Aviation Executive Monthly - Frank Jay & Associates - Airline, Aviation and Aerospace Executive Search - Frank Jay ...
←
→
Page content transcription
If your browser does not render page correctly, please read the page content below
Aviation Executive Monthly
Frank Jay & Associates – Airline, Aviation and Aerospace Executive Search
To “Tell All”, by Frank M. Jay
Recently, we were contacted by a longstanding friend who had a question on the recruiting
process.
He said that he had been contacted by another retained search firm about an opportunity that
appeared to be interesting. He said that he provided his resume to the firm and that search firm
then arranged to meet with him for a personal interview. He said that everything in the interview
process seemed to go well but that several days later the search firm contacted him to say that the
client wasn’t interested based on “relocation”. He said that when he had talked to the search
consultant about the position, he told the consultant that the client’s location sounded great, but
that his spouse would be staying behind since she had a great job in their current location and that
they would be doing a “commuter marriage”. He said that later the consultant had told him that
the client “didn’t want that type of an arrangement and preferred full relocation”.
His question to us was whether he should have mentioned in the early stages of the process that
his wife might not be coming with him to the new location. He asked if he was giving too much
information too early and said that this was the second time that he had encountered such a
situation. He said that he knew that a lot of people were working in different cities than their
spouses, that he didn’t understand why it might be a “big deal” but that it evidently was. He then
asked our opinion as to when it is appropriate to disclose such information in the interview
process.
We responded by saying that we wouldn’t recommend making that decision until the client makes
an offer of employment. We said that whether a person commutes or decides to move as a family
is always up for negotiation theoretically so it doesn’t make sense to decide on such things until an
offer has been made. We explained that once an offer has been made by the client, you certainly
want to discuss it with your family. After discussing it with them, you tell the search firm and the
client what your plans are…whether you want to commute, relocate as a family, etc. and then you
and the search firm and the client come to an agreement that works for everyone.
(Continued on Page 4…)
On The Move
Accelya, a provider of technology solutions to the Chapman Freeborn, the global air charter
global airline and travel industry, announced the specialist, appointed Hendrik Falk as Senior Vice
appointment of Jim Davidson as Chief Executive Officer. President of Cargo for the Americas. Falk joined
He succeeded John Johnston, who transitioned from Chapman Freeborn from Swiss International
CEO to a special advisor to the Board. Airlines where he served as Head of Cargo-USA
West & South and Latin America.
AerCap named Gad Wavomba Vice President of
Leasing. Wavomba had held the position of Sales China Aircraft Leasing Group (CALG) named
Director with Embraer prior to joining AerCap. Richard Wall as Chief Technical Officer. Luis Ayala
was welcomed as Chief Development Officer.
Air India announced that Ilker Ayci was named the Donald Liu was appointed as Deputy Chief
Chief Executive Officer and Managing Director of Air Commercial Officer-Greater China and George Ren
India. Until recently, Ayci was the Chairman of Turkish is now Managing Director, Corporate Finance.
Airlines.
Collins Aerospace promoted Ramses Jimenez to
Alaska Air Group announced that Lead Independent Associate Director, P&W America Program Quality.
Director Patricia Bedient will replace Brad Tilden as Mr. Jimenez had held the position of Senior
Chair of the company’s Board, effective May 5th. Manager, Military Program Quality since 2018.
Kathleen Hogan was named Chair of the Board’s
Governance, Nominating & Corporate Committee. Columbus Regional Airport Authority named Paul
Hogan is Chief People Officer & EVP, HR at Microsoft. Streitenberger Director, Business Development &
Strategy. He has been with CRAA for more than 10
Allegiant Air promoted Allen Thieman to Vice President years and was Director of Accounting & Finance
of Flight Crew Planning & Administration. He has been since 2021.
with Allegiant over 15 years and has served as MD-
Flight Crew Planning & Administration since 2019. Ethiopian Airlines promoted Samson Arega to
Regional Director, Sales Marketing & Services –
American Airlines announced the appointment of Scott USA. Arega has been with Ethiopian Airlines since
Laurence to Senior Vice President of Partnership 2014 and was most recently Country Manager –
Strategy. Laurence joined from JetBlue where he was Canada.
Head of Revenue & Planning.
