Rear-Admiral Jeffery Zwick was born in Vancouver, British Columbia in 1966. He joined the Canadian Armed Forces in 1989 as a Direct Entry Officer, having previously received his Bachelor of Arts Degree in History from the University of British Columbia.
Rear-Admiral Zwick has had the opportunity to sail extensively throughout his career with operational deployments in the Indo-Pacific Region, the North Atlantic, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean and the Persian Gulf. An Air Defence specialist, operationally Rear-Admiral Zwick served as the Staff Above Water Warfare Officer for the Commander of the Standing Naval Force Atlantic (SNFL) (2001-2002) including OPERATION ACTIVE ENDEAVOUR in support of NATO Article 5 operations against terrorism in the Mediterranean; as the J5 Maritime Plans in the Canadian Forces Joint Operations Group (CFJOG) (2003-2004) including OPERATION PRINCIPAL, the Non Combatant Evacuation from Haiti, as well as OPERATION HALO in Haiti; as the Executive Officer of HMCS TORONTO (2004–2005) including OPERATION ALTAIR in the Persian Gulf attached to the George Washington CVBG; as the Commanding Officer of HMCS MONTREAL (2007-2009) including OPERATION CARIBBE in the Caribbean; and as the Commander Canadian Fleet Pacific (2015-2018) including OPERATION PROJECTION in the Southeast and Northeast Asia. Rear-Admiral Zwick has served 6 tours within National Defence Headquarters in Ottawa, as a Director within the Naval Staff (2005-2007); as the Director Strategic Coordination within the Chief of Force Development (2010-2011); as the Director Defence Force Planning within the Chief of Programme (2012-2014); as the Defence Programme Advisor to the Vice Chief of Defence Staff (2014-2015); as the Chief of Force Development (2018-2020); and he was appointed to his current position as the Chief of Combat Systems Integration in 2020, leading the integration of emerging technologies to enable Canadian Armed Forces operational success in the 21st century.
Rear-Admiral Zwick is a graduate of the National Security Programme at Canadian Forces Command and Staff College (2012) and has completed a Master’s Degree in Defence Studies at the Royal Military College of Canada (2003). He is also a fellow of the US GOFO Pinnacle Program (2021) and is an alumni of the Asia-Pacific Center for Security Studies (2016). He was invested as an Officer of the Order of Military Merit in 2015 and promoted within the Order to the Rank of Commander in 2021. Rear-Admiral Zwick is married to his very talented, supportive and understanding wife Marta. They are currently residing in Ottawa, Ontario.
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