Daryl Rowe
Independent ATM modernisation advisor. I help ANSPs manage the operational and human side of ATM modernisation — the part that actually stalls programmes.
I spent twenty years inside air traffic management operations before moving into advisory work. I trained and validated as an area controller at EUROCONTROL's Maastricht Upper Area Control Centre, then spent nearly a decade at Air Traffic and Navigation Services in Johannesburg in a combined training and standards role, running the simulator programme and examination system for the Area Control pool.
In 2015 I moved into a regional ANSP environment to lead the operational transition from a legacy radar system to Thales TopSky across an entire FIR — an eighteen-month programme covering approximately four hundred operational and technical staff, delivered under significant institutional and political constraints. I remained in the region for a further five years in progressively senior operational leadership roles, ending as Operations and Airspace Manager with responsibility for operations, training, and the academy.
I hold an MBA from Plymouth Marjon University, with a dissertation on strategic leadership and organisational readiness for advanced air mobility across Gulf Cooperation Council air navigation service providers. I am Lean Six Sigma Black Belt certified.
Aspect Digital is my advisory practice. It works with air navigation service providers and civil aviation authorities on the operational and human side of ATM modernisation — the part of the programme that determines whether an installed system reaches operational service, and the part most programmes discover they have underinvested in only after the consequences are already in motion.