David Dickie, Director of Advance Aid has worked in senior financial and human resources roles within the publishing and advertising industries. In 1997, he set up DNP, an HR consultancy focused on the Telecoms Media Technology sector. The company completed numerous successful campaigns on behalf of its clients before he sold his shareholding and moved on to found Nexec Partners in 2000, a leading executive search practice, serving the technology and media marketplace.
His friend Simon Lucas approached him concerning the incredibly frustrating and needless way in which emergency supplies are deployed and manufacturing in Africa suffers, They formed Advance Aid in 2006. In a disaster situation, the world sits and watches until it is too late. Thousands of people die needlessly, waiting for aid to arrive. Quite simply, we are flying aid in from the developed world to the third world at an extortionate cost to donors, and doing little to create a culture of self-reliance and sustainability in the areas where these goods are most used.
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