Rice actually started work at ICOMIA on May 20, giving a two month overlap for the handover from Donkin.

Colonel Rice is currently in the process of retiring from the British Army and is currently completing a post graduate diploma in management with the University of Leicester Business School.

He is a 1996 graduate of the US Army War College and a 1987 graduate from the UK Joint Service Defence College. He has also been chief, Strategic Assessments, Intelligence Division, Supreme Headquarters Allied Powers, Europe, based in Brussels.

From 1996-1999 he was chief military adviser to the commander, Kuwait Land Forces, Kuwait.

According to ICOMIA, Rice has extensive managerial, planning, operational and training experience in different international environments.