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Appointment Tracker
| Boeing has announced that Matthew
Ganz has been named president of the company's Phantom Works advanced
research and development unit. Ganz comes to Boeing from HRL Laboratories
in Malibu, Calif., where he was president, chief executive officer and general
manager.
Ganz will report to John Tracy, Boeing chief technology
officer and senior vice president of Engineering, Operations & Technology.
He holds bachelor's, master's and doctorate degrees in electrical engineering
from The Ohio State University and has been a member of various corporate
and government boards, including the Defense Science Board and the US
Air Force Scientific Advisory Board
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| Sriram Narayan has been appointed as the Commercial
Development Manager & Deputy Sales Manager, South Asia for British Airways.
He will now be responsible for all sales activities in South Asia. Prior
to the appointment, Narayan was the Manager Trade Sales for India. He has
been with British Airways for 18 years and has held key positions in a wide
variety of functions in airport operations and in the commercial arena.
His previous appointments include Manager South India based at Chennai and
Manager Central India, based at Mumbai
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| Travelport GDS, one of the world's largest global
distribution system providers, has appointed Hans Ebeling as regional
director, global accounts & strategic corporate development for the
Asia region, effective March 1, 2008.
Ebeling will be responsible for multinational and
corporate agency accounts, managing and growing the existing business,
strengthening agency partner relationships and developing new opportunities
across Asia
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| AMI, the world's largest freight wholesaler , has
appointed Paul Farnan to the newly-created post of sales & development
manager for the Pacific region, based in its Auckland office. In his new
role, Farnan will be responsible for sales and marketing of all AMI services
from worldwide points of origin to destinations across the entire Pacific
Islands region, involving travelling for some 20 weeks a year.
Farnan's freight industry career has included 8
years with Ports of Auckland, 8 years with Pacific Forum Line, and periods
in freight forwarding and perishables shipping
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| Hawker Beechcraft Corporation (HBC) has appointed
Dan Keady to lead the Asia-Pacific, Middle East and Africa sales
team as divisional vice president. Jason Liao has been appointed
as regional vice president for China and SE Asia, while Jeff Anastas,
Allan Stanton and Brett Carlson are regional sales directors
for India, Africa, Middle East and Australia, respectively.
Keady will oversee sales efforts in the Asia-Pacific,
the Middle East, India and Africa. In addition to the sales office in
Singapore, four outlying sales offices - located in Beijing, Dubai, Johannesburg
and Australia - will report to him. Having spent eight of his 12 years
at HBC working in international markets, Keady was formerly regional vice
president of Sales for Africa, Middle East, Asia and Australia.
Liao will manage sales of Hawker and Beechcraft products
in China and SE Asia as regional vice president
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| Silverjet plc (Silverjet), the British airline has
announced the appointment of Amir Eilon as a non-executive director.
Amir, 59, was previously a non-executive director at easyJet from 1998 to
2006, a period of major growth for the low cost airline during which he
undertook a key role in the airlines acquisition of Go and the securing
of an option to acquire Deutsche BA. He is also currently a non-executive
director of MK Airlines, a cargo airline |
| CAE has appointed new management for training centres
located in the United Arab Emirates, Canada and Asia. Walter Visser
was named managing director of Emirates-CAE Flight Training (ECFT), Rudy
Toering was named general manager for CAE's training centres in Canada,
Steven Lee was named general manager of the Zhuhai Flight Training Centre,
CAE's joint venture with China Southern Airlines and Martin Williamson was
named general manager for the training centre in Kuala Lumpur |
| Blue Dart Aviation has announced the appointment
of Tulsi Mirchandaney as the organisation's new managing director.
Tulsi was earlier senior vice president-marketing and projects with Blue
Dart Express and has taken over this new responsibility from Niteen Gupte.
As the company's new managing director, Tulsi will
now be the accountable manager of the organisation, which operates a fleet
of seven freighters, 3-B757s and 4-B737s, offering a payload of 300 tonnes
per night across the seven major airports in India.
Tulsi has an MBA Degree in International Aviation from
Concordia University, Montreal. She will now be based at Blue Dart Aviation's
head office at Chennai
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