American Airlines announced that Kevin Brickner, who currently serves as Vice President of Safety and Operations Integration as well as the airline’s certificated Director of Safety, has been promoted to Senior Vice President of Technical Operations (Tech Ops). He takes over the role from David Seymour, who was named Senior Vice President of Integrated Operations
Bombardier Business Aircraft has appointed Peter Bromby as Vice President, Worldwide Sales, Learjet Aircraft. Bromby will assume overall responsibility for sales with a dedicated U.S.-based sales team and apply his vast experience and insight to driving sales of this Bombardier brand. He will retain his current responsibilities as Vice President, Worldwide Pre-owned Aircraft Sales. A
West Star Aviation has named Tommi Krell Director of Corporate Communications. Krell will be responsible for managing internal employee communications channels, as well as assisting Human Resources with enhancing and expanding corporate recruiting strategies. Krell has 5+ years of aviation marketing and communications experience, previously holding various marketing positions with Jet Aviation. Prior to that,
Woodward has reported that Robert F. Weber, Jr., Vice Chairman and Chief Financial Officer, has announced his intention to retire effective January 3, 2020, after more than 14 years as the CFO of the company. As part of the company’s succession planning for the Chief Financial Officer role, Jonathan “Jack” W. Thayer, has joined the
C&L Aerospace, a C&L Aviation Group company, has released that Isham Salim has joined C&L Aerospace in the new position of Regional Sales Manager, Asia. Salim will lead sales and marketing activities in the commercial and regional airline segments for Asia. Salim has more than 20 years of experience in the Asian airline market, most
Robert Clare, Director of Sales for Universal Avionics (UA), has announced that Ms. Kim Stephenson has been appointed to the position of Regional Sales Manager for Canada. Stephenson is based in Grand Rapids, Michigan USA and joins UA with over 20 years of experience in the aviation industry. Before joining UA, she held various sales
AerSale, a global supplier of mid-life aircraft, engines, used serviceable material, and maintenance, repair, and overhaul (MRO) services, has promoted Basil Barimo, formerly Chief Operating Officer, to Chief Executive Officer, and Craig Wright, formerly Chief Commercial Officer, to President, to facilitate rapid expansion of the business. AerSale founder Nicolas Finazzo will serve as Executive Chairman
Effective January 1, 2019, Bruno Bergoend has been appointed Senior Vice President, Airbus and ATR Programs at Safran and Vice President, Public Affairs for the Occitanie region of France. He succeeds André Guiraud, who has retired, and reports to Stéphane Abrial, Senior Executive Vice President, International and Public Affairs. Bruno Bergoend is now responsible for
After three years of development and expansion work at Frequentis Comsoft, a major software company in the Frequentis Group for air traffic management (ATM) and defence domains, Gerald Enzinger hands over the management agenda to former Austro Control Chief Operating Officer (COO), Thomas Hoffmann. Thomas Hoffmann, an air traffic control professional with a broad background
The American Institute of Aeronautics and Astronautics (AIAA), has named Katie Taplett as managing director of Member and Market Development. Taplett brings almost thirty years of sales, business development, and market/partnership development experience in the field of media and information services, working specifically with various business-to-business content providers and trade publishers within the aviation and
