Aircraft investment specialist Stratos has announced the appointment of three senior industry professionals to its team. Kushal Patel joins as Head of Asia, based in Singapore; Muna Mohammad as Vice President, Risk & Restructuring, based in London; and Tuulia Rajamäki as Senior Advisor, Legal.
Kushal Patel is an aeronautical engineer by training with ten years’ experience in aviation finance across Doric Partners and Bank of America, where he served as Vice President in Asset Financing. He spent the past three years at Boston Consulting Group, most recently as a Project Leader, advising financial institutions on enterprise-level strategy and large-scale transformation programmes. With a background spanning finance, engineering and leasing, Kushal will cover airlines and investors across Asia (excluding Japan).
Muna Mohammad brings more than 15 years of specialist experience in aviation risk. Most recently she held roles at BOCA, Castlelake and Air BP, where she managed risk in complex operating environments, building on earlier positions at Citibank, MIDF in Malaysia and BDO in London.
Tuulia Rajamäki is an experienced aviation lawyer with more than 20 years working with financiers, lessors and airlines. Prior to joining Stratos, she spent 13 years with AerCap and ILFC in Singapore managing a broad range of transactions from aircraft trading to leasing. Earlier in her career, she spent eight years at Freshfields, Stephenson Harwood and Dentons focusing on structured and asset finance. Tuulia is admitted to practise law by the Supreme Court of England and Wales.
