B/CA Show News - NBAA 2007 Day 1 - (Page 22) d1p22 final 9/24/07 1:24 PM Page 1 PEOPLE N BA A 2007 Jet Aviation Will Cash In On Globalization Trend —If It Can Get the People The shift away from U.S. market dominance in business aviation presents opportunities for European firms—like Jet Aviation, says Jet’s new CEO Peter Edwards, a longtime veteran of Bombardier. “Clearly there’s a significant shift going on outside North America,” Edwards says. “We have the opportunity over the next three to five years to significantly grow our presence not only as a company, but also as an industry around the world. I am an internationalist and enjoy extending products and services into markets, creating deployments into Peter Edwards. developing markets, and this company is the strongest player internationally.” “Our operations are weighted toward international, with the U.S. representing 45% and rest of the world 55%. “I think that gap is likely to grow. Immediately, we have to look at Russia, China and India. These are going to be the foundation points of the new international network.” Roadblocks? “Qualified people,” Edwards says. “They don’t exist. You have to attract people and train them. It’s a core issue for the industry. We, the OEMs, airlines and operators all need qualified people, so we have to work together on that. We have to internationalize the sourcing of the talent we need to grow these businesses. The mature markets haven’t kept pace with their growth because the career candidates are going into other industries,” he said. “In emerging markets we have to raise the visibility of aviation because it has not been a traditional career path.” In the U.S., “We’d like to complete our network,” Edwards says. “We’d like to create a presence along the east-west corridor as well as the north-south corridor, which we have today.” Jet Aviation is at Booth 3100. Since May, Edwards has been on the board of directors of Supersonic Aerospace International, which is developing a supersonic business jet. An SSBJ, he says, would be “a very, very useful piece of hardware… an extraordinary next step for the globalization of business travel.” —B/CA 22 Blakey, ex-FAA, Gets Top Slot at AIA Former FAA administrator Marion Blakey has been named president and CEO of the Aerospace Industries Association, effective November 12. Blakey has also served as chairman of the National Transportation Safety Board. She succeeds John Douglass, who has been AIA president and CEO since September 1998, and who will remain with the association through year’s end to ensure a smooth transition. Murray Named EJM President NetJets Inc. has appointed Benjamin Murray as president and CEO of its Executive Jet Management unit. Murray has been vp for new business development within NetJets Sales, having previously spent four years as vp sales at EJM. “Ben knows the aircraft management and charter business as well as anyone, bringing a strong sales background and prior experience at EJM to his new role,” said NetJets chief Richard Santulli. New President for REBTECH REB Technologies of Bedford, Texas has named evp Richard Borkowski as president and COO. REBTECH supplies night vision goggles for the U. S. military, law enforcement agencies and EMS operators. REBTECH holds more than 16 NVG-related helicopter STCs from the FAA and Air Transport Canada, covering Bell 205, 206, 407 and 412, and Eurocopter BK117, AS350B2, AS350B3, EC120 and EC130. Additional STCs are in process for the Robinson R44, Sikorsky S-61 and AgustaWestland AW 109 and AW 119. Jim Cannon on CareJet Board Jim Cannon, former member of the Board of Directors at NBAA and currently chief pilot for ABM Group of Atlanta, has been appointed chair of the advisory board of CareJet Services of Atlanta. CareJet Services president and co-founder, Matt Weisman, said that Cannon’s long experience as a corporate pilot, operations manager and aviation entrepreneur will be instrumental in focusing the company’s business in North America. Cannon is also chairman of the host committee at this year’s NBAA. He has earned eight FAA business jet-type ratings while logging more than 13,000 hours. FAA’s Sabatini to Speak Thursday Nick Sabatini, FAA associate administrator for aviation safety, will participate in NBAA’s Meet the Regulators session on Thursday room from 10 a.m. to 11.30 a.m. He’ll discuss safety issues facing the FAA and business aviation community. PrivatAir Taps Gray for Charter Sales International business aviation specialist PrivatAir said yesterday that it’s strengthened its U.S. private charter division with the appointment of Eric Gray as vp sales. “Gray’s primary objective will be to continue to develop the company’s charter sales division and enhance the customer experience, in addition to hiring supplemental sales support staff,” PrivatAir says. He’ll be based at the Swiss firm’s U.S. headquarters in Stratford, Connecticut. Olympics-Savvy Pinhammer Joins Air Routing Wolfram Pinhammer has joined Air Routing International (Booth 1705) in the new position of manager of European sales and marketing. He will be based in Berlin, Germany. Pinhammer has worked for more than 20 years in the aviation handling business. He was commercial director of Athens-based Goldair Handling Greece, and was responsible for setting up a dedicated product line for handling executive, athlete flights and state/VIP flights at the 2004 Olympic Games in Athens. September 25, 2007 www.aviationweek.com/shownews http://www.aviationweek.com/shownews
For optimal viewing of this digital publication, please enable JavaScript and then refresh the page. If you would like to try to load the digital publication without using Flash Player detection, please click here.