Air Vice-Marshal Tim Neal-Hopes OBE has served in a wide range of appointments, both in the UK and overseas. Cyber security, intelligence and information systems engineering, interspersed with tours supporting deployed operations, have characterised his career. Most recently, Tim served as Director Cyber and Intelligence (DCI3) within Defence Intelligence (DI), where he was responsible for intelligence collection and specialist intelligence analysis across the GEOINT, HUMINT, SIGINT, MASINT, OSINT, CI, and EW disciplines. He was also responsible for intelligence training and support to cyber effects delivery and development. This was his fifth tour in a row with DI (after a brief interlude and return to academia to attend the Royal College of Defence Studies in 2021).