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Martin Rolfe
Executive
Martin Rolfe is the CEO of Nats.
Notable Quotes
""I would like to apologise again, very sincerely, to everyone who was affected last week.""View Story →
"In the real world, we accept technology can and sometimes does fail."View Story →
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