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Pilatus Business Aircraft has appointed Charles D. Mayer as Vice President, Marketing. Mayer is responsible for developing and implementing marketing strategies, branding initiatives and promotional activities that support Pilatus products and services in the Americas. He will lead marketing communications, market analysis, database management, and the development of customer-driven, product marketing initiatives.

MTU Maintenance Berlin-Brandenburg will have a new President and Chief Executive Officer (CEO) when on October 1, 2010, Andr

John Gough has been named Leader of GE Aviation’s OnPoint Fuel and Carbon Solutions. In this role, Gough will be responsible for developing this new program that is focused on providing recommendations to airlines to help them save fuel and measure and quantify their carbon emissions.

Finnair released that Manne Tiensuu has been appointed Senior Vice President, Human Resources. Tiensuu has also been appointed member of the Finnair Executive Board. Tiensuu will begin work at Finnair in October. Before Finnair, Tiensuu has worked for Glaston as Senior Vice President, Human Resources, and member of Executive Management Group.

Florent Feltrin recently joined Jet Aviation

Zhu Junxiu is appointed as the Executive Director of Human Resource of Ameco Beijing, effective July 1st 2010, working with his German counterpart Hans-Josef Weilbaecher. Ms. Zhu formerly was the manager of Personnel Subdivision. She has been working in Ameco Beijing since 1993.

Aviation Technical Services (ATS) named Executive Chairman Raj Sharma to Chief Executive Officer effective immediately. This follows the earlier appointment of Matt Yerbic to President. Located in Everett, Washington, ATS is the largest third-party single-site transport aircraft Maintenance, Repair and Overhaul (MRO) provider in North America. Sharma brings more than 18 years of aviation MRO

SR Technics has appointed Antoine Gervais as Head of the Group

Honeywell announced the appointment of Pritam Bhavnani as President of Honeywell Aerospace in India. Pritam relocates from Honeywell Aerospace, Phoenix, Ariz., USA, where he was most recently the Vice President of Customer and Product Support. He will be based in Gurgaon, India.

Dublin based aircraft leasing company AWAS, controlled by Terra Firma, reported that Ray Sisson will become its new CEO on August 26th. Ray Sisson began his career in New York as a corporate lawyer, Ray moved into the aviation industry in 1995 becoming Vice President and Legal Counsel for GE Commercial Aviation Services (GECAS) in