Mark Poffley

Lieutenant General Sir Mark William Poffley, (born 1960) is a former senior British Army officer and an active director of Universal Defence and Security Solutions.

Military career Poffley was commissioned into the Royal Army Ordnance Corps in 1985. After seeing action in the Gulf War and then in the Bosnian War, and Afghanistan in 2002.

Poffley went on to be Colonel Army Plans in 2003 and commander 102nd Logistic Brigade in 2005, seeing active service in Iraq in that capacity. he was given the additional title of Master General of Logistics in June 2012. Promoted to lieutenant general, Poffley went on to be Commander Force Development and Capability in February 2014 as well as the Deputy Chief of the General Staff in Spring 2015. After that he was appointed Deputy Chief of Defence Staff (Military Capability) at the Ministry of Defence in January 2016. In the 2018 Queen's Birthday Honours, he was appointed Knight Commander of the Order of the Bath (KCB).