Eurowings announced that Edi Wolfensberger,
Amerijet welcomed Scott McGovern as Director of currently COO of Brussels Airlines, will join the
Engineering, Planning and Reliability. McGovern joined Management Board as Chief Operating Officer.
Amerijet from American Airlines where he had worked Former Eurowings COO, Jens Ritter, is set to move
as Director of Tech Ops Enterprise System Solution. to Frankfurt and become the new Chief Executive
Officer of Lufthansa Airlines on April 1st, 2022.
Austrian Airlines appointed Annette Mann as Chief
Executive Officer and Chief Financial Officer. ExpressJet Airlines named Hiwot Taddesse FAR
Previously, Mann was Head of Corporate Responsibility 119 Director of Operations. She previously served
for the Lufthansa Group. as FAR 119 System Chief Pilot and has been with
ExpressJet for 16 years.
CDB Aviation, a subsidiary of China Development Bank
FLC, announced that Ryan Barrett joined as Head of FedEx welcomed Philippe Morin as Managing
Commercial – Asia Pacific. He was most recently Senior Director, Regulatory & Government Affairs. Morin
Vice President, Commercial with GECAS. joined from IATA where he was Assistant Director,
EU Affairs.
CFM International named Karl Sheldon as Executive
Vice President. He succeeded Allen Paxson who was GKN Aerospace announced the appointment of
recently named Vice President, Commercial Programs Shawn Black as President of Defense. Black
Strategy for GE Aviation. Sheldon is also GM of the previously worked as President-Government,
CFM project department for GE Aviation. Aerospace & Defense for Lyten.
Aviation Executive Monthly | March | 2022
On The Move (continued)
Griffin Global Asset Management welcomed Gonzalo
Ramos as Vice President. He joined Griffin after a 17-year
career with Airbus where he most recently served as the
Sales Director.
HAE Group appointed Peter Kerins as Vice President –
Global GSA Sales and Development. Kerins has been
serving as Vice President – Middle East, Africa, Indian
Subcontinent & Asia.
JetBlue announced the appointment of Jonathan Weiner
as Vice President, Sales & Revenue Management. Weiner
joined JetBlue in 2019 and most recently served as the
Director of Revenue Management.
Lufthansa Technik appointed Soeren Stark as Chairman of
the Executive Board. Stark will succeed Dr. Johannes
Bussmann, who is leaving later this year. Stark has been a
member of the Executive Board since 2019.
Menzies Aviation appointed Martin Harrell as Senior Vice
President Human Resources-Europe. Previously, Harrell
served in the position of Senior Vice President-Human
Resources, The Americas.
Mesa Air Group promoted Christian Daoud to Vice
President, Maintenance and Technical Operations. Daoud
was previously Senior Director of Technical Operations for
the airline.
Southern Airways Express welcomed John Greif, IV as
Nordic Aviation Capital (NAC) made new additions to its
Executive Vice President. Greif has been under
Senior Leadership Team with the appointment of Ed
contract with Southern Airways Express as a
Sheard as Executive Vice President & General Counsel;
Consultant since 2021.
Clem McCloskey was named Managing Director & Head of
Europe/CIS Marketing; and Aashish Sonawala joined as
TIACA announced that 6 new members were elected
Managing Director and Head of APAC/MEA Marketing.
to the Board of Directors. Kai Domscheit is the CEO of
CHI Deutschland Cargo Handling. Dan Sheehan is the
Raytheon Technologies announced the appointment of
Director of Industry of UPS. Tushar Jani is the
Christopher T. Calio as COO. Shane G. Eddy was named to
Chairman of Cargo Service Center India. Kamesh Peri
succeed Calio as President of its Pratt & Whitney Business
is CEO-Delhi Airport. Roos Bakker is Director of
Unit. Eddy was most recently Senior Vice President & Chief
Business Development for Airline Route & Network
Operating Officer at Pratt & Whitney.
Development-Schiphol Airport. Massimo Roccasecca
is Group Cargo Director for the SAVE Group.
Rolls-Royce confirmed that Warren East, Chief Executive
Officer, has decided to step down at the end of 2022 after
UPS announced that Juan Perez, EVP/Chief
9 years on the Board and almost eight years as Chief
Information/Engineering Officer, and Scott Price, EVP,
Executive Officer.
