Guy Adams

NATS Commercial Director

Guy has 25 years’ experience as a finance professional including 19 with NATS. He has been the Commercial Director for 2 years, having overall accountability for all of NATS unregulated business in the UK and overseas. Immediately prior to this he was the Finance Director of NATS Services and before that the Head of NERL Finance.

He has extensive experience across all Financial and Commercial management disciplines. Most recently he has lead the creation of a new Commercial Strategy for NATS which is focused on retaining and growing business in the UK and overseas. He has significant experience creating and negotiating major Commercial bids including the re-negotiation of a number of the companies key airport contracts. He led the recent project to acquire Searidge Technologies in Canada and the creation of partnering strategy for Spanish Towers bid with Ferroser S.A. leading to the successful contract award of towers contracts in Spain. Guy sits on the Board of ferroNATS S.A, Searidge Technologies Inc and Aquila Ltd (a joint venture with Thales for the implementation and support of terminal ATM system to the MOD along with delivery of ATC services at a number of their airfields).

Prior to joining NATS, Guy was Deputy Director of Finance for a major NHS Trust Hospital. Guy holds a social sciences degree from the University of Hull and after leaving university trained and qualified as an accountant.