Robin H Adlam MA, MSc is Managing Director of Lone Star Analysis Ltd, a predictive analytics and decision-support company helping organisations make better enterprise-level decisions from complex and disparate data.

Before entering the private sector, Robin completed a 32-year career in the Royal Air Force as a fighter pilot, senior executive and diplomat. His flying career included six tours on the Harrier and an exchange with the US Navy flying the F/A-18. He flew operationally over northern Iraq, served aboard HMS Ark Royal and ran the Harrier Force weapons instructor school before becoming Officer Commanding Harrier Operations at RAF Cottesmore, overseeing and supporting the Force’s deployments to the Middle East and Afghanistan.

Robin also served with Defence Intelligence and the Air Staff, conducted operational audits on behalf of the Secretary of State for Defence, and completed a six-month operational tour with the US Air Force in Qatar, leading strategic air planning for operations in Iraq and Afghanistan. His final RAF appointment was as an Air Attaché in Washington, DC.

After leaving the RAF in 2013, Robin established a training business serving the energy sector before supporting Lone Star Aerospace’s expansion into Europe. In 2021, he launched Lone Star Analysis Ltd, whose work now spans defence, aerospace and healthcare, applying predictive analytics to complex operational and organisational challenges.