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Age: 39
Employer: Leonardo
S.p.A
Hometown:
New Delhi, India
Alma Mater:
Indian Institute
of Information
Technology and
Management;
University of Bari
Ravi Singh
HEAD OF SALES - NORTH AMERICA (BHS), LEONARDO S.p.A
Ravi Singh is head of sales (BHS), North America, for
Leonardo Group. He has more than 15 years of experience
in the aviation sector in both military and civil segments
and has undertaken taken various managerial roles within
the group in international sales, business development
in new markets, key accounts, strategy and integrated
project teams.
Singh has extensive international experience guiding
its airport customers to adopt next-generation baggage
handling technologies to solve their existing problems,
bottlenecks, operational and maintenance (O&M) issues,
and add value for various stakeholders involved.
" Maybe due to my engineering background everything
about aviation amazes me, " he said. " Be it sitting on a
window seat on a plane to have a helicopter view of the
airport terminal or thinking about pilots flying in turbulent
weather while making their calculations
correctly or simply observing
people and their culture at the airport
coming from around the globe and the
list goes on and on and on. I do this
every time, as if it's my first time ever. "
Singh has established key contacts with important stakeholders
at the TSA, airports, airlines, airport planners,
construction companies and consultants to make them
aware of the technological innovations in the baggage
handling industry.
With active feedback/contributions from U.S. stakeholders,
Singh has defined an effective market penetration
strategy and value proposition with a larger goal of
reforming the U.S. baggage industry, which he says has
been stagnant in the last couple of decades.
Singh is involved with planning and implementing baggage
handling system events. He includes panelists and
participants outside or adjacent to the core group within
the baggage handling system industry to further bring a
different perspective to the topic of discussion.
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Singh's leadership skills on the baggage handling system
upgrades at Hong Kong International Airport (HKG) allowed
Leonard to carry out a complicated brownfield
retrofit project covering the entire lifecycle.
Brad Sucher, AIA, NCARB,
Senior Architect, Gresham Smith
Brad Sucher became one of the youngest partners at
Gresham Smith when he was promoted to senior architect.
He has led some of the firm's most expansive airport
modernization and expansion projects. While at Gresham
Smith, he has taken a significant leadership role in the
firm's work at Fort Lauderdale - Hollywood International
Airport (FLL), which has spanned more than eight years
and included more than $1 billion in construction.
Age: 35
Employer: Gresham
Smith
Hometown: Troy, MI
Alma Mater:
University of Detroit
Mercy
More recently, Sucher has been leading Gresham Smith's
terminal modernization and renovation at Asheville Regional
Airport, a project that includes a complete rebrand
requiring extensive public engagement and will double
the airport's size with a vertical expansion.
" When I was studying architecture in college, I always
was most intrigued by large public space, " he said. " This
was one of the draws that led me to Gresham Smith and
getting engaged with aviation. "
Sucher said he appreciates the uniqueness of every airport
and the different challenges they pose.
" Even though there are some overarching principals
that help define how an airport should function, finding
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the right blend and how to apply them to each different
application is a fun challenge, " he said. " Another aspect
that I enjoy about aviation is the planning aspect and being
able to extrapolate the effects of peak hours passengers
or the effect of a peak month surge on an airport. With
a variety of new technology now on the market and in
the process of being implemented, having the ability
to capture real-time passenger data at something like
a checkpoint or baggage claim allows a more accurate
understanding of passenger flow and more accurate
space planning. "
Outside of the office, Sucher is a member of the American
Association of Airport Executives Young Professionals
Society, which has enabled him to serve as the track host
at the AAAE/ACC design symposium and mentor students
from Hampton University. While earning his Master of
Architecture degree from the University of Detroit, Sucher
worked at the Detroit Collaborative Design Center, a
non-profit organization that works with neighborhood
partners on high-quality community-engaged design
projects across the city.
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