Jonathan Dower is a Senior Consultant with Vital Wave Consulting. With twenty-five years in information and communications technology, Mr. Dower brings extensive experience in successfully building companies and services that help businesses, governments, and non-governmental groups more effectively use technology research for management, policy development, planning, and organization. Mr. Dower provides Vital Wave Consulting clients with strategic consulting and market insights to grow their business in developing countries.

Before Vital Wave Consulting, Mr. Dower served as director of a private-client advisory practice developing technology partnerships and market opportunities in support of public and private network tenders before and after telecom market deregulation in Poland. In this capacity he coordinated more than 20 technology exchange ventures between vendors in Poland, U.S., and Europe, guiding U.S. partners through Polish post-Soviet, NATO, and EU regulatory issues, competitive concerns, and compliance standards. He also served as the Lead Strategy Advisor to a Polish telecom vendor in acquisition negotiations with world’s 3rd largest telecom vendor.

Mr. Dower was also the Chief Operating Officer of CG/LA., where he managed the research, marketing, and business operations for private-client, multi-client and advisory programs focused on the deregulation and privatization of Latin American infrastructure marketplace. He also served as the Vice President of Research at Current Analysis, Inc., one of the industry’s first web-based competitive intelligence services for IT industries. Mr. Dower was also a Vice President at Pyramid Research, Inc where he designed, launched, and directed a high-end client advisory service program of market intelligence focused on telecom markets in Africa, Asia, Latin America, and Eastern Europe.

Mr. Dower holds a Master’s degree in Development Psychology from Wheelock College. His undergraduate degree, also in Development Psychology, was awarded by the University of Maryland.