Michael is the Chief Executive Officer (CEO) for GD Helicopter Finance (GDHF), a helicopter leasing and finance company based in Ireland. https://www.gdhf-lease.comhttps://www.linkedin.com/company/gdhf/GDHF plans to rapidly grow a large portfolio of the newest technology, efficient, cost-effective, multi-mission helicopters, and lease to customers globally for Offshore, SAR, EMS and Parapublic missions.GDHF offers our customers near term availability of helicopters via an existing order book of 50 x Airbus H160 medium helicopters and 20 x Airbus H175 super medium helicopters, along with the capacity for GDHF to readily deploy additional capital to meet market requirements for Helicopter financing.GDHF aims to build the best team and platform in the helicopter leasing industry, setting a strong long-term culture of customer focus, trust, integrity, excellence, speed and flexibility Michael’s career includes over three decades of leadership experience across aviation, military, business, consulting, finance, commercial roles and senior executive positions in multiple countries. Michael previously served as a military leader, helicopter pilot and fighter pilot, flying and instructing on the F/A-18 Hornet, including three years on exchange flying with the US Navy. Michael holds an MBA (with distinction) from the University of Newcastle, and a Bachelor of Science degree (UNSW). Most recently, Michael achieved great success during a 5-year period as the joint Head of Commercial for the world’s largest helicopter finance company.