Jeff Batten is the CEO and co-founder of UBH Group, a technology-focused consulting firm. His strategic vision and empathy make him an exceptional leader.
Jeff founded UBH with an aspiration to: bring people, process, and technology together, build national resilience, and unlock Australia’s technological advantage. He is passionate about ensuring the Australian Government is equipped with the latest technology solutions, and that implementation of these is delivered in a value for money way.
Jeff has over 20 years of experience in the Defence sector, spanning technical leadership, management, and military roles. Jeff has a proven track record in sales, business development, and strategic advisory roles, notably contributing to many Defence technology projects across Australia and New Zealand.
Prior to becoming CEO in October 2020, Jeff was responsible for Business Development at L3Harris Technologies, where he led strategic pursuits, business development, and sales activities in Australia and New Zealand for communications systems and networks projects.
Jeff also serves as a non-executive Director at the Real Estate Institute of Queensland, providing independent technology and governance expertise.
Jeff is a strong advocate for Defence industry, particularly Veteran’s employment issues. Jeff believes people are the key to unlocking Australia’s technological advantage and has a keen interest in training solutions that develop teams beyond capability implementation.

Daryl has over 19 years of experience managing projects and leading government, Defence and product development teams. As the founder of a company that delivers simulation training at scale through mobile technologies, Daryl has become a specialist in developing innovative solutions through lean and agile methodologies to achieve business and organisational outcomes.
As well as possessing industry experience as a full stack developer, Daryl has managed development teams and delivered various digital and physical products ranging from custom mobile simulation hardware, iOS and Android apps, web applications, AI applications and websites. He has experience working with stakeholders and data to translate business and defence requirements into functional and technical solutions.
Capitalizing on the ascent of AI's prominence in 2023, Daryl expanded into the cutting-edge field of Large Language Model (LLM) AI application development. Showcasing his pioneering mindset, Daryl worked with the UBH team to craft bespoke proof-of-concept AI applications specifically for the defence sector, earning a spotlight at the Army Robotics Exposition.
As a former full-time and reserve Army Officer, Daryl has worked in various command, training and operational planning roles. Since leaving Defence, he has maintained currency working in the defence industry. In these roles, he has been responsible for developing bespoke learning packages, developing and authoring extensive technical user documentation and digital planning guides, maintaining information technology systems and tender/bid writing for major AUSDEFCON bids.

Ian Langford was an Australian Defence Force star-ranked officer who as an Infantry officer, concluded his distinguished career as Head of Land Capability. He is a highly decorated leader of teams across operations in areas that included Timor Leste, Afghanistan, Bougainville, Solomon Islands, Iraq, Israel, Lebanon, Syria and South-West Pacific. He was awarded the Distinguished Service Cross on three occasions. He has studied and influenced curriculum with Royal Military College – Duntroon, Southern Cross University, Deakin University, Marine Corps University, The Australian National University, Harvard Kennedy School, Australian Institute of Company Directors, and most recently, the University of New South Wales. He is a published author across various publications and holds a Doctor of Philosophy in Strategic Studies.
Ian brings to UBH Group deep national security and whole-of-nation capability-building expertise as a respected and internationally acclaimed leader. He is a highly regarded Australian Defence Force officer, whole-of-nation Capability Advocate, Advisor and Academic. Ian has directly led small and large teams and influenced entire sectors in the pursuit of National Security objectives. Ian has recently pivoted his globally renowned strategic expertise to Industry and Academic sectors, having graduated from Australian Institute of Company Directors and taking Associate Professorship with UNSW. In addition, Ian has selectively offered a portion of his time to various national security-focussed apparatuses to encourage and align multi-sector responses to issues of National and International strategic importance.