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Arthur D. Little Appoints New Partner Jim Miller to
Lead Travel & Transportation Services in the US

Arthur D. Little (ADL) announced that Jim terminal area plans, airport/airline use and Washington Airports Authority. “The U.S.
Miller has been appointed as a Partner. Jim leasing, strategic planning, and bilateral is poised to experience a wholesale shift
will play a leading role in developing ADL’s advice. Before joining ADL, Jim had the across transportation sectors, and ADL is
Travel & Transportation (T&T) practice dual role of developing the Public-Private- excited to welcome Jim as a leader who
in the US, where the company aims to Partnership (PPP) transportation business can apply his deep expertise to our clients’
expand its presence and build on its global at Royal HaskoningDHV, an international situations. His wealth of experience in
reputation as a leading consultancy in the engineering and project management American and global transportation, and
mobility space, from aviation to public consultancy, while leading the PPP aviation in particular, will significantly
transport. For over 30 years, Jim has transaction business at InterVISTAS enhance our capabilities and perspective,”
delivered economic and financial analyses Consulting, which focuses on the aviation, said Craig Wylie, Managing Partner at ADL.
for airports, airlines, ports, and rail. He transportation and tourism sectors. Jim “ADL’s growth in the U.S. demonstrates
has particular expertise in the aviation had previously served as President of the value of building teams around those
sector, where he has served as an advisor InterVISTAS, following a merger with who invite collaboration and apply lessons
on over 50 airport privatizations and over Innova Aviation, the boutique consulting from across industries and regions. Jim
150 forecast/financial valuation analysis firm he founded in 2005. Jim has also is an excellent fit to bring that spirit to
projects for some of the world’s largest worked at GKMG Consulting and PA our Travel & Transportation practice.”
airports. Jim’s areas of focus include: air Consulting, where he was appointed as a Jim Miller, Partner at ADL, adds: “What
service development, domestic deficiency Senior Partner responsible for its Global really attracted me to ADL is the space
analyses, forecasting, OPEX analysis, Transportation practice. He started his and opportunity it gives its partners to be
commercial planning, feasibility and cargo career as Manager of Marketing and genuinely entrepreneurial in their dealings
studies, land use and master planning, International Affairs at Metropolitan with clients, as this is how I’ve always
worked most successfully in the past. That
approach is critical today, as airports and
airlines consider how to restructure their
business to reflect new market conditions,
while the industry itself changes to
address pressing sustainability issues.
The challenges unfolding this decade
will require both insight and practical
advice from experts such as ADL, and I’m
proud to have become part of their team.”
Jim earned his Juris Doctor from the
University of Tulsa College of Law in 1983,
and a Master’s Degree in Mathematical
Economics from West Virginia University
in 1979.

AT&T and U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs
Will Test 5G-Powered Healthcare Innovations

What’s the news? AT&T has delivered AT&T explore how they can improve healthcare computer and cellular network architecture
5G capabilities across the entirety of the delivery to the approximately 9 million that brings real-time, high-bandwidth,
U.S. Department of Veterans Affairs (VA) Veterans who use VA healthcare services low-latency access to latency dependent
Puget Sound Health Care System in Seattle each year. Why is this important? This is mobile applications. 5G and MEC “holds
in a public-private partnership with the VA. an industry-first deployment of 5G and the potential to be transformational by
VA expects to pilot a variety of healthcare MEC capabilities across the entirety of a enabling new healthcare delivery and
use cases with our 5G and multi-access VA health care and training facility. Multi- business models” according to Gartner1.
edge computing (MEC) technologies to access edge computing is essentially a Among the healthcare-focused use cases

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