Dr. Mohammad Ali Seiraffi took over as Vice President Handling Frankfurt on 1 January 2012, charged with responsibility for the airline’s major logistics base, the Lufthansa Cargo Center (LCC) in Frankfurt. Dr. Seiraffi succeeds Dr. Andreas Jahnke who has been appointed as the new Managing Director of Lufthansa Consulting GmbH after close to four years as head of
International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) announced that Hooman Yazhari will join ILFC as General Counsel. Mr. Yazhari will head the company’s global legal team, compliance and regulatory functions and report to ILFC Chief Executive Officer, Henri Courpron.
Westchester Aircraft Maintenance Association (WAMA) announced the elevation of Mike Sullivan to Treasurer on its Board of Directors. Sullivan’s background includes bringing to market various products and services to aviation, especially safety oriented technologies. Among them, Trend Monitoring, HUMS, Satcom and the Maintenance, Repair/ Overhaul (MRO) of aircraft and aircraft systems.
Itzhak Nissan, president and CEO of Israel Aerospace Industries, announced his intention to retire on October 31st 2012, after seven years of service in this capacity. Notification to this effect was provided by Nissan to IAI’s board of directors, headed by Dov Baharav.
Bombardier Aerospace announced the appointment of Michele (Mike) Arcamone as President, Bombardier Commercial Aircraft effective February 1, 2012. Mr. Arcamone succeeds Gary R. Scott, who retired on October 1, 2011.
Michael J. Harkins has joined Dallas Airmotive, a BBA Aviation Engine Repair and Overhaul (ERO) company, as Regional Engine Manager for the Mid-Atlantic states. Harkins will be responsible for selling repair and overhaul services on Honeywell TFE731, 36 series APU and Pratt & Whitney Canada PW305 engines.
GA Telesis named Irvin Lucas, Vice President of its C&E and Supply-Chain Programs division, effective immediately. Consisting of two business units – Consumable and Expandable supply as well as Supply-Chain Programs, Mr. Lucas will oversee all group operations from the Company’s Ft. Lauderdale headquarters.
After five years at the helm of AFI KLM E&M subsidiary EPCOR, Paul Chün is moving to a new position as Managing Director of KLM UK Engineering Limited, a wholly-owned subsidiary of AFI KLM E&M which specializes in maintenance solutions for regional aircraft fleets.
TP Aerospace Americas has appointed Mr. Jack Torielli as its Regional Sales Manager in North and Central America. He has held a variety of positions at Tracer Corp., latest VP Sales. Torielli will spearhead the sales effort for TP Aerospace from its newly established offices and warehouse, with ready to go inventory, in Las Vegas,
Jordan Airmotive released that Mr. Ziad Abu Ain, who currently serves as Deputy General Manager/Commercial Director of Jordan Airmotive, has been named the new General Manager for the company. Mr. Ziad joined Jordan Airmotive in 2007 after 25 years of professional experience in the aviation field during which he served in technical, management and board member
