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Advanced Navigation Has Appointed David Leniewski As Managing Director For EMEA
but as a lived experience. We are excited he’s joining us to translate that understanding into strong regional growth.”
The Right Leader for the Right Moment Leniewski brings extensive leadership experience across aerospace, heavy industrials and high-reliability technology sectors, combining a foundational background in the British Army with senior commercial roles:
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British Army: Served over a decade, gaining frontline operational experience and deep insight into defence requirements and mission- critical environments.
Advanced Navigation, a world leader in navigation and autonomous systems, for the world’s most extreme environments, has announced the appointment of David Leniewski as Managing Director for Europe, the Middle East and Africa (EMEA). Following a year of triple-digit growth, Advanced Navigation is scaling its deep- tech operations to meet surging demand for resilient navigation solutions across the region’s critical infrastructure and heavy industries sectors, including maritime, offshore, subsea and mining.
The £1.4 Billion Problem Facing Commercial Operations Across EMEA, reliance on standard Global Navigation Satellite Systems (GNSS) has become a critical vulnerability. Signal degradation, jamming, and spoofing are no longer just concerns for the defence sector, but daily operational hazards for commercial enterprises. Offshore vessels are losing positioning, autonomous mining fleets face costly
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downtime, and automated port logistics are being disrupted. IATA reported a 67% increase in jamming events from 2023 to 2025, while spoofing incidents rose by 193%.
With a GNSS outage estimated to cost the UK economy £1.4 billion every single day, the commercial stakes have never been higher.
Speaking of the appointment, Advanced Navigation Chief Revenue Officer (CRO) Christopher McNamara believes Leniewski is the “right leader” for the “right moment”.
“The era of single-technology dependency is over. The question facing every program, every autonomous system integrator, and every critical infrastructure operator in the region is no longer if signal failure will affect them, but whether they will be ready when it does,” he said.
“With a track record of scaling dual-use technology across global markets, Leniewski brings a rare combination of operational credibility and commercial depth to the role. His time in the British Army gives him firsthand understanding of what resilient navigation means in contested environments - not as a systems specification,
• Smiths Interconnect: Served as Business Unit Director EMEA, leading regional strategy for high-reliability connectivity solutions across the medical, semiconductor, and aerospace sectors.
• Moog & Ultra Electronics: Led sales and marketing strategies for high-value engineering programs across North-West Europe, including heavy ground vehicles, naval vessels, and security and surveillance platforms.
• Amphenol: Focused on military- grade interconnect solutions for use across commercial aviation, defence, and space markets.
“The navigation industry has spent decades building on a single point of failure and calling it a system,” said Leniewski. “Advanced Navigation is one of the few companies willing to say that plainly, and more importantly, to do something about it.”
“Its technologies are foundational to how maritime, subsea, mining and critical industries across EMEA will operate safely and autonomously in the years ahead. That is the work I want to be part of.”
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