Colonel Trey Meeks (U.S. Air Force Retired) is Managing Principal at The Asia Group. Trey has a proven track record enabling aerospace and defense clients to capture billions in successful campaigns, mediate delicate international settlements, establish strategically salient relationships, upgrade regional brand profiles and achieve business expansion objectives in numerous Asian markets by designing and implementing strategic campaigns and targeting discrete business opportunities. Additionally, his strategic insights have helped inform risk mitigation approaches for a diverse group of Fortune 100 companies heavily invested in Indo-Pacific markets highly subject to regional volatility. Prior to joining The Asia Group, Colonel Meeks served as the Chief of the Office of Defense Cooperation at both the U.S. Embassy in Singapore and the U.S. Embassy in Brunei Darussalam to lead all defense sales and cooperation activities. In this role, he oversaw direct support for high-value acquisition, sustainment, and upgrade efforts by U.S. defense firms as well as partner capability development efforts. Trey served as primary liaison between the U.S. Arms Transfer and Technology Release Senior Steering Group and Singapore’s Defense Technology Committee, where he regularly collaborated to solve complex technology transfer and national disclosure policy issues. He simultaneously managed the U.S. government’s largest foreign training and education program with over 1000 students per year, and led U.S. inter-agency support for the Singapore Airshow and the International Maritime Defense Exhibition (IMDEX), the largest aerospace and maritime defense events of their kind in Asia.
