An independent strategic architect for the new space and dual-use economy. Kate maps emerging markets, defines where a business can credibly win, and builds the partnerships and market entry routes that turn that position into revenue, across the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Taiwan.
Kate Beresford-Green is a strategy and international business development leader working at the point where space, defence and government meet commercial markets. She maps where a market is going, defines the position a business can credibly hold within it, and then builds the partnerships, alliances and entry routes that make that position real.
Her fifteen years in the UK market span fintech, machine learning and artificial intelligence, cyber, government and defence, which gives her an unusual view of how deep technology actually reaches a customer. That breadth matters in new space, where the buyer may be a government department, a prime contractor and a commercial operator in the same quarter, each with a different procurement logic.
She takes mandates as an interim or fractional Chief Strategy Officer, as an international business development and partnerships lead, or as a senior advisor running a focused diagnostic. She has spoken at Westminster and Imperial College, and on behalf of industry bodies including the CBI, and is a co-founder of an initiative supporting women in the space sector.
Kate's primary focus is the new space and dual-use economy, with the surrounding defence, government and deep technology markets that fund it, regulate it and buy from it.
Kate's work runs from the diagnostic at the front, understanding a market well enough to make a decision, through to the partnerships and market entry that convert that decision into revenue.
Mapping an emerging market, defining where the business can credibly win, and building the proposition, pricing and route to the customer around it. Particularly useful where the technology is ready but the commercial path is not yet obvious.
Identifying, opening and structuring the relationships that shorten the route to market: primes, operators, engineering partners, investors and government stakeholders. Kate works the introduction through to a working commercial relationship rather than stopping at the meeting.
Taking a business into the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Taiwan, with the regulatory, procurement and cultural differences that each entails. Dual UK and US right to work, and eligible for UK security clearance where a mandate requires it.
Stepping in as an interim or fractional Chief Strategy Officer, or as part of a growth-as-a-service team, for founders and boards who need senior strategic capability without a permanent hire. Typical engagements run from three months, hybrid, with a two week lead time.
Space and dual-use markets are young, thinly mapped and unusually political. Kate is brought in when a business needs to understand one quickly and act on that understanding.
New space, in-orbit services and dual use have no settled playbook. Kate builds the market picture from scratch, so a board can make a decision on evidence rather than on the sector's own optimism.
Fifteen years spanning fintech, AI, cyber, government and defence mean she can hold a conversation with a procurement officer, a prime contractor and an investor, and translate faithfully between all three.
Strategy in this sector is only as good as the doors it opens. Kate's value shows up as introductions that convert, into primes, operators, government stakeholders and investors across four markets.
Available for interim, fractional and advisory engagements across the United Kingdom and Ireland, the Benelux, DACH, wider Europe, North America and Asia-Pacific, working hybrid.
Client names are withheld where confidentiality applies. Further detail is available on request under a non-disclosure agreement.
Kate partners with founders, boards and leadership teams in space, defence, government and deep technology who need a market understood, a position defined, and the partnerships built to act on it.
Fifteen years in the UK market across fintech, machine learning and AI, cyber, government and defence, with international market entry delivered into the United Kingdom, the United States, Canada and Taiwan.
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