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ISTAT BOARD OF DIRECTORS
OFFICERS
Douglas W. Runte, CFA
Marc S. Allinson
Dick Forsberg
David Sutton
Dean Gerber

President
Immediate Past President
Vice President
Secretary
Treasurer

DIRECTORS
Gerry Butler
Marilyn Gan
James Meyler
Mary Prettyman
Jep Thornton (ex-officio)
John W. Vitale
Michael Weiss

Anthony Diaz
Gerry Laderman
Daniel J. Pietrzak
Phil Seymour (ex-officio)
Steven Townend
Richard Owen Walker
Kostya Zolotusky

ISTAT INTERNATIONAL APPRAISERS' PROGRAM
BOARD OF GOVERNORS
Phil Seymour
Chairman/Senior Appraiser
Andy Carlisle
Rikard de Jounge
Jeff Lewis*
Bryson Monteleone
Ken Price*
Betsy Snyder*
Mark Streeter*
Jeff Straebler
John Trevett
Appraiser Fellow, Administrative
Director, ISTAT International
Appraisers' Program
*These individuals are not certified appraisers.
ISTAT FOUNDATION BOARD OF TRUSTEES
Jep Thornton
Chairman
Damon J. D'Agostino
Vice Chairman
Douglas R. Runte, CFA ISTAT President
Marc S. Allinson
Immediate Past ISTAT President
Dean Gerber
Treasurer
TRUSTEES
Robert Agnew
Kristen Chmielewski
Mohamed El-Borai
Mary Ellen S. Jones
Murrae Ross-Eskell
Betsy Snyder
Eddo Weijer

Julian Balaam
Sigthor Einarsson
Peter Huijbers
Andrew La Stella
Rod J. Sheridan
David Swan

INTERNATIONAL SOCIETY OF
TRANSPORT AIRCRAFT TRADING STAFF
Julie Wichlin
Executive Director
Cynthia Cortis
Conference Director
Tia Crowley
Operations Coordinator
Crystal Ligda
Marketing Manager

from
the
president
Dear Fellow ISTAT Members:
It is with great excitement and humility that I begin my two-year term as
President of your organization. I have had the pleasure and privilege of serving on the ISTAT Board for six years, alongside past presidents Marc Allinson,
Jep Thornton, Joe Ozimek and John Vitale, who themselves followed an illustrious series of ISTAT leaders who have helped bring the organization where
it stands today. I have outlined my thoughts on the position and some of my
goals elsewhere in this publication at greater length, but I would like to reiterate here just how honored I am to have this opportunity to serve as President
of this great organization.
ISTAT finished 2016 with a constellation of holiday receptions around the
globe that had nearly 2,000 attendees worldwide. Symmetrically, we started
our 2017 series of conferences and events with record attendance at ISTAT
Americas in beautiful San Diego in March. Many thanks to Conference Committee
Chair Kostya Zolotusky, as well as to the entire Conference Committee and
ISTAT staff for all their efforts on this event. Thanks also to our other event
volunteers, speakers, moderators and, of course, our sponsors for their support of the event.
I strongly believe that ISTAT is more than just a conference organizer; we are
a membership organization that is wholly committed to providing our members
with the highest quality and best-value networking and educational opportunities in commercial aviation. As such, ISTAT is very different from the for-profit
conferences that many of us still attend.
As part of our efforts to serve our membership, the ISTAT Board is pleased to
announce a new program that is designed to assist longstanding, active members
of ISTAT who may have lost their jobs. We recognize that few may be in more
need of networking opportunities than a person who has lost a job. We also
recognize that ISTAT conferences, ISTAT forums and ISTAT events provide an
unrivaled networking opportunity for those who are unemployed and looking for
new employment and further recognize that those who have recently lost their
job may be facing financial strain.
To provide a service to our longstanding members who may be unemployed
and in need, the ISTAT Board of Directors has approved a new program to
provide complimentary admission to certain of our ISTAT conferences, ISTAT
forums and ISTAT events to those who are between jobs and who meet certain
criteria. Those who are between jobs may contact the ISTAT Executive Director
(executivedirector@istat.org) to determine their eligibility. Applications for this
benefit will be reviewed by the ISTAT Executive Board in confidence, which will
have sole discretion to determine eligibility.
ISTAT will relentlessly focus on providing our members with the highest
quality and best-value networking and educational events. We hope you
will agree that this new program to help members between jobs is further
evidence of this focus. I look forward to serving as your President for the
next two years.
Regards,

Douglas W. Runte, CFA
ISTAT President
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