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President and Chief Executive Officer
Dewar Donnithorne-Tait MA MBA FRAeS FIoD
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 his own company. Adfingo, in December 2000. He assumed the position of Managing Director, Veitch Moir Ltd (third generation family company) in February 2002.
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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. His involvement with unmanned systems started in 1983 at the Royal Military College of Science, Shrivenham, where his advanced study was into UGV sensors. Since then he has worked with a range of UGV and UAS research, development and acquisition projects. He was trained to operate and fly a light unmanned aircraft in 2007 and under UK CAA regulations, his company, Veitch Moir Ltd, is now developing commercial Light UAS applications. He also has a long-standing private interest and record of achievement in wildlife conservation. His recent positions include:
- Secretary, EUROCAE WG73 UAS working on standards for UAS in non-segregated airspace, (www.eurocae.eu), Current
- Consultant, AUVSI, (www.auvsi.org) Current
- Director Veitch Moir Ltd (www.veitchmoir.com) Current
- Chairman, UAS Specialist Group, Royal Aeronautical Society (www.raes.org) Current
- Dean, AUVSI’s Unmanned Systems Institute 2005-2007
- President, Association for Unmanned Vehicle Systems International (www.auvsi.org) 2003-2005
- Regional 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, Minister’s Personal Strategy Council, FEDICT, Belgian Government (www.fedict.be) 2002-2004
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Chief Operating Officer
Sterling Cripps CD1
Born in Edmonton Alberta in 1961, Sterling Cripps joined the Canadian Forces in 1982 under the Officer Candidate Training Programme as a Naval Cadet. He served on the Destroyer HMCS Athabaskan in Halifax and performed the duties as a Bridge Watch keeper, Ships Diving Officer and Above Water Warfare Officer. In 1988 Sterling reclassified as a Clearance Diving Officer where he participated and supervised numerous deep sea diving and EOD operations. His duties also included managing and piloting two Canadian Navy deep diving manned submersibles SDL-1 and Pisces IV.
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He recorded his deepest dive in Pisces IV to a depth of 4700ft off of Vancouver Island in 1990. Other operations included assisting the RCMP with drug interdiction and environmental disaster relief.
Posted to the United Kingdom in August 1994, he served as the Officer in Charge of Fleet Diving Unit Three in Portsmouth which was an underwater engineering and EOD team mandated to provide underwater repair to British Fleet around the globe. Upon his return to Canada in August 1997 he was appointed to the position as Executive Officer of Fleet Diving Unit Pacific in Esquimalt. He held this post for two years before completing an occupational transfer to Pilot in 1999. Posted to 15 Wing in Moose Jaw in June of 1999 after completing the Primary Flying Course, Sterling successfully completed the Basic Flying Course on the CT 114 Tutor Jet. He then served as a Reserve Public Affairs Officer at CFB Suffield until retiring from the CF in 2006.
He has been working with the CCUVS as the Vice President and Chief Operations Officer since 2007 and maintains a current Canadian commercial pilot’s license. Sterling currently resides in Medicine Hat, Alberta with his wife Leanne and two children Cortland and Tilley.
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Fady Khaled, Chief Technology Officer
Fady Khaled is an expert in artificial intelligence, robotics, mathematical encryption and systems engineering. Fady held numerous positions in these fields in both government and private sectors.
He founded Computer Smart Solutions in 1997 and began research and development in the area of artificially intelligent Robotic agents and mathematics based encryption algorithms.
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In 2002 he held the position of Chief Executive Officer of Teltime Inc. which was an Internet Service Provider and systems engineering firm. Three years later in 2005 Fady was appointed Chief Executive Officer of Modena Trading a subsidiary of Teltime Inc. where he developed intelligent methods for financial market analysis and trading-based decisions as well as managing the international import and export operations of the company.
In 2006 he joined an academic research team developing an unmanned underwater research project, a task-based autonomous submarine that made decisions without human intervention. Later that year Fady Khaled took a new academic research role leading a ground robotic team in the development of an artificially intelligent robot that was capable of making logical eliminations while remembering the deductions it made in an autonomous manner.
In 2007 Fady developed an unprecedented form of artificial intelligence technology which could fundamentally change how humans use – and relate to – intelligent robots. He led a research and development team called Nova 5 for two years which developed an artificially intelligent entity that has the ability to reason, learn and react using neural technology. This new technology was a significant leap forward in developing autonomous robots with human-like perception and decision-making abilities. This research won the award for best design in the AUVSI competition.
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Carlotta Maser
Manager, Data, Communications and Infrastructure
Born in Swift Current, Saskatchewan, Carlotta qualified as a certified nursing assistant. After six years of work in medicine, she left Saskatchewan, moving to Medicine Hat, Alberta with her young family. She and her husband ran a very successful coffee shop in the town for some seven years. After selling her business, Carlotta worked as an administrator for several businesses before taking on her current role in 2007.
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