page_title: Mike Stone (defence)
section_title: Military career
hierarchical_section_title: Mike Stone (defence) / Military career
caption_attribution_description: Cap Badge of The Duke of Wellington's Regiment (West Riding)
context_page_description: Brigadier Michael John "Mike" Stone is a retired British Army officer, former Director of Information of the British Army and former Chief Information Officer of the Ministry of Defence. He is currently the Global Head of Government Technology Transformation at KPMG. In 2015, Stone made the UKtech50, where he was ranked the 12th most influential person in the UK IT Sector.
  Stone was commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment in 1976, and his first tour of duty was in Northern Ireland as a platoon commander. This was followed by tours in Germany, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Kenya, Norway, Canada and the United States throughout his 26-year military career. In 2002, Stone retired from the army and joined BT Group at director level. Three years later he was appointed Chief Operating Officer of BT International, then further promoted to President of Service Design and CIO of BT Global Services. Stone remained in the telecoms industry until 2012, when he led a serco bid to secure the £36million DBS contract being outsourced by the MoD. In March 2012, it was confirmed the bid had succeeded and Stone was subsequently appointed CEO of Defence Business Services.
context_section_description: In 1976, having graduated from university, Stone trained at the Royal Military Academy Sandhurst and was subsequently commissioned into the Duke of Wellington's Regiment. His first tour of duty was in Northern Ireland as a platoon commander. His early career involved tours in Germany, Cyprus, Gibraltar, Kenya, Norway, Canada and the United States including Command tours as Chief of Staff of an Armoured Brigade and Head of the Tactics Division of the United States Army Infantry School. Towards the latter half of his military career, Stone began to specialise in the provision of information and technologies culminating first in his appointment as IT Director for the Field HQ of the Army, followed by his promotion to the rank of Brigadier and the position of Director of Information for the British Army.
caption: Stone's regiment cap badge
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