Eric Pahon

Eric Pahon is Vice President of Defense Communications at Rolls-Royce North America, where he leads communications, crisis response and advocacy for the company’s defense business worldwide. He joined Rolls-Royce in 2025 after nearly 25 years in government communications.

Most recently, Eric spent nearly four years as the public affairs adviser and spokesman for the Deputy Secretary of Defense. As a Pentagon press officer, he covered defense policy, personnel and readiness, the counter-ISIS campaign, Russia, and Ukraine. He also served as Deputy Director of Strategic Communications for the NATO mission in Afghanistan, supported the 2021 drawdown, and was a spokesman in the Office of the Commissioner at the Food and Drug Administration.

He began his career as an Army broadcast journalist, serving 13 years on active duty with deployments to Iraq and Afghanistan, and holds a Bachelor of Arts in broadcast journalism from the University of Southern California.