institute Level 2 Award in Team Leading - Chartered Management Institute
Languages
French
Upper intermediate (B2)
Pashto
Upper intermediate
Timeline
Bachelor of Arts - Intelligence and International Relations
Staffordshire University
01.2020 - 04.2022
Operational Government Communications Officer(GCO)
HM Armed Forces
11 2025 - 08.2026
Lead analyst
HM Armed Forces
04 2024 - 11 2025
Lead analyst
HM Armed Forces
12 2022 - 04 2025
Pashto Linguist
HM Armed Forces
04 2019 - 12 2022
Electronic warfare operator
HM Armed Forces
03 2017 - 04 2019
Combat engineer
HM Armed Forces
11 2001 - 01 2016