Scott Elson is the director of sales and marketing at L3 Oceania, a company he joined since 1996 as a project engineer working on naval defence and commercial offshore oil and gas projects. In 1998, Mr Elson became customer services manager for underwater acoustics, and from 2001 he spent the next three years in Houston with Nautronix as a regional technical sales manager. In 2006, Mr Elson was appointed director of business development under the new ownership of L3, focusing on the new defence business within Australia and developing international markets. Mr Elson holds a Bachelor of Engineering (Computer Systems) from Curtin University.