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	ADFINGO is organised around people who are experts in their respective fields. The Company has a small permanent staff, with independent consultants who are brought together to work specific issues.




	Dewar Donnithorne-Tait MA MBA FRAeS FIoD Principal Consultant

Dewar Donnithorne-Tait is ADFINGO‘s permanent Principal Consultant. Born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1952, Dewar attended the Edinburgh Academy and then Christ’s College, Cambridge, where he graduated in Natural Sciences and then conducted post-graduate research in Applied Biology. A short time in business was followed by more than 20 years of government service, which included posts in operations, intelligence, procurement, security, NATO, international relations, research and development management and latterly capability management. After government service, he joined Sun Microsystems Federal Inc and was Head of UK Operations and then eEurope Envoy for Sun until setting up ADFINGO in December 2000. He assumed the position of Managing Director, Veitch Moir Ltd (third generation family company) in February 2002.

Dewar has an MBA in business and financial strategy and is a government certified linguist in French and German. He attended a one year government post-graduate course in technology management and procurement. His expertise lies in the areas of business strategy and governance, delivering benefits from new technology (ICT and unmanned systems) and new media production. He has a long-standing private interest and record of achievement in wildlife conservation. His recent positions include:

Dean, AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Institute and Director (staff) AUVSI. (www.auvsi.org) Current
Secretary EuroCAE Working Group 73 UAV. (Working towards standards to fly civil UAVs in non-segregated airspace) (www.eurocae.org)Current
Managing Director, Veitch Moir Ltd (www.veitchmoir.com) Current
Principal Consultant, Adfingo Current
President, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (www.auvsi.org) (2003-2005)
Vice President and International Director, AFCEA (www.afcea.org) (2000-2004) Awarded the Admiral Jon L. Boyes Medal for distinguished service (Washington DC, May 2004)
Permanent Expert (eGovernment Programme), Minister’s personal Strategy Council, FEDICT, Belgian Government (www.fedict.be) 2002-2003
Head of UK Operations and eEurope Envoy, Sun Microsystems (www.sun.com) 1996-2000
Co-author of CSSA report ‘Getting IT Right for Government’. (2000)


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