International, are retiring on March 31st. Kate
Gutmann, Chief Sales & Solutions Officer and
SITA announced that David Lavorel was named Chief
Executive Vice President-UPS Global Healthcare, will
Executive Officer. He has been with SITA for the past 20
become EVP/President International, Healthcare and
years and was most recently CEO of SITA at Airports and
Supply Chain Solutions.
Borders.
Aviation Executive Monthly | March | 2022
On The Move (continued)
Vertical Aerospace made the announcement that Wheels Up, Delta’s private jet partner, announced
Steffen Bay was named Head of Market Development- that Dwight James, Senior Vice President, Customer
Latin America. Also announced, Derek Cheng was Engagement & Loyalty and CEO-Delta Vacations,
named Head of Commercial-Asia Pacific. joined its Board of Directors.
WestJet announced that Alexis von Hoensbroech Worldwide Flight Services confirmed the
officially began his role of Chief Executive Officer. Mr. appointment of Bert Selis as Vice President of
von Hoensbroech had previously served as CEO & Chief Business Development, E-commerce, Express &
Financial Officer of Austrian Airlines. Alex Cruz was Freight Forwarders EMEAA. Mr. Selis joined WFS
appointed to the Board of Directors. He was appointed from Liege Airport, where he most recently worked
as CEO and Chairman of British Airways in 2016. as Vice President of Cargo & Logistics.
To ”Tell All” (continued from page 1)
Or, you and the client decide that situation just isn’t going to work. Regardless, until you have all of
the information that an offer of employment provides, you really don’t know whether you will
relocate, commute, etc.
Obviously, if the offer is high enough, in most cases relocation is possible. But, if you tell the client
that you are unwilling to fully relocate BEFORE you know the compensation and all of the other
information, then you have made a decision without all of the applicable details. I have seen many
situations where the candidate planned not to relocate but ended up doing so based on the details of
the offer.
I told our long time friend that, if I had been the search consultant involved, that I would have
recommended to him to wait for all of the information before determining a plan on relocation…that
everything is negotiable and anything can happen. I told him next time to get all of the information
and then talk about what he would like to do. I suggested that the client might come up with
something at some point that would change his mind about commuting…and that, as a candidate, he
really needed to keep “potential issues” from being a part of the process until both he and the client
knew for sure that they were of interest to each other.
In the search process, most candidates…and most clients…always want to make some decisions as
quickly as possible. Most candidates want to eliminate positions that do not offer what they THINK
they want…and most clients want to eliminate candidates that do not offer what they THINK they
want.
And, in the process, candidates eliminate great opportunities and clients eliminate great candidates.
It is often up to the search consultant to keep the process going until both the candidate and the client
realize that they have a great “fit”…that there are (as always) some issues that need to be overcome.
To “lock in” decisions early in the process almost always is detrimental to successful results. The wise
candidate…and the wise client…realize this.
Aviation Executive Monthly | March | 2022
About Frank Jay & Associates
Established in 1985, Frank Jay & Associates is the
Contact world’s leading provider of retained executive
search in the Airline, Aviation and Aerospace
industries.
Frank Jay Since our beginning, Frank Jay & Associates has
Managing Partner operated as a trusted adviser and strategic
713.875.5949 partner working with clients to evolve, upgrade
fjay@frankjayassoc.net and facilitate senior-level executive search for
Airline, Aviation and Aerospace companies,
ranging from major global, regional, international,
cargo and related airlines, to Private and
Corporate Aviation operators, Aerospace
Steve Jay Manufacturers, and all of the companies that
Partner & Executive support these industries, including MRO
Search Consultant operators, Ground Handlers, and others.
713.875.5952
sjay@frankjayassoc.net We work broadly across the Airline, Aviation and
Aerospace landscape with specific expertise in
recruiting senior leaders for operational
and functional areas that include finance, marketing, planning, flight operations, inflight, maintenance,
manufacturing, engineering, and related areas. We also partner with private equity firms and the
companies in their portfolios to execute pre-deal and post-deal acquisition talent and leadership initiatives.
Due to our unique access to the most impactful and future-minded executives across the Airline, Aviation
and Aerospace landscape, we are able to help our clients assemble teams that create impactful legacies.
Aviation Executive Monthly | March | 2022
You can also read
