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once we'd taken a breath and thought about what the offering
should be, we said, 'Let's not wait until post-pandemic. Let's
kick off.' "
Thus, the ISTAT Rising Executives Program kicked off.

The Committee

ISTAT Rising Executive Program's First Event

Paul Geaney

Although he chairs the program and his employer, Avolon,
sponsors it, Geaney couldn't - and didn't want to - run it alone.
" I'm very wary of being prescriptive, because I'm
not the target audience, " he says. " The program is very
much driven by the rising executives who are involved as
committee members. "
Those committee members include Bridget Corry,
trading and pricing manager at Genesis Aircraft Services;
Andrew McCarley, director and senior consultant at Peabody
Aerospace; Ned Musgrave, vice president of origination at
Avolon; and Aaron Prothero, vice president of aircraft trading
at Aerolease Aviation.
The committee members are spread across the globe -
Dublin, New York, Hong Kong and Miami - and each member
has their own committee in their respective region. The intent
of the program is to create a community that exists and
engages within itself outside of ISTAT's larger events, and the
committee members are ultimately in charge of that.
" Many [rising executives] do not
have the opportunity to attend ISTAT
events on a regular basis. By
hosting regional and virtual events,
[they] can gain insights from
industry leaders tailored to the
target audience, " Corry says. " There
is also an opportunity to submit
questions and shape the conversation to ensure attendees get
the maximum value from each event. "

The intent of the program is to create a community that exists and engages
within itself outside of ISTAT's larger events, and the committee members are
ultimately in charge of that.
do what it does fantastically for senior executives for rising
executives, defined as those with one to 10 years' experience
in the industry.
Then the pandemic hit.
" We started planning prior to COVID-19, " Geaney says.
" In this group, you have the most tech-savvy and the most
prepared to engage digitally of anybody in the industry, so

Musgrave continues on that
point, " At a lot of events, you might
not get exposure to the senior
people or the opportunity to speak
with them. In the [ISTAT Rising
Executives Program] events, that's
not the case. Everybody is a peer.
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