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The Irish office of international law firm Maples and Calder (“Maples”) announced that senior aviation finance specialist Laurence Hanley has joined the Finance Group.  Laurence’s appointment is one of a number of recent strategic hires and adds further strength and depth to the firm’s innovative aviation practice.  Laurence’s experience is in advising lenders, lessors and

Vueling reported the appointment of Jordi Porcel as its new Sales Director, effective immediately.  Jordi joins from British Airways where, since June 2005, he has served as Sales Director for Spain, Portugal and Gibraltar.  In the last 12 months he has looked after the markets of Chile, Argentina and Brazil.

International Lease Finance Corporation (ILFC) will establish offices in Beijing and Singapore in 2012. In addition, the company has named David A. Nixon as Senior Vice President and Head of Asia Pacific. Over a third of ILFC’s annual lease revenue is generated in the Asia Pacific region. These new offices will further strengthen ILFC’s relationships

Nexcelle, the joint venture of GE’s Middle River Aircraft Systems and the Safran group’s Aircelle, announced the appointment of Huntley Myrie as its new president. Myrie brings extensive experience in program management, design engineering, customer support and the aftermarket business as Nexcelle develops nacelle systems for the next generation of integrated propulsion systems to equip commercial airliners

TAT Technologies reported that its Board of Directors has appointed Itsik Maaravi as its new President and Chief Executive Officer effective January 1, 2012. Mr. Maaravi is currently President of TAT’s Piedmont Aviation Component Services, LLC subsidiary (“Piedmont”), a position he has held since July 2011. From July 2009 through June 2011 Mr. Maaravi was

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.