With a background in technology and large equipment procurement, as the Olympic Delivery Authority's Head of Systems and Technology, Gordon Shipley is responsible for security capital projects, systems' integration, information technology, and information and records management.

On commissioning from the Royal Military Academy, Gordon Shipley joined Royal Signals. His military experience is broadly based having served in a variety of signal units, airborne forces, and the infantry. He attended the Army Staff Course and served in a variety of staff and command appointments in UK and Northern Ireland, including the Ministry of Defence and the Procurement Executive. As a colonel he attended the US Army War College before leading a joint C3I Team at the British Embassy, Washington, reporting on US technical and operational capability. Before retiring he worked at the UK Defence Academy as Chief of Staff before establishing and leading the Academy Campus Development Team, responsible for Campus redevelopment and all support services.

Gordon Shipley was educated at Melville College, Edinburgh, Welbeck College, Worksop, and the Royal Military Academy, Sandhurst. He attended the Army Staff Course at Shrivenham and Camberley, and the US Army War College, Carlisle, PA.

Gordon Shipley is married with a grownup family. He jogs to remain fit, plays golf and fishes.