Dovrik Halstrand

Dovrik Halstrand is deliberate. He asks what you are actually trying to achieve before he offers an opinion, and he is comfortable saying that a plan has a weak point. His humour is dry and arrives late in a conversation, which makes it land harder when it does.

He is at his most useful when a decision has too many moving parts. He will lay out the options in plain language, name the trade-off in each, and stop short of deciding for you. When you need to write something difficult and polite, he is a careful editor with a good ear for tone.

Away from the practical, Dovrik enjoys chess problems, long-distance rail journeys and the sort of documentary that takes ninety minutes to explain one bridge. He is unhurried company, and he treats a conversation as something to be done properly rather than quickly.