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Clockwork Research, a fatigue risk management consultancy and part of Air Partner’s Consulting & Training division, has named Alexandros Kontotasios as Human Factors Specialist. Kontotasios has a solid academic background in researching and assessing fatigue in pilots, human factors in aviation, psychology, military psychology and accident investigation, enabling him to prepare high quality fatigue research.

Baines Simmons, part of the Consulting & Training division of global aviation services group Air Partner, has appointed Mike Da Silva as consultant. He will report directly to Mike Wallace, Head of Operations. De Silva is a practitioner and manager in Initial Airworthiness, Certification, Test and Evaluation, and Safety Management Systems (SMS), covering both military

After 17 years as the CEO of Norwegian Air Shuttle, Bjørn Kjos will leave the position and continue in a new role as an advisor to the Chairman, with effect from July 11th. Until Norwegian appoints a new CEO, CFO Geir Karlsen will act as interim CEO, while Chairman Niels Smedegaard will take on a

Effective July 1, 2019, John O’Donnell has been named Chief Executive Officer of Safran Aerosystems. O’Donnell started his career in 1987 at Air Cruisers, successively holding the positions of design engineer, manufacturing engineering supervisor and Vice President of Engineering. In 2008, John O’Donnell was named President of Air Cruisers Company (now Safran Evacuation Systems). From

Universal Avionics (UA), has appointed Hervé Rousselle to the position of Regional Sales Manager for Europe. Based out of Lyon, France, Hervé is responsible for UA’s product sales and overall market growth in France, Luxemburg, Italy, Belgium, and French-speaking areas of Switzerland. Hervé brings over 20 years of business and general aviation sales experience to

Airbus has appointed Chris Emerson President of Airbus Defense and Space, a subsidiary of Airbus Americas, effective July 1, 2019. Emerson previously served as President of Airbus Helicopters and head of the North America region. Emerson’s new role moves him from the Airbus Helicopters headquarters in Grand Prairie, Texas to the Airbus Defense and Space

Steven Zaat has been appointed EVP Finance at Air France, as of July 3, 2019. He will report directly to Anne Rigail and will be a member of the Executive Committee. Zaat takes over from Marc Verspyck who stepped down from his position as EVP Finance of Air France on July 3, before leaving the