Seasoned and accredited aviation executive at board and C-suite level, with hands-on experience through three significant downturns even before the COVID-19 pandemic. Calm under pressure, proven in adversity. Established track record of success in aircraft ordering, trading, leasing, financing and, when times are tough, restructuring - often from a position of perceived weakness. Self-starting, solutions-driven and results-orientated. At ease interfacing at any level with airlines, OEMs, lessors, financial institutions, MROs, insurance companies, professional bodies and governmental authorities.Particularly interested in the development of aviation in Africa & the Indian Ocean as a means to a critically important end: socio-economic and political progress, creating wealth and security in equal measure.Specialities: big-ticket transaction execution; strategic direction; corporate and financial reorganisation; workouts and trouble-shooting; project management (buying, selling, leasing / putting plans into action); dispute settlement; board memberships. Beyond day-to-day routine aircraft and engine transactions, here follows - in no particular order - a sampling of my activities.