Nigel Thomas Email & Phone Number

Cairns, Queensland, Australia

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Cairns North, Queensland, Australia

Back to basics and building a brand new helicopter tourism business from the ground up. Great product, great service, fresh, colourful and fun - simple core ingredients with which to build a great culture, a strong brand and a reputation that leaves smiles on the faces of our staff, our partners and most important of all - our customers.

Perth, Australia

• Having moved to a highly mature, commercially focused and diverse operator, with deep roots in the resource sector and a strong focus on the application of new and emerging technologies, the role at Heliwest was.
• Mining Support
• Marine and Offshore
• Emergency Medical Services
• Geological and Environmental Survey
• Powerline Survey

In 2016, with the Commercial business maturing and key staff in place, I resumed the oversight of the whole operation in the capacity of GM Operations. Both Tourism and Commercial divisions of the business continued to grow and additional aircraft were added to assist with the growth in the number of Chinese visiting the region. An almost 12 month process.

I relinquished other duties to focus entirely on the growth and development of the Commercial operation, and led the team’s focus into delivering significant advances in the maturity of the Company’s Safety and Quality frameworks - required to establish credibility in the highly safety sensitive environments that were being targeted. As a result of these.

Cairns, Australia

I led the 'pivot' into Commercial Charter operations as a deliberate, strategic plan to diversify the business, to insulate it from the seasonal impacts of the tourism markets and provide an opportunity for significant growth. This lead to the establishment of an operational base in the Torres Strait and greatly increased volumes of business originating.

Cairns, Australia

Following the sale of the business in late 2010, I was appointed Director of Operations to oversee the operations in both Cairns and Port Douglas. During this period the tourism business was grown substantially, additional aircraft assets were introduced and the business underwent significant restructure to align for further growth, with the implementation.

Having departed the IT industry and retrained as a Commercial Helicopter pilot, I joined GBR Helicopters as a pilot and Base Manager for the company’s Port Douglas operations, servicing the company’s marquee client – Quicksilver Group. I had responsibility for leading the competitive charge with the development and roll-out of new product and lower cost.

14 years working for market leading financial software businesses. Servicing global banking and investment clients such as Goldman Sachs, Kleinwort Benson and Morgan Stanley, was responsible for the project and program management of multi-million dollar, high risk IT systems implementations. Running regional and global implementation teams of business.

Higher National Diploma, Airline/Commercial/Professional Pilot And Flight Crew